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whydoineedthis commented on AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All wired.com/story/ai-bubble... · Posted by u/AlphaWeaver

fzeroracer · a month ago

We're at a record number of subprime borrowers falling behind on car loans, which historically is a really bad economical sign, consumer sentiment is at an all time low and the labor market isn't looking great either. Anecdotally, prices have risen sharply and people are getting sharply priced out of basic necessities due to rising costs.

whydoineedthis · a month ago

The last financial crisis was 2008. Are you saying there was a tech bubble in 2008? The economy can do bad in lots of sectors while others are gaining traction.

whydoineedthis commented on AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All wired.com/story/ai-bubble... · Posted by u/AlphaWeaver

BriggyDwiggs42 · a month ago

Could you show me proof of the 3-5 year runway thing? I’m not saying it’s outlandish but I’m skeptical.

whydoineedthis · a month ago

Just look at recent funding rounds?

whydoineedthis commented on Alchemy joshcollinsworth.com/blog... · Posted by u/tobr

whydoineedthis · a month ago

Some people make art for the sake of art though.

whydoineedthis commented on AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All wired.com/story/ai-bubble... · Posted by u/AlphaWeaver

whydoineedthis · a month ago

Its silly to talk about a bubble when all of the major AI companies just recieved 3-5yrs runway in VC. I normally hate the term FUD, bit in this case it's proveably true. Even if these companies collapse in 5 years, thats a lifetime away in tech years, not an immediate bubble.

whydoineedthis commented on Lawmakers want to ban VPNs eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11... · Posted by u/gslin

pxc · a month ago

Take a look at the tools Chinese people use to evade the national firewall. They're extremely sophisticated, and need to advance all the time because the GFW constantly becomes more sophisticated. There are a lot of encryption technologies that the government also allows to work until they block them at a critical moment. All of the VPNs you've ever heard of in some advertisement on YouTube or whatever are easily and totally blocked in China.

Governments can make evading their censorship very difficult, painful, and risky, if they want to. It can have a huge impact.

whydoineedthis · a month ago

I dont think so. I run a VPN whitelabel and its parent company is based in China.

whydoineedthis commented on Waymo Was on a Roll in San Francisco. Then One of Its Cars Killed a Cat nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us... · Posted by u/donohoe

whydoineedthis · a month ago

Having jobs like uber and Lyft available - self employed on your own time - are terrific stop gaps when people lose thier real job, or need a little extra for thier familly. Doing away with them will create a much worse society.

whydoineedthis commented on Show HN: I got tired of managing dev environments, so I built ServBay servbay.com... · Posted by u/Saltyfishh

whydoineedthis · 2 months ago

If there were a servbay.yaml file that a person could export & commit this would probably go down smoother from some folks.

If you added a feature to push/fetch and sync the local development database from an s3 (or like bucket) it would solve one of the real core problems of new developers getting started.

That nginx proxy probably works 99.999% of the time, but oh boy, is that .001% going to tick someone off. Proxy's always add a small layer of complexity that can fubar things in strange ways, i know from running many of proxies in production just fine until that tiny little app/proxy config change that borks it. I haven't dug in enough yet, but i hope it can be bypassed.

Ambitious project that I think has some legs. A lot of devs dislike docker and many teams struggle to use it well anyway (for instance, a good dev Dockerfile is usually not the same as a good production Dockerfile). You will need to make this more "IAC-like" if you want to beat it though, imho.

Keep going and good luck!

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whydoineedthis · 3 months ago

I personally think we are in the pre-broadband era of AI. That is, what is currently being built will contribute to some AI dot-com 1.0 bubble burst, but after that there will be some advancements in it's distribution model that will allow it to thrive and infiltrate our society at a core level. Right now it's a bunch of dreamers building the pets.com that no one asked for, but after all the competition is shaken off, there will definitely be some clear winners, and maybe an Amazon.com of sorts for AI that people will adopt.

whydoineedthis commented on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux github.com/vicinaehq/vici... · Posted by u/aurellius

whydoineedthis · 3 months ago

I dont understand why I would use this. Can someone eli5?