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- remywang> Eight projects, including … SQLite … show no grant or sponsorship in any public funding source the analysis checkedSQLite has a list of sponsors right on the homepage https://www.sqlite.org/
- duhhhhh1212https://www.pangram.com/history/66de9897-c6ef-4dc3-8e89-0e24...Don't waste your time.
- jszymborski> "xz: The Backdoor That Put One Maintainer in the Spotlight"Do people who publish this stuff read this and think "this LLMism sounds good to me"?
- compass_copium…and the second person in how many of the two-person projects is Jia Tan?
- roenxiReflecting the enormous effectiveness of free markets in the software space. If there was a strong regulatory system around software development it might cost orders of magnitude more to run a modern OS.
- luqtas
- murodbeckisn't it taken from https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet ?
- KazaNLPTIL! sudo was the surprise on the list for me
- jdw64The problem with open source like this is that it’s too difficult to work on, and if you start studying just to be able to work on it, it’s hard to get noticed. Most core open-source projects start with optimization and are extremely difficult. But would people with that level of skill really dislike being noticed?
- ChrisArchitectRelated source:The people holding up the internethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002494
- rrr_oh_manIsn't that a rip off of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002494 ?
- penskymaterialYou saw it here first hand today, with half the forum losing their minds because they built their tower of slop atop a javascript interpreter which will be sunset in a year. And that dependency is professionally maintained, with a 12 month off-ramp.
- erelong"Now, with added AI assistance..."
- bigyabai23/23 were included in model training data though, so maybe the bus factor is a wash after all.
- throw0101aObligatory (and referenced in the article):* https://xkcd.com/2347/
- tamimioWhat scares me is the new generation are mostly tech illiterate just like boomers, only millennials and some gen x are lifting the tech world, now add AI to the mix and how it’s making newer gen are even dumber, the future is bleak.
- calvinmorrisonOK so we only need to employ 22 people as a WORLD to have these guys full time employed? when can we start enshittifying it?
- singularityisne[flagged]
- vatsachakWait it's not AI agents waat