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Could you be any more patronizing? Maybe there's a few people you haven't alienated yet.
I don't like or use Tiktok, but clearly it provides some value to the people who do. Telling people to stop using it without even attempting to address what benefit (perceived or actual) it provides is self-defeating advice.
This is more like an internal marketing study. Nothing wrong with that, but it's being hyped as more than that.
> I’ve long been employing the length+data string struct. If there was one thing I could go back and time to change about the C language, it would be removal of the null-terminated string.
It's not necessary to go back in time. I proposed a way to do it in modern C - no existing code would break:
https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html
It's simple, and easy to implement.
Can't really fault them when this exists:
The design looks good. The quote is so kitch it could be on a self-help book.
"YC turns builders into formidable founders" - and then a bs faux-definition of formidable.
Maybe it's just you. To me it shows totally different stuff, equally stupid, by default (e.g. if I go with a new account), but easily changeable with very little targeted watching (it picks your interests quite fast)
Matt Levine (Dec 2025), https://archive.is/S3MPq
> Your business model might end up being sort of a … startup incubator or private equity firm; you’d spend your time starting or acquiring companies on which the robot could work its magic. Your business model would be “general business, but with AI”.. Either it will sell AI at high margins to lots of businesses, or it will sell AI at lower margins to lucrative businesses that it owns.
> My 5 year old Subaru has been able to lane keep and auto follow to the point that a 2h drive on the freeway is me tapping the wheel every ten seconds
I have a '22 Outback. My Dad has a Tesla of similar vintage. I have to pay about as much attention for FSD as I do with the Subaru, the difference being the Subaru is more predictable.
Can't wait for Waymo to start chopping into the top end of the market.
Looking at my own purchases from 2025...
This is like a "haul" video, without the video.
I think sandboxes are having their moment because it's become undeniable that coding agents are useful, and that they're more useful if you run them in YOLO mode rather than having to approve everything they want to do.
Coding agents are still a relatively new category to most people. Claude Code dates back to February last year, and it took a while for the general engineering public to understand why that format - coding LLMs that can execute and iterate on the code they are writing - was such a big deal.
As a result the demand for good sandboxing options is skyrocketing.
It also takes a while for new solutions to spin up - if someone realized sandboxes were a good commercial idea back in September last year the products they built may only just be ready for people to start trying out today.
Appears to be wpengine hijacking or misconfiguration. impact.soylent.com points to wp.wpenginepowered.com
https://wpengine.com/support/point-domain/
https://web.archive.org/web/20250623223238/https://impact.so...
https://web.archive.org/web/20260123223338/https://impact.so...
Startup provides you some pay usually (and you're not working for free), these folks are paying for the experience.
Modules are banned - they should have just copied D modules.
Does anyone know if I can run this in Docker? I can't find anything either in the instructions or the internet at large, but also I don't know why it wouldn't run in Docker?
https://x.com/TheStudyofWar/status/2012381870462222653 | https://archive.today/tqqfx
https://web.archive.org/web/20260102013832/https://carnegiee...
https://www.clingendael.org/publication/assessing-strength-a...
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/08/01/russia-limits-acce...
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/07/rosstat-stops-publ...
That's like what, one major incident per month now, Nov 18, Dec 5, and now this one?
I'll bet JGC can write his own ticket by now, but unretiring would be really bad optics. He's on the board though and still keeping a watchful eye. But a couple more of these and CFs reputation will be in the gutter.
They were an early funder. Seems p. reasonable for a VC firm to point that out.
Are you in a contractual relationship with the federal government that involves handling federal data?
Alternatively, do you deal with HIPAA PHI (FIPS is—unless an update since the last time I checked has changed this—part of the HITECH Act guidance specification of whether PHI is secured or unsecured, and so is a factor in whether, legally, a breach has occurred.)
"AI can't grow corn."
"Hey AI, draft an email asking someone to grow corn. See, AI can grow corn!"
This project is neat in itself, sure, but I feel the author is wayyy missing the point of the original thought.
One of the most dangerous ideologies is "all good things come to those who wait" or that waiting is a virtue. Applied by people working at all the levels of a system for years and years it leads to steps that could be 30ms taking 30s.
I am an Apple ecosystem lifetime participant. I have recovery and legacy contacts. What I would love is for those contacts to have the encryption key(s) for my data shared with them so they can provide me with recovery options if needed, but Apple cannot.
Certainly, nation state actors could pursue those people to obtain access to key material, but that is a different hill to climb than simply sending requests to Apple, especially for contacts outside of the jurisdiction or nation state reach. Perhaps Shamir's secret sharing would be a component of such an option (you need X out of Y trusted contacts to recover, 2 out of 3 for easy mode, 3 out of 5 for hard mode).
> It is way slower and less reliable than a train but can go more places
I‘m not able to follow. So AI is a horse in this metaphor, what is a train then? Still a train?
> If we aren't going to do a national registry that services can query to get back only a "yes or no" on whether a user is of age or not
And note that if we are, the records of the request to that database are an even bigger privacy timebomb than those of any given provider, just waiting for malicious actors with access to government records.
They're Microsoft and it's Windows. They always have the ability to fetch the key.
The question is do they ever fetch and transmit it if you opt out?
The expected answer would be no. Has anyone shown otherwise? Because hypotheticals that they could are not useful.
This is the key point but the article somewhat misapprehends it:
> With the Federal Reserve, however, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices have applied a different view: that the Fed’s monetary policy — the setting of short-term interest rates and management of the money supply — historically hasn’t been overseen by the executive branch
More precisely, setting interest rates isn’t an “executive power.” Article II says: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” So the question is whether the Fed is exercising the executive power.
The Fed doesn’t set interest rates as a government agency ordering private actors to do what the government says. Instead, it acts as a private market participant to influence the behavior of the private banks that transact with it: https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/the-fed-implemen...
In this core rate-setting function, the Fed doesn’t have to be a government agency at all. This core rate setting function doesn’t involve prosecuting people, creating regulations with the force of law, or otherwise using the coercive power of government to control private conduct. The fed does some of these things through banking regulations, but they’re ancillary to this rate setting function. You could spin those functions off into a government agency subject to presidential control without affecting the independence of the core rate setting function.
Hardly anyone uses Irish in daily life or for official purposes, notwithstanding its official status. 99% of the Irish you hear outside a classroom is performative.
Jan 6th worked, and they didn't even successfully take and hold the Capitol.
Except it's not. And the footnote that might be expected to clarify turns out to be a joke footnote.
There might be some extra manufacturing capacity to be brought online to match the demand, but, in their place, I'd also be very happy to fulfil those orders at the new price point.
OTOH, in a few months, as the AI buildouts taper, I'd assume prices will drop.
I knew my PC was booting normally by the sound of the floppy drives.
I'm Commander Shephard and this is my new favorite comment on the Citadel^WHacker News.
I‘ve been using it as a general bookmark manager (think Pinboard or Raindrop) for a while now. It‘s a bit quirky, but very powerful with all the management and annotation possibilities.
You might say it was just another excuse to curate my thousands of bookmarks and recreate a new tagging structure yet again, but… well, you wouldn‘t be wrong. :-)
Is there a mechanism the EU could use to inhibit acquisition by a non EU entity?
That is always the gotcha with guest languages.
C++ cannot get away from C, Typescript cannot get away from JavaScript, and so forth.
There are some sales where it is straightforward, you're talking to the person up front who is empowered to buy.
Then there are those sales where, as you say, understanding politics is the most important thing.
There is no trick that makes that complex sale easy but it sure is helpful to recognize that this is normal and know what you're dealing with.
"Hey, you got a ticket when you borrowed my car. Pay me back or you don't get to borrow it next time."
It's not such a huge step from an optical jukebox to a vinyl one :)
I can totally see it working.
Microsoft shouldn't be uploading keys, but nor should they be turning bitlocker on without proper key backup. Therefore it should be left as an optional feature.
A language is a tool, not a nationality or a border.
Your average educated European speaks at least three, one of which is English because it is a good language to have because it is the language of international commerce. This has been the case since many decades and has nothing to do with using the language internally.
But: many people do use it internally. French tourists abroad are more likely to use English than French. European colleagues usually standardize on English, both for their communications as well as for their documentation needs.
Scientific literature is predominantly in English (at least, for now).
So there are many reasons to use English which have nothing to do with allegiance or dependence.
You can run ELRS on 900 MHz but the bitrate is atrocious.
Additional citation:
Work, Invest, Inherit: How Americans Can Actually Move to Europe - https://www.bloomberg.com/explainers/how-americans-can-move-... | https://archive.today/IYsA3 - January 2nd, 2026
The other day someone here coined JTPP - "Just the prompt, please", expressing preference for reading the prompt instead of the e-mail/article it produced. The reasons for that are rather obvious, but I think it applies to marketing copy in general.
With that in mind, I wonder what the original idea behind this project was - the "prompt" that someone got in their mind, which got them excited enough to build this. Reading the "original prompt" might make it easier to figure the product out. Marketing copy is "how we can make what we have look more alluring to people". The "original prompt" is directly answering "what we actually aspired to build".
"...Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried..."
https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form...
The Senate made it very clear they would refuse any nomination.
Which is a scenario it seems the Founders didn't really anticipate.
I would find a new name.
Stress ages you. Childrearing is stressful. If you want to potentially live longer, skip childrearing.
Sounds like we need FIDE rankings for software developers. It would be an improvement over repeated FizzBuzz testing, I suppose.
Open source generally meets the needs of the first two. There's barely any proprietary toolchains left in common use; maybe Oracle Java is one of the last?
Hardware you can buy from China. Distant, predictable authoritarianism that doesn't make annoying social media posts is sadly preferable to .. whatever is going on over there.
> Has anyone else noticed that the AI industry can’t take “no” for an answer? AI is being force-fed into every corner of tech.
And yet this blog post is guilty of the exact same thing. It's just a complaint about which marketing messages get categorized as which newsletters you can opt in or out of (a valid complaint but pretty boring), but slaps "AI Consent" in the title to turn it into clickbait because the marketing message happens to be about an AI product.
This spam has been a problem for decades. It didn't arise with AI. I haven't even noticed any uptick with AI.
Unfortunely Apple skills to write server software is inversely proportional to the fame they enjoyed thus far on client systems, as anyone using their Web APIs or backends can attest for.
All three parts are controlled by the same party, so of course it collapses to a unitary executive.
It's not dysfunction, either. It's functioning exactly as intended, by the people who spent years setting it up, and is delivering their goals. Top of which was abortion bans, which required spending years patiently stacking the Supreme Court.
That the goals are stupid and evil and incoherent is a separate problem.
Indeed, cold outreach is to get you excited and then once you're in the weeds, your value is going to get crammed down.
> what to do about it?
For starters, researchers who publish AI-generated work without disclosure should be barred from federal grants for N years. The institution they’re at should face penalties for the number of these researchers in their employ. This lets us at least label American universities as a safe source of research.
Each folder has a remembered display state. If in large icon mode, you can drag icons around into the positions you want and they'll stay that way the next time you visit the folder.
The idea is that it's not directories that are just bags of files, but files occupy spatial locations in folder windows.
I avoid speeding issues by the one weird trick of not speeding.
Besides, money is a big factor here. If you want to make it cost-effective for someone to physically flag down speeders and ticket them, you'll have to raise the ticket fines significantly. And (sensibly) the revenue goes to HMT and not the individual police forces, avoiding America's perverse incentives, so you'd have to raise the police budget as a separate line item.
(pursuing speeders is right out - police chases are extremely discouraged for obvious safety reasons)
> I wanted to keep her as a friend I had to stop trying to change how she kept her house
This is a hard lesson for those of us who like to fix things: you basically can't change the behavior of adults, without a huge amount of work and/or their active cooperation.
During France’s Reign of Terror, executions by guillotine were public. It was considered distinguished for victims to go stoically, and many did, which left the crowds to have their fun.
I recall, however, and this may be apocryphal, that one woman went to the stand screaming and crying and begging for mercy. This humanized her. The crowds, soured to their revelry, went home.
I am curious if her pleas were heard because those people were better than we are today, or because social media amplifies our cruelty beyond even that of our darkest modern histories.
When Docker was new I had a really bad ADSL connection (2Mbps) and couldn't ever stack up a containerized system properly because Dockerhub would time out.
I did large downloads all the time, I used to download 25GB games for my game consoles for instance. I just had to use schedule them and use tools that could resume downloads.
If I'd had a local docker hub I might have used docker but because I didn't it was dead to me.
Categories missing:
- Operating systems, for various kinds of workloads
- Programming language toolchains
- Hardware vendors
Billions of dollars of marketing have been spent to enable them to believe that, in order to justify the trillions of investment. Why would you invest a trillion dollars in a machine that occasionally randomly gave wrong answers?
Only because with Google open sourcing Kubernetes, it was a decision on still be able to play the game, or be left completely out, helping with OCI was a survival decision.
As proven later when Kubernetes became container runtime agnostic.
I've been calling LLMs "electric bicycles for the mind", inspired by that Jobs quote.
- some bicycle purists consider electric bicycles to be "cheating"
- you get less exercise from an electric bicycle
- they can get you places really effectively!
- if you don't know how to ride a bicycle an electric bicycle is going to quickly lead you to an accident
In multiplayer Beat Saber I think about pacing: if I want to slice harder to get the last 5% of points depending on how close the game is. No sense wearing myself out to beat somebody by 345k points instead of 335k or rather get beat by 28k instead of 37k.
I hear people report the opposite.
The sloppier a web app is, the more CSS frameworks are fighting for control of every pixel, and simply deleting 500,000 files to clear out your node_modules brings Windows to its knees.
On the other hand, anything you can fit in a small AVR-8 isn't very big.
Whatever you do, your mileage may vary.
You are so eager to reply that you haven't even read the whole comment.
> So normal people have stores with other people that they can talk to when they have problems, or just drag their computer into the store.
Which of those online stores have a physical address for the normal people to do as per my comment?
Linux forums have enough complaints about those fairly prominent Linux-only vendors, even though they are suppose to control the whole stack.
And they also fall into each having their own <favourite distro>, the other part of the comment that you missed as well.
Normal people aren't using SteamDecks for their daily computing activities.
I use Linux in various forms since 1995, and yet I am tired from trying out such alternatives, the only things that makes me consider it again is breaking the dependency on US tech, and even that isn't really happening, given how much from Linux contributions are on the pockets from US Big Tech.
Right - it's not that I don't value "the act of creating & understanding the software" - that's the part I care about and enjoy the most.
The thing I don't value is typing out all of that code myself.
coding agents are fantastic for learning more about computers
they can not only generate code but also explain code, concepts, architecture and show you stuff
great learning tool
AI is the first path out of enshittification the industry has had in a while.
See https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/ebay-...
It will be funny to see the rapid about face.
I've seen a demo house in Canada that had a bucket standing in the middle of a room with -20 outside. The bucket had been there all winter and it never froze, a single, huge candle warmed the house. It was most impressive. I never did figure out how enough oxygen made it in to keep that candle burning!
But it really made me realize that even though I'm used to brick houses and stone everywhere that that is a terrible thing efficiency wise. A properly insulated wooden house can indeed be heated almost by body heat and waste heat alone. The big loss is windows so triple insulated and properly mounted windows are a must for such a setup.
"We don't make anything" and "there are no large British companies" are memes that help people feel better about perceived decline. It's not really representative.
https://www.londonstockexchange.com/indices/ftse-100/constit... ; you can easily sort by market cap. GW are on page 4. Perhaps remarkably close to the two supermarket chains, Sainsburys and M&S, but those are much lower margin.
The top has "proper" global manufacturing companies: Astrazeneca, Unilever, Glaxo-SmithKline, BAE, Rolls-Royce. Along with the resource extraction companies, and Britain's major services export industry: banking.
(oddity: there are two Coca-cola companies on the FTSE, CCEP and CCH, which presumably exists for some weird tax reason)
Then you get into the question: what counts as a "British company"? There are plenty of overseas-owned UK success stories that are still significant UK employers and bringing money into the UK, such as ARM. Conversely, does a company which is listed on the FTSE but has most of its operations all over the world like RTZ count as "British"? Successful British startups quite often exit and vanish from discourse, while continuing to operate.
To my mind the important questions are "does this bring in valuable forex?" and "does this result in substantial UK employment?" Those don't necessarily have to be in the same company. The big employer list looks different: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1218430/largest-uk-based...
HSBC still up there (over 200k UK staff!), but there's a lot of food service (Compass), retail (Kingfisher you will know as B&Q) and so on.
I've not even got into the videogame industry (very good export industry, and seemingly responsible for the success of Warhammer). If you insist on making physical objects your perspective is going to be unnecessarily narrow.
This sounds a bit like the "Asking vs. Guessing culture" discussion on the front page yesterday. With the "Guesser" being GP who's front-loading extra investigation, debugging and maintenance work so the project maintainers don't have to do it, and with the "Asker" being the client from your example, pasting the submission to ChatGPT and forwarding its response.
> Kessler syndrome means you don't need to hit all 10k yourself
Kessler is useless for LEO constellations. The timeframes of the cascades exceed the useful lives and dwelling times at those altitudes.
I am not aware of a military solution to prompting a cascade over even a limited area. Instead, you’d use repeated high-atmosphere nuclear detonations to fry birds in a region.
>In 2023, ssh added keystroke timing obfuscation. The idea is that the speed at which you type different letters betrays some information about which letters you’re typing. So ssh sends lots of “chaff” packets along with your keystrokes to make it hard for an attacker to determine when you’re actually entering keys.
Why not just add random "jitter" to the keystroke packets, but keeping just the 1 actual packet?
For me it's increasingly the work. I spend more time in Claude Code going back and forth with the agent than I do in my text editor hacking on the code by hand. Those transcripts ARE the work I've been doing. I want to save them in the same way that I archive my notes and issues and other ephemera around my projects.
My latest attempt at this is https://github.com/simonw/claude-code-transcripts which produces output like the is: https://gisthost.github.io/?c75bf4d827ea4ee3c325625d24c6cd86...
> And he hates using guns. He walks into danger with zero ability to defend himself besides some weird tool with painful limitations. In a way he's the most un American hero possible.
I mean, that description works almost as well for MacGyver as for The Doctor, so I am not sure it is the most un-American hero possible.
Problem is, security people don't want you to MITM connections, because it's insecure (mostly to business interests). Hence stuff like certificate pinning, HSTS, DoH...
Also LLM tools. Programmable Search Engine API was a way to give third-party LLM frontends the ability to give LLMs a web search tool. Notably, this was a common practice long before any of the major LLM providers added search capabilities to their frontents.
It's a desperate attempt at staying relevant, even if most of those companies don't realize it yet. Because of its general-purpose nature, AI subsumes products. Most software products that try to "implement AI in every corner" would, from the user's POV, be more useful if they became tools for ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini.
People's goals are rarely limited to just one software product, and products are basically defined as a bag of tools glued with UI, that work together but don't interoperate much with anything else. That boundary drawn around a bunch of software utilities, is given a name and a fancy logo, and sold or used to charge people rent. That's software products. But LLMs want to flip that around - they're good at gluing things, so embedding one within a product is just a waste of model capabilities, and actually makes the product boundary more apparent and annoying.
Or in short: consider Copilot in Microsoft Word, vs. "Generate Word Document" plugin/tool for a general LLM interface (whether Gemini webapp or Claude Code or something like TypingMind). The former is just an LLM locked in a box, barely able to output some text without refusing or claiming it can't do it. The latter is a general-purpose tool that can search the web for you, scrap some sites and run data analysis on results (writing its own code for this), talk results over with you, cross-reference with other sources, and then generate you a pretty Word document with formatting and images.
This is, btw., a real example. I used a Word document generator with TypingMind and GPT-4 via API, and it was more usable over a year ago than Copilot is even now. Partly because Copilot is just broken, but mostly because the LLM can do lots of things other than writing text in Word.
Point being, AI is eroding the notion of software product as something you sell/rent, which threatens just about the entire software industry :).
I feel this has causality reversed. I'd say they are good at analogies because they have to compress well, which they do by encoding relationships in stupidly high-dimensional space.
Analogies then could sort of fall out naturally out of this. It might really still be just the simple (yet profound) "King - Man + Woman = Queen" style vector math.
This isn't an AI issue. Marketing departments have been like this forever, or at least since the infamous Canter & Siegel 'Green Card' email.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...
I was surprised in college that the math for electronics circuits, mass-spring-damper systems, stress of materials, etc., was all the same.
an ordinary part that mapped into 8KB at location >6000->7FFF (the ROM) and another part, that normally held Graphics Programming Language bytecode, mapped into a completely separate “Graphics ROM” address space from >6000->F7FF (the “GROM”).
This reminds me of the NES, which has separate PRG and CHR address spaces, the latter being exclusively for the PPU to display its graphics.
What are the “borrow checker logs” in this context?
Sounds like you’d just need to obfuscate the link targets (to avoid filtering) and publish links on major AI crawler targets, yeah?
Safety driver is supposedly in a chase car.
It does indeed, and I agree that is a good alternative date but a lot of people still had the excuse that they did not know how bad it could get. For the re-run they knew exactly what to expect and still voted for it.
I wonder if GPUs are so dense that SEUs are even more common than in CPUs or RAM.
We could try to find this loading using static analysis, but remember that I’m not comfortable reverse engineering this firmware, and I want to demonstrate a more dynamic approach.
Perhaps this is a "two types of people" situation, but I would absolutely not do that; once you dump the flash you can analyse and inspect it carefully at your leisure as it is otherwise inert, but messing around with the device itself presents a very real risk of accidentally bricking it.
Genuinely sounds like the kind of challenge that could be solved with a swarm of Codex coding agents. I'm surprised they aren't treating this as an ideal use-case to show off their stack!
I mean, it reports FOUR HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS in losses due to Apple Mail.app search not working. Give them credit for... something.
I don't like FIPS and think people should avoid FIPS-compliance projects but FIPS doesn't require you to implement Dual EC.
The first paragraph of the article -
> Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding, an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large numbers of autonomous coding agents. One of the projects mentioned in the article was FastRender, a web browser they built from scratch using their agent swarms. I wanted to learn more so I asked Wilson Lin, the engineer behind FastRender, if we could record a conversation about the project. That 47 minute video is now available on YouTube. I’ve included some of the highlights below.