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not the author but afaiu r3 uses the "color" concept:
tokens are tagged by type via 8bits (number literal, string, word call, word address, base word, …)
and the interpreter dispatches using these bits
it just doesn't use the colors visually in the editor and uses prefixes instead (" for string, : for code definition, ' for address of a word, …) which also means the representation in the editor matches that of the r3 source in files.
I don't see how it's fair. If I'm paying for usage, and I'm using it, why should Anthropic have a say on which client I use?
I pay them $100 a month and now for some reason I can't use OpenCode? Fuck that.
> "people using AI image generators may receive near-copies of existing media instead of new content, with no indication that this has happened".
This has been known for a long time. The main question is how rare something is in the input data, if you're lucky you get substantial chunks of the original input back out.
>It’s actually worse than that. A centralised SaaS product has to architect for diversity - every customer’s feature permutations, every edge case, every conflicting workflow, all coexisting in a single multi-tenant system. That architectural complexity is enormous. A custom build for a single customer doesn’t carry any of it. One set of features, one workflow, one tenant. Orders of magnitude less complex to build, and orders of magnitude less complex to maintain and run in production.
SaaS also covers all kind of legal requirements (accessibility, auditing, security, payment handling, and so on), and has someone to support, blame, and come and fix it when things go sour. Plus the architecture to cover scaling needs.
With some thing Claude churned, you're on your own.
As European faced with similar pain points, I would assert it was having those MBAs offshoring everything with a colonial attittude, as if the nations on the received end would only take orders from their masters and not learn to master the technology themselves.
After a while, naturally the locals would buy the white label products that are anyway the same as the branded ones, many times produced on the same factory lines.
My father used to say, every company goes downhill when management takes over, meaning those straight out management schools without any actual business experience on what the company does, and he was kind of right, that is how we hand landed in late stage capitalism and entshitification, in the middle of geopolitics turn over.
These robots might not drive the car for us, but certainly will become part of some police containment unit, regardless if they are remote controlled or AI driven.
> They'll all do this eventually
And if the frontier continues favouring centralised solutions, they'll get it. If, on the other hand, scaling asymptotes, the competition will be running locally. Just looking at how much Claude complains about me not paying for SSO-tier subscriptions to data tools when they work perfectly fine in a browser is starting to make running a slower, less-capable model locally competitive with it in some research contexts.
Recent price trends for DRAM, SSDs, hard drives?
As someone who was on that team for a long time, we took that into consideration, but it was never specifically for that. There was some stuff the Servo team would have liked us to have implemented that we didn’t.
In the case you are asking in good faith, a) X requires logging in to view most of its content, which means that much of your audience will not see the news because b) much of your audience is not on X, either due to not having social media or have stopped using X due to its degradation to put it generally.
I still run a MacMini (2012) with Catalina, and it just got a security update. Long back, the drive got an SSD upgrade, with max-out RAM. It still serves as a Media Server. Unfortunately, I don’t want to find out or fix, but my other Macs running Tahoe are unable to access the drives there directly, and a few other issues. I used to just mount it on my local drive like a file server. I had attached two drives, one as an offline Apple Photos copy and another for Dropbox. Both seem to have stopped working the way I want.
But hey, it still works. Survived a bad fall while cleaning up, duck-taped as the screws are not screwing.
I don't see how they can get more clear about this, considering they have repeatedly answered it the exact same way.
Subscriptions are for first-party products (claude.com, mobile and desktop apps, Claude Code, editor extensions, Cowork).
Everything else must use API billing.
Generating infinite fanfics would probably be far more interesting and entertaining.
So far, the only thing I've found AI to be consistently good at is entertainment of the humourous kind.
> The auto industry — which has long advocated for unified regulations across the United States — now could face a scenario where it’s not only easier for California to issue tailpipe rules, but states like New York or Illinois could also create their own patchwork of standards.
Easy. Blue states form a coalition and enact legislation to replace what the EPA is removing. US automakers can decide if they want to build to those standards or not, while their export TAM is crushed by Chinese EV makers.
That just makes the bot more like a human writer.
> Translations are not the same work as the original. They are derived works.
Which adds yet another layer. Because you still want them to be considered as part of a larger single entity. If you're performing a search, you want to find the single main entity, and then have different translations listed the same way you have different editions listed.
When this was first discussed, the thread was…skeptical to say the least, but it has been proven to be a success.
We continue to reach combustion->EV tipping points country by country.
It begins: Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243196 - February 2024 (69 comments)
If they have the documentation... With Microsoft probably the answer to that is yes, but more often than not documentation is simply absent. And in cases like this not being too aware of where the lines are is probably a great way to advance your career.
Sure they do. They even explicitly made some changes back 2-3 years ago to make it easier for Asahi (or such projects)
> Nobody is reading or reviewing these documentation so what hope is there that anybody is reading or reviewing their new code?
Why do you assume that reviewing docs is a lower bar than reviewing code, and that if docs aren't being reviewed it's somehow less likely that code is being reviewed?
There's a formal process for reviewing code because bugs can break things in massive ways. While there may not be the same degree of rigor for reviewing documentation because it's not going to stop the software from working.
But one doesn't necessarily say anything about the other.
GLP-1s disprove this to an extent. Personal responsibility is based on a fallacy, it’s just brain chemistry.
So give everyone GLP-1s to cast the shadow of personality responsibility (reduction in adverse reward center operations, broadly speaking) through better brain chemistry. Existence is hard, we can twiddle the wetware to make it less hard.
Right, so you think.
But: your bank knows who you are and the recipient's bank knows who they are. Your transfer may have been below the increased attention threshold ($10K to $50K depending on the jurisdictions of both recipients).
Both your accounts are most likely not recent and in good standing.
And so on. I routinely make international wiretransfers as well but I'm under no illusion whatsoever that if I tried to cross an anti-money-laundering or anti-terrorism-financing threshold somewhere that the transfer would be immediately stopped and an investigation would ensue.
And if not that they'll comply with the letter but not the spirit so you're going to have to send them snail mail or fax to receive a copy of the open source parts but it won't build because they have a whole slew of requirements that you'll never be able to meet.
Malicious compliance.
Most recent example: Rigol.
>Like, why doesn't the market solve for this? If the median woman can't buy clothing that fits in many brands, surely that's a huge marketing opportunity for any of the thousands of other clothing brands?
Because
- in reality it's not much of a problem. Billions of women manage to buy and wear clothes just fine. Some might fit slightly better or worse, but unless you have very special body shape (and even extreme thick/overweight/tall/short are covered by niche brands) you can get in any clothes store and get plenty of clothes to wear
- some random brand making something that fits better doesn't mean any sizeable consumer percentage is going to buy it. First because see above, and also because a lot of clothes purchases are about brand and fashion and status signalling, not mere fit.
- if some women absolutely can't find something in their size from a specific brand, that makes the brand even more exclusive, like it being "for fit people only". Obviously brands for thicker and even obese people also exist, but they're seen as a brand of need, not a brand you'd be proud having to wear
You're not supposed to talk about this. Someone I used to know was fired from the New York Times for saying too much about it.[1][2]
[1] https://fashionschooldaily.com/cintra-wilson-vs-jc-penney-th...
Women's sizing is so dumb. They could just provide inches or cm like they do for the men, but for some reason (well for marketing reasons, as discussed extensively in the article), they use these random sizes and numbers that aren't consistent and change over time.
I think this is why stretchy materials are getting more and more popular. The women in my house use stretchy pants almost exclusively, because they are much more forgiving with body shape. As long as the waist fits, the rest will fit well enough.
Let's stop moving the goalposts. Open source has a specific definition, and "they merge whatever code I want them to" isn't part of it. Just fork the client, compile it, and run it yourself.
This has Peter Norvig sudoku energy, in that it describes a game that is tricky enough for humans to solve that it's become a whole pastime, but is a trivial solver away from reliably defeating, and with a tiny amount of code. Once you see what they're doing with this, you're like, oh of course. Very cool.
I’d be curious how this squares with 100,000+ churches that are expected to close in the next few years in the US. From a longitudinal study perspective, one would expect dominance to decline as structural systems it relies on head towards failure.
15,000 churches could close this year amid religious shift in U.S - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46484284 - January 2026
It's nowhere near Marvelous Designer. Marvelous Designer is for making 3D clothing for games, animation, and such. It's a limited version of Clo[1] , which is for making real-world clothing. Clo lets you design clothing, put it on an avatar, and watch it move and drape with clothing physics. It looks real. When you see good clothing in a game, it was probably created with Marvelous Designer.
Then Clo exports a file for fabric cutting compliant with the ASTM D6673-10 standard, Standard Practice for Sewn Pattern Data Interchange, which is used for the production of garment patterns. It's kind of clunky, being based on Autodesk DXF, AutoCAD's export format from the 1980s, but it's what the industry uses. You can bring such files into anything that reads DXF and view them. So a widely used formal descriptive language for fabric cutting already exists. You can send those files to a contract garment manufacturer and get garments back.
Marvelous Designer is just Clo minus the cutting pattern export feature.
[2] https://www.normsplash.com/Samples/ASTM/191361149/ASTM-D6673...
The climate doesn’t care about per capita obviously.
They said at the time that Go let them keep the overall structure of the code, that is, they weren't trying to do a re-implementation from scratch, more of a port, and so the port was more straightforward with Go.
> These are not hypothetical questions anymore. They're engineering problems.
> Not the human kind. The infrastructure kind
> Not better models. Not smarter agents. Sandboxed accounts. Scoped permissions.
I've been pretty consistent about telling Bluesky I want to see less of anything political and also disciplined about not following anybody who talks about Trump or gender or how anybody else is causing their problems. I see very little trash.
Closely related to a huge problem in American health care --- overprescription, particularly of surgical procedure. There's evidence that some widespread classes of surgical intervention --- shoulder "impingement" in particular --- have outcomes no better than placebos in controlled trials where people literally get placebo incisions.
can't you do that by touching the stems on AirPods?
On the one hand, that's the point of the article. That it ceases to be a useful diagnostic indicator.
On the other hand, if there are 100 places in the shoulder where you can have an abnormality, and most people have just one or a couple but the other 98-99 are normal, then each one individually really is abnormal.
So it's complicated, and then it becomes important to figure out which abnormalities are medically relevant, in which combinations, etc.
If the author sees this comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168838 might be relevant as it relates to catalogue completeness. OpenLibrary is very good, but Anna's Archive is potentially more complete.
When doing feature detection for execution path selection, it’s sometimes useful to run some quick benchmarks to see which path is objectively best.
Now we have two-ish implementations or x86, but back in the 1980s and 1990s we had quite a few, some with wildly different performance characteristics.
And, if we talk about ARM and RISC-V, we’ll have an order of magnitude more.
HN wants Firefox but with better stewardship and fewer misdirected funds.
Mozilla - wrongly - believes that the majority of FF users believe in Mozilla's hobby projects rather than that they care about their browser.
That's why - as far as I know - to this day it is impossible to directly fund Firefox. They'd rather take money from google than to be focusing on the one thing that matters.
It's a Chrome fork. If you want to use Chrome... just use Chrome.
And this is why the price for Twitter was, in the end, remarkably low.
I’m concerned not everyone have their base colors set sensibly - as in “there’s no guarantee the base garish RGB green is green on this machine”. Maybe the right thing would be to put the color closest to a base color on the corresponding corner of the RGB cube, but that’s also not ideal - I have had terminal palettes that were all green or all orange/red, or the green/yellow of EL displays.
Maybe applying the saturation of the base set across all the generated palette would also work.
Why did the Trump regime not discover and eradicate this heretical sentence?
Does your router not support UPNP for dynamic port punching?
If we think of the many worlds interpretation, how many universes will we be making every time we assign a CCUID to something?
Starts interesting, then veers into the usual "true random number" bullshit. Use radioactive decay as source of your random numbers!
I take it you've never suggested to a front-end dev that maybe their contact form doesn't need a 1MB+ of JavaScript framework and could just be HTML that submits to a backend.
I dunno. I'm a big offender, but maybe making things that don't look at all look Bootstrap will help!
This piece is missing the most important reason OpenClaw is dangerous: LLMs are still inherently vulnerable to prompt injection / lethal trifecta attacks, and OpenClaw is being used by hundreds of thousands of people who do not understand the security consequences of giving an LLM-powered tool access to their private data, exposure to potentially untrusted instructions and the ability to run tools on their computers and potentially transmit copies of their data somewhere else.
As I recently observed [1], there is a lot more of this sort of coordination than people realize. I personally know of about three groups trying to get some cross-state initiatives implemented at the state level, and I'm not even particularly looking for such things.
It is not a coincidence. It means there is some organization out there pushing these. In general, "organization" here applies very broadly; there are some cases where it pretty much is just more-or-less normal people who organize to get something done. I wouldn't expect this particular thing is that for a second, of course. I'm just saying in general the term applies broadly. Someone is organized and trying to push this.
> Its PPC ad platform is completely predatory, loaded with dark patterns and hidden defaults that add billions to top-line revenue while strip-mining the accounts of sellers who often have no choice but to participate in the auctions.
At least they mark ads as 'sponsored', even though it isn't super prominent.
I always scroll until I see organic results, myself.
Bollocks the wavelengths are on the order of hundreds of meters, there is no way you get microwave like heating out of that. Even at 30 MHz you're still looking at 10 meters wavelength, 3 meters at 100 MHz.
This system operates according to TFA up to the end of the AM band at roughly 1600 KHz, so 180 meters and change.
The danger is more likely there because someone might enter the tunnel and hit the feeder, which depending on the design can carry considerable power.
Why would they want to train on random garbage proprietary emails?
If their models ever spit out obviously confidential information belonging to their paying customers they'll lose those paying customers to their competitors - and probably face significant legal costs as well.
Your random confidential corporate email really isn't that valuable for training. I'd argue it's more like toxic waste that should be avoided at all costs.
This decreases the salience of DANE/DNSSEC by taking DNS queries off the per-issuance critical path. Attackers targeting multitenant platforms get only a small number of bites at the apple in this model.
... it's like the people who post AI slop about AI haven't actually read what they post.
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/power-the-future/
> Daniel Turner is the founder and as of 2025 was the executive director of Power the Future. Turner is an commentator on energy and environmental issues especially as they relate to jobs, rural communities, and the U.S. economy. Turner formerly worked as director of strategic communications at the Charles Koch Institute, vice president of communications at Generation Opportunity, and network and cable liaison director for the 2012 Republican National Convention.
So, yeah.
Swap the batteries for sodium ion chemistry.
> Where the CATL Naxtra battery really stands out, however, is cold-weather performance. CATL says its discharge power at -30 degrees Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit) is three times higher than that of LFP batteries.
They can also charge at temperatures as low as -30°C to -40°C.
The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936315 - February 2026
Take a look at the fraction of slop posts about AI on /new and what gets to the front page. Frankly who cares about another model that is samey with all the other models? We all know there's going to be a better one in 0.10 sec.
Tools for the non-professional developer to put their skills on wheels have always been part of the equation since we've had microcomputers if not minicomputer, see
Berkshire Hathaway, not Warren Buffett.
Large stock sales always make headlines but they don't automatically signal bearishness or really anything else. After all what's the point of investing if you never realize gains?
They made Mark Zuckerberg into the monster he is too.
The trauma he had from not being funded by the VC companies in Boston made him unable to listen to anybody about absolutely anything -- even his lawyers when they tell him not to have an incriminating paper trail for all his irresponsible decisions.
... saw a slop AI startup, hit the back button
The 2nd amendment is the only constitutionally-guaranteed right these days. And that too only if you have the correct political views.
The emoji is good but if I were you I'd put a sentence above it like "You can try it out here:"
> The government sector doesn't produce virtually anything that counts toward GDP…
By a very narrow, technically-correct view, sure.
Preventing, say, people starving to death, dying of preventable disease, unchecked fraud, invasions by other countries, etc. probably helps GDP a bit.
Except unlike Linux syscall interface and like almost every other OS out there, ABI compatibility is an accident, not a guarantee.
Luck has always been a solution to reach. It doesn't scale, though.
In the case of OpenClaw I think you're looking at a fairly pure iteration of luck there, too. It isn't even a case of "I prepared for years until luck finally knocked" or any variant like that. It was just luck.
If that is the only counterexample I'd say it doesn't disprove the point, if anything it just strengthens it. Nobody can build a business plan based on "I plan to be as lucky as OpenClaw".
Thank you. Didn't know about this. Very interesting.
Yeah, but lets keeping downplaying use-after-free as something not worth eliminating in 21st century systems languages.
Guest pass link (hope it works): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/opinion/ai-software.html?...
> LLMs are eating specialty skills. There will be less use of specialist front-end and back-end developers as the LLM-driving skills become more important than the details of platform usage. Will this lead to a greater recognition of the role of Expert Generalists? Or will the ability of LLMs to write lots of code mean they code around the silos rather than eliminating them?
This is one of the most interesting questions right now I think.
I've been taking on much more significant challenges in areas like frontend development and ops and automation and even UI design now that LLMs mean I can be much more of a generalist.
Assuming this works out for more people, what does this mean for the shape of our profession?
I was going to see if I could quote some job postings from my employer to compare this, and then discovered that even the intranet jobs board does not have salary ranges posted. Sigh. Going to have to feed that back to someone.
> Software engineers make great digital logic verification engineers. They can also gradually be trained to do design too. There are significant and valuable skill and knowledge crossovers.
> Software engineers lack the knowledge to learn analogue design / verification, and there’s little to no knowledge-crossover.
Yes. These are much more specific skills than HN expects, you need an EE degree or equivalent to do analogue IC design while you do not to do software.
However I think the very specific-ness is a problem. If you train yourself in React you might not have the highest possible salary but you'll never be short of job postings. There are really not a lot of analogue designers, they have fairly low turnover, and you would need to work in specific locations. If the industry contracts you are in trouble.
I can't really see much that stands out, as a Pixel 7 owner; just a faster CPU and slightly tweaked cameras?
Crucially, this wouldn't be an issue if the AI ran locally, but "sending all your internal email in cleartext to the cloud" is a potentially serious problem for organizations with real confidentiality requirements.
I think you misunderstand.
Taking notes during meetings isn't to improve understanding, or to "read" afterwards.
They're a record of what was discussed and decided, with any important facts that came up. They're a reference for when you can't remember, two weeks later, if the decision was A and B but not C, or A and C but not B.
Or when someone else delivers the wrong thing because they claim that's what the meeting decided on, and you can go back and find the notes that say otherwise.
I probably only need to find something in meeting notes later once out of every twenty meetings. But those times wind up being so critically important, it's why you take notes in the first place.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29476545
And to try to get them execute bb(5) ;)
Are you accepting feature requests?
Last season's Brother Dude was awesome. I really felt sad for him. I have to say, however, my tolerance for manipulative sociopaths is very low - I'd totally punch McMillen in the face.
I was only aware of The Fall for its brilliant photography.
> Is OpenCL a thing anymore?
I guess CUDA got a lot more traction and there isn't much of a software base written for OpenCL. Kind of what happened with Unix and Windows - You could write code for Unix and it'd (compile and) run on 20 different OSs, or write it for Windows, and it'd run on one second-tier OS that managed to capture almost all of the desktop market.
I remember Apple did support OpenCL a long time ago, but I don't think they still do.
the money quote (at least for some)
In fact, the current state of M3 support is about where M1 support was when we released the first Arch
Linux ARM based beta; keyboard, touchpad, WiFi, NVMe and USB3 are all working, albeit with some local
patches to m1n1 and the Asahi kernel (yet to make their way into a pull request) required. So that
must mean we will have a release ready soon, right?Training costs are fixed. Inference costs are variable. The difference matters.
This sounds like a strange set of examples that may have been scams from the start. Can you name them?
The UK is full of long lasting charitable foundations. Many attached to schools and universities, but the highest profile example is probably the National Trust and its collection of historic buildings.
And the fact that you can make it 3x faster substantially increases the chances that nobody will read it in the first place.
This is a limitation of UNIX terminals, in other platforms not tied to a no longer existing tty interface, this isn't an issue.
Unfortunely, given that we are stuck with UNIX derived OSes, this is indeed a possible issue.
However I would argue, for fancy stuff there is the GUI right there.
> Note that Hegseth and the defense department broke Anthropic’s terms when they used Claude as part of the Venezuela invasion
Venezuela was executed precisely in part because Hegseth was sidelined. This is SecDef throwing a hissy fit because Rubio can run his department better remotely than he can running around trying to make homoerotic workout videos.
Claude is good. It worked in Venezuela. Sidelining it because Hegseth is being a snowflake is how we lose wars.
One of my niche hobbies is trying to coin new terms - or spotting new terms that I think are useful (like "slop" and "cognitive debt") and amplifying them. Here's my collection of posts that fit that pattern: https://simonwillison.net/tags/definitions/
Something I've learned from this is that semantic diffusion is real, and the definition of a new term isn't what that term was intended to mean - it's generally the first guess people have when they hear it.
"Prompt injection" was meant to mean "SQL injection for prompts" - the defining characteristic was that it was caused by concatenating trusted and untrusted text together.
But people unfamiliar with SQL injection hear "prompt injection" and assume that it means "injecting bad prompts into a model" - something I'd classify as jailbreaking.
When I coined the term "lethal trifecta" I deliberately played into this effect. The great thing about that term is that you can't guess what it means! It's clearly three bad things, but you're gonna have to go look it up to find out what those bad things are.
So far it seems to have resisted semantic diffusion a whole lot better than prompt injection did.
Remember, mass copyright infringement is prosecuted if you're Aaron Schwartz but legal if you're an AI megacorp.
This is so out of hand.
There's this. There's that video from Los Alamos discussed yesterday on HN, the one with a fake shot of some AI generated machinery. The image was purchased from Alamy Stock Photo. I recently saw a fake documentary about the famous GG-1 locomotive; the video had AI-generated images that looked wrong, despite GG-1 pictures being widely available. YouTube is creating fake images as thumbnails for videos now, and for industrial subjects they're not even close to the right thing. There's a glut of how-to videos with AI-generated voice giving totally wrong advice.
Then newer LLM training sets will pick up this stuff.
"The memes will continue" - White House press secretary after posting an altered shot of someone crying.
You aren't paying for usage, you are paying for the product that the subscription is offered to. If you are paying for usage, well, that's their billed by token-usage API plan, which they are quite happy for you to use with any client you want.