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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

just remembered why I created an account here:

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/domu-technology-inc/jobs/hwWsGdU-vibe-coder-ai-engineer

become a vibe coder for a debt collection startup! but only if you're willing to pull 15+ hour days for 80k a year

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Would you believe this prescient vibe coding manual came out in 2015! https://mowillemsworkshop.com/catalog/books/item/i-really-like-slop

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

LW: 23AndMe is for sale, maybe the babby-editing people might be interested in snapping them up?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MciRCEuNwctCBrT7i/23andme-potentially-for-sale-for-less-than-usd50m

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Quick update on the CoreWeave affair: turns out they're facing technical defaults on their Blackstone loans, which is gonna hurt their IPO a fair bit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bill Gates, a man who is not needed for most things, suffers from projection.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If only it were him that suffered from his projections and not everyone else.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

For some reason it's on brand for HN to have a discussion of different dash widths stick on the front page more than 24h

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497719

Extra spice and relevance for the observation that GenAI text apparently has a lot of em-dashes in it, so add that to the frequency of the word "delve".

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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