15:[[36338187,{"by":"thaway_thaway34","descendants":174,"id":36338187,"kids":[36338940,36338975,36339028,36339188,36339296,36338988,36338957,36339056,36343935,36339024,36339281,36339001,36338392,36338364,36338889,36340341,36339700,36339149,36346618,36338943,36342836,36339123,36338906,36338796,36339235,36339218,36339349,36402381,36339672,36342031,36340545,36339656,36339212,36339384,36338700,36339289,36338846,36339051,36339352,36339243,36338982,36338933,36339153,36339341,36339553,36345329,36339415,36339058,36338466,36339639,36338970,36339140,36345255,36340215,36339330,36338948,36339013,36339187,36395103,36339425,36365338,36339223,36395077,36339287,36339407,36338947,36343729,36339562,36339234,36338420,36339087,36339438,36339500,36339265,36341572],"score":105,"text":"$16","time":1686821656,"title":"Ask HN: GPT4 Broke Me","type":"story"}],[35783158,{"by":"vipshek","descendants":237,"id":35783158,"kids":[35783494,35783518,35786349,35783488,35783582,35783539,35786263,35783616,35791124,35783612,35784252,35783736,35783431,35785441,35786470,35783485,35784922,35789467,35784040,35783753,35784690,35783590,35783656,35783508,35786281,35785692,35789683,35789862,35785633,35784587,35785434,35786423,35786031,35785011,35785006,35784453,35787439,35783266],"score":225,"time":1682999411,"title":"GPT makes learning fun again","type":"story","url":"https://www.vipshek.com/blog/gpt-learning"}],[35630920,{"by":"pat-jay","descendants":8,"id":35630920,"kids":[35638282,35638227,35630973,35638583,35630929],"score":11,"time":1681925520,"title":"Show HN: Allainews.com shows all AI news in one place","type":"story","url":"https://allainews.com/"}],[35637244,{"by":"poniko","descendants":4,"id":35637244,"kids":[35637387,35637656,35637614],"score":8,"time":1681975003,"title":"Elon Musk threatens to sue Microsoft","type":"story","url":"https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/19/23690216/elon-musk-microsoft-ai-lawsuit-threat"}],[35604424,{"by":"tmaly","descendants":1,"id":35604424,"kids":[35625996],"score":4,"text":"What is the most unique use case you have used ChatGPT for?

I ended up using ChatGPT to plan an day's itinerary to a Disney park and to locate a magic show for kids in the area I was vacationing at.","time":1681755416,"title":"Ask HN: Most unique use case for ChatGPT?","type":"story"}],[35561520,{"by":"paulpauper","descendants":51,"id":35561520,"kids":[35562897,35562792,35562620,35562642,35563221,35562840,35603167,35562671,35562823,35603033,35602951,35566461,35563224,35562559,35566818,35567327,35562742],"score":33,"time":1681417148,"title":"Is GPT-4 Worth the Subscription? Here’s What You Should Know","type":"story","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-chatgpt-plus-gpt4-openai/"}],[35558066,{"by":"bb1234","descendants":55,"id":35558066,"kids":[35560405,35561345,35560519,35561014,35561532,35560832,35558860,35561079,35560002,35558291,35561210,35560881,35562820,35561422,35566234,35561186,35561093,35561262,35561098,35561075,35560083,35566622,35559734,35559826,35559824,35561305,35561254,35561568,35572143,35561468,35560808,35561154],"score":45,"text":"Do you believe that GPT-4 will significantly reduce the demand for coders? If not, why not? I am curious to get your sense of this. I am not a professional coder. I write code for scientific work. But I am really curious.","time":1681403531,"title":"Coding Jobs and GPT-4","type":"story"}],[35552922,{"by":"tablatom","descendants":22,"id":35552922,"kids":[35556533,35561569,35562423,35566357,35553716,35553104,35552978,35581449,35553220,35562892,35553092,35564088,35558171],"score":16,"text":"I'm not so worried that AI will become so good at coding that I'll be out of a job. It's not clear it's going to happen any time soon, and if it does, the implications for all sorts of jobs are so vast it's a totally different world.

But there's a different concern, that the era of millions apps might be coming to an end, and with it the viability of many of us freelancers and small software companies. Instead we will have a small number of incredibly capable and malleable platforms.

And it doesn't have to get all the way to that endgame for the app I work on to become redundant.","time":1681377413,"title":"Ask HN: Are you worried your non-AI project might soon be obsolete?","type":"story"}],[35537264,{"by":"zgk7iqea","descendants":104,"id":35537264,"kids":[35537727,35537555,35537796,35537958,35537663,35538007,35538083,35537664,35537583,35537959,35537616,35537906,35537891,35537598,35537690,35537824,35537880,35538029,35537990,35537685,35540938,35539637,35537972,35537680,35537742,35538056,35538267,35538057,35537794,35537657,35538183,35538003,35547216,35540456,35547578,35537731,35538053,35538010,35537956,35538137,35537567,35537707,35537633,35538653,35537889,35537695,35538586],"score":47,"text":"A couple of days ago I was trying to check my messages on a real estate website (I won't say which). But scrolling only worked in landscape mode.

Then I tried to watch a TikTok that a friend sent me, but the website took forever to load. When it finished loading, the player didn't work.

What is happening? Is software quality in decline?","time":1681293559,"title":"Ask HN: Is Software Getting Worse?","type":"story"}],[35451322,{"by":"carlos-menezes","descendants":2,"id":35451322,"kids":[35451740],"score":3,"time":1680685617,"title":"Show HN: AI-Powered Brand Name Generator","type":"story","url":"https://www.namique.xyz/"}],[35382854,{"by":"andrewstuart","descendants":7,"id":35382854,"kids":[35383803,35383756,35384023,35386525,35383728,35383475,35399825,35383175],"score":5,"text":"I'm guessing China is developing such an AI right now. They have the means and the motivation to capture every written or spoken word of every Chinese citizen. Probably every TikToker too!

Presumably this all goes into a giant, up to the minute training data set.

I wonder what such an AI could be used for, any speculation?","time":1680239424,"title":"Ask HN: Imagine an AI trained on every word written or spoken by everyone","type":"story"}],[35286312,{"by":"MrThoughtful","descendants":6,"id":35286312,"kids":[35287120,35286614,35286554],"score":6,"text":"As far as I understand the MS/OpenAI deal, MS will get back a multiple of their investment and that's it.

Isn't MS afraid, that OpenAI will build a ton of useful stuff Microsoft depends on and then MS is at their mercy?","time":1679645067,"title":"Ask HN: Will Microsoft benefit from all the awesome stuff OpenAI is building?","type":"story"}],[35262333,{"by":"thisiswrongggg","descendants":66,"id":35262333,"kids":[35264245,35269886,35267601,35262627,35267644,35268149,35266061,35276481,35263215,35275503,35265131,35262908,35268003,35272795,35287483,35268737,35265078,35265074],"score":28,"text":"I hear stories around me and it seems like the remote is ebbing atm.

More and more companies are cutting down on it increasing the needed presence. At the same time they just don't have the real estate capacity to do it decently which means (at least in my personal experience) that you land in a noisy subpar open space (worst invention ever) for n days a week where you can hardly do any work.

Not to mention wasting time/energy in commuting.

It really beats me why a company would waste resources like that and I cannot explain it. The best I have is that this is some kind of power play but I'm not convinced. Am I missing something?","time":1679498231,"title":"Ask HN: Is remote going away? Why?","type":"story"}],[35255811,{"by":"atleastoptimal","descendants":12,"id":35255811,"kids":[35256591,35256073,35256791,35256232,35256107,35256277,35258481,35267704,35266799,35262781],"score":7,"text":"Everyone seems to have a vague sense of how things will change due to advancements in AI in the next decade. Job disruption, personalized content with generative models, people developing relationships with chatbots, etc.

What are some unconventional predictions you have for the development, impact and overall direction for AI over the next 5 years? Do you think we've hit a plateau, or will there be changes and breakthroughs that most people don't expect?","time":1679450690,"title":"Ask HN: What are your AI hot takes?","type":"story"}],[35261065,{"by":"todsacerdoti","descendants":751,"id":35261065,"kids":[35262116,35261530,35262113,35261588,35261913,35261408,35261644,35261290,35261997,35261958,35261339,35261775,35264071,35261348,35261668,35261843,35262105,35265212,35262022,35263858,35263955,35261436,35263240,35261645,35261411,35264158,35264057,35264102,35261834,35261567,35261597,35261989,35264844,35263704,35263498,35262927,35263335,35262623,35262891,35264096,35264368,35262575,35263327,35264570,35263392,35264701,35262893,35264623,35264316,35262185,35261503,35263364,35261306,35261442,35261414,35263857,35267635,35261656,35261779,35263032,35271350,35263694,35265491,35261231,35262054,35265555,35262017,35261939,35268037,35261549,35261789,35266344,35264571,35264552,35263929,35261575,35261554,35263686,35261375,35265602,35265465,35261579,35262660,35262440,35266274,35261459,35266032,35261455,35267086,35261505,35261385],"score":1096,"time":1679493547,"title":"GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview","type":"story","url":"https://github.blog/2023-03-22-github-copilot-x-the-ai-powered-developer-experience/"}],[35163412,{"by":"1attice","descendants":11,"id":35163412,"kids":[35163896,35163444,35171045,35163479,35166559,35163898,35163564,35168680,35173735],"score":19,"text":"Please, serious answers only, and assume for the sake of argument that AI will be weaponized in a way that is enormously disruptive to western democracies (following Kissinger, Schneier, et al.)

How are you preparing, spiritually, practically, and emotionally, for some or all of the following:

- Mass politicized generation of fake citizens

- Training set poisoning

- Intentionally malicious/biased AIs deployed (say, by a billionaire infuriated by basic empathy?)

- Hitherto undiscovered forms of AI leverage by bad actors?

Near as I can tell, we almost lost democracy to the Facebook recommendation algorithm; I don't see our business-as-usual political institutions surviving the loss of trust in mediated communications that will almost certainly result from generative AI, even if said AI is not sentient or conscious.

So how are you preparing your families and communities for what comes next?

Back a step: *are there* preparations we can make?","time":1678850623,"title":"Ask HN: How are you preparing for the AIpocalypse?","type":"story"}],[35080554,{"by":"loriverkutya","descendants":2,"id":35080554,"kids":[35080870,35080914],"score":5,"time":1678365109,"title":"Spotify’s new design is part TikTok, part Instagram, and part YouTube","type":"story","url":"https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/8/23630821/spotify-design-home-music-podcasts-audiobooks-app"}],[35036404,{"by":"mountainview","descendants":9,"id":35036404,"kids":[35037192,35038445,35036454,35036941,35036477,35037574,35054037,35036863],"score":8,"text":"Generative AI has changed our life for good. The way we acquire knowledge, the way we work, the way we get answers are all different. It's like The Spinning Jenny all over again? What would be the essential skill for us in your opinion to make the best of AI?","time":1678066059,"title":"Ask HN: What would be the most important skill in the era of generative AI?","type":"story"}],[35038804,{"by":"puzzledpenguin","descendants":243,"id":35038804,"kids":[35038984,35039006,35039794,35043639,35039236,35039019,35038999,35040392,35038922,35038929,35038894,35042903,35039129,35039031,35044885,35089883,35039934,35039784,35039913,35046649,35040567,35041918,35041832,35039310,35040859,35039008,35043230,35039184,35049896,35039097,35039082,35038924,35043115,35039267,35044894,35038964,35045864,35041208,35048475,35039001,35039251],"score":486,"time":1678091998,"title":"ChatGPT generated a puzzle game","type":"story","url":"https://puzzledpenguin.substack.com/p/chatgpt-invented-its-own-puzzle-game"}],[34991899,{"by":"slymerson","descendants":8,"id":34991899,"kids":[34995830,34991928,34993271,34994238,34993373,34991930],"score":3,"text":"What do you guys think is the future of social media?

TikTok is killing it right now in the social space but I was wondering what you guys think comes next?

Could it be more BeReal esque apps?

It's hard to predict what will be the future of social media but if you had to guess, what do you think it would look like?","time":1677730306,"title":"Ask HN: What is the future of social media?","type":"story"}],[34912602,{"by":"freetonik","descendants":42,"id":34912602,"kids":[34921416,34919828,34918256,34917530,34919208,34920150,34913095,34924836,34925056,34921331,34920481,34920104,34928156,34921325,34913611,34918282,34919079,34914373,34938496,34919347,34922289,34922438,34912945,34925149,34917777],"score":17,"text":"I need to replace my old MacBook, and I am curious to try something new. Modern thinkpads look pretty attractive, and it’ll be nice to have an option to install Linux (can’t wait for full support for Linux on arm macs).

My use case is simple: web programming and general computing.

The last time I owned a non-Apple computer was around 2011, and Windows 7 was pretty good for everything I needed.

Nowadays, I read a lot of criticisms about Windows 10 and 11, and simultaneously some praise of the Linux subsystem. It’s very hard to understand whether Windows is really that bad?

Would be curious to hear some positives, or perhaps successful “Mac-to-windows” transition stories.","time":1677169679,"title":"Ask HN: Is Windows That Bad?","type":"story"}],[34895267,{"by":"harambae","descendants":279,"id":34895267,"kids":[34895795,34896231,34897970,34896073,34896032,34899117,34896418,34895682,34895711,34901421,34895774,34896566,34895462,34896107,34896334,34896499,34895978,34905120,34896294,34896436,34896192,34897676,34895619,34896445,34895779,34900876,34896569,34895912,34896093,34895867,34896017,34895715,34895361,34895705,34895661],"score":119,"time":1677073269,"title":"Most young men are single. Most young women are not","type":"story","url":"https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-young-men-are-single-most-young-women-are-not/"}],[34884959,{"by":"cantthrowaway","descendants":15,"id":34884959,"kids":[34885206,34889004,34902200,34893800,34885493,34893349,34885868,34885032,34885438,34888106,34894381,34910727,34885451,34892618],"score":15,"text":"I feel like my mind is always in "grind mode." The mode where if I'm not working on some project or startup idea, I feel stagnant and useless.

If a project I'm working on doesn't take off or I can't deliver for some reason, I'll actually get depressed and start getting desperate for the next thing to launch.

Not sure if this is the product of how I was raised or just the tech culture I'm in, but it's honestly exhausting.

How do you turn this off? How can I just be happy with my well-paying job and focus on hobbies after work instead of startup ideas?","time":1677004838,"title":"Tell HN: Can't turn off “grind mode”","type":"story"}],[34871910,{"by":"ramesh31","descendants":64,"id":34871910,"kids":[34873304,34872766,34872813,34872502,34874717,34872131,34879165,34873723,34874783,34872313,34875306,34910794,34872349,34873747,34880301,34878635,34874601,34873601],"score":59,"text":"Seems like team morale is at an all time low. Most people are just phoning it in at this point. Our business is doing great, but I guess that's not enough to maintain job security anymore. Feels like Q1 the execs are just waiting for annuals to come in to make their list, as there's been total radio silence since the holidays. I fully expect to be laid off in the next 2-3 months.","time":1676921756,"title":"Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like they're just waiting for the axe to fall?","type":"story"}],[34746348,{"by":"lostConnection","descendants":78,"id":34746348,"kids":[34749351,34746434,34749960,34750101,34749947,34750296,34750087,34746527,34750312,34749618,34750781,34750155,34750215,34750342,34750300,34750683,34750299,34750500,34750127,34749905,34750028,34750007,34780953,34750418,34750353,34750287,34750576,34750096,34750368,34751252],"score":61,"time":1676065521,"title":"ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI","type":"story","url":"https://nabilalouani.substack.com/p/chatgpt-hype-is-proof-nobody-really"}],[34747956,{"by":"actinium226","descendants":21,"id":34747956,"kids":[34749846,34748025,34748501,34749854,34750136,34766413,34759203,34753918,34748168,34750570,34748043,34752519,34754058,34748670,34748019,34749414,34749082,34764479,34754393,34749015],"score":36,"text":"I'm working on a webapp for time management. (www.timeblocker.dev, if you're curious).

I keep procrastinating by tweaking technical things, but let's face it - there's no value to increasing the performance/maintainability of something that no one is using.

I know I need to market it, and I've made some posts here and there about it, but I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing.

Is there some sort of Marketing 101 youtube series or Coursera course that just covers some base level knowledge?","time":1676074471,"title":"Ask HN: I'm a good programmer, I know nothing about marketing. Where do I start?","type":"story"}]]

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