Yep. It's like trying to achieve a million LOC per day. Easily done. But pointless.

The point of TFA is that criminals could hack into those police cameras, see when you are out of town, and burgle your house.

You don't know who is going to get access to the data you have shared.

Elon's always looking for another Brooklyn Bridge to sell to the rubes...

A typical desktop/tower PC will consume 400 watts. So 12 PC's equals 1 starlink satellite.

A single server in a data center will consume 5-10 kW.

I find I think harder with AI programming. It generates the code, but I have to approve the overall design and then approve every single line. I will edit and rearrange the code until it is correct.

But since the AI is generating a lot of code, it is challenging me. It also allows me to tackle problems in unfamiliar areas. I need to properly understand the solutions, which again is challenging. I know that if I don't understand exactly what the code is doing and have confidence in the design and reliability, it will come back and bite me when I release it into the wild. A lesson learnt the hard way during many decades of programming.

I imagine there is a lot less striving to get ahead. Most people are somewhat content with their place in society?

"That isn't writing at all, it's typing."

- Truman Capote on Kerouac's work.

(I love Kerouac...)

Capote was right. Kerouac had been writing the book for years in notebooks. His first /typed/ draft took three weeks.

https://thedailybeatblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/jack-kerouac-d...

The anecdote was featured in the book Slow Productivity.

They are laying people off so they can spend the money on AI data centers.

You are right. But the real world is a messy place. Good people do bad things and vice versa. Not many people are entirely good or entirely bad.

HN is a very strong net positive IMO. YC could easily monetize it into oblivion. They don't.

My understanding is that HN is monetized e.g. marketing is explicitly permitted by founders etc.

I guess that's not conventional monetisation.

They arguably do. Just look at the valuation of YC. They are just being smart about it.

They do not monetize but may do probably something worse, infotize or narratize (just invented words). By using an almost neutral, altruistic platform to subtly control/constrain the narratives on certain tech overlords. As much as I love HN, I do not agree with their reasoning to flag some of the posts that are negative to the tech elites.