ffitch · HackerTrans

The article is not about this stuff being useful for making money off of prediction markets.

from the article:

  I asked the guy who turned $35 into $2 million in seven months on Kalshi whether, in another seven months, he would be able to 100,000x his money a second time to $200 billion. Unsurprisingly, he said no - there’s only so much easy money on Kalshi, and his AI had already taken it all (also, other people with similar AIs are starting to fight him for it!)

ffitch

11 days agodiscuss

No extra hardware, stock macbooks and an imac. No fancy apps either, RayCast is probably the only one that overrides default system behavior. It used to be better, a few years ago macOS would run stable for months, but even then I had to resort to ‘killall Dock’ for occasional glitches.

ffitch

11 days agodiscuss

hope not : ) I observed these across three computers on different versions of macOS.

ffitch

11 days agodiscuss

A couple of years ago I noticed that my mac starts collecting weird little bugs if I don’t reboot for a really long time. The cursor starts misbehaving (it won’t reliably change over links, or in graphic editors), switching between apps might take a few seconds, and once I had my keyboard input latency increased by ~500-700ms for every keystroke. These issues go away on reboot. I’m trying rebooting once a week or so now.

ffitch

2 months agodiscuss

fun fact, CH is an ISO code of Switzerland, and China is CN

ffitch

5 months agodiscuss

> our team was blown away > by how much Codex was able > to accelerate its own development

they forgot to add “Can’t wait to see what you do with it”

ffitch

6 months agodiscuss

I didn’t mean collaboration features. I clumsily used 10,000-users as a measure of the app completeness.

ffitch

6 months agodiscuss

Building (or vibecoding) a markdown editor for a single user and their specific use case, for a 100 users, and for 10,000 users takes different amount of time and effort. In the pre-LLM days people with resolve to make 1-user version were likely to polish it for 100-users and somewhat likely to get it to a stable place when it can satisfy thousands of users.

Today on /r/macapps/ there’s a wave of apps that look good at the first glance but get abandoned before they achieve even a 100-users maturity level.

ffitch

8 months agodiscuss

in this quote ↑6 describes the wealth level and ↑7 the number of people at that level. the author gives every number in log form.

ffitch

9 months agodiscuss

seeing how much power shifted from legislative branch to executive, and how often executive branch changes its mind, I wouldn’t count on the unwavering government support

ffitch

10 months agodiscuss

great benchmark!

ffitch

10 months agodiscuss

does anyone know how would e-ink compare to oldschool reflective TN LCD displays (those in Casios from the nineties)? I have a Playdate device with this type of screen and it seems pretty cool, I wonder why so few devices today are taking advantage of it.

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