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Give it a bit!
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/26/g-s1-115240/iran-war-strait-h...
(I'm being snarky here, but COVID definitely exposed some supply chain vulnerabilities.)
You're missing that humans are often irrational.
They may be hoping it goes back up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-4311-...
> Now, Therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.
Not quite as long, but much more significant. (No violence exception, the criminal was the President, and they were crimes against the entire country, not some random drug/tax charges.)
It's a gap, but not due to lack of trying.
I made https://github.com/TeMPOraL/cloze-call a little over 16 years ago, and this itself was inspired by something then at least that much old.
Screenshot: https://jacek.zlydach.pl/old-blog/download/projects/ClozeCal...
Wonder if I can turn this into browser-playable version with just LLMs.
EDIT: Put Claude Code on the task (reason for choice: Claude Desktop lets me just throw it at a folder with unzipped bundle of sources and assets I found laying around my blog archive).
EDIT2: Holy shit it worked. Will upload it somewhere soon.
EDIT3: Here it is, in its full 800x600, 30 FPS cap glory: https://temporal.github.io/ClozeCall-Web/
The process I used was, have CC run over the original sources and create this document:
https://github.com/TeMPOraL/ClozeCall-Web/blob/main/design.m...
Then after verifying it matches what I remembered and clarifying some decisions (section 4 and 5), just told it to make a static client-side no-build-step no-webshit-frameworks game deployable to github.io, and it did it in a single shot (+ a second small request to add a fix to transparency of some assets). Personally, I'm impressed at how well it went, what a nice highlight of the weekend for me.
While a great improvement, the article also gives a good overview that cargo isn't without issues when going outside pure Rust desktop/server scenarios, maybe some ideas for improvements.
From one of the ground staff for Artemis: https://bsky.app/profile/captnamy.bsky.social/post/3mi36brfw...
"1968 and the country was on fire. Vietnam. Assassinations. Civil unrest. Protests.
Apollo 8 was the one bright event of a terrible year.
2026 and the country is on fire. Iran. Corruption. Fascists. Civil unrest. No Kings.
I hope Artemis II will stand out as a bright spot for our country."
Some more background on her: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/04/01/chicagoan-amy-l...
I liked this game a lot!
One thing I noticed is that I found the game to be pretty hard if I just tried to tap based on where I thought was a good "launching point". But then I realized I could use the dashed lines in the orbit circle as basically "arrows" pointing to where the ship would go if launched at that point in the orbit, and I instantly got much better if my strategy was (a) pick the dash in the orbit circle that points to the next planet, and (b) just then only focus on tapping when the ship hits that dash in the circle.
I think a "hard mode" would be to get rid of the dashes in the orbit circle and just make it a solid line.
> they had women and non white people on board
I thought this was a straw man, because surely wtf is even the point of this comment, but nope, sure enough, ctrl+f and there are comments like that here. Wow.
Yeah, but they still don’t have a realistic plan to land astronauts there.
Like the space shuttle before it, Artemis proves that nobody can beat the US at spending money on boondoggles.
Lunar missions are inconsequential to problems here on Earth like we can’t afford to build high-speed rail and transit, that we can’t build housing affordable or otherwise, that we already lost the next war to Boeing and Lockheed-Martin, won’t build affordable electric cars, etc.
What we need is affordability porn!
I will still wait for the heat shield analysis. Doing a crewed flight was not what I would have done - I’d use a Falcon Heavy to put one or more dummies through different trajectories to make sure we have enough experimental data to extensively model the shield behaviour, especially in non-nominal entries.
I would love to see a Unibody polished to a mirror finish. Would be a perfect match for Queen Amidala’s shuttle.
It becomes more interesting when you couple a flexible display with it.
Tools have existed for decades, devs have to actually use them.
Packing structures can improve performance and overall memory usage by reducing cache misses.
People still think that this administration will play fair the next elections.
You might be using a device powered by Tock OS.
That is only for techies. WYSIWYG has won for a reason.
This is why shutting down the right to strike is a short term approach: you can't make people choose to start or keep working in your sweatshop, so eventually you run out of staff.
What all projects?
It is relatively easy to find corporate libraries, or commercial products that still aren't using it, including Microsoft products still stuck in .NET Framework, or .NET standard 2.0.
If you want name shaming of commercial products with modern .NET, here is one, can provide more.
There is already lots and lots of non-GPL code in the kernel, under dozens of licenses, see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Open-Source-Compliance/pac...
As long as everything is GPLv2-compatible it‘s okay.
Just like everything else outside PC thanks to clones becoming a thing.
One reason UNIX became widely adopted, besides being freely available versus the other OSes, was that allowed companies to abstract their hardware differences, offering some market differentiation, while keeping some common ground.
Those phones common ground is called Android with Java/Kotlin/C/C++ userspace, folks should stop seeing them as GNU/Linux.
As did Korea. When their president tried to impose martial law, a crowd including legislators stormed the building and impeached him.
This isn't really a given. Historically, whenever you have a civil war the existing state's military splits down the middle, with people generally unwilling to fire on friends, family, and neighbors. Former military officers usually form the core of the rebel military, taking their training, experience, and oftentimes equipment with them to fight for the other side.
The mistake here is thinking of the U.S. government as a monolith. Ultimately it's all just people, bound together by being paid for in dollars that are either raised as taxes or borrowed as treasuries. GP's post posits a world where the dollar is worthless; what's binding them together then?
Many years ago, even a "Hello World" binary that wasn't compiled by MSVC but by a GNU toolchain was detected as "suspicious" or "potentially unwanted", and in some cases automatically deleted. MS clearly has a different definition of "malware" than many people, and while it may overlap with a majority opinion (e.g. viruses and worms), where its opinion differs is used to push an agenda.
Or 4) patch the checks out yourself. As they say, "Firefox is open-source for a reason."
Where are the lines of that when it's physical things?
The automotive aftermarket has largely settled that; even without the original design files, it's perfectly legal to make compatible parts, patents and the like notwithstanding. You can build an entire "small block Chevy" engine wholly from parts that GM did not make, and it will fit perfectly in a car that originally had the "genuine" one.
IANAL but as long as you don't violate any patents they have (if any) nor use their trademark, feel free to make and sell keyboards that look like theirs (not that a keyboard of their design is particularly distinctive anyway.)
Many of those who saw the first moon landing as a child are still alive and remember what it felt like.
I first encountered this in-person on a Mac Mini many years ago, which to be fair is not meant to be touched all the time, but it was still slightly repulsive. It has a surprising weight and uncomfortable sensation like picking up a freshly-cut block of metal. Then I realised Apple did the same with their laptops which are meant to be touched. They do have rounded corners, but not on the axes where the roundedness is useful. In contrast, Thinkpads look sharp-edged with square corners but are actually confortable to hold.
You cannot really determine what the risks are before trying something new.
Buoyancy is an easier equation to solve than lift.
Buzz Aldrin is reported to be watching this on TV.
The Chinese models are distilled from GPT and Claude, so it's not like China would pull ahead if those companies went away for six months. They really are at the forefront of innovation right now, as much as I hate to think of the consequences of this (a single company owning a superintelligence is basically a nightmare scenario for me).
It most likely tripped the flame war detector heuristic (comments > points), and there is definitely a flame war here.
EDIT: Looks like a mod rescued it (surprisingly) and it is now back to #2.
LG sells a DualUp monitor that is 2560x2880, same size as two 2560x1440 displays stacked on top of each other: https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor
Thaler v. Perlmutter said that an AI system cannot be listed as the sole author of a work - copyright requires a human author.
US Copyright Office guidance in 2023 said work created with the help of AI can be registered as long as there is "sufficient human creative input". I don't believe that has ever been qualified with respect to code, but my instinct is that the way most people use coding agents (especially for something like kernel development) would qualify.
"Our product can destroy humanity, and it's not some crank telling you this, it's the company and CEO making it themselves, but we'll continue to make it anyway, so suck it up" but also "I'm just a humble guy, why can't we all live in peace?"
I’d argue women’s jobs are not increasing in productivity and are caught up in Baumol’s cost disease.
There was a comic in Z magazine maybe 30 years ago where two women are asking why women who are working in childcare can’t afford to put the childcare and the punchline is ‘capitalism’.
I’d argue it a lack of capitalism. That is, Henry Ford could invest capital to build a factory in which workers were so productive they could afford a car which could change the world. On the other hand you can’t spend capital to make a woman who can care for 4 children today able to care for 40 children so people are always scratching their heads wondering why they can’t afford it.
Now your argument doesn’t apply to female-coded jobs (e.g. the child care worker is competent, their ‘lack of productivity’ is structural) and would be more interesting (whether or not it is true) reconfigured as “women bring something toxic to formerly male coded jobs” to which I would point the trope of the black woman politician who gives speeches to the effect that “we have good policies but we have a messaging problem” or a general idea that if we just picked the right words our perception of problems would change and then we wouldn’t have problems (it is equal opportunity though, I was as sick of Thomas Sowell and his ilk talking about “equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome” as I am of the liberal “equity vs equality” version of the same —- either way it is naive because you will never end people arguing over what they think is fair, at least in the conservative version you know what the two sides are whereas with the liberal version you might as well flip a coin)
Saddam was their man for a full decade prior to that war, to go against Iran. Even the Kuwait invasion was given the go ahead by the us with false assurances, until they sucker punched him for it. It's not as if they us gave a shit or two about Kuwait's freedom or not (which was partitioned from traditional iraq teritorry in the past anyway, and a monarchy itself).
Then they'd let him mostly be after 1991 until we made the mistake to push for the Euro in early 2000s.
I’m trying to find the source, but I remember a primatologist claiming that humans and chimpanzees are the only two species that embark on genocide. Not being satisfied with simply defeating the enemy, but actively hunting them down to ensure they can’t harm you again. In other words, precluding retreat. (Which creates its own game-theoretical backlash: never retreat.)
There's nothing "un-controversial" about trying to mitigate a firebombing attack with a broad critique of capitalism. It's an edgy take, just own it.
It’s a distinct minority. They’re convinced they’re the majority because everyone they talk to is in the same bubble, especially online. I saw the same thing with Mangione and Kirk and Pelosi.
Texas is a leader in renewables for the same reason it is a leader in oil and gas.
Fine. I wanna scrap the pardon power. Trade?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-promises-mass-pard...
The current administration is squishy-soft on white collar crime.
(The United States Department of Justice is mostly to handle white-collar crime. Most DOJ authority comes from the Federal power to regulate interstate commerce. Violent crime is primarily a state matter. Then came the ICE overexpansion.)
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"Who's in charge here?"
"The Claw."
Some of this stuff is starting to look like technologies that worked, looked promising, but were at best marginally useful, such as magnetohydrodynamic generators, tokamaks, E-beam lithography, and Ovonics.
> Who did the US bomb before 9/11?
Iraq, during the Gulf War.
> Who did the US bomb before Pearl Harbor?
Japan, though the US didn't bomb them, it instituted an oil embargo and asset freeze.
> Who did the US bomb before its embassies in East Africa were attacked
Iraq, during the Gulf War.
> Who did the US bomb before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103 ?
Tripoli and Benghazi, Iran Air Flight 655.
I don't understand the purpose of these questions. Were you thinking the US was just minding its own business and some bad guys came and attacked it?
No it shouldn't. That makes the UX much worse, just to guard against the 0.00001% case where the FBI seizes your iPhone.
Only a subset of reflection is actually AoT safe, and you can run into issues like "the method you wanted to call wasn't statically referenced anywhere, so there is no compiled implementation of it".
Wait, how is the "put off checkmate" objective scored? Turns before checkmate? Or what?
Is it just a joke?
In other words, clickbait.
Fox News used to be awful in this respect, with ledes such as "(Important thing) happens in (unnamed city)". Now they name the city. So that trick apparently backfired. It seems to have died out, along with "One weird trick..." articles.
New York Times opinion articles, though, have become worse. Today, "This May Be the Most Important Medical Story of the Decade". It's not.
Myself I don't have the time to watch or listen to as much as I can read and that is probably true for the non-dyslexic 75%.
The crime is that we're living in a society where different laws apply to corporations than to people. If a corporation doesn't like you, you're toast, no matter whether you're wrong or right.
There are enough laws that they'll find something to nail you on.
There are pure rust, no c, embedded RTOSes, like Hubris.
Thanks for posting this. I think it's such a shitty thing to do. I don't have much of a problem if an original author wanted to do a closed fork of an open source project, but to start injecting ads, without warning, to folks who have already installed your generic JSON formatter and phrase it as "I'm moving to a closed-source, commercial model in order to build a more comprehensive API-browsing tool with premium features." - seriously, f' off.
I agree that browser extension marketplaces are a failed experiment at this point. I used to run security an a fin services company, and our primary app had very strict Content Security Policy rules. We would get tons of notifications to our report-uri endpoint all the time from folks who had installed extensions that were doing lots of nefarious things.
I'm particularly interested if someone with relevant expertise could comment on the types of bugs Mythos found, e.g. the 27 year old OpenBSD bug.
I ask because the media around Mythos is leaning into the "Mythos is a super intelligence that can find bugs that no human can" story. But in my mind it's pretty obvious that any software that is complex enough will have a lot of lurking zero days, and better tools will asymptomatically find more of them. So it seems to me something like Mythos would just be able to do more analysis/searching for bugs at a much faster rate than previously possible. But I'm skeptical that the bugs that were found required an insane amount of analytical abilities to locate, so would really appreciate if someone could comment on that (e.g. was it "yeah, with enough time we would have found it eventually" vs. "Wow, this was an insanely difficult bug to find in the first place")
I do agree that medium/long term that tools like Mythos will be a huge boon for cyber security, because it will inherently make it easier to write bug-free code in the first place. But yeah, we're now at a point where all these "pre-AI bugs" need to be fixed and patched before folks in the wild find all these zero days.
This is the saddest part - they actually think computers suck that much and don't know their lives could be a lot easier.
Even if you said AI programming is based on "knowing what to prompt" this still comes down to:
(1) understanding software engineering (for one thing knowing if answers make sense)
(2) subject matter expertise and the ability to communicate with SMEs, fake being an SME by reading books, see the old "knowledge engineer" construct from the 1980s.
(3) knowing specifics about AI coding.
I think (1) and (2) are 80-90% of what leads to success in the long term. My guess is the models are going to get better so (3) skills have a short half life and will matter less, but (1) and (2) will stay the same.
Maybe I'm cynical but if I was designing screeners for this thing I would ask people things like
"How many accounts do you follow on X about AI?" where the right answer is "I don't have an X account" and the higher the count the worse it is.
"What percent of your programming time do you spend thinking about AI programming tools?" and anything over 20% is suspect (but maybe it is a tooling job or something in which case I'd drop it)
That is, I want to see that somebody used AI tools to deliver something 100% done end-to-end that worked and I'd like to see them spending 80% of their time doing.
I'd also be thinking about screeners designed to detect FOMO attitudes and reject people for it.
yes, run by machines, read by humans. so ?
> People forget Carlin was a comedian.
That would seem to include you?
People keep pushing signal because it is supposedly secure. But it runs on platforms that are so complex with so much eco system garbage that there is no way know even within a low percentage of confidence if you've done everything required to ensure you are communicating just with the person you think you are. There could be listeners at just about every layer and that is still without looking at the meta-data angle which is just as important (who communicated with who and when, and possibly from where).
the original implementations of k were all proprietary
there are a few open source implementations as well by now
You missed the management factor. And even if managers don't explicitly ask you to build insecure stuff they will up to the pressure to the point that you have no choice or leave the company for someone who will do just that. So the end result is the same. Rarely will individual push back with some force and then they will eventually be let go because they're 'troublemakers'.
>I think I have just as good a shot at building what comes after git as their team does, and perhaps quite a lot better.
This sounds like one of those "Hacker News Dropbox" comments...
Another solution would be for people to make up their minds. Maybe it's time to give up entirely on multi-tasking support in the OS, because what's the point if all interoperability is going to be disabled "for security"? Might as well just go back to running one program at a time and close up all those security holes in one go.
>Coffee is an acquired taste, I think
Billions all over the world managed to acquire it just fine.
If that's an acquired taste, I doubt 99% of drinks that aren't an acquired taste would do much better, assuming there's anything doing better than coffee to begin with.
Not even Cola and tea come close.
>"MCP is less discoverable than a CLI" - that doesn't make any sense in terms of agent context. Once an MCP is connected the agent should have full understanding of the tools and their use, before even attempting to use them. In order for the agent to even know about a CLI you need to guide the agent towards it - manually, every single session, or through a "skill" injection - and it needs to run the CLI commands to check them.
Knowledge about any MCP is not something special inherent in the LLM, it's just an agent side thing. When it comes to the LLM, it's just some text injected to its prompting, just like a CLI would be.
> *particle that is emitted from an alpha decay isn't actually called a He atom”
“Because they are identical to helium nuclei, they are also sometimes written as He2+…” [1].
What prevents the phone from taking screenshots of you reading the messages in the app?
The actual one end is the phone, not the app, period.
> A recent leak of Claude’s code prompted the startup to publish a blogpost at the beginning of the month saying that AI models had surpassed “all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities” [...]
I've seen a bunch of people conflate the Claude Code source-map leak with the Mythos story, though not quite as blatantly as here. I'm confident that they are totally unrelated.
Have not. How widely supported are micropayments? It's been a minute since I looked, but I thought they were not very well supported.
(also at ERSC here, hi Austin!) Heck, I have not had enough bandwidth to do as much upstream work as I initially thought I would when I started there!
> The average American doesn't get to peek inside these offices and so they don't realize how bad the problem is
Right. They don't care how bad the problem is in an office they will never be offered a job in.
> They see non-Americans working in taxi cabs, in landscaping, in food trucks, but they haven't seen how many white collar positions are being taken over by non-Americans. High salary positions. Management positions
Uh, the right has been railing about Indian and Chinese born tech CEOs for at least twenty years now. It didn't land until the message was broadened. (And even then, it was cheap to discard.)
> viewed from a country with universal healthcare...it feels like comparing the US to “any democracy” is like comparing rocks to gold
Do most democracies, extant or across history, have universal healthcare? You're comparing a policy to a governance structure.
I hate it when it "corrects" already-correct words just because they're rare.
This article would be a lot more digestible if we didn't have actual scary data rather than just stories. Not a day goes by without some prompt injection oopsie, security gotcha, deepfake or some sandbox escape artist demonstration and tbh I'm impressed but more to the point where I don't doubt this is dangerous tech, I'm sure of it.
This is roughly 1995 again and we're going to find out all over why mixing instructions and data was a spectacularly bad idea. Only now with human language as the input stream, which is far more expressive than HTML or SQL ever were. So now everybody is a hacker. At least in that sense it has leveled the playing field I guess.
I mean, summoning a diplomat to issue threats is usually the opposite of “heat of the moment”, but...
At the same time, they keep hiking the other tiers, and cracking down on password sharing or kids off at college. These need to be factored in as well.
Quite an appropriate analogy: gun manufacturers were sued for their responsibility in US mass shootings. They won, so the mass shootings continue.
Yeah, regular web chat Claude and ChatGPT both have full container access (even on the free version, at least for ChatGPT) which can run CLI tools.
Both of them can even install CLI tools from npm and PyPI - they're limited in terms of what network services they can contact aside from those allow-listed ones though, so CLI tools in those environments won't be able to access the public web.
... unless you find the option buried deep in Claude for enabling additional hosts for the default container environment to talk to. That's a gnarly lethal trifecta exfiltration risk so I recommend against it, but the option is there!
More notes on ChatGPT's ability to install tools:
I'd say the filesystem is a database.
It would be straightforward, for instance, to implement a lot of the functionality of a filesystem in a database with BLOBs. Random access might be a hassle, but people are getting used to "filesystem-like" systems which are bad at random access like S3.
Good. The moment they add it, all kinds of apps will start to abuse it, for "sekhurity" (read: engagement) reasons. See e.g. all the apps that now disallow taking screenshots, for no legitimate reason.
Personally I'd be in favor of a hard app store policy, that if an app notifies you about something, all the importantdetails (like full message text) must be included - specifically to allow the user to view the important information without having to open the app itself.
It's complicated -- I used to feel like you did but then I worked on a patent search engine and learned a lot about it.
Many patent trolls are really trolls. But being a "non-practicing entity" doesn't make you bad. For instance an academic research group might invent a technology that is useful in making microchips but only a few companies are capable of benefiting from that so that research group/Uni is a "non-practicing entity" that can license the tech fairly to one of those companies.
You often see things like this garden hose
https://pockethose.com/pages/copper-head?variant=44089443483...
that are marketed under the "as seen on TV" brand. The company behind that licenses patents from inventors and they feel like they can invest in marketing and development because the patent holds back cheap competition.
In the case of that hose, competitors figured out other ways to make a hose that does something similar and you see a common scenario -- that page boasts about all the improvements they've made in the product, starting out with one patent helps them lead in a competitive market in which they've gotten many more patents to improve their product.
The ads for prediction markets on TikTok are aggressive - like (paraphrasing) "this is your new source of passive income and you'd be crazy to miss it" aggressive.
"a bar with KKK memorabilia" is what was said.
It's an analogy. You'll find plenty of neo-Nazis and bigots of all kinds in the replies of any political post, posting away happily to their echo chamber.
My take on it is that in my own work I really like transparency effects but it is always a chore to tune up the foregrounds, backgrounds and alpha blending to keep everything legible. If you control all the content it is one thing, but for a general-purpose OS where the content is supplied by the user and applications you have to dial the intensity way back.
When I first saw the prototype images I thought they were really cool and it was a bold idea though people on this site were complaining about it already for the predictable reasons.
When it came out I was thinking that they dealt with the legibility of the content by dialing down the legibility of the design -- like it looks like "anti-anti-aliasing" more than it looks like "bold transparent vision"
One reason I don't think I read it as "refraction" is that one of my tells for refraction is chromatic aberration and without that it doesn't seem real to me. I think it would triple the texture lookup rate (at least) and make content legibility worse and I think you would see a lot of people say it is was an ugly gimmick.
Playing Linux or Windows native games, because that is the whole issue, it is hardly any different than asserting there are Linux games when they are actually Amiga games running with UAE.
Those games running on Proton are still produced on a Windows factory.
> So who are the suckers who are losing all this money?
Random people who saw an ad or their favorite influencer shilling it.
Like when my neighbors started asking me about NFTs.
No they won't, because Apple is out of reach for their pockets, and most OEMs still don't sell Linux powered devices on the shops people go to.
> If you want a Windows-like environment, run Windows.
One of these questions where we, those doing the discourse, need to pick apart what the word "you" refers to here.
In this context, it is national governments, who have started to fear that there may come a day when they are not allowed to or able to or safe to run Windows. That gives rise to the question, "how can we get a system that minimizes the disruption of migrating away to Windows?"
Ultimately it's not about specifically wanting AD or GP as technologies, either, but the things they enable: seamless single-sign-on across an organization, and management of software security and updates across a fleet of desktops.
(possibly the thing that fills this hole is simply a fleet of consultants which go around explaining things to CIOs!)
This should be made a problem for the social media companies (which it largely has, hence all the age verification fiasco), not absolutely everyone on the internet.
Freedom from suddenly being cut off is potentially important.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/europe/ukraine-defe...