this sentence hurts to read

That's disappointing to hear, I remember the reboot news and thought they had a pretty solid team behind it. I guess gaining traction proved too difficult.

It died and came back again last month

I actually found some of it useful. I saw some page where it helpfully pulled tweets from well known people relating to some story. So it’s not just some slop, or that’s how it looked to me.

More like a curator of all the AI news on Twitter. It’s also a great way to find trending AI projects on GitHub and elsewhere

... for nostalgia's sake ...

It is official; Netcraft now confirms: BSD is dying

I missed it at first. Then reread it, and wow - this is grade A satire of the sort rarely delivered anymore, probably indeed because of exactly what you're saying.

Before the "preferably before IPO" I honestly couldn't tell.

Closed source, gated access, guzzling up all innovation budget from the country, diverting cities' limited water access, gaming the stock market and convincing leaders to cut jobs across all industries.

Truly we must protect these moral and ethical visionaries.

i would call out reduction in extreme poverty or increased healthcare access or something but yeah the models are fine i guess

Either that or the only reason they've been releasing the models under permissive licenses is that that the only way they have get any attention in a market dominated by American companies.

(Also, they don't need to make a profit because their system does not prioritize profit potential when making investment decisions: it prioritizes alignment with directives out of Beijing, which include keeping up with the West in strategic technologies.)

That you and other readers can't outright identify the comment as parody is actually quite disturbing to me.

This is typical for GLM releases.

Yes?

I have seen enough OpenAI and Anthropic carefuly timed marketing plays to expect it.

I would never announce GLM 5.2 in the same day as Fable or Apple's WWDC, for example.

I think it's a possibility, because labs trying to one-up each other is a fairly common phenomenon at this point. Previous Opus releases were immediately followed by GPT releases, for example. At some point the timing stops being a mere coincidence.

I still find it baffling how the idea that HN is "unashamedly anti-ai" gets repeated.

Every single model release gets submitted within minutes of an announcement and frequently break 1000+ points within an hour or two. Blog posts about vibe coding or the current flavor of harness/workflow/tool are constantly making the front page. Karpathy's latest writing/presentations or "Learn how LLMs work using X" are perennial front page content.

There were moments in 2023/2024 where all but a handful of posts on the front page were about AI (and not the Reddit r/popular "residents worried about infrasound and EM radiation near new datacenter" variety).

For example, the responses to this very recent post were overwhelmingly praising Gen AI's capabilities:

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406174

Or this post which rocketed to 2000+ points a year ago without bothering to steel man opposing arguments:

My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063

There are counter examples of course but just because HN isn't exclusively AI hype at all times doesn't mean it's "unashamedly anti-AI".

I honestly can't think of any single topic other than the Snowden leaks in 2013/2014 that even comes close to dominating HN discussion like LLMs/GenAI from 2022 to present.