losteric

White noise is better than the repetitive and generic synthetic music I got

faisca.dev is also vibed - perhaps it's a real human using AI to build an online fascade

GPU compute capacity?

Spam website owners pay for these bots, they get compensated for the conversions. In an ideal world, google’s ad prices and fraud detection would render this ineffective.

The actual rates charged to merchants are variable, and typically higher for rewards/cashback cards. Basically, other people are subsidizing cards with higher benefits/cash back (of course as people shift, the merchant raises prices to compensate for the higher average fee, or just charge an additional Z% higher than your cash back)

why?? It's extremely common for nonprofits to have anonymous matching donors. Even my local animal shelter.

I have a feeling search traffic is down and lots of people are diverting to using AI, or to one of the sloppy competitors. Conveying bank statements doesn’t seem like there’s much of a moat around the workflow.

Their primary information channels have been captured and corrupted. They are isolated and misled. This is the penultimate form of domestic fascist propaganda.

Your reductive statement just fodders further divisiveness and apathy.

We've dealt with propaganda and political change in the past. What worked has always been outreach and engagement, slow deprogramming, in person.

I really struggle to get past AI writing. Aside from feeling disrespected, something about that style is just so tiring to read… the marketing style of setup and reveal, repetition, only works in small doses

> I think it funny how much average engineers are beginning to discover the challenges of engineering leadership and program management. This has always been the bottleneck.

It is somewhat new for most ICs to need this skillset, as opposed to tech leads/staff folks. What books would you suggest for this new reality?

> This is funny to read because I remember hearing someone complain about the exact same thing in the Bay Area, but their dates were shifted by about 10 years before yours.

Another perspective is just that SF's culture has been declining for decades. As someone born in SF, I'd agree.

I'd guess it depends on the type of business. If it's some genuinely deep technical space, the model would give an edge but even then I think luck would be a significant factor. In a monte carlo of such scenarios, the business with the stronger model might win 6 out of 10 times, but it's no sure thing between the two of us. If we were comparing two businesses building Yet Another Generic CRUD, I would guess it's closer... perhaps even a net-negative to spend money on Fable versus marketing.

What are your thoughts on Hubble?

this is just crowd sourced data? Looks vibe coded. And immediately asking for donations for a short Claude job, pretty sus?

it's part of a webring of vibecoded slopsites

the post seems to be link farming for the poster's startup that hosts the site

AI-written blog post, basically link farming for the associated "Auditable workspaces for AI coding agent" product (that owns the git repo).

I care because: It's not clear what a human learned or found valuable? If a human learned anything at all

Can you elaborate on the project? Because I just see a vibe coded project with failing builds and no associated interesting development story or example applications.

I’m also curious how OP came about this? No comments on the post, two comments on HN, most history are submissions that are almost all [dead]

The Google matches for this name are inconsistent and suspicious. Did the LLM just pick a random name?

It seems like AI is really hurting the people who don't have a hoard of experience - the juniors and early mid-level tech people.

The incumbents with experience are doing amazing. PM's with Mythos aren't replacing the PE with 20 years of experiences lol.

> Plain headless Chromium is easy to detect by websites with anti-bot measures. Plain headless Chromium avoided getting blocked by websites only 2% of the time, according to our stealth benchmark.

> Our browsers avoid blocks 81% of the time on our stealth benchmark, and 84.8% on Halluminate BrowserBench, the highest of any provider.

Seems very unethical, no? Who uses service providers like this? The whole point of anti-bot measures is to get rid of bots - you are not wanted there.

These kinds of services inevitably make the web more human-hostile and expensive. Websites will continue pushing back on automated usage, meaning more hurdles to access content.

No doubt part of why we see this push for verified ID on the web - not just age gating and "protect the children", but also protect sites from bots, and protect ad revenue (not a statement of support; just seems like an obvious higher order effect)

How does this

> If this source [0] is true then 65% of audiobooks (in 2022) were non-fiction. Likewise that the audiobook industry has grown by nearly 3x since a2022.

Lead to

> by my math, it's simply that people prefer to listen to self-help books (which matches my own experience).

I'm not sure I see the math there, when most nonfiction is not self-help books (and an increase in the broader genre says nothing about a specific niche)

I can’t even figure out what to pick from the myriad of streaming services I have. How would I prompt an AI for dopamine fix?

> Why would I pay for services that will be enshiftified when I can build an app that does exactly what I want in an afternoon.

When we talk about “the market”, the customer base, remember it’s a market that typically doesn’t know how to or care to even install an adblocker.

Right after WW2, trust was way higher. There was a belief in common good and progress and all that.

Can you share what some of those apps are?

> using it all day (say 8h) costs between 0.7 and about 14 kg of CO2 in the US,

How do you get to this range? That's quite a spread.

When I last ran the math, my daily usage (efficient and effective productivity, not spamming Gas Town) came to about 0.67 kg of CO2, which is roughly equivalent to my individual emissions from the 1 mile public bus ride home from work.

“The community” - which community? Where? This is a brand new website, there’s next to no online presence for the name (all seemingly unrelated).

It reads like using LLMs to fake some credibility

The problem with billionaires is they have a vastly disproportionate voice in the political system, which leads to ineffective politicians and policies not aligned with a thriving society.

eg: cutting funding to the IRS and advanced science, both of which have long proven positive dividends… or advancing new wars abroad to directly blow up money.

Plus wbillionaires are nothing special. Right time, right place.

Steve Jobs is a perfect example of someone who was in it for the love of the game. He wouldn’t have been any different if his income was taxed at 90%.