React works. Does what it says. It’s boring, but works.
Deffo not dead. I’ve been writing React almost everyday for years.
Readit Newsnojvek commented on Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling? · Posted by u/cpt100
I'd be very excited if AI could do my work. I could manage the AI and be more productive. Right now AI hallucinates a lot and I end up doing more work than I need to cleaning up and undoing random crap it generates.
Aloe's neurosymbolic system just beat OpenAI's deep research score on the GAIA benchmark by 20 points. While Gary is full of bluster, he does know a few things about the limitations of LLMs. :) (aloe.inc)
Yeah there was on old paper that blew math/physics benchmarks out of the water by letting the LLM write code and having the physics engine execute it. I don't have a link to it off my head but that seems to be the right directly.
LLM + general tool use seems to be quite effective.
I agree on most points with the author, but stablecoins have fundamental value to countries that are not US whose currency gets devalued faster than US dollar, or want to do cross border transaction.
USD has its own woes with inflation and trade wars so fundamentally isn't stable, compared to say gold. Other currencies have runaway inflation or much higher friction to transact.
However the promise of stablecoin is that it can be exchanged 1:1 with USD with transaction fees much lower than CC fees (on exchanges like Solana e.t.c).
Unlike fraud from FTX, USDC stablecoin buys US treasuries dollar for dollar. This generates demand for USD as well as Circle makes profit from treasury yields.
Elegant idea in a way. Fast, cross-border low fee transactions in USD.
Bitcoin now has proven itself as inflation-hedged store of value. USDC is proving itself as a way to transact on goods and services.
Obviously trust is earned as droplets but leaves in buckets.
Crypto is ripe with scams and shady exchanges.
nojvek commented on Ask HN: How likely it is that the AI bubble will pop next year? · Posted by u/laurentiurad
OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google are are making $100M - billions in revenues.
Wouldn't call that a bubble. Sure some companies may run out of fuel but the Hyperscalers got a huge warchest to deploy for decades.
I’m consistently amazed at how many of these startups I’ve never heard of, and appear to have no product, are worth tens of billions. This really is a dotcom money party.
There's trillions at the top looking for gains. Too much money chasing the same few goods, people and ideas.
nojvek commented on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app nytimes.com/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/greenburger
WhatsApp promise to users by it's founders.
“No ads! No games! No gimmicks!”
I wonder how the early founders feel about what Whatsapp has become with random junk and gimmicks in the UI.
OpenAI, Grok, Gemini, Anthropic are all cut of same cloth no? Closed AI to serve their corporate shareholders and respective governments.
There is no deeper altruistic move here. It's capitalism at it's best or worse, depending on the observer.
China has a huuuuge lead on EV supply chain.
Tesla went full Nazi and alienated their base.
I can see Ford and GM trucks still maintaining their core base, but Tesla doesn’t have an edge. They seem to be stuck 5 years ago.
China or Europe could steal him. It would be a loss.