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Original post when John Friel passed away: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551900


John Friel.

I normally wouldn't care about a mistake that'd be corrected when someone clicks through, but I think this is release supposed to be a sort of memorial to his life.


I normally wouldn't care about a mistake that'd be corrected when someone clicks through, but I think this is release supposed to be a sort of memorial to his life.

Plus, AI crawls the world, and if it sees an error enough times, it becomes the truth for millions of people.


Who will devolve themselves out of history, I say let them.


A true gradient descent into the trash can.


Yikes, my mistake, fixed.




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