there are many drugs that can do that but they have massive side effects ;)

Benzodiazepines, opioids, stimulants, opioid-like substances like carisoprodol (there is a reason why people call it Soma). these are the first that come to my mind. contrary to popular belief, downers often give you euphoria.

What game are we talking about?

I want to play the “game” of creating things I want created and making enough money to comfortably sustain myself and help those I care about.

If I’m hiring people, I want people that want the same things as me and are paid well, or people that are willing to exchange their labor for both a respectable base earning and also extra earning based on how we, collectively, are doing.

Some people, curiously, believe that business is only valid if it operates as a caricature of the worst traits of modern corporate America.

That’s the game, and some people believe it’s the only game.

I’m with you though. For me business isn’t a channel for hoarding all possible resources and assets. It’s a combination of a craft and a means to an end. I’d still do it if I needed no profession, because it’s a craft I enjoy.

It’s fun to share that craft, and it’s good to share that craft on generous terms.

The subtle irony is that the version of the “game” as referenced in that other comment is the same, expect that all those niceties only apply to executives and people who already have lots of money. A socially perverse arrangement, to be sure.

You are right COX-1/2 difference

Twitter is really not far from 4chan in 2025.

Always has been. A lot of prominent Twitter accounts in my primary language, especially the old ones, has telltales of having been on 2chan. net. There must be something to that format that installs a basic social media amplification skill in your brain that do not develop otherwise.

There are places more toxic than 4chan but skill levels don't compare, and 4chan and 2chan also share nothing culture wise, so it must be in the architecture.

My guess would be that to be on 2chan/4chan "back in the day", you need to be terminally online. And being terminally online is a soft prerequisite to being really good at posting interesting things online. Excellence isn't an act - it's a habit.

There was also 2ch. net that was a lot bigger, but 2ch "alumni" aren't as good. It's not just cohort, it has/had better action-reward loop than other systems.

Its the fleetingness as a filter. If you are not catchy and repeated by others- its gone. instantly. No coming back.

That's understating it. They're practically the same at this point, 4chan just has fewer bots.

4chan doesn't manipulate the feed, so far as I know. Nor does it require a phone number to use.

It blocks mainstream vpns, but that's about it. Behind the scenes, who knows, but it's not as obviously full of low effort bait as Twitter, and no account is necessary.

Chromium is the only browser that has extensive undetectable/automation support. Look at patchright: https://github.com/Kaliiiiiiiiii-Vinyzu/patchright?tab=readm...

Then people complain that Google is taking over the Web, well don't help them in the process.

Guess how IE became what it was before the lawsuit, it was the cool browser when all nice developer features came first.

Dynamic HTML, HTML Applications, CSS shaders (backed by DirectX), VS debugging integration (via Frontpage)...

Apparently a lesson gone after one generation.

I think blaming people who are trying to make a buck using the fastest route is not the way to achieve non-monopoly.

A practical point: Mozilla made design choices in the past that made it harder to hide the automation footprint. For some time it was more difficult to disable the navigator.webdriver flag in Firefox compared to Chromium.

That's why we support Brave, Edge, Ungoogled-Chromium, and our own custom Chromium fork that we're working on.

Just because we only support Chromium doesn't mean we're pro-Google-dominance.

There are enough Chrome forks at this point that Google no longer has the power to unilaterally remove features from Chromium. Manifest v2 extensions still work great in Brave for example.

That's not really true, https://github.com/daijro/camoufox is at parity with patchright on stealth, it's just that Firefox has way less market share so it's not worth the >2x maintanance effort for us to support multiple browsers.

oh yeah I love your project. I just mentioned patchright cause it's more universal - a drop-in for playwright and also used by browser-use

pydoll is also a fantastic project, but, again, chromium: https://github.com/autoscrape-labs/pydoll

That's true. Sequoia is often a death sentence for power users. And a huge gamble for the founders

"all digital content to be worth zero."

People are making millions/year just by writing articles on Substack. Just look at the "paid leaderboards", number of paid subscribers, and multiply by 70% of the annual price of the newsletter.

Our newsletter is doing mid-6-figures. You simply can't find that content anywhere else, and I am not aware of a newsletter-piracy phenomenon. Even if it existed, I think many people would pay to have guaranteed day-1 access.

When I say "all" and "zero" it's obviously tongue-in-cheek, not a scientific assessment that is to be taken literally. Of course there's exceptions.

These are not exceptions, but a whole industry built around the notion that digital content is worth "something"

I would say that the average Hacker News user is negatively biased against LLMs and does not use coding agents to their benefit. At least what I can tell from the highly upvoted articles and comments.

it's all gonna get leaked every quarter

hey, let he who wasn't there cast the first stone! /s