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by embedding-shape | 2025-11-14 14:43:45+00:00
> If you would ask any person around me, none of them would describe me as "frustrated" or "full of anger".

Give them this URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=constantcrying and then after they've read through what you've been commenting here on HN, ask them again, and I'm very sure you'll get a very different answers.

> That you can not imagine people like me

I can very much, types like yours exists everywhere :)

> Just FYI, comments like yours are likely against HN guidelines.

They might, yes. But I only care about you, and want you to get better, and I'm trying to help you ask the questions you should be asking yourself.
by berkes | 2025-11-14 14:43:51+00:00
I don't want AI in Firefox.

For one, because it breaks the Unix philosophy of "doing one thing and doing that well".

In that vein, I do want Firefox to develop/allow/improve an interface so that machines, amongst which AI-MCPs, can drive my firefox. And do so safely, secure, contained, etc.

So that my AI agent can e.g. open a Firefox tab and do things there on my behalf. Without me being afraid it nukes all my bookmarks, and with me having confidence in safety nets so that some other tool or agent cannot just take over my gmail tab and start spamming under my account.

Point is: I really think Mozilla and Firefox have a role to play in the AI landscape that's shaping up. But yet another client to interact with chatbots is not that. Leave that to people building clients please: do one thing and do it well.
by sorcercode | 2025-11-14 14:44:12+00:00
I couldn't disagree more. I want responsible AI and i would expect Mozilla to lead the way on how to do this when it comes to browsers (they were pioneers when it came to containers and privacy control).

Here's some ways I can think of:

- seamless integration with local models

- opt in and opt out experience when needed

- ai instrumentation (so fill up tedious long web forms for me)

- ai and accessibility

these are off the top of my head.

it boggles my mind that there are so many convinced that AI doesn't offer good use cases for a browser.

I think the "how they introduce it" part is crucial and it doesn't look like Mozilla has cracked that nut from the announcement. but to say no one wants this is just not true and short sighted.
by jojogh | 2025-11-14 14:44:14+00:00
As a busy founder, my time is my most valuable asset. My days are a constant juggle between architecting our SaaS platform, leading our go-to-market strategy, and my family life. I have to work 60+ hour a week, often until 11 PM, only to wake up at 6:30 AM to get my kids to school before my workday starts at 8:00 AM.

I'm also deeply involved in our marketing, which means writing technical articles and sharing them on LinkedIn and X. For every post, I need an eye-catching cover image with a compelling title and beautiful graphics. For this, Canva.com has been an absolute lifesaver. Its massive library of templates and its simple, visual editor are brilliant. I love that it empowers someone like me, with zero Photoshop experience, to create professional-looking designs.

But with the dawn of the AIGC era, I've started to hit a wall with Canva.

Two things have changed:

The pace has accelerated. In the age of AI, everyone is leveraging tools to become more efficient. As a founder, I'm expected to do more and produce more in the same amount of time. Every tool in my workflow needs an AI upgrade to keep up. But Canva’s AI features feel limited. I still find myself using external AI tools for image edits, then manually typing and arranging text. A single social media graphic can still take me 1-2 hours. That’s just too slow now.

The possibilities have exploded. Powerful generative tools like Midjourney and nano banana have shown us the magic of natural language. We can now generate and edit incredible images in any style, just by typing. It’s a huge shame that this power isn't integrated into a practical, template-based workflow like Canva's.

I searched everywhere for a tool that bridged this gap—one that combined the structure of templates with the speed of natural language AI. I found nothing. So, I decided to build it myself.

With this new tool, a user can create professional designs through simple conversation. Imagine picking a template and, instead of manually editing, just typing in a chat box: "Create a design for a 4-day training course on AIGC prompt engineering" or "Change the background of this image to blue." The AI would instantly generate a beautiful design, automatically placing the text and images into a perfect layout. No design experience needed—just your idea and your words.

This is the "why" behind what I'm building. I'm solving a problem I face every single day.

Does this resonate with you? If you're a busy professional who believes AI can supercharge your creative workflow, I’d love for you to join me.

Please visit https://useneospark.com to join our wishlist. You'll be the first to know when our MVP goes live.

I'll be online and can't wait to hear your feedback. Thank you
by tbrownaw | 2025-11-14 14:44:48+00:00
> Does Kubernetes have its downsides? Yeah, it’s complex overkill for small deployments or monolithic applications. But to be honest, there’s a lot of complexity to configuration management on traditional VMs with a lot of bad, not-so-gracefully aging tooling (cough…Chef Software)

I have a small application running under single-node k3s. It's slightly (but not hugely) easier to work with then the prior version that I had running under IIS.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-14 14:44:53+00:00
Because I believe that there are online zealots, and those zealots are very loud, and they are persuading people to agree (or at least go along), but most of those people are not themselves zealots. As they have to live with the consequences of the zealotry, they're going to not like it - not like it enough to be persuaded that it is not the answer. At that point you still have a bunch of zealots yammering online, but with a lot fewer people listening, and a lot fewer people voting the way the zealots want.
by gumboshoes | 2025-11-14 14:45:15+00:00
"I was surprised to learn that words with multiple definitions are defined in chronological order of first usage, and not, as I imagined, some kind of “importance” of definitions."

It depends on the type of dictionary. Merriam-Webster Unabridged (and most unabridged and historical dictionaries; you can tell a historical dictionary by the citations/quotations) do it chronologically. Merriam-Webster Collegiate (and most daily use mainstream dictionaries) sort senses (meanings) by likelihood of use frequency, or importance. As you can see, saying "Merriam-Webster" and meaning one dictionary is incorrect, as they produce more than one dictionary. Source: am lexicographer, have worked with Kory Stamper.
by hansmayer | 2025-11-14 14:45:18+00:00
I'd upvote this a 100 times. It's gotten to a point where, when I see a UI element, text, or email subject featuring those irritating twinkling-emojis that are supposed to indicate something between "magic" and "incredible speed", I feel physical uneasiness. Maybe it's precisely because of this contradiction that these symbols now stand for. Recently we purchased an .io domain for a product we're working on. Guess what, few days later there comes an e-mail with that twinkly-crap-start containing a suggestion that a ".com" domain for the same name is available, and that at a rather low price! Gasp! So I look it up...well yeah, it is a .com alright. But missing the bloody last letter of our name. Such is the crap that you get out of those LLMs, always incomplete, always missing something and this is increasingly the sentiment in the tech professionals community - no thanks, we don't want you to keep feeding us your slop, billions that you burned already into nothing be damned!
by surajrmal | 2025-11-14 14:45:20+00:00
While crashing is better than exploitable behavior, catching bugs at compile time is even better. Neither hardware based strategies nor filc actually find bugs at compile time. Also the conversation with respect to security isn't about migrating old code, but what to use for new code that you write.

I will note that developers also feel more productive in rust. That's why they migrate existing things over to it even when it may not be beneficial for security.
by probably_wrong | 2025-11-14 14:45:54+00:00
> Chrome has essentially won. Not necessarily for any engineering reason, at least not these days, but from continued momentum of being the market leader.

Ah, how the young forget... Mozilla became popular precisely due to their willingness to challenge the market leader at the time [1], namely, Internet Explorer. Going against the market leader should be in their DNA. The fight is not lost just because there's a market leader. If anything, Mozilla is currently losing the battle because the leadership doesn't believe they can do it again.

I'm fine with Mozilla diversifying their income, but I'm not fine with Mozilla sacrificing their browser (the part we desperately need the most) in the name of a "Digital Rights Foundation" that, at this rate, will lose their seat at the negotiating table.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/m...
Show HN: Simulator86, prototype embedded system projects on the browser
by grog6 | 2025-11-14 14:46:08+00:00
I've built an online simulator on the web. It allows you to write firmware and simulate it. avoiding the need of connecting wires or having hardware.

Currently, im supporting only stm32f4 and rust but working on adding more and more mcus.

give it a try, lmk what you think: https://simulator86.com
by nerdjon | 2025-11-14 14:47:15+00:00
Yes and no and this is the problem with the current marketing around AI.

I very much do want what used to be just called ML that was invisible and actually beneficial. Autocorrect, smart touch screen keyboards, music recommendations, etc. But the problem is that all of that stuff is now also just being called "AI" left and right.

That being said I think what most people think of when they say "AI" is really not as beneficial as they are trying to push. It has some uses but I think most of those uses are not going to be in your face AI as we are pushing now and instead in the background.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-14 14:47:16+00:00
We should do things because they are hard, not because they are cheap and easy. AGI might be a fantasy but there are lots of interesting problems that block the path to AGI that might get solved anyway. The past three years we've seen enormous progress with AI. Including a lot of progress in making this stuff a lot less expensive, more efficient, etc. You can now run some of this stuff on a phone and it isn't terrible.

I think the climate impact of data centers is way overstated relative to the ginormous amounts of emissions from other sources. Yes it's not pretty but it's a fairly minor problem compared to people buying SUVs and burning their way through millions of tons of fuel per day to get their asses to work and back. Just a simple example. There are plenty.

Data centers running on cheap clean power is entirely possible; and probably a lot cheaper long term. Kind of an obvious cost optimization to do. I'd prefer that to be sooner rather than later but it's nowhere near the highest priority thing to focus on when it comes to doing stuff about emissions.
by killerstorm | 2025-11-14 14:47:36+00:00
> "While AlphaEvolve is currently being applied across math and computing, its *general* nature means it can be applied to any problem whose solution can be described as an algorithm, and automatically verified. We believe AlphaEvolve could be transformative across many more areas such as material science, drug discovery, sustainability and wider technological and business applications."

Is that not general enough for you? or not intelligent?

Do you imagine AGI as a robot and not as datacenter solving all kinds of problems?
by master-lincoln | 2025-11-14 14:47:57+00:00
Shouldn't the logical conclusion be that if it's too much/hard to teach these people how to operate a device safely, they operate the devices in an unsafe way, bare the cost of it by being scammed, learn that it's not safe for them to operate the device for certain use-cases due to the experience, they tell others about it and it's in media -> people who do not feel confident operating such a device securely are scared away from using it due to the potential consequences they heard about -> problem solved (from a banking security perspective)

(except now the bank needs more staff behind the counter)
by ben_w | 2025-11-14 14:48:06+00:00
Slight quibble, but the reinforcement learning from human feedback means they're trained (somewhat) on what the specific human asking the question is likely to consider right or wrong.

This is both why they're sycophantic, and also why they're better than just median internet comments.

But this is only a slight quibble, because what you say is also somewhat true, and why they have such a hard time saying "I don't know".
by bob1029 | 2025-11-14 14:48:47+00:00
> While it's not illegal to try and compete with Nvidia (margin in 2025: 61%) or Mastercard (margin in 2025: 54%), it's just so capital-intensive to catch up with their graphics card R&D / bank partner network that few companies are brave enough.

I think the "quasi-monopoly" segment is the best attack vector if you are willing to get your hands a bit dirty. Companies like Mastercard and Visa are the closest thing you'll get to an actual money printer.

The trick with starting these kinds of businesses is to find one customer (B2B) who is willing to do the crazy thing with you. Someone who is fed up with the current state of affairs in their domain. Ideally, someone who is already a customer of one of these vendors you seek to compete with.

If I wanted to build a payment network from scratch, I would partner with a bank and begin with existing payment rails (Jack Henry, etc.,). and layer value-add on top (custom fraud detection, rewards programs). Over time, issuance, merchant acquiring and other concerns could be discussed once the trust and value proposition has been proven out. This is a very long play.

The hardest part of breaking in is finding that first customer and making sure they're a good one. If you have a good partner, it really does feel like cheating by comparison. I've worked with banks who could get things out of vendors with a five minute phone call that we couldn't in a million years. Stack a few of these and it begins to look like you're on the correct side of the moat.
by justanotherunit | 2025-11-14 14:49:13+00:00
This is great! I’ve been diving deep into local models that can run on this kind of hardware. Been building this exact same thing, but for complete recordings of meetings and such because, why not? I can even run a low-end model with ollama to refine and summaries the transcription. Even combining with smaller embedding models for a modern, semantic search. It has surprised me how well this works, and how fast it actually is locally.

Hopefully we will see even more locally run AI models in the future with a complete package.
by skocznymroczny | 2025-11-14 14:49:23+00:00
I like to use these AI models for generating mockup screenshots of game. I can drop a "create a mockup screenshot of a steampunk 2D platformer in which you play as a robot" and it will give me some interesting screenshot. Then I can ask it to iterate on the style. Of course it's going to be broken in some ways and it's not even real pixel art, but it gives a good reference to quickly brainstorm some ideas.

Unfortunately I have to use ChatGPT for this, for some reason local models don't do well with such tasks. I don't know if it's just the extra prompting sauce that ChatGPT does or just diffusion models aren't well designed for these kind of tasks.
by berkes | 2025-11-14 14:49:49+00:00
> Claude's webpage on a side pane, with all the issues of a squished webpage.

I have used that feature for a few weeks now and find it utterly useless.

Partly because it is squished. But mostly because it offers no value over just having a tab open with Claude (or in my case Mistral).

The extra buttons (summarize) and integration (context menu) hardly ever work (pages and selections are often too large for gpt, copilot, mistral or even claude and the sidebar just gives an error) but even if they did: what problem do these extra buttons and integrations solve? Am I missing something?

Do note that I would love integration the other way around: to have an AI agent (through an MCP for example) drive my firefox. Safely, contained, etc etc. I am not an AI luddite. I just find the firefox sidebar offering no value at all.
by mellosouls | 2025-11-14 14:50:08+00:00
While I agree that the current LLM-based approaches won't get us to (sentient) AGI, I think this article is missing a key point: the entire modern AI revolution (while founded on research work esp coming from Google) was fired up by the AGI dreamers at OpenAI with GPT3+ then ChatGPT etc. They were first in industry; they created the field.

Even if you don't expect them to get us over the final line, you should give them credit for that.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-14 14:50:18+00:00
>One of the current funny clips is Claire Danes being silenced on the Colbert show when talking about the relationship of the show Homeland's creators to the CIA (one's father and cousin), how all the actors were invited to "spy school" every year, and how it was explained to her by somebody at CIA school that the CIA was having to deepen its similar partnerships in media to bolster support for itself against Trump (during the first term) before being quickly silenced by Colbert. She's a perfect example of people participating in every aspect of this process, yet still being unaware that it really exists. She'd call you a conspiracy theorist for mentioning it.

>https://youtu.be/d6mBbyb-vIA?t=360

Watched it on mute with subtitles because work. The body language there is amusing. She's just blathering away unaware until Colbert throws a "shit shit shit we don't talk about how the sausage was made on the air" exception.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-14 14:50:51+00:00
Must be semantics because I don't consider bots within this context AI. Just like I don't consider web crawlers AI. Just like I don't consider an IRC bot AI. Just like I don't consider Quake 3 bots AI.

I mean... do you consider an IRC bot AI? "It is a bot, therefore it is AI" seems wrong to me.
by raflueder | 2025-11-14 14:51:35+00:00
I had a similar experience a couple of months ago where I decided to give it a go and "vibe code" a small TUI to get a feel for the workflow.

I used Claude Code and while the end result works (kinda) I noticed I was less satisfied with the process and, more importantly, I now had to review "someone else's" code instead of writing it myself, I had no idea of the internal workings of the application and it felt like starting at day one on a new codebase. It shifted my way of working from thinking/writing into reviewing/giving feedback which for me personally is way less mentally stimulating and rewarding.

There were def. some "a-ha" moments where CC came up with certain suggestions I wouldn't have thought of myself but those were only a small fraction of the total output and there's def. a dopamine hit from seeing all that code being spit out so fast.

Used as a prototyping tool to quickly test an idea seems to be a good use case but there should be better tooling around taking that prototype, splitting it into manageable parts, sharing the reasoning behind it so I can then rework it so I have the necessary understanding to move it forward.

For now I've decided to stick to code completion, writing of unit tests, commit messages, refactoring short snippets, CHANGELOG updates, it does fairly well on all of those small very focused tasks and the saved time on those end up being net positive.
by tnel77 | 2025-11-14 14:51:41+00:00
Just thinking out loud, but I wonder if Wall Street would be less awful about ruining companies if we were able to get a more meaningful dividend out of your average company? So perhaps the stock price itself stays relatively flat or boring, but the dividend paid out makes up for it. Or perhaps it would be the exact same issue and they’d be squeezing companies to maximize dividends.

I just know that I expect stock prices to go up because most “dividend stocks” give such a small amount of money per share.
by andy99 | 2025-11-14 14:51:44+00:00
The existence of the features doesn’t bother me. It’s the constant nagging about them. I can’t use a google product without being harassed to the point of not being able to work by offers to “help me write” or whatever.

Having the feature on a menu somewhere would be fine. The problem is the confluence of new features now becoming possible, and companies no longer building software for their users but as vehicles to push some agenda. Now we’re seeing this in action.
by alyxya | 2025-11-14 14:51:55+00:00
> Briefly, the argument goes that if there is a 0.001% chance of AGI delivering an extremely large amount of value, and 99.999% chance of much less or zero value, then the EV is still extremely large because (0.001% * very_large_value) + (99.999% * small_value) = very_large_value

I haven't heard of that being the argument. The main perspective I'm aware of is that more powerful AI models have a compounding multiplier on productivity, and this trend seems likely to continue at least in the near future considering how much better coding models are at boosting productivity now compared to last year.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-11-14 14:52:00+00:00
Humans have been measuring between human only vs augmented labor for literal centuries.

Frederick Taylor literally invented the process you describe in his “principles of scientific management”

This is the entire focus of the Toyota automation model.

The consistent empirical pattern is:

Machine-only systems outperform humans on narrow, formalizable tasks.

Human-machine hybrid systems outperform both on robustness, yieldjng higher success probability

Good enough?
by corry | 2025-11-14 14:52:11+00:00
Every other type of business I come across or analyze makes me think "Man, there really is nothing as good as SaaS" and I thank my lucky stars I was here for it.

High 80%+ gross margins; high retention/recurring revenues (if you're doing it right); easily metric'd (CAC, LTV, conv%, etc); capital specialized for deploying into it (most VC of the last decade); alignment with clients w.r.t. value/impact (or they don't renew); straightforward lining up of 'value to customer' and pricing; common benchmarks and shorthands for valuation multiples; etc.

Simple business to understand / run / grow, assuming you have a good product in a good market.

It really is quite the business model.
by Quothling | 2025-11-14 14:52:13+00:00
You already know that they aren't. Yesterday my wife and I were discussing Rønja Røverdatter. When we were kids it used to have danish talk over, so you could still hear the original swedish sound as well. Now it has been dubbed, and we were talking about the actor who voices Birk. Anyway, we looked him up and found out he was in Blinkende Lygter, which neither of us remebered. So we asked Gemini and it told us he played the child flashback actor of the main character... except he doesn't, and to make matters worse, Gemini said that he played Christian a young Torkil... So it even got the names wrong. Sure this isn't exactly something Gemini would know, considering Rønja Røverdatter is an old Astrid Lingren novel that was turned to film decades ago, and Blinkende Lygter is a Danish movie from 20ish years ago where Sebastian Jessen plays a tiny role. Since they are prediction engines though, they'll happily give you a wrong answer because that's what the math added up to.

I like LLM's, I've even build my own personal agent on our Enterprise GPT subscription to tune it for my professional needs, but I'd never use them to learn anything.