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mellosouls · 2025-06-22T21:22:36 1750627356

Was here:

https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053518

(OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive - 818 points, 115 comments)

mellosouls · 2025-06-22T11:23:16 1750591396

I watched and the cultural references seemed pretty limited compared to TFA.

I didn't hear Das Boot even mentioned...

bookofjoe · 2025-06-22T13:05:53 1750597553

Sigh. The curse of the acronym. I have to look up what TFA stands for. At least I didn't waste fellow HN peeps' time by commenting "What does TFA mean?" I will never understand why someone would take more time to post a comment like that than it would take to Google it....

bookofjoe · 2025-06-22T13:11:52 1750597912

Turns out I'm not the only one! Here's a spirited discussion on HN from 2019 in which a number of commenters note they have no clue what it means, or else have had it wrong all along:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756

mellosouls · 2025-06-22T18:07:18 1750615638

tbf i only started using it the other day after i googled it myself (though I dimly remembered it from the past).

I've normally used OP (as in Original Post) but that can get confused with Original Poster (and the initial comment rather than the featured article).

TFA is more specific and now that I've learned it I think its valid to use on a board where it is likely to be a regular useful shortcut.

fat_cantor · 2025-06-23T23:27:19 1750721239

It was widely used on slashdot, I just assume that people who use this Three Letter Acronym (TLA) are also /. refugees

fat_cantor · 2025-06-23T23:07:49 1750720069

TLAs FTW!

DocTomoe · 2025-06-22T12:57:47 1750597067

I would not be surprised if the average US submariner is not exactly the kind of person who would seek out german anti-war movies about submarines.

I mean, us as IT people ... how many of us have even heard of Dhunki, an 2019 Indian movie about morals and suffering in an Bangalore IT company?

bookofjoe · 2025-06-22T13:38:13 1750599493

I'm not an IT person and I'd never heard of "Dhunki" until your comment.

Turns out it's on Prime Video:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/search?phrase=Dhunki&k=Dhunk...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07WJ34ZC5/ref=atv_sr...

I'm watching it tonight! Thank you for the tip.

bookofjoe · 2025-06-22T13:32:36 1750599156

I would bet the average U.S. submariner wasn't even born when "Das Boot" was released in 1981 — 44 years ago.

DocTomoe · 2025-06-23T05:42:40 1750657360

Age of a movie is not an indication of it being known by younger audiences. Star Wars is 46 years old, and virtually everyone knows it.

mellosouls · 2025-06-21T10:25:57 1750501557

Editorialized title. Even the original calls it bloatware not spyware.

mellosouls · 2025-06-19T15:06:36 1750345596

Landing page is excellent, esp the video; gets straight to the point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFzQF_Ik_-g

https://base44.com/

soared · 2025-06-19T16:50:32 1750351832

This website design was created by a guy on hn in March/April of last year and I’ve seen it copied so many times, I even copied it myself. Can’t find the name of the site unfortunately but it’s absolutely unmistakable.

recursive · 2025-06-19T16:08:09 1750349289

Impressive. I've never seen a website with such low-fps janky scrolling.

mellosouls · 2025-06-19T11:16:28 1750331788

Ronald Reagan - Soviet Jokes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3z3eSVG7A

mellosouls · 2025-06-19T11:13:54 1750331634

For cursor users, a similar extension to monitor usage:

https://github.com/Dwtexe/cursor-stats

extropian · 2025-06-20T05:42:56 1750398176

Keep an eye on your memory usage after installing this extension.

I did a bisect and found this one to be consuming ~1.5gb memory alone and that's when I removed it. YMMV.

Maciej-roboblog · 2025-06-19T14:14:14 1750342454

Probably for API cost. It is for fixed price plans usage

mellosouls · 2025-06-19T11:06:11 1750331171

There is no significant software that has been written (plagiarized) by "AI".

How do you know?

As you haven't evidenced your claim, you could start by providing explicit examples of what is significant.

Even if you are correct, the amount of llm-assisted code is increasing all the time, and we are still only a couple of years in - give it time.

Why not ask the actual experts

Many would regard Karpathy in the expert category I think?

bgwalter · 2025-06-19T11:17:58 1750331878

I think you should not turn things around here. Up to 2021 we had a vibrant software environment that obviously had zero "AI" input. It has made companies and some developers filthy rich.

Since "AI" became a religion, it is used as an excuse for layoffs while no serious software is written by "AI". The "AI" people are making the claims. Since they invading a functioning software environment, it is their responsibility to back up their claims.

TeMPOraL · 2025-06-19T11:39:39 1750333179

Still wonder what your definition of "serious software" is. I kinda concur - I consider most of the webshit to be not serious, but then, this is where software industry makes bulk of its profits, and that space is absolutely being eaten by agentic coding, right now, today.

So if we s/serious/money-making/, you are wrong - or at least about to be proven, as these things enter prod and are talked about.

rwmj · 2025-06-19T11:08:00 1750331280

The AI people are the ones making the extraordinary claims here.

mellosouls · 2025-06-18T12:29:41 1750249781

Also linking to an old HN comment to gloat about how wrong the doubters were is not a good look.

There's an element of immaturity in the style that they should probably work on.

inamorty · 2025-06-18T13:05:32 1750251932

I concur, the tone is very off-putting.

mellosouls · 2025-06-17T21:27:32 1750195652

Discussed at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42470541

Building Effective "Agents", 763 points, 124 comments

mellosouls · 2025-06-17T18:55:15 1750186515

Milestone (not this blog) discussed the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221450

Kagi Reaches 50k Users, 550 points, 349 comments