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Japan, a culture so public-spirited that even the local Yakuza decide to contribute to the plumbing.
Why don't we need them? If I need to run a hundred small models to get a given level of quality, what's the difference to me between that and running one large model?
> A browser will always have limitations and not quite reach the level of e.g. a TUI
There's no reason you can't jam a TUI into a browser. Perhaps to the surprise of both kinds of user, but it's possible.
> I think what the world need is a super fast native spreadsheet that is NOT Excel.
> I'd use that. But it needs to have a keyboard centric operation
You should boot up an emulator and check out the OG: Lotus 1-2-3. Keyboard driven, extremely fast, all written in 16-bit assembler for the original IBM PC running at, what, 4MHz?
It's because of Lotus 1-2-3's use of F2 for "edit cell" that F2 is still "edit" or "rename" in most applications.
(you can then continue the tour with WordPerfect and Borland Turbo Pascal, if you like light blue)
It's possible that will get ""solved"" overnight when some critical service gets cut off or banned in one direction or the other for political reasons.
Rust doesn't make sense for web development, any compiled language with automatic memory management, and value types, has much better tooling and ecosystem.
Use it where it is ideal, system programming level tasks where for whatever reasons automatic memory management is either not possible, or not wanted for various reasons.
Never, you can already do this with RAII, and naturally it would be yet another thing to complain about C++ adding features.
Then again, if someone is willing to push it through WG21 no matter what, maybe.
https://juliahub.com/case-studies
Most "Python" applications are actually bindings to C, C++ and Fortran code doing the real work.
I'd love to know what's going on with the Gemini Diffusion model - they had a preview last May and it was crazy fast but I've not heard anything since then.
>Is this supposed to be an implicit dig at audiobooks? The scientific consensus seems to be that there's no difference to comprehension or retention
I wouldn't trust that "scientific consensus" if my life dependent on it.
For starters, there's no scientific consensus.
The linked post refers to merely 2 studies, both of doubtful quality. And one says "it's no different", the other says it's worse.
The one that says "it's no different" asked them to read/listen to mere two chapters of total ~ 3000 words.
That's a Substack essay or New Yorker article level, not a book, and only of one text type (non-fiction historical account. How does it translate to literature, technical, theoritical, philosophical, and so on?). The test to check retention was multiple choice - not qualitative comprehension. And several other issues besides.
And on the other study in the post, the audio group performed much worse.
To be fair, why should they "develop assets in the criminal world"?
Unreal C++ uses reference counting for anything that gets exposed to the Blueprints development environemnt, Blueprints themselves have automatic resource management and the new addition to the family for Fortnight levels, Verve, also uses automatic memory management.
All of which fall under the point of view of GC implementations as per CS papers and scientific research.
Go well, it could have been a Modula-3/Active Oberon language, instead it became something only a little better than Oberon-07 and Limbo, and even then it still misses features from Limbo, as its plugin package is half backed.
undocumented
The one thought that comes to mind is this: "Your warranty claim was denied because we determined that the laptop was subjected to a sudden shock."
The only learning curve is if you don't type correctly to start with. :)
When I switched to a split keyboard 20 years ago, I realized that I used my right hand to type T and B. But it was a pretty quick transition when I kept slamming my index finger into the gap!
As others have commented already: if you want to use C++, use C++. I suspect the majority of C programmers neither care nor want stuff like this; I still stay with C89 because I know it will be portable anywhere, and complexities like this are completely at odds with the reason to use C in the first place.
To be fair, if you’re developing assets in the criminal world they’re going to tend to be criminals doing crimes. Asking them to stop doing crimes while they work with you is just asking for them to blow cover.
That doesn’t mean we don’t mitigate harm. But the headline premise per se isn’t wrong.
More than 20% of Japan's water pipes have passed their legal service life of 40 years, according to local media
That is rather low. The US still has some wooden(!) water pipes in use, as well as other plumbing installed in the late 19th/early 20th century.
And that's Osaka. Osaka's population peaked around 2017.[1] The only major city in Japan not on a downtrend is Yokohama, which is in the Greater Tokyo area.
Keeping up all the infrastructure as the population declines is tough. That's one of the challenges of this century for the developed world.
That's a bizarre thing to accuse someone of doing.
> I've always been mixed on prohibiting parolees and ex-cons from owning firearms
That’s valid. But if we literally can’t keep them from having guns, I’d want longer sentences for violent crimes and a default of life for gun crimes.
I've noticed that "lots of emojis" seems to be common in English AI-generated content too, and is often a good indicator of such.
it’s possible to store up to 4.84TB in a single slab of glass
At the rate things are going, that might just be enough to hold a Windows with Copilot installer. /s
“The proposal includes various exemptions from the ban, including for investors who build or heavily renovate homes for the sole purpose of renting them out”
The “heavily renovate” loophole will need to be tight. Otherwise, you can exempt yourself from the law with a Midas touch—turn everything you buy into luxury housing.
“Judge Carolyn Kuhl, who is presiding over the trial, ordered anyone in the courtroom wearing AI glasses to immediately remove them, noting that any use of facial recognition technology to identify the jurors was banned.”
Oh, yeah, this is a big deal.
It's to a lesser extent that blurs the line between harassment and trolling: I've retracted my comment.
Source code is neither necessary nor sufficient.
All you need is the ability to edit any byte on your hard drive. ;-)
This is how it will go: AI prompted by human creates something useful? Human will try to take credit. AI wrecks something: human will blame AI.
It's externalization on the personal level, the money and the glory is for you, the misery for the rest of the world.
Different sets of people, and different audiences. The CEO / corporate executive crowd loves AI. Why? Because they can use it to replace workers. The general public / ordinary employee crowd hates AI. Why? Because they are the ones being replaced.
The startups, founders, VCs, executives, employees, etc. crowing about how they love AI are pandering to the first group of people, because they are the ones who hold budgets that they can direct toward AI tools.
This is also why people might want to remain anonymous when doing an AI experiment. This lets them crow about it in private to an audience of founders, executives, VCs, etc. who might open their wallets, while protecting themselves from reputational damage amongst the general public.
And fuck the planet, your time and the time of the logistics people.
This is so incredibly inefficient. Multiply by how many times this happens every day...
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/minisforum-stuffs-ent...
> The strange CPU core layout is causing power problems; Radxa and Minisforum both told me Cix is working on power draw, and enabling features like ASPM. It seems like for stability, and to keep memory access working core to core, with the big.medium.little CPU core layout, Cix wants to keep the chip powered up pretty high. 14 to 17 watts idle is beyond even modern Intel and AMD!
> Other companies support freedom of choice with developer tooling - you can use the following subscriptions in OpenCode with zero setup:
The added copy here makes the removal sound like malicious compliance.
Not true at all. In fact settlements mostly happen because it would cost significantly more for a company to go through discovery and argue their case in court regardless of the eventual result. And court systems strongly encourage settlements to save their own time. There an entire industry of patent trolls and sleazy personal injury lawyers in business because of this.
ARM64 looked like an exercise in "what can we squeeze into a 32-bit instruction" the first time I examined it in detail; the various "load/store register pair" instructions are a great example of this. I would consider it even more difficult to decode than x86, and yet it's still nowhere near as dense as Thumb2 nor x86.
Will Texans be able to access Pornhub with it? Heh.
German universities are now telling any US researcher who looses their funding that they will be funded at a Germany university and get help with their visa application.
Well one obvious reason is that you're not retiring with your own money; your contributions fund current retirees.
> No child left behind really screwed kids over that want to learn. We cant just let kids pass because of feelings
The whole point of no child left behind was to actually measure student performance instead of relying on feelings: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-child-left-behind-wo...
If you try to disaggregate the effects of e.g. immigration, you can see that American education is actually good: https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/18bzkle/2022_pi....
White students in the U.S. do comparably to students in Korea in the international PISA test, and better than students from western europe (excluding the immigrants in those countries).
You have to compare like with like. A huge fraction of American kids grow up to parents who are not native speakers of English. That’s not true in Japan or Korea.
"Concentration camp” is a term that predates its (somewhat euphemistic, when done in retrospect) use for the camps eventually used in the extermnation campaign by the Nazis (which also started out as concentration camps, in the more usual sense, as part of what was nominally a deportation program.)
Though concentration camps are almost always part of systematic, ethnically-targetted abuse, even when they aren't part of genocide campaigns.
Google is scoring one own goal after another by making people working with their own data wonder how much of that data is sent off to be used to train their AI on. Without proof to the contrary I'm going to go with 'everything'.
They should have made all of this opt-in instead of force-feeding it to their audience, which they wrongly believe to be captive.
What’s the point of this law in a country where you can get an AR15 as a side order at Cracker Barrel.
> It's theoretically possible for a local government to levy an income tax,
“Theoretically possible” in that thousands of local jurisdictions, among about 1/3 of US states, already do either income or payroll taxes or both.
How does this compare to ground news?
Yup, this is both the solution and the problem.
Apple News+ has tried this. If anyone could pull it off, it's Apple.
But the problem is, it's not comprehensive enough. The two major newspapers/magazines I read aren't on there, because they've got enough market power to require their own subscriptions. Meanwhile, this is similarly missing the long tail of a lot of links I follow that are paywalled.
And then of course there are the massive usability issues. If I see a link on HN to e.g. Forbes, and click it, I just get the paywall. Apple News+ doesn't work in the browser. I understand that sometimes it's possible to use Share... in the browser to send an article to Apple News+, but that seems to require knowing it's one of the included 300+ publications? Which nobody's going to memorize...
Not without some major breakthrough. What's hilarious is that all these developers building the tools are going to be the first to be without jobs. Their kids will be ecstatic: "Tell me again, dad, so, you had this awesome and well paying easy job and you wrecked it? Shut up kid, and tuck in that flap, there is too much wind in our cardboard box."
Right. Porn will probably be most of the traffic. The number of people in Europe who really want to access US neo-Nazi sites is probably not large.
But will they put the complete Epstein files on there?
There was
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternat...
which had startup royalty behind it and a very slick web site that they didn't promote very well. (A friend of mine who is interested in this space didn't find out about it until it was announced it was shutting down.)
I can only guess that the New York Times, WaPo and such were too good to talk to these people because they only managed to sign up third-tier news sources.
I want a lie bounty. If I pay for an article and find a lie in it, I should get a refund plus a bug bounty. That would make fact-checking pay off.
A real problem is that most of the fact-oriented sources are paywalled, while the polemic sites, especially on the hard right, are free. Fox News and X are free, but the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are paywalled.
Both uv and polars are technically Rust, too.
I don't think that's fair. The US has so many administrative layers with taxing powers - federal, state, county, and municipal, and in many cases administrative bodies also charge massive filing fees, and courts charge large fees to finance themselves because they're consistently under-funded by legislatures.
So Americans get taxed a lot at many different levels of activity. The cognitive load of having so many different points of taxation is annoying and exhausting to a lot of people. It makes household budgeting a lot more work than it really needs to be.
But it is this way because of the Constitution
They maybe we should change that and have a simpler system with much less complexity. Dismissing people who object to the painful complexity of the US tax regime as 'evaders' is npt insightful or helpful.
> By putting capital ahead of everything else of course capitalism gives you technological progress. If we didn't have capitalism we'd still be making crucible steel and the bit would cost more than the horse [1] -- but if you can license the open hearth furnace from Siemens and get a banker to front you to buy 1000 tons of firebricks it is all different, you can afford to make buildings and bridges out of steel.
The history of how steel got cheap is not really capital-based. It wasn't done by throwing money at the problem, not until the technology worked. The Bessemer Converter was a simple, but touchy beast. The Romans could have built one, but it wouldn't have worked. The metallurgy hadn't been figured out, and the quantitative analysis needed to get repeatability had to be developed. Once it was possible to know what was going into the process, repeatability was possible. Then it took a lot of trial and error, about 10,000 heats. Finally, consistently good steel emerged.
That's when capitalism took over and scaled it up. The technological progress preceded the funding.
I stopped after the 4th click, I found it irritating to have to click to get 1 or 2 sentences at a time. This would have been just fine as a short article, making it interactive annoyed me more than the revealed content informed.
The overlord model might be expensive to run, take a long time, etc.
Please provide evidence for what you considered to be normal to be an effective workforce for the ongoing task at hand (nation state tax collection).
This is so dumb. It isn't the printers where you could solve this but the slicers and slicers are for the most part open source. Effectively this is another ban on particular numbers. The printers just execute G-code and to make a printer aware of what it is that it is printing requires a completely different level of processing than what is normally present in the printers. Besides that, you could break anything up into parts that don't necessarily look like the complete article.
How amateurish! Officials should have just deflected to talking about the stock market.
Fronted by Cloudflare, not good for them.
The "before it touches disk" thing in the promo copy is silly, yes, but there's really no sane threat model for this; from every vantage point where this could matter, you already have game-over attacks on the app.
Great work! Looking forward to using it!
He's 65, so that might be long enough to be for life (based on life expectancy).
>One of the bedrocks of a startup economy is that the rule of law applies equally to the powerful and to the less powerful.
Yes, as the saying goes, the law equally forbids and punishes the poor and the rich if they sleep in the park or under a bridge.
>We wouldn't have Apple, Netflix, or so many other Bay Area giants without the equal application of law.
US has nowhere near "equal application of law", and yet it has these companies.
In fact, if it did have "equal application of law", those companies would have dead, as they get away with things that, if a smaller company or private business did, they'd have the book thrown at them.
We wouldn't have Apple, Netflix, or so many other Bay Area giants without the equal application of law.
You have to ask the question of "what exactly is Capitalism?"
By putting capital ahead of everything else of course capitalism gives you technological progress. If we didn't have capitalism we'd still be making crucible steel and the bit would cost more than the horse [1] -- but if you can license the open hearth furnace from Siemens and get a banker to front you to buy 1000 tons of firebricks it is all different, you can afford to make buildings and bridges out of steel.
Similarly, a society with different priorities wouldn't have an arms race between entrepreneurs to spend billions training AI models.
[1] an ancient "sword" often looks like a moderately sized knife to our eyes
A real shame BMW discontinued the i3. It was, and still is, the most stylish BMW. I wonder why they select their designers for lack of creativity.
Additional citation:
Graphs About Religion: When Are Half Your Members Going to be Dead? - https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/when-are-half-your-mem... - January 29th, 2026
https://gist.github.com/ryanburge/2034b9dea297f6b4db4ebad7e8...
> Not more blog posts, more emails, more boilerplate — but something structurally new?
This is a point that often results in bad faith arguments from both AI enthusiasts and AI skeptics. Enthusiasts will say "everything is a remix and the most creative works are built on previous works" while skeptics will say "LLMs are stochastic parrots and cannot create anything new by technical definition".
The truth is somewhere in the middle, which unfortunately invokes the Golden Mean Fallacy that makes no one happy.
I would imagine variables that are passed to functions would be considered ABI-visible. If the compiler is smart enough, it can keep the pointer wide when it’s passed to a function that’s also being compiled and act accordingly on the other side, but that worries me because this new meaning of “pointer” is propagating to parts of the code that might not necessarily agree with it.
Our sense of smell also evolved in the past couple thousand years. And the further back you go, the hungrier our ancestor will be.
I need to get food at the market, not wait for it to fall into a trap or fight it to death.
After telling Copilot to lose the em-dash, never say “It’s not A, it’s B” and avoid alternating one-sentence and long paragraphs it had the gall to tell me it wrote better than most people.
One relevant motivation for innovators is to escape poverty or the risk of poverty. When you have an adequate social safety net, there is little incentive to overwork oneself in order to build something new. It’s also natural not to keep thinking on what big idea you want to go after for fame and fortune when neither is that much attractive.
Also, it’s worth noting most startups fail, and when that happens, founders are often worse off than when they started. Well born founders can try until something sticks, but poor ones have, at best, one chance.
That may be, but it's also exposing a lot of gatekeeping; the implication that what was interesting about a "Show HN" post was that someone had the technical competence to put something together, regardless of how intrinsically interesting that thing is; it wasn't the idea that was interesting, it was, well, the hazing ritual of having to bloody your forehead of getting it to work.
AI for actual prose writing, no question. Don't let a single word an LLM generates land in your document; even if you like it, kill it.
Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-10042-w - February 18th, 2026
Wisdom comes with time, lived experience, and an open mind. Stay curious.
This has been posted a bunch of times [1] and argues for lax worker protections as a reasonable trade off for "innovation", which is fine if you're comfortable making the trade off of continuing trend of rapidly declining global fertility rates [2] because of economic insecurity (which governance.fyi goes into detail on [3]). Those arguing for people to have more kids while also arguing innovation requires making it easy to fire citizen workers, leading them to not have economic security and therefore not have kids will need to pick a lane. I also admit that fertility rate decline causes are numerous and complex, with the caveat that economic insecurity does not help based on all available data.
"You should economically suffer so that we can have a small cohort's idea of innovation" ain't gonna sell well to the general public, unless you're offering robust non employer government provided and guaranteed social safety nets in lieu of jobs (healthcare, housing, basic income, etc). If those safety nets are on offer, certainly, this piece's argument might hold some water.
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fworksinprogress.co%2...
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I see "trillions" in there but don't really believe it. I mean there are 8 billion of us on Planet Earth and to see it 2 trillion times that would mean we all saw it 250 times on average. This is the first time I saw it, the number of votes and shares and comments is not remarkable (compare to https://www.threads.com/@mg_pink_angler/post/DU8UL8ECEPl)
Maybe your analytics dashboard is busted.
I'm really excited about the Index. I don't love that it's disposable, but I really like the UX. I couldn't wait, so I made my own (obviously not a ring, but airtag-sized), and it's amazing. I have it in my pocket, I take it out, speak a little note, and it goes off to my AI assistant for whatever needs doing.
That and the AI assistant have really changed how I operate day to day. I'm super excited about the Index, and I hope it has the same capability my app has (mostly, sending a webhook with the transcription with exponential backoff, so I'm sure all my notes will eventually be sent).
As long as I've been involved with marketing I think most people have always underestimated the amount of work to break through indifference. If it came to putting up flyers for instance, my idea of a marketing plan is 50-1000 flyers with 5-15 distinct designs, the average young person thinks that people are so desperate to hear your message that 10 flyers will do it.
Back in the day for everything that "went viral" there were 100 "normal dudes" who had a marketing plan that involved "going viral" but it didn't happen.
People are about to learn in the AI age that: (1) if you speed up execution or the appearance of execution you run into the difficultly of marketing more quickly, and (2) Putting "AI" in your subject line will just make people close their earflaps the same way that "NFT" did two years ago.
Sure it is tuff and most people won't succeed, but with hustle and imagination some people are going to make it today, but the "life hacks" that work are either not generalizable (you are not going to transform into a fox) or trade secrets.
Google would really wish the only channel that worked was their ad platform, I'll tell you that.
We also don't know what you're pitching. If it's another samey AI startup seeing the subject line is like a punch in the gut. To be fair, 99% of people are trying to sell something that nobody wants to buy but once in a blue moon you see somebody's whose response rate has extra zeros on the right because they're selling something people are interested in.
It's a pelican. What do you expect a pelican to have in his bike's basket?
It's a pretty funny and coherent touch!
If that's her attitude she's never going to have a stable relationship.
It doesn't (you can retire early), but it does decide part of what you will need to be saving and how.
And the reason it decides that, apart from "because it can", is because many societies have seen what happens when it's left to individuals to take care of this, and they fuck it up in massive numbers, and the outcome of that then fucks up society.
See https://mastodon.social/@UP8/115939341268444811 for music cards that i decorate with and share with people.
Gemini has an obvious edge over its competitors in one specific area: Google Search. The other LLMs do have a Web Search tool but none of them are as effective.
Interesting how it went a bit more 3D with the style of that one compared to the pelican I got.
Pretty great pelican: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/gemini-31-pro/ - took over 5 minutes though, but I think that's because they're having performance teething problems on launch day.
Additional citations:
GOP angst over voter turnout builds as losses pile up - https://www.axios.com/2026/02/19/republican-angst-voter-turn... | https://archive.today/a9C1h - February 19th, 2026
GOP's new fear: Losing the Senate in November - https://www.axios.com/2026/02/06/gop-senate-midterms-2026 | https://archive.today/2iGNf - February 6th, 2026
Price is unchanged from Gemini 3 Pro: $2/M input, $12/M output. https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
Knowledge cutoff is unchanged at Jan 2025. Gemini 3.1 Pro supports "medium" thinking where Gemini 3 did not: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/gemini-3
Compare to Opus 4.6's $5/M input, $25/M output. If Gemini 3.1 Pro does indeed have similar performance, the price difference is notable.
You can retire whenever you want. The government decides when to start funding it.
As for why - the same reason why they get to decide what side of the road you drive on and what laws you follow. They rule the patch of land you were born on, and if you don't like it you can either participate in the system (assuming it's a democracy) or leave.
The counter question is: why have AMD been so bad by comparison?
I tried, “In the mood for country cowboy-ish music played for someone like John Wick bleeding out on a cold, snow-covered park bench.”
I ended up with kinda shrill. I was hoping for something that would sound like I’m listening to something while the coffee gets cold in a cabin.
Where are those numbers from? It's not immediately clear to me that you can distribute one model across chips with this design.
> Model is etched onto the silicon chip. So can’t change anything about the model after the chip has been designed and manufactured.
Subtle detail here: the fastest turnaround that one could reasonably expect on that process is about six months. This might eventually be useful, but at the moment it seems like the model churn is huge and people insist you use this week's model for best results.