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sunsunsunsun··on OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B
They need marketing because they have competition that essentially offers an identical product. Why should a consumer choose openai over anthropic or whatever else there is? The answer is not obvious.
sunsunsunsun··on Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents
I agree, I certainly can't comment on the legality of this license laundering but I would call them an asshole.
sunsunsunsun··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
Im still using opencode with claude pro so im confused.
sunsunsunsun··on As Rocks May Think
Considering the usage of LLMs by many people as a sort of friend or psychologist we also get to look forward to a new form a control over people. These things earn peoples "trust" and there is no reason why it couldn't be used to sway peoples opinions. Not to mention the devious and subtle ways it can advertise to people.

Also, these productivity gains arent used to reduce working time for the same number of people, but instead to reduce the number of people needed to do the same amount of work. Working people get to see the productivity benefits via worsening material conditions.

sunsunsunsun··on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
You seem to forget that most artists enjoy it but due to the structure of our society are forced to either give it up for most of their waking life to earn money or attempt to market their art to the masses to make money. This AI stuff only makes it harder for artists to make any kind of living off of their work.
sunsunsunsun··on First look at the upcoming Starlink Mini
I wish they would release a dc low power version. If it does any more than 22kbps than its already beating certus and that costs $7/mb for the devices we use them in.
sunsunsunsun··on Sea Kit
I work for usv company. Most of the interest we receive for boats is either multibeam work or illegal fishing enforcement in marine protected areas. We nearly ended up doing some naval work but there was a large internal backlash and the contract was turned down.
sunsunsunsun··on Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless programmer in the winter (AB, Canada)?
Is this chatgpt?
sunsunsunsun··on Finding a new software developer job
We have lost candidates at my company which we had pretty much already decided were a fit after 1-2 interviews but we're still forced to go through the rigmarole of these extra interviews over several weeks. It's not just crazy it's also a waste of time and resources.
sunsunsunsun··on NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners (free)
Ya their comment does not match up to my experience at all. When I update my lockfile it very rarely breaks and if it does I just roll back a commit and wait a day and it's usually fixed.
sunsunsunsun··on To grasp the extent of inequality, look at the relatively well-off
I feel this big time. I'm in the top 10% of income earners in Canada and yet me and my family are stuck in a small one bed apartment. We can't buy property as everything in the area would leave us very house poor, if we even qualify for the mortgage.
sunsunsunsun··on Never trust a programmer who says they know C++
I've been writing C++ for 4 years now professionally. I don't claim to be some kind of god at it but what am I supposed to do? Leave it off my resume because I don't know every intricate detail? I've used it to get shit done and make a company money, everything else is fluff.
sunsunsunsun··on What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide
I felt your pain. I live in Victoria and also make $100k but can't afford much more than a 1 bed without destroying our savings goals. Unfortunately my current job is hybrid and they won't let me go full remote. We plan to leave as soon as I find a new opportunity - despite loving living here by every other metric.
sunsunsunsun··on Ask HN: How many hours do you work on a daily basis?
I would say I work 4-6 hours per day. I rarely work more than 40 and make sure I make up that time if I ever do.

Not effected by layoffs - my company mostly runs of government money which appears to still be flowing.

Ai has saved me very little time so far. It's probably cost me work time as I ask it more non-work related stuff.

sunsunsunsun··on ChatGPT Plugins
I have never used Alexa, hey google or whatever flavour you choose for more then "set a timer for x minutes" and other very basic tasks. It's amazing how terrible the voice assistant products are compared to chatgpt.
sunsunsunsun··on Something weird happens to companies when they hit 150 people (2017)
This has happened at my company that is now 35 people. Too many managers that have fractured communication. Getting things done was easy when there was 10 people.
sunsunsunsun··on Work less, get more done: Analytics for maximizing productivity (2009)
The key is that you don't ask permission, you just leave.
sunsunsunsun··on Google tells employees to share desks as it looks to cut costs
Simultaneously asking people back to the office while making working in the office a worse experience.
sunsunsunsun··on Multi-Account Containers
I tried this a while back but I've found having two instances of Firefox for work/personal much easier to seperate my life with. I just hotkeyed the launch of the work and personal one and use different themes on the two browsers.
sunsunsunsun··on Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
Heres the catch-22 for me. I dislike remote work where I currently live because I am in a small 1 bed apartment with a child so it's literally impossible to get work done. But why am I in this tiny apartment? Because my company insists we be in the office at least 3 days per week and therefore I cannot afford a bigger place in the most expensive city in my country. I want remote so I can improve my living circumstances.
sunsunsunsun··on Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
Seriously, if you're junior then you're more desperate and you're going to straight face lie about your opinions to make yourself more hireable.
sunsunsunsun··on Show HN: AI Cover Letter Writer
If rather do this then the bs leetcode grind.
sunsunsunsun··on WTF with high school questions?
I did terrible in high school and ended up going to university 6 years later and did very well. High school is barely a faint memory of my past and being judged on that would definitely irk me.
sunsunsunsun··on Quitting the rat race
Nope we are not billed to any contract or client.
sunsunsunsun··on Quitting the rat race
Tell this to my employer. They require me to log >= 40 hours per week, they have no problem with overtime but get a stick up their ass about undertime. I lie pretty much every week on my timesheet unless I happen to do overtime that week. Most people I talk to in the company do the same.
sunsunsunsun··on Ask HN: What do you talk about in 1-on-1s with your managers?
More pay, more wfh, better working conditions. I just shoot the shit if all of all of those are good.
sunsunsunsun··on Things they didn’t teach you about software engineering
Ya this is rediculous. Ive been logging off for years at 5pm, sometimes even 4pm. I don't work for free. Sometimes I have had to work at night but that means I take a few hours off another day when it's slower.

I often think about code at night but only in the context of a personal project.

sunsunsunsun··on Nix and NixOS, my pain points
Been using nixos for about a month. It took me about a week to really start to grok Nix a tiny bit, I had to spend a lot of time on the forums asking questions or searching for questions because the discoverability of the documentation is low when you don't know the lingo.

I'm loving it now though, I have 3 computers running it and a flake that I push to github. I can push changes to my flake and have all my systems reflect the changed with a quick nixos-rebuild. Also being able to roll back is invaluable.

I reformatted one of my systems the other day and it only took about an hour to have my whole system in the exact same state it was before with all my tooling and files.

sunsunsunsun··on Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer
Not OP but there are a few performers who like to either confescate phones or place them in locked baggies to stop the people who hold their phone in the air filming a video nobody will ever watch.

In theory I like the idea but in practice I agree with OP.

sunsunsunsun··on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
The problem with hybrid is you're still bound geographically. My work insists on being hybrid (my job has no reason for me to be in the office) and it increases my cost of living by at least 50%, not to mention I'll never be able to be a home owner.
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