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setnone··on Rethinking DOM from first principles
> every single part of all of this tech was debated for weeks by a large room full of very, very, smart people

I bet that room never smelled of sunk cost fallacy

setnone··on Ask HN: What change enabled you to consistently finish your side projects?
Perhaps expanding mindset from "finish" to "finish-launch-run", still tough though.
setnone··on Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)
So about 11000 units in the low orbit in 2025 and thats a mix of commercial and state satellites. I wonder how the traffic and distribution being governed
setnone··on Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)
In my dictionary attention is almost a synonym of love
setnone··on The future is not self-hosted
One thing i know about the future is that it brings more powerful chips, available storage and more tech in general. Which is much needed to come up with consumer level self-hosting solution so that 'cloud is just someone esle's computer' becomes 'this cloud is just my computer'
setnone··on LLMs might already be conscious
Artificially intelligent systems can be artificially conscious, this makes sense.
setnone··on Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
I heard something about meta glasses
setnone··on AI more likely to create 'yes-men on servers' than any scientific breakthroughs
And you should "check important info" too
setnone··on Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
This is realy cool and checks my privacy boxes, great name too. I will be testing it out and will consider contributing.

One thing i'd really like to have is a manual order for folders or even files in the explorer view.

setnone··on We Have Made No Progress Toward AGI
> All of the current architectures are simply brute-force pattern matching

This explains hallucinations and i agree with 'braindead' argument. To move toward AGI i believe there should be some kind of social awareness component added which is an important part of human intelligence.

setnone··on Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
This message coming from within IDE is fine i guess. Any examples from writing software or excel?
setnone··on Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
Attitude AI
setnone··on Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator
HN is a very particular public digital garden and @dang is a gardener doing his gardening stuff, just wondering what is your purpose here if you don't mind sharing?
setnone··on Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
Not bad, availability is pretty low but how about gratification? Is it delayed enough on there?
setnone··on Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener
I'm with you here, those white organic powders should have no restrictions whatsoever.
setnone··on Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener
This is levels above terrorism. Remember the good times when it was sold as prescription drug in pharmacies?
setnone··on Auntie PDF – an open source app built using Mistral OCR
Sweet branding! Grandma told me she's not happy with lack of privacy policy.
setnone··on Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch that activated when fired
I'm not judging either but what's the opposite of too rigid?
setnone··on Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch that activated when fired
Pretty stupid but at least naming things was done with grace.
setnone··on Ask HN: How do I build a new social network?
Not necessarily for free, but since this problem has criminal aspect and lasting negative societal impact, i.e. hurt people hurt people, the solution should not be profit-first.

Meta does offer LLama, don't know their reasons, for free, and i only mention them as a largest platform. This not-yet-existent product should be whatever FAANG and governments effort which will save everybody a ton of money.

Edit: some other reasons i mention Meta

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43293004

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32521609

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35726102

setnone··on Why Local-First Software Is the Future and Its Limitations
I'm all in to local-first software and rxdb is a stellar project, very small nitpick - i wish they would support light theme for their docs.
setnone··on Ask HN: How do I build a new social network?
Perhaps a naive take but money, resources and even legislative friction are non issues to try to solve such a disturbing humanity-level problem on a global scale. Which platform or entity wouldn't want to invest or otherwise back it up? Meta alone should shower such initiative with money and proccessing capacity. So then OP could just integrate simple API into their new social network.
setnone··on Ask HN: How do I build a new social network?
> dont like how political platforms like reddit has become > I want it to be limited to North America only

I obviously don't know your reasoning but IMO you're already going political

setnone··on Ask HN: How do I build a new social network?
How do you define success? This little website seems to be a great example of having clear guidelines and enforcing them.
setnone··on Ask HN: How do I build a new social network?
for CSAM part i'm sure AI solution could work
setnone··on Ask HN: How did you become a good listener?
One thing that surely helps is empathy, which is a skill in itself.
setnone··on Ask HN: Am I being too paranoid?
If you could come up with a way to make sure any given device is not recording and sending anything, and productize this I might become your customer :)
setnone··on Ask HN: Is Distribution King?
It is, starting only with product led me to this realization really quick.

One regret I have is not taking growing audience/following seriously.

setnone··on Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT
Thanks!

> Ironically

of all the places :)

setnone··on Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT
thanks for the tips!
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