> I'm not going to blame the vibe-coding wave entirely.

As one vibe-coding's most fervent critics, I don't blame it at all. Amateur devs have been doing this for a decade and change with Firebase and other hosted datastores.

I got one of my first small jobs as a contractor because of an Android app doing this back in 2012!

Shoutout to Kibana. Absolutely my favorite UI tool for trying to figure out what went wrong (and sometimes, IF anything went wrong in the first place)

Wow, a product that exists entirely to deprive children of the ability to develop artistic creativity.

It's rare that I see a launch on HN that I could call abjectly evil, but this is certainly it.

How dramatic. It's a little box that lets children make stickers by asking it, it's not "abjectly evil" in any sense.

You could've said the same about the first wooden toys putting an end to children having to use their imagination to make playing with sticks and pebbles fun, but you didn't, because what you grew up with gets a pass.

What on earth are you talking about? Toys do not create anything for children.

You're arguing that the Stickerbox is bad because it spares children from using their imagination and I was saying that the first wooden toys did the same thing.

Every advancement has meant less thinking.

In what ways do you believe the first toys stop children from using their imagination? Essentially the entirety of developmental psychology agrees that inanimate toys are essential for developing imagination and fine motor skills. This is not something someone with experience in child development or safety would say.

I challenge you to re-read your comment again and again until you understand where you went wrong.

That is a ridiculously dishonest comparison and you know it.

No it’s not, and you know it. If a child wants dino stickers for something they are doing, I see no difference of them obtaining those stickers from Walmart or from a printer in their house. In both scenarios, the dinosaurs were not designed by the child. at least in the AI example they can customize to their wants. You don’t seem willing to thoughtfully engage in conversation. Why even post here in first place?

What is the difference between buying your child a dino sticker and buying them a machine that creates whatever stickers they want without having to think or look at anything, derived entirely from stolen artwork by others?

You might as well say there’s no difference between a rock and a semi truck.

You don’t seem willing to have an honest conversation, just assert ridiculous nonsense and call it a rebuttal - there is nothing thoughtful about your replies to me.

"Data Deleter" was how I always remembered it!

> GraphQL is far better than REST in almost every way

I hear this so often, but never do I hear more than one or one and a half ways that it is better. No one seems capable of explaining how it's "better in almost every way" without diverging to very specific examples with cutout problems.

You may be interested in checking out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhVGdErZuN4, where I talk about the benefits of Relay. This isn't (currently) possible without GraphQL, so it's a pretty compelling case for GraphQL.

But yeah, IMO, GraphQL doesn't justify itself unless you're using a client like Relay, with data masking and fragment colocation.

That is an interesting talk, thank you!

> Going back to the Industrial Revolution the United States has been 100% gas pedal all the time on innovation and disruption, which has in turn created millions of jobs that didn't exist before and led to the US running the world's largest economy.

Where did you get the idea that this was the cause that created millions of jobs and lead to the US running the world's largest economy, and not say - the knock-on effects of the US joining WW2 relatively late and unscathed, making it the only major world power left with a functioning enough industrial complex to export to war-ravaged Europe?

I see your point, but that is definitely not the only cause of American economic dominance. The U.S. has been the largest economy by GDP since ca 1900 – i.e. before the wars.

There is more to history than ww2.

There is more to a discussion than strawmen.

WRT genetic engineering, I believe the main barrier to these things is that our genes are quite multipurpose. You may turn on the ability to produce vitamin C, and that same sequence of genes could also turn your eyeballs into calcified lumps.

Eh, while that's true for many things, there are plenty of genetic diseases for which it is not ("diseases" or whatever you might call the human lack of vitamin C synthesis)

In this case the gene encoding L-gulonolactone_oxidase is broken, and that's the last step in the process. That gene catalyzes something into a substance which decays into vitamin C.

First you need a gene therapy delivery system that doesn't produce any off-target mutations at all, ever.

Extract tissue from patient, build a cell line, CRISPR in vitro, build a cell line, sequence to verify. Use verified cell line to build pseudo-organs or to inject cells or stem cells.

ex vivo gene therapy.

Cells don't survive sequencing, any that you do implant have not been sequenced. At best you can get some confidence that the error rate is small.

This is why I said build a cell _line_, i.e. cells that all come from a single parent cell. Clones. Make monoclonal stem cell lines, use CRISPR on them, make a NEW monoclonal cell line post-CRISPR and pull some cells to validate success or failure.

Oh I miss this era of early smartphones. My life for a physical slide out keyboard on the iPhone.

Your dream sounds like a nightmare for everyone else in America. I hope it never comes to fruition.

You must own your vehicle in its entirety to be able to downgrade to liability-only. If you are still making payments on your car (which most people are), your lender requires that you maintain full coverage.