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Show HN: DeSync – Decentralized Economic Realm with Blockchain-Based Governance

https://github.com/MelzLabs/DeSync
1•0xUnavailable•3m ago•0 comments

Automatic Programming Returns

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1•benrules2•6m ago•1 comments

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation [pdf]

https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Why%20Are%20there%20Still%20So%20Many%...
2•oidar•9m ago•0 comments

The Search Engine Map

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1•cratermoon•16m ago•0 comments

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1•thedaviddias•17m ago•0 comments

Real-Time ETL for Enterprise-Grade Data Integration

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1•teleforce•20m ago•0 comments

Economics Puzzle Leads to a New Understanding of a Fundamental Law of Physics

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2•geox•21m ago•0 comments

Switzerland's Extraordinary Medieval Library

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2•bookmtn•22m ago•0 comments

A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight?

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-comet-visible-broad-daylight.html
2•bookmtn•27m ago•0 comments

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https://twitter.com/esrtweet/status/2019562859978539342
1•tjr•28m ago•0 comments

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1•alephnerd•29m ago•0 comments

If CNN Covered Star Wars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vArJg_SU4Lc
1•keepamovin•34m ago•0 comments

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2•Wiar8•38m ago•3 comments

AI agents from 4 labs predicting the Super Bowl via prediction market

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EU bans infinite scroll and autoplay in TikTok case

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5•miohtama•45m ago•3 comments

Benchmarking how well LLMs can play FizzBuzz

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1•_venkatasg•48m ago•1 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

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18•SerCe•48m ago•11 comments

Octave GTM MCP Server

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3•Mapika•52m ago•0 comments

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1•belter•55m ago•0 comments

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Ask HN: Non-profit, volunteers run org needs CRM. Is Odoo Community a good sol.?

1•netfortius•1h ago•0 comments

WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System

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8•mgh2•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

You Have No Idea How Screwed OpenAI Is

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/you-have-no-idea-how-screwed-openai
32•robaato•3mo ago

Comments

aurareturn•3mo ago

  But here is the thing: OpenAI’s revenue growth is slowing down dramatically. In 2023, they increased their revenue by 169% over 2022, and in 2024, they increased their revenue by 250% over 2023. In 2025, they are set to increase revenue by only 56% over 2024.
They are set to increase revenue by 3-4x in 2025.[0] So already, this article is based on false data.

Further more, losing $8b in the first half to buy GPUs isn't a big deal when you're growing 3-4x and there are investors lining up to give you money.

The rest of the article is mostly exaggerated AI doomer opinions that are often dispelled here on HN news comment section. For example, the author cites the MIT AI report snippet that says 95% of companies are failing at agentic AI. But the actual report is far more positive on AI's impact in the workforce.[1]

These doomer articles always fail to grasp two things:

1. Major Silicon Valley companies have always lost a huge amount of money before becoming profitable. OpenAI is just the next and at a bigger scale (because tech is far bigger in 2025 than before). Despite countless examples of tech companies losing a lot of money early on to becoming hugely profitable later, people still get hung up on the fact that OpenAI isn't profitable in 2025.

2. They always think that AI is as good as it gets now with little to no improvements coming. But we're still on an exponential curve.[2]

[0]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-cfo-we-will-more-than-...

[1]https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Bus...

[2]https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-com...

techblueberry•3mo ago
I don’t think Sam Altman thinks (2) is true, in fact it seems all the AI insiders are starting to signal that neither 1 or 2 will happen, why is it only outsiders saying this now?

Also the article, as all doomer articles I read do, address your points directly.

tim333•3mo ago
The amounts Altman is investing make little sense if he doesn't believe in (2).
techblueberry•3mo ago
Howso? I think they make more sense in spite of that. What else is he going to do, admit defeat? Also, even if it never gets better, he still wants to sell what they do have.
tim333•3mo ago
I mean if he just wanted to cash out he could cut the spend to a few billion and try to float / cash out. I mean why try to spend unprecedented amounts if he thinks it'll all crash?

I just watched an interview and he seems to be leaning the other way that self improving AI is about to kick off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfE1Wun9xkk&t=810s That would be a step beyond the normal Moore's law type exponential.

techblueberry•3mo ago
Because it's not a business to him, it's a religion.
lisbbb•3mo ago
The problem I see is that the entire US stock market has been rising only because of a small handful of tech companies, Nvidia being among them. If this bubble pops, and maybe "if" isn't the right word--when this bubble pops, it's going to hurt.
aurareturn•3mo ago
If it pops, buy more because AI will be far more ubiquitous than now.
wqaatwt•3mo ago
That wouldn’t have necessarily been the best advice immediately after dot.com
3abiton•3mo ago
> Or, to put it another way, OpenAI’s 2025 revenue is on track to only be $3.1 billion more than last year, while its annual operational costs are set to be $24.1 billion more than last year. So, for every dollar of revenue growth OpenAI has, it is costing them $7.77! > > I cannot stress how unprecedentedly dreadful that is. It shows that the promised future investors were piling their money into is a fairy tale. This is a money black hole.

Isn't this a "startup blueprint" for tech companies? Uber, Airbnb, Amazon, etc ... More importantly, AI dominance is more important given the reward?

3abiton•3mo ago
> Or, to put it another way, OpenAI’s 2025 revenue is on track to only be $3.1 billion more than last year, while its annual operational costs are set to be $24.1 billion more than last year. So, for every dollar of revenue growth OpenAI has, it is costing them $7.77! > > I cannot stress how unprecedentedly dreadful that is. It shows that the promised future investors were piling their money into is a fairy tale. This is a money black hole.

Isn't this a "startup blueprint" for tech companies? Uber, Airbnb, Amazon, etc ... More importantly, AI dominance is more important given the reward?

super256•3mo ago
I think reading the comments on this HN post will give you a different perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453586
Avi-D-coder•3mo ago
When I read these sorta of articles I ask if I would invest today if given the opportunity. Currently the answer is still yes.

They have barely even monetized users. I think it's possible the bubble pops and openai still continues to win.

So much of this article is copium pretending the world is not radically changing. Even if progress stops today massive numbers of jobs will be and are being replaced. I wish it wasn't true but what I wish has no bearing on reality.

greenpizza13•3mo ago
> Likewise, a METR report found that AI coding tools, which are meant to be the most promising application for generative AI, actually slow developers down. Both studies cited the same issue, “hallucinations”.

> AI hallucinations are one of the best bits of PR ever. The term reframes critical errors to anthropomorphise the machine, as that is essentially what an AI hallucination is: the machine getting it significantly and repeatedly wrong. Both MIT and METR found that the effort and cost required to look for, identify, and rectify these errors was almost always significantly larger than the effort the AI reduced.

> In other words, for AI (specifically generative AI) to be even remotely useful in the real world and have a hope in hell of generating revenue by augmenting workers at scale, let alone replacing them like it has promised to, it needs to cut “hallucinations” down to basically zero.

As someone who uses Claude 4.5 in Cursor every workday this rings extremely hollow. I am thinking to myself daily “I would have never had time to do this before.”

Have an idea for a script, you don’t have to lose a day building it. Wanna explore a feature, make a worktree and let the agent go. It’s fundamentally changed my workflow for the better and I don’t wanna go back, hallucinations and all.

mooktakim•3mo ago
Calculators make you dumber!
keskival•3mo ago
AI was never for making money. Money is for making AI.

The overall goal isn't to get wealthy, but for the wealthy to get the foot in the doorway to gain influence in the core of the automated economic military industrial scientific system that is going to replace money-based economics.

It is about autonomous robot armies.