The game is made up, but the effort, and process to be one of the most skilled sports players is still real. And sports players would probably feel something missing life if AI could replace them too

Computers surpassed humans at chess nearly 30 years ago. Yet human chess is more popular than ever, and people still dedicate their life to improving at chess.

As a more silly comparison, forklifts didn't stop people from weightlifting.

Chess is inherently a leisure activity. The incentive for playing chess is just to be better at chess. But things like woodworking, typesetting, and welding, while all possible to do recreationally, are not leisure activities. They are effort used to produce something. The desire is always there to engage with the thing or idea, but if the resource cost is far too high or the knowledge required is more than one person can reasonably learn the effort will not be expended. A leisure activity will always persist so long as someone knows how to do it because it exists for itself. But many other activities exist in service to something else, and if that something else ceases to exist then the activity will as well. You lose entire domains of useful cross-disciplinary knowledge that way.

Not OP, but I am guessing they have domains like fordcareers.com or fordsecurity.com instead of careers.fore.com or security.ford.com, etc

Exactly what they did in many instances.

This really grinds my gears, way more than it should for some reason.

Use the system as it was intended, people!

Far from the most frustrating thing they did, trust me. I could tell you stories for days and never run out of more frustrating anecdotes.

Sometimes you don’t want everything hanging off the main domain, because if DNS gets horked everything goes down.

It is not just Opus, its every single model. And its not just for coding either, but basically anything.

I think I noticed a huge deterioration starting at around May or late April. Not really sure what happened but quality definitely dropped

What’s the harm in being curious and seeing what you might be missing?

There's no harm in being curious but why frame it like the thing you don't know how to use is not useful? That's harmful.

For those that don't use AWS Cognito, what's the next best alternative these days? (Don't say Auth0 either)

Big fan of Keycloak personally, but I'm also deep in the Quarkus/JVM ecosystem and Quarkus makes deving against Keycloak extremely easy.

Asking as someone who's only every rolled his own or used Cognito: What's the problem with Auth0?

Ory stack has been working very well for us.

My guess is to combat scrapers. They have been suing companies that scrape Google lately (they lost a recent one)

The clear URLs are still in the site's source, though.

That is an additional step for people who want to buy the scraped data though. They have to crawl the actual URLs to see what it points to

... for some reason (inside a script tag for me)

It never got overwritten back to the original destination URL with the same browsing environment (see my other comment).

I dont understand. Who is flagging and more importantly, why does it even matter?

Maybe I just need more patience, but I took a look at some tools that have MCPs, and their "setup guide" on how to start using the MCP server really gave me brain damage. Is this really easier to work with?

For antiquated "enterprise" APIs that were already a mess of legacy cruft, yes. MCP forced vendors to reconsider the ergonomics of their interface.

What do you mean by this? It certainly sounds technical but it seems to not mean anything.

MCP has not smoothed over legacy cruft, and it is generally bad at exactly what you’re describing (many unintentionally coupled APIs with unintentional side effects). These require near deterministic trajectories and you’d be better off creating a consumer with a series of well known good patterns with useful results.

If you take it a step further you may allow for a common language and keyspace of these well known results and employ dynamic solvers that are entirely agnostic. LLMs have made creating these much easier!

Of course MCP can still be implemented poorly by just making a 1:1 clone of the existing API.

But there are also folks who put thought into omitting extraneous fields, combining multiple low-level calls into a single tool that covers a common end-to-end use case, and writing much better documentation. With the political air cover that it is in service of the AI boom. Essentially it gave everyone the opportunity to implement API vN+1.

I think it might be because of the comment to like ratio or something. Hope I am wront, but its like someone doesnt want something generating lots of discussion… in a discussion forum

To be fair, i dont think there is a huge overlap in the people who can cure cancer and the people vomiting out Show HN projects

I’d wager if you filter out Show HN projects that have been maintained <2wks it would sift more gold to the top

The overlap comes from the cancer-curing-capable people also drowning in AI slop and people using AI to flood the space with ideas on how to solve cancer and funders wanting to see people using AI because they think it will solve cancer, etc.

It affects everybody.