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Disappointing TBH. I completely understand that the OpenAI offer was likely too good to pass up, and I would have done the same in his position, but I wager he is about to find out exactly why a company like OpenAI isn't able to execute and deliver like he single-handedly did with OpenClaw. The position he is about to enter requires skills in politics and bureaucracy, not engineering and design.
I wonder how long the battery lasts. The LCD backlight probably draws more power than the CPU (<0.1W, even with no special low-power idle modes.)
Obviously, all the people that disagree with your framing and see AI as the largest possible boost to mankind, giving us more assistance than ever.
From their standpoint, it's all the negativity that seems crazy. If you were against that, you'd have to have something wrong with you, in their view.
Hopefully most people can see both sides, though. And realize that in the end, probably the benefits will be slow but steady (no "singularity"), and also the dangers will develop slowly yet be manageable (no Skynet or economic collapse).
AMEX, Capital One and Apple are not even close to the top of the list of companies that I would trust with my digital data.
Twitter is not a place for positive posts.
Show us your prompts.
Two questions:
1. How are you using Claude? Are you using https://claude.ai and copying and pasting things back and forth, or are you running one of the variants of Claude Code? If so, which one?
2. If you're running Claude Code have you put anything in place to ensure it can test the code it's writing, including accessing screenshots of what's going on?
> As long as Alito and Thomas are still alive, this will never happen.
Unless the court shrinks down to three seats (or four, if the Circuits cooperate) Alito and Thomas alone can’t dictate the way the Court treats the issue.
> “Give me liberty or give me death.” It is hard to express in more definitive terms on which side of that liberty-versus-security trade-off the U.S. was intended to fall.
The thing is, that's a gross misrepresentation of what he said and meant. Patrick Henry was referring exclusively to political liberty from British colonial rule. There is no sense whatsoever in which he was referring to civil liberties against domestic rule. It didn't have a single thing to do with "security".
> But the core premise of the West generally, and the U.S. in particular, is that those trade-offs are never worthwhile.
Again, totally false. This is the core premise of libertarians in the West, who are, and always have been, a minority. It is not, and has never been, the "core premise" of the West or the US. Or else, quite obviously, we wouldn't have the constant tension between these liberties and the need for security. The idea that "those trade-offs are never worthwhile" is not a core American idea. We make those tradeoffs every single day. And continue to argue about them, e.g. over what degree of gun control is proper after each school shooting that happens.
6502 based computers shouldn’t have a “dir” command. It’s “catalog” for detailed info or “cat” for the short one.
You are mistaking cause for effect. The loss of privacy is the goal, not a side effect, the rest is just a fig leaf.
There are many things in the world that happen slowly right up until they suddenly don’t. It’s very possible the climate is one of these.
> This language moves beyond platform-level age gates and toward infrastructure embedded directly into hardware or operating systems.
This is lurching toward what the US military calls the Common Access Card. This is a security token carried by most US military. It's used for everything from logins to building access to meals.[1]
Merely having a Common Access Card doesn't allow access to anything. The system reading it has to recognize the identity. So there are lots of databases of who's allowed to do what.
Is that where we're going?
Unsold apparel is a headache, but banning it probably won't work. Something still has to be done with the stuff.
In the first dot-com era, I knew some startup people who were trying to create an online secondary market in used apparel, called Tradeweave. It flopped. You can see their web site on the Internet Archive up to 2004.[1] Then, suddenly, it's gone. There's a Stanford Business School case for this company.[2] Amusingly, the Stanford case study is dated 2000, before the collapse, and makes it sound like a success.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20040323045929/http://tradeweave...
[2] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/case-studies/t...
OK, send them somewhere else or sell them at a discount
but brand dilution
I don't care. If you over produce then you made a bad economic decision, tough luck. Destroying goods for accounting reasons is an abhorrent policy driven by greed.
Friends have to buy houses together to make it in this macro. Dual income+ or bust.
https://pca.st/episode/5b83929a-a9fc-40a0-818a-4bfb6d3a461c?...
I'm on the $200/month Claude Max plan and I rarely run out of my token allowance.
I'm also paying $20/month for OpenAI Codex and again it's rare I hit the rate limits there.
That doesn't appear to be accurate, at least from the Wikipedia article.
Robert Bork (sorry to add my personal commentary but an absolute shit stain of a human being) was nominated for the Supreme Court (which, thankfully, he always not confirmed), and a reporter went to a video rental store and asked for his rental history, which there was no law against. The published article didn't include much, as Bork hadn't rented any particularly salacious material, but there was bipartisan outrage that this had occurred.
Just goes to show how far we've fallen when there was once bipartisan outrage over accessing your Blockbuster rental history, when tech giants now have 10 times as much surveillance on you - your 1 am "shower thoughts" in your search history, all the websites you've visited, all your social media posts, and even social media posts about/including you posted by someone else, everything you've ever commented on a blog forum, your location history, etc.
The purpose isn't information, the purpose is drama.
Er, sorry. I meant: the purpose isn't just drama—it's a declaration of values, a commitment to the cause of a higher purpose, the first strike in a civilizational war of independence standing strong against commercialism, corporatism, and conformity. What starts with a single sentence in an LLM-rewritten blog post ends with changing the world.
See? And I didn't even need an LLM to write that. My own brain can produce slop with an em dash just as well. :)
Finally, this never made any sense.
Man it would really make my day if all the homeless people started walking around in Prada and Gucci. That would probably be just thing to kill off these brands for good.
> had already been warrantied once and then “recycled” by our recycling service.
Couldn't this be prevented by, say, sticking it on a drill press and drilling a large hole in it, and then recycling it?
TIL about window.stop() - the key to this entire thing working, it's causes the browser to stop loading any more assets: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/stop
Apparently every important browser has supported it for well over a decade: https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_window_stop
Here's a screenshot illustrating how window.stop() is used - https://gist.github.com/simonw/7bf5912f3520a1a9ad294cd747b85... - everything after <!-- GWTAR END is tar compressed data.
Posted some more notes on my blog: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/gwtar/
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
A lot of slaves had no last name, or only their owners’.
That's pretty common in small companies. It's less common in large companies but can happen - you may use the "CTO" title for the founding engineer who still leads code and architecture, then hire someone under a different title (frequently "VP of Engineering") to handle the management / team growing side of the role.
The clearinghouse in question has wide latitude, broad mechanisms, and constant aggressive risk management available to manage high volatility market conditions without impacting individual ownership, this is fear driven propaganda.
> Go has indisputably the best package integrity story of any programming language ecosystem
Nope, still catching up to Java and .NET.
Alone from that list, it means.
No Go, no Flutter, no Android, no GCP nor AWS or anyone that relies on them like Vercel and Netlify, no llama, no React or framework that builds on top of it.
Keeping the list small, there are other items that depend on those companies money and engineering teams.
> nobody wants to hear about the hustle anymore
Plenty of people are still ambitious and being successful.
He means Linux the kernel, getting new drivers.
Another interesting fact is that until Linux came to be, GCC only became relevant because Sun started the trend among UNIX vendors to split UNIX into user and developer SKUs, thus making the whole development tooling behind an additional license.
> basic stuff like e-mail and payment processing should be provided by the state
You're looking at America in 2026 and concluding we want to give the state more control over private lives?
> The key is that robot arms are not labor-replacing, but labor-shifting. Robots decrease hourly labor while increasing labor demand for programmers, maintenance technicians, and skilled trades for installation.
If anyone things that the demand for the latter would match the demand for the replaced former, they really have no idea why robots are used in the first place...
This is the new fake news, now everything that doesn't go well is AI generated.
It starts by not looking into Windows through UNIX developer glasses.
The only issue currently plaguing Windows development is the mess with WinUI and WinAppSDK since Project Reunion, however they are relatively easy to ignore.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this: NewPipe is an Android app, and consuming YouTube on a mobile browser is a much worse experience.
Thiel lost the plot long ago, just like his PayPal buddy did. The money went to their heads.
300 years into the future some historian will publish a book: "The downfall of the USA traced back to the PayPal Mafia".
Tanenbaum made that deal. He collected royalties from the book (as was his right) but it clearly was a way to make money for him. Just another part of the textbook grift because students were forced to work on Minix long after that that made any sense at all.
Ironically, that single threaded nature of the FS made it a perfect match for my own little OS and I happily hacked it to pieces to bootstrap it using message passing into a FS executable. That trick probably saved me a year in bringing up the kernel to the point that the OS could compile itself, which greatly sped up development.
You could have checked his conference talk as well, instead of downplaying the interview.
"Microsoft is Getting Rusty: A Review of Successes and Challenges - Mark Russinovich"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VgptLwP588&t=1903s
The only Microsoft divisions that are still all are into C++ is Windows and XBox, and still, C++/WinRT is now in maintenace, the team has moved into windows-rs, WDK now has Rust bindings available.
"Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Palantir ties"?
I still think Macs outnumber IBM mainframe and POWER machines by a couple orders of magnitude.
https://x.com/a16z/status/2018418113952555445
For my whole life in technology, there was this thing called the Mythical Man Month: nine women cannot have a baby in a month. If you're Google, you can't just put a thousand software engineers on a product and wipe out a startup because you can only... build that product with seven or eight people. Once they've figured it out, they've got that lead.
That's not true with AI. If you have data and you have enough GPUs, you can solve almost any problem. It is magic. You can throw money at the problem. We've never had that in tech.This is also why the Teletype layout has parentheses on 8 and 9 unlike modem keyboards that have them on 9 and 0 (a layout popularised by the IBM Selectric). The original Apple IIs had this same layout, with a “bell” on top of the G.
> He explicitly writes that he did not do drugs or alcohol.
What are you talking about? He specifically mentions drinking beer and doing ayahuasca in the past.
> I've sometimes dreamed of a web where every resource is tied to a hash, which can be rehosted by third parties, making archival transparent.
I wrote a short paper on that 25 years ago, but it went nowhere. I still think it is a great idea!
I have seen enough compiler (and even hardware) bugs to know that you do need to dig deeper to find out why something isn't working the way you thought it should. Of course I suspect there are many others who run into those bugs, then massage the code somehow and "fix" it that way.
the Free University Compiler Kit, also known as VUCK. (The Dutch word for “free” is written with a v.)
I'm not sure if I'm reading satire or they are having some fun trolling.
Possibly because a lot of “AI-company scraping” isn't traditional scraping (e.g., to build a dataset of the state at a particular point in time), its referencing the current content of the page as grounding for the response to a user request.
This cognitive debt bit from the linked article by Margaret-Anne Storey at https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/ is fantastic:
> But by weeks 7 or 8, one team hit a wall. They could no longer make even simple changes without breaking something unexpected. When I met with them, the team initially blamed technical debt: messy code, poor architecture, hurried implementations. But as we dug deeper, the real problem emerged: no one on the team could explain why certain design decisions had been made or how different parts of the system were supposed to work together. The code might have been messy, but the bigger issue was that the theory of the system, their shared understanding, had fragmented or disappeared entirely. They had accumulated cognitive debt faster than technical debt, and it paralyzed them.
I don’t have Airpods, but I turned on my stereo the other day after listening to music through the speakers in my monitor and it was quite a difference.
Pretty sure the reason they're sold out in 10 seconds is because of other bots.
You have to evolve to compete. Look what happened to MIPS, the classic "pure RISC". (I know about RISC-V, but at this point it's become just another cheap core for those who don't want to pay for ARM licenses.)
Their self-reported benchmarks have them out-performing pinecone by 7x in queries-per-second: https://zvec.org/en/docs/benchmarks/
I'd love to see those results independently verified, and I'd also love a good explanation of how they're getting such great performance.
"All but unnoticed last month, a bipartisan group of legislators introduced a resolution calling for Congress to keep budget deficits at no more than 3% of gross domestic product."
It went unnoticed for good reason. This Congress cannot bind a future Congress except through (a) rules, which the majority can change and (b) Constitutional amendments.
Second, voting for deficit-busting legislation every moment it comes up in one's politial career isn't undone by before go-nowhere messaging resolutions.
>"More men die with prostate cancer than because of it" - an old adage that still holds true in the 21st century
See also: call elevator to your floor buttons
I'm more interested in the fact that disclaimer at the top makes me think the entire article is written by AI as a summary of a bunch of reddit posts and tweets and discord topics?
Is that what the top says?
This Deep Think one was so good that I did get suspicious that maybe it was at least rendering the SVG to an image and then "looking" at the image and tweaking it over a few iterations.
But the reasoning trace doesn't hint at that and looks legit to me: https://gist.github.com/simonw/7e317ebb5cf8e75b2fcec4d0694a8...
I also asked Deep Think what tools it has access to and it has Python and Bash but no internet access, and as far as I can tell that environment doesn't have any libraries or tools installed that can render an SVG to an image format that it could view.
What addresses(es) would you send Bitcoin to in order to burn it?
No? The point of the article, and of the preceding comments, echoing a pretty common tenet of evidence-based medicine, is that frequent full-body MRIs are a bad idea for the patient.
>Why not just benchmark the models yourself?
Because their incentives are to churn stupid articles fast to get more views, and to be on major AI companies and potential advertisers' good graces. That, and their integrity and passion for what they do is minimal, plus they're paid peanuts.
Doesn't help that most brain-rotted readers are hardly calling them out for it, if they even notice it.
I think they meant that, now that LLMs are invented, people have suddenly started to lie on the Internet.
Every comment section here can be summed up as "LLM bad" these days.
> they'd rather vibe code themselves than trust an unproven engineering firm
You could cut the statement short here, and it would still be a reasonable position to take these days.
LLMs are still complex, sharp tools - despite their simple appearance and proteststions of both biggest fans and haters alike, the dominating factor for effectiveness of an LLM tool on a problem is still whether or not you're holding it wrong.
AI browsers will be the scrapers, shipping content back to the mothership for processing and storage as users co browse with the agentic browser.
You never could trust the internet. The difference is that now the problem is so widespread that it's finally spurring us into action, and hopefully a good "web of trust" or similar solution will emerge.
This will be about as impactful as printing out the best web articles you encounter and building a shed to shelve them in binders.
> What if the models have just gotten really good?
Kagi Assistant remains my main way of interacting with AI. One of its benefits is you're encouraged to try different models.
The heterogeneity in competence, particular per unit in time, is growing rapidly. If I'm extrapolating image-creation capabilities from Claude, I'm going to underestimate what Gemini can do without fuckery. Likewise, if I'm using Grok all day, Gemini and Claude will seem unbelievably competent when it comes to deep research.
> it was not really open content anyway
Practically no quality journalism is.
> we need something like wikipedia for news
Wikipedia editors aren’t flying into war zones.
I've always been skeptical of the celebrity engineering managers/software entrepreneurs like Graham, DHH, Atwood, Spolsky [1], etc. Just because you made and marketed one or even two successful products doesn't mean you have any useful generalizable advice.
Today people who made something with AI think they have something profound to say about their experience but they don't.
All the projects I do now have a significant amount of input from AI assistants but I am going to post "Show HN: my heart rate variability biofeedback webapp" and not add "... that i vibe coded" because the latter one codes me as yet another NPC.
(e.g. if I am more successful as AI-assisted developer than some people it is not because I know anything about AI-assisted development which is interesting or generalizable, but it is because of the toolbox I've been using in a lifetime of software development!)
[1] Carmack is a true genius who is the exception that proves the rule
>videos that had some viewership base, there may be a consideration
Those would be the worst of the lot regarding how valuable they are historically for example. Engaging BS content...
I love how people in the thread are like "if I'm going to ask my group of friends to switch to this, I need to know it's not written by security-issue-generator machines", meanwhile at Discord LLMs go brrr:
https://discord.com/blog/developing-rapidly-with-generative-...
And then you have the "Alas, the sheer fact that LLM slop-code has touched it at all is bound to be a black stain on its record" comments.
Please name 50 other companies it's not.
It's good that they were responsive in the disclosure, but it's still a mark of sloppiness that this was done in the first place, and I'd like to know so I can avoid them.
I think it depends on the codebase. There are some reflection calls that you can make that can cause dead code elimination to fail, thought I believe it's less easy to run into than it was a few years ago. One common dependency, at least in my line of work, is the Kubernetes API and it manages to both be gigantic and trigger this edge case (last I looked), so yeah, the binaries end up pretty big.
Another thing that people run into is big binaries = slow container startup times. This time is mostly spent in gzip. If you use Zstandard layers instead of gzip layers, startup time is improved. gzip decompression is actually very slow, and the OCI spec no longer mandates it.
Recommended link to the Blu-ray collection for archival purposes?
Citizens can choose to prioritize quality of life over maximizing housing stock to increase the domestic population. “We’re all full up.” It is their country after all, it is their choice. Those who want in are not stakeholders nor have a vote.
I dunno if my Uni dodged the bullet because it was one step down in status or if it was the shitty airport.
> I wonder how soon I will be forced to whitelist only a handful of seasoned authors.
Twenty years ago?
You know what else I don't see? Google Reader, because Google killed it!
The main problem with technology coverage is you have one of 3 types of writers in the space:
1. Prosumer/enthusiasts who are somewhat technical, but mostly excitement
2. People who have professional level skills and also enjoy writing about it
3. Companies who write things because they sell things
A lot of sites are in category 1 - mostly excitement/enthusiasm, and feels.
Anandtech, TechReport, and to some extent Arstechnica (specially John Siracusa's OS X reviews) are the rare category 2.
Category 3 are things like the Puget Systems blog where they benchmark hardware, but also sell it, and it functions more as a buyer information.
The problem is that category 2 is that they can fairly easily get jobs in industry that pay way more than writing for a website. I'd imagine that when Anand joined Apple, this was likely the case, and if so that makes total sense.
It comes down to trust. There are ways to protect your own integrity and equanimity in a low-trust environment but most people will suffer in that kind of situation.
Before agile you could “kick the can down the road” for six months before the senior people realize what they wouldn’t hear from the new guy on the project: nobody knows how to make a production build! Until then though life can be cozy on a day to day basis. In agile on the other hand, you have nerve-wracking meetings every day but somehow it never gets out that the engineering manager has no idea how long it takes to build the product or that the code violates all the rules [1] laid down by that engineering manager despite that engineering manager asserting that “we do code reviews”
[1] reasonable if not inspired
Given how worried everyone is about the AI slopocalypse where the internet is drowned in LLM-generated junk content maybe it's time for a resurgence of human curated directories like this one.
Tests have dependencies. Crawling all of those dependencies to check for malicious code could require inspecting millions of lines of code, if you could even obtain the code.
It's also beginning to sound like needing to solve the halting problem.
taped and transcribed by Jeff Fox
Can we stop with this? The world has changed, LLMs exist, people use them, and "omg LLMs" is a very tired trope now. If you didn't like the article, you can critique it, but "you used a tool I don't like" is just boring.
Except that's sort of... exactly what they do.
The food industry has pretty much invented the whole process of making "addictive" products and then "test[ing] out recipes on the public to make it even more addictive". Of course, we usually call it making products that taste good, and running taste panels with the public for product development (making a new tasty thing), quality control (ensuring the tasty thing stays tasty), and market research (discovering even tastier things to make in the future). Each part of it employs all kinds of specialists (and yes, those too - nutrition psychology is a thing).
The process is the same. The difference between "optimized for taste" and "addictive" isn't exactly clear-cut, at least not until someone starts adding heroin to the product (and of the two, it's not the software industry that's been routinely accused of it just for being too good at this job).
Not defending social media here in any way. Cause and effect is known these days, and in digital everything is faster and more pronounced. And ironically, I don't even agree with GP either! I think that individuals have much less agency than GP would like it, and at the same time, that social media is not some uniquely evil and uniquely strong way to abuse people, but closer to new superstimulus we're only starting to develop social immunity to.
> Both of these are based on userspace stack switching, sometimes called “fibers”, “stackful coroutines”, or “green threads”.
There are M-Disks. These are CD/DVD/BluRay disks which use a drive with a higher power laser and work by ablating a metal layer, rather than a photosensitive dye as in the lower-powered disks. Regular drives will read both kinds.
For a small amount of data (crypto keys?), consider deep laser engraving on stainless steel. That's very durable. Or even engrave text into stainless steel with a small CNC mill.
You can engrave QR codes, bar codes, etc. But there's a lot to be said for engraving plain text.
Oh, that's why the DOJ didn't want to release these. Ok! :)
> * The question "whose fault?" isn't simple*
Most of your examples have exquisitely-simple causation.
As someone who has been doing Win32 development for literally decades, I'm not particularly convinced this is a problem that needs more code to solve. You don't need VS to get the compiler (which is available as a separate download called something like "build tools", I believe); and merely unpacking the download and setting a few environment variables is enough to get it working. It's easy to create a portable package of it.