Absolute silicon valley logic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
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Readit Newstedmiston commented on Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI stratechery.com/2025/goog... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
i wonder if the CCPA applies here. too bad… I have trouble imagining they wouldn’t get enough data by just being opt-in by default like chatgpt.
CCPA/CPRA provide opt out of data sharing for (ad) sales to third-party companies, but those were passed before the gAI boom. I imagine an analogue is already in motion for AI training opt-out in CA, but those two don't address model training.
But ~782 million ChatGPT users vs a few million pairs of glasses.
tedmiston commented on Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker nkantar.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
I think the author would do well to front load "the why". Seems very over the top, sometimes you want to do things just because. Totally valid, but helps contextual the blog.
They are essentially choosing the philosophy of optimizing for speed in every dimension.
The tools selected are faster than their more mainstream counterparts — but since it's a static site anyway, the pre-build side of the toolchain is more about "nice dev ux" and the post-build is more about "really fast to load and read".
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Firefox user that haven't used Chrome for 6 years, what am I missing?
Mostly that FF has ~36k extensions (January 2024) [1] and Chrome has ~112k (June 2024) [2].
[No doubt, total count of extensions isn't the most important number and there's a long tail in both counts of very small user bases, but this paints the ~3x picture in a broad stroke.]
Of course, since FF migrated to WebExtensions in 2017, theoretically most Chrome extensions can be ported to FF with minimal changes [3] — practically speaking though, not all of the big ones actually have, or the FF equivalents to some of the most useful Chrome extensions are far less polished.
And also, if you're developing front end web apps for normal end users, most are still on Chrome... over the years, I've experienced an unfortunate number of sites that should work across Chrome/FF/Safari actually break because of things like the developers not even testing in browsers besides Chrome given its dominance. I'm not encouraging that by any means, but the reality is that it still happens.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Add-on_(Mozilla)
[2]: https://github.com/DebugBear/chrome-extension-list
[3]: https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/porting-...
tedmiston commented on Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for students steveblank.com/2024/08/13... · Posted by u/sblank
I think this submission title should be modified to:
> Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for students
This addresses several issues with the headline as presented:
- It’s capitalized appropriately for HN.
- It clearly states that this is about students only, reducing the scope of the effort from the unstated framing: “all workers”.
- It reflects the single-company focus of Palantir in the article, improving HN submission search results for that company.
- It reuses the exact wording of the most key heading in the article with only two words added: “for students”.
Yeah, this is a much more accurate title than Security Clearances at the Speed of Startups.
I think you need to email dang <hn@ycombinator.com> to see if he'll agree to update.
tedmiston commented on Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub trufflesecurity.com/blog/... · Posted by u/__0x1__
Nope, me too. The whole Repo network thing is not User facing at all. It is an internal thing at GitHub to allow easier pull requests between repo's. But it isn't a concept git knows, and it doesn't affect GitHub users at all except for this one weird thing.
> Nope, me too. The whole Repo network thing is not User facing at all.
There are some user-facing parts: You can find the fork network and some related bits under repo insights. (The UX is not great.)
https://github.com/apache/airflow/forks?include=active&page=...
I don’t think we’re close to AGI, but I do think ChatGPT has the potential to be the most successful ad platform in history. And I think they’ll probably succeed in building it.