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>The age of actually finishing side projects is here

This is a really good summary of how I've experienced AI put into words. I'm not really sure how this can be monetized though.

I'm not going to burn $200-1k per day on agents to do some side projects that have been on the back burner. The only reason I'm doing it now is the heavily subsidized or free available models all over the place.


I'm paying 10 dollars per month on GitHub Copilot. Gives access to good enough models. Not best, but great value for money.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936105 Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition

> "Even without hacks, Copilot is still a cheap way to use Claude models"


I'm paying for claude max which is 90 euros a month. It's just enough for my needs. I typically run 2 agents in parallel and seldom run out of tokens.

Oh, I think I misunderstood. Do you mean if we paid the real cost of the compute it would be the numbers you mention?

Yes, AI companies are bleeding money with current pricing. Your AI usage is heavily subsidized by investor dollars.

Better take the opportunity then and have it build good stuff while it lasts. :)

HN Really hates understanding business. All these comments, yet no one has gotten the answer right.

OpenAI bought marketing and now someone else cannot buy openclaw and lock out Openai revenue from a project that is gaining momentum.

There are a many of these business moves that seem like nonsense.

1. Bought for marketing.

2. Adversarial hire. ie hire highly skilled people before your competitors can even if you don't have anything for them do to. Yet...

3. Acqu-hire. Buy a company when you really just want some of the staff.

4. Buy Customers. You don't care about the product and intend to migrate their customers to your system.

5. Buy competition before its a threat.


How do you deal with the cost associated with a long running opus session? I asked it to validate some JSON configs against the spec yesterday and it burned $10 worth of tokens for what would have been a 1 millisecond linter task.

I'm on the $200/month Claude Max plan and I rarely run out of my token allowance.

I'm also paying $20/month for OpenAI Codex and again it's rare I hit the rate limits there.


Probably already mentioned, but tubular is a fork with sponsor block enabled

https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular


> Renting a private room was possible on nearly any wage 50 years ago

I think others pointed this out but I don't think you can find any data to prove this because its not true.

I'm not a historian but I have seen a number of old movies and in those movies it was very common for the characters to be some poor schlub with a full time job at the factory living in some sort of group home/flophouse situation. Movies tend to reflect stories that resonate with the public at the time so I suspect that is because this was a common situation. I'd much prefer a single roommate in an apartment to a flophouse.


50 years ago was 1976. I would be surprised if large numbers of adults in 1976 in the US were living in the same room as other adults, unless they were romantically involved.

Facebook admits around 10% of their ads are fraudulent. I think it's much higher.

The scam is even larger than you see and exploits missing children reports. There are huge automated scam networks that post missing children reports then get people to share them. Then once the post/ad gets traction they change it to a listing of a house that is auto pulled from public information. They then use that to scam people.

PleasantGreen has a series on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uud0wTAOxSc


A leaked Facebook document showed they know which ads are fraudulent because the ad system is programmed to never show those ads to the ad regulators, and it's most of the ads.


Any source for this?


What is the point of listing a house that isn’t for sale, though?


To scam people out of some made up fee. Application fee, filing fee, holding fee, reservation fee., whatever BS they can get someone to send them a few bucks for since it's all free money to them.


Probably collecting application fees from people interested in renting it.


Until there is legislation to simply ban data mining/reselling no companies are going to stop. The benefits to selling you out are simply too profitable and ignoring the hand slap laws/fines stops no one.

The biggest hindrance is that there is ZERO government desire to reign this in. Why? Because the government itself is one of the biggest customers of this data.

The government "fines" the company and immediately comes right back around to the checkout line and hands the same company piles of money for the exact same data they just fined them for selling. The company then just raises the price to make up the difference. I don't see any of this changing in the next 50 years.


None of this matters. Your rights were taken away buy the corrupt ghouls supposedly "representing" you.

2017 Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-re...


Anyone happen to know what the arguments were from those who supported that bill?

Here's a summary. In late 2016 the FCC passed a rule that:

(1) applies the customer privacy requirements of the Communications Act of 1934 to broadband Internet access service and other telecommunications services,

(2) requires telecommunications carriers to inform customers about rights to opt in or opt out of the use or the sharing of their confidential information,

(3) adopts data security and breach notification requirements,

(4) prohibits broadband service offerings that are contingent on surrendering privacy rights, and

(5) requires disclosures and affirmative consent when a broadband provider offers customers financial incentives in exchange for the provider's right to use a customer's confidential information.

The bill, introduced early in 2017, nullifies that rule.

It passed the Senate 50-48, then the House of Representatives 215-205, and was signed by Trump.

The 52 Republicans in the Senate voted 50 yes, 0 no, 2 not voting. The 47 Democrats, along with the 1 independent, voted no.

In the House the 236 Republicans voted 215 yes, 15 no, 6 not voting. The 190 Democrats all voted no.


This sounds like a rant from a dysfunctional out of touch manager more than anything. From a 57 day old account here to pump AI because humans are terrible and not printing you lambos. Totally not a shill or anything. Humans = bad AI = good. Shill.

When you area asked specifics about how you use AI so effectively when others cannot you do not reply. Shill.

I've hired close to 200 people and 4 were bad apples that I had to fire. So no real life does not reflect what you wrote. Most people want to do a good job.


Can you expand on the tech stack and languages used?


C# / Web Sockets / React. Lots of legacy code. Great group of engineering folks.


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