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It's very difficult to stop them doing this. The extent to which it happens varies a lot, and some countries and places have a much worse problem than others, but fundamentally if you "cause trouble" to "respectable people and companies" you're going to get hassled by law enforcement. Yes, the sarcasm quotes are important.
Wasn’t that in response to Trump posting that he’d hit theirs?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-hegseth-and...
> In a Truth Social post on March 30, Trump warned that the U.S. would obliterate "all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet 'touched.'"
The US really pulled a Russia with this "special military operation".
That mattered on the PC evolution, it misses many others e.g TMS34010.
Intellectual property rights in models? But then wouldn't the model maker have to pay for all the training IP?
(just kidding, I know that the legal rule for IP disputes is "party with more money wins")
Nutrition is run on fads - see whole fitness and healthy food bullshit. Nutrition supplements ended up being a loophole that allows pharmacies and pharma companies to sell all kinds of random stuff that they can't or don't want to, show is safe, or doing anything at all.
> It’s also alarming what’s possible when reassembling photons en masse becomes commoditized.
Photons Be Free?
Ah, the magic times when screen resolutions were large enough to display lots of information, in proper 4:3 aspect ratio, just before they got flattened and the industry started treating them as short view distance TVs.
The Pacific war is not happening unless Trump chooses to start it. China is also having political issues; a massive purge of top brass is the worst preparation for a war. See Stalin.
> their tech is used to bomb children
If you're talking about the school in Iran, that wasn't OpenAI. That was a Palantir system that pre-dates OAI by a few years, and was due to a bad entry in a spreadsheet, that showed the building as military housing. Which it was a few years ago.
180 people lost their lives because of bad data in spreadsheet, but not AI.
Translating code to C usually results in some nearly unreadable code. I submit the C++ to C translator, cfront, as evidence. I've looked into using C as a target backend now and then, but always "noped" out of it.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover, however, that C code can be readily translated to D.
The unwanted activities, even without the way this one badly turned out to be, is the main reason I avoid them as much as I can.
I don't want to bound being tied to random people carrying eggs without breaking them from point to point, being tied down from the feet and get something hidden in a mount of flour, obstacules race, getting out of an escape room,....
Real examples from past experiences that I failed to avoid.
Nope, Limbo is the missing link, plus a bit of Oberon-2 on top.
Additionally Limbo also carries the lessons learnt out of Alef failure in Plan 9.
We had safer programming languages fitting into 640 KB with MS-DOS, which is why I keep repeating youngsters don't get how much they can do with an ESP32.
> had it tested, it's the real deal
How did they test encapsulation? I thought the whole problem is your stomach acid breaking it down.
Nah, this is an advertisement for the toxic work culture in countries where people get pushed to live to work, make the workplace the reason of their existence, know noone outside work.
In most places around the planet, if given the option, most people will work to live, not live to work.
That purpose and passion will mean nothing when the time to lie down on the place of eternal rest comes.
Lack of imagination and vision? Maybe, I rather have it that way.
Textbook example of how to respond to your customers, kudos.
Star Control 2 —- one of the greatest action adventure games ever made
There's pedantic, and then there's needlessly pedantic.
xcancel is a valid workaround for X links on Hacker News and is sufficient for original attribution.
ESH. The kid displays a continuous lack of self reflection. That doesn’t look great to future investors. (The worst line is “like cos I knew the police can't really tell me to do anyhting, and my parents are in the army too so intimidation obv wont work.” In the end, he got intimidated. And relying on that makes one’s value outside a local context dubious.)
That said. He’s a kid. And he showed chutzpah. Certainly nothing horrendous.
The dean and authorities come across as power-hungry numpties. Nobody should be losing their temper. They should be able to cite rules and begin disciplinary proceedings and then negotiate afterwards if they want the site taken down.
Perhaps this is what the human is for - to apply an EQ curve.
I don't think they were useful at all. If anything they pulled down YCs up to that point stellar reputation.
Precisely this. The industry has themselves to blame.
> You'd absolutely care if the AI's cure to cancer entailed full-body transplants or dismemberment
That's not a cure. Like yes, I'd care if the AI says it cures cancer while nuking Chicago. But that isn't what OP said.
> Japan committed some war crimes back in the 40s, and almost a century later, a lot of East Asians still think maybe Japan shouldn't have a regular military that can project its power
I'd actually say that's a decent corollary versus counterpoint. The folks you attack will hate you. Regardless of whether you genuinely change. But we aren't directly attacking our allies right now. The folks who weren't directly war crimed by Japan, e.g. South Asia, have moved along just fine.
Somehow we must be doing this wrong.
"Do you realize that the human brain has been liken to an electronic brain? Someone said and I don't know whether he is right or not, but he said, if the human brain were put together on the basis of an IBM electronic brain, it would take 7 buildings the size of the Empire State Building to house it, it would take all the water of the Niagara River to cool it, and all of the power generated by the Niagara River to operate it." (Sermon by Paris Reidhead, circa 1950s.[1])
We're there on size and power. Is there some more efficient way to do this?
[1] https://www.sermonindex.net/speakers/paris-reidhead/the-trag...
It would if the chickens formed a business structure that was owned and democratically controlled by its member-owners.
> I think if the GOP looses big in 2026 to the point Trump can be impeached and removed from office and his minions are convicted for corruption, I think it will recover.
Assuming party-line voting on the issue with no defections from either party, that requires the Democrats to win 33 of the 35 Senate seats up for election (if they hold every one that they currently hold, it requires them to take 20 of the 22 Republican-held seats.)
> I believe the world is waiting for Nov 2026 before making big changes.
I don't think the world is waiting at all, it is just taking time to work out the shape of the big changes, whether its European defense integration to replace the historically-pivotal role of the US, or any of large number of other changes nations are actively and openly working on.
Now, if the present direction of the US changes, some of those efforts may be abandoned or deprioritized, but "could potentially stop work" is not the same thing as "waiting to start".
> OpenAI has closed many of its safety-focussed teams
A paper with "ideas to keep people first" was (coincidentally?) published today:
• Worker perspectives
• AI-first entrepreneurs
• Right to AI
• Accelerate grid expansion
• Accelerate scientific discovery and scale the benefits.
• Modernize the tax base
• Public Wealth Fund
• Efficiency dividends
• Adaptive safety nets that work for everyone
• Portable benefits
• Pathways into human-centered work
> Looking at the US from outside, I am starting to wonder how close they are to a societal collapse.
The US is not particularly close (at least, not highly probable) to a societal collapse; that's, in a sense, an overly optimistic position. Government, order, and structured society are not in imminent danger of collapse.
It is very close to a transition away from liberal democratic government in favor of something very different. [0]
[0] Arguably, past that point, but close to the point where it becomes widely accepted that the it wasn't a temporary aberration where the basic cultural and institutional supports were still intact and capable of snapping things back.
The title of this article recalled that exact memory for me too. Not only Adobe but cracks for a few other expensive softwares needed the same.
...and then Adobe (unintentionally) gave away free downloads of CS2, with valid serial numbers, once they shut down the activation servers. You can still find them on the Internet Archive.
There are similar risks, and probably more likely, to all sorts of consumables that aren't regulated at all. It is reasonable to ask whether the prescription regime for GLP-1s makes sense. It isn't the only substance posing that conundrum! Ondansetron is OTC in a lot of countries, but not in the US, Canada, or UK. But ondansetron is arguably less dangerous and more helpful than pseudoephedrine.
Can it summarize it down to a non-post?
This isn't in the slightest bit complicated. Wikipedia does not allow AI edits or unregistered bots. This was both. They banned it. The fact that it play-acted being annoyed on its "blog" is not new, we saw the exact same thing with that GitHub PR mess a couple of months ago: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...
Marketing can be a lot of different things.
I brought on a high-touch salesperson on spec years ago and it did not work out. He and I were really successful at getting audiences with people but we never made the sales we were looking for and, worse, he lost me small cheap jobs that I could have sold myself. He'd probably say it was a product problem and he might have been right but later on I found out I wasn't the only person who had the same experience with him.
For some products you need those kind of skills. I've met people like him who really are worth their weight in gold.
For other products you need somebody who can make an Adwords campaign, analyzes the analytics, refine it and repeat. That kind of person can be worth their weight in gold too.
For this conversation to be productive you have to have some idea if you need one or the other or a bit of both.
Paper:
"Going Light: The Effects of Minimal Mobile Phone Adoption on Young Adults’ Well-Being Depend on Motivation"
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ubkeq_v1 | https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ubkeq_v1
How credible are the claims that the Claude Code source code is bad?
AI naysayers are heavily incentivized to find fault with it, but in my experience it's pretty rare to see a codebase of that size where it's not easy to pick out "bad code" examples.
Are there any relatively neutral parties who've evaluated the code and found it to be obviously junk?
Short film: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363133
My mission was to create a Sci-fi Noir episode of the Twilight Zone by way of David Lynch and Phillip K. Dick. Big shout out to Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller for speaking to my soul in Severance. And of course to the enigmatic QNTM for sparking my imagination with the original story, "We Need to Talk About 55". Long live the SCP Foundation.Signal uses SGX for features every other mainstream E2E messenger does in serverside plaintext.
They are if you are, in fact, holding it wrong.
As was the usual case in most of the few years LLMs existed in this world.
Think not of iPhone antennas - think of a humble hammer. A hammer has three ends to hold by, and no amount of UI/UX and product design thinking will make the end you like to hold to be a good choice when you want to drive a Torx screw.
Same as how I expect a coin to come up heads 50% of the time.
Betamax was arguably better.
This is above your comment: https://archive.is/2026.04.06-100412/https://www.newyorker.c...
They run on an operating system you probably don't know all the inner workings of.
And that runs on a chip with trillions of transistors.
These usually belong in the whoishiring threads:
> I saw a tweet recently that perfectly encapsulates this: for most people over 30, certain things are "big screen tasks". I use my phone for a lot, but for some things I put the phone down and use my computer instead. I am most comfortable using a large screen and a keyboard for anything that requires writing more than a few words or using any interface for more than a few clicks.
Yup. From the frontier of mobile tech, I can say that a foldable phone (Galaxy Z Fold 7) is the first mobile device that successfully ate into this category, and bit a rather substantial chunks out of it. It's only been ~6 months into this experience, but the "big tasks" for me now are the ones that benefit from substantial use of keyboard and/or mouse. If it's only about screen space or doing things in 2-3 apps at the time, chances are my phone is now good enough for its mobility to beat inconvenience - though chances are also good that at least one of the programs will be a browser, because mobile apps still suck.
>I also wondered for many years why most of them didn't quit their jobs when on paper they would have been able to do so, but work is not a great place to ask those sorts of questions.
Because they're smart enough to know neither money nor leisure is not the be all end all...
We'll know it's been cracked when all the lost Bitcoins start to move.
Using an example with even more shady pricing practices isn't going to help much here.
India has 3x domestic PV manufacturing capacity (~154.4GW/year) versus current demand (~50GW/year). They are deploying ~2GW of solar every month, with ~105GW currently in development pipelines. As the piece indicates, grid and battery storage investments are critical to avoiding additional coal generation need. Solar and storage are currently roughly half the cost of new coal.
India’s electrotech fast-track: where China built on coal, India is building on sun - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/indias-electrotech-... - January 22nd, 2026
Coal’s diminishing role in India’s electricity transition - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/coals-diminishing-r... - October 29th, 2025
India's Solar Manufacturing Excesses Turn a Boom into a Glut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050286 - February 2025
The article (with its doom-scrolling) suggests some stats phones should have:
Dismissing a notification ...... 22%
Intentional use ................ 20%
Checking something that pinged . 18%
Replying to a person ........... 15%
Updating/configuring/fixing .... 12%
Unlocking, forgetting why ...... 8%
Managing a subscription ........ 5%
The real headache is that everything with a network connection needs system administration.
Unless you use it several times a day, downloading an "app" just gets in the way. You should never have to download an "app" for a one-time use.
We never went back to the restaurant in Cupertino where the table QR code tried to force downloading an app that onboarded you into a food delivery service. That restaurant was treating on-site customers as delivery orders with a very short delivery distance. The food wasn't very good, either.
I am looking for a 60 ft+ steel ship if you come across one.
The Dodgers could have so easily turned this into a huge win. After 50 years they could have just awarded him a paper lifetime pass. Scan this and get in for any game! It would have been so easy.
Or if they really wanted him to go digital, just buy him a smart phone and install the app for him!
From my quick research online, it seems they've gone digital-only for season tickets because they don't want people just reselling them to turn a profit. They want actual season-long fans, so now if you transfer too many games they can track it and ban you. This is essentially anti-scalping. There's a legit justification.
You can still buy paper tickets at the stadium for a single game. But not for season passes anymore.
Apparently they've been making exceptions for him in years past where he was able to pay hundreds of dollars to have them custom printed for him. And this year they've decided to no longer provide that exception.
Honestly, this doesn't seem unreasonable to me. At some point, you have to cut off previous technologies because virtually everyone's moved to something better. You also can't buy tickets any more by snail mail with an enclosed check.
If this guy has the money for a season pass (!) he has the money for a smartphone. It seems like he just likes the nostalgia of paper tickets. But that's not a reason to add a separate ticketing flow just for him any more, like they had been up till now.
https://www.aol.com/articles/81-old-lifelong-dodgers-fan-012...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dodgers/comments/1s5fkni/la_dodgers...
ITAR feels a lot like Bernstein v. US all over again. Until very recently, everyone who can do anything that would be covered by ITAR was a giant corporation that likes the moat that regulations create, so it's unthinkable to challenge it. But that is changing, just like cryptography was in the early 90s.
Original reporting source:
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/dodgers-fan-printed...
Thankfully I still buy proper music, what a sad state for human culture.
I am just waiting for everything to implode so that we can do away with those KPIs.
Underground data centers are looking better by the day. Deep underground. I can see some uses for abandoned mines.
I don't think you should call something 'open source' until you've released the source, but other than that this is an extremely impressive project. HAM's have been doing EME since forever (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Ear... ), it is a very neat trick.
It almost looks as if the EME bounce capability of this antenna is a fig leaf or an afterthought, my own 'applications' list would be a lot of things, but not that.
Here in my corner of Europe it seems to be working fine.
(1) The demand for fast compilation in languages like Go came from the terrible experience people had with C++
(2) The road to C++ was quite empirical, path-dependent, and "worse is better". Languages like PL/I, Ada, and the Modula series were aiming for the same niche but had a combination of bad ideas, excessive complication and being born just before we realized that every future OS outside the embedded space would look enough like POSIX that C's API for I/O would be portable
(3) Today I'm a little frustrated that we don't have languages that trade a slower build for more expressiveness or flexibility. Like I wish Python really exposed that PEG grammar. It doesn't have to be much harder to add an
unless(X):
if(!X):
Another fun related one: If your username is Tyler and you run shutdown, instead of the usual message it will say "Oh, good morning Mr. Tyler, going down?"
Discovered this in college when I was shoulder surfing a coworker who always used the username Tyler. When he typed shutdown I called it out, and he said, "wait, it doesn't do that for you? I always assumed it said that for everyone and just replaced the username!".
(For those of you too young to know, it's a reference to an Aerosmith song)
That Hegseth one is an extraordinary piece of media. It's dense with Hegseth and Epstein lore, the song is catchy, the visuals are a significant cut above the normal AI slop aesthetic.
If this is Iranian state backed propaganda (which seems very likely) it's light years ahead of those White House videos with footage of bombs mixed in with clips from action movies.
A few years ago I had an interesting experience at a company where I was working on a new prototype iPhone app and asked people around the office to install it... and a surprising number of people didn't want to do it because their phone was full already and they didn't want to delete photos in order to try a new app.
Made me realize that for a lot of people who get cheaper phones with less storage installing a new app is actually a pretty big decision.
While I sympathize with the author, and feel the same way, I think Apple/Google have some blame here. They make certain simple things only possible in the apps, because the APIs are not exposed via the web.
Notifications is a big obvious one. Not sure if they've changed it since I last looked into it, but having an app installed was the only way to send a notification to someone for a long time.
https://communitynets.org/content/community-network-map
https://communitynetworks.org/content/municipal-ftth-network...
How to Build a Fiber Network on a Small-City Budget [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUhtdBZbOMc
Getting Fiber to My Town [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24424910 - September 2020 (126 comments)
You'd see the same thing in 1990s full-disclosure debates, where people trying to create a social/cultural argument against vulnerability research would throw this kind of stuff against the wall just to see what would stick. It's either good to know about vulnerabilities in the code you rely on or it isn't.
What I've noticed is that whenever Claude says something like "the simplest fix is..." it's usually suggesting some horrible hack. And whenever I see that I go straight to the code it wants to write and challenge it.
I'm not sure that's the best takeaway here, in that it gets the causation wrong. It's not the deal that made the customer bad, it's that the bad customer insisted on getting a deal, whereas a good customer usually knows what quality costs and is prepared to pay.
The takeaway here is probably that the fix isn't just "never discount", but it's to screen for the kind of customer who treats a good deal as an invitation to strengthen the relationship.
Above all, we want our comedy accurate.
I ran the tech side of the most popular independent ISP in Chicago (I guess they were mostly all independent back then) in the mid-late 1990s, and Usenet was the biggest nightmare we had to deal with. We were solid at it, too (Freenix-ranked, independently worked out the INN history cache, &c). Nothing we did had more fussy hardware associated with it.
The problem for us wasn't spammers; it was binaries. That's what killed Usenet.
(I loved Usenet, but also: good riddance.)
Yes - oddly parallel to the VDV decapitation attack on Ukraine. Supposed to be a quick win, now a quagmire, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dead Russians.
Uh huh, sure.
There does seem to have been a psyop. With them being the target.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Helmets_(Syrian_civil_wa...
See also: 'Euphoria'
Debt monetization is not happening. There's been significant expansion of the money supply, which got the US through COVID at a one-off cost of about 10% inflation in one year, which I think was a reasonable cost of covering the crisis (especially compared to the GDP response in less generous countries!)
What's happening is a much simpler, more drastic concern: does the US respect its international commitments?
Any that forbid or restrict satellite comms?
Don’t use this in Iran.
Yes, irony depends on correctness.
It would be ironic for me to make a typo while bashing your spelling prowess. It would not be ironic if I didn’t.
It is similarly ironic that the Alanis Morrisette song about irony mostly mentions non-ironic things; “rain on your wedding day” isn’t ironic! And that’s ironic!
Many banks are known for pulling from a particular one.
Beats just making a mess of a language adopting every fancy feature other programming languages have immediately.
This article mixes the science with unnecessarily gendered language. It turns "a lying down position helps the doctor" to "men decided women should be on their backs" and "one pervert king liked watching women give birth, therefore somehow that's why".
Can't we just focus on the scientific advantages and not try to shoehorn sexism into everything?
As @somenameforme wrote:
[] they sold their 'non-standard' (seems to be bars below the modern purity standards) US reserves, and replaced them with new reserves purchased elsewhere which are now stored in France. As the price of gold continued to rise as they did this, they ended up making a bunch of dinero while also centralizing their reserves.
sounds like a gain to me.
That's the correct impression though.
I think what's causing a lot of damage is not attributing more of human attributes (though carefully). It's not the LLM marketing you have to worry about - that's just noise. All marketing is malicious lies and abusive bullshit, AI marketing is no different.
Care about engineering - designing and securing systems. There, the refusal to anthropomorphise LLMs is doing a lot of damage and wasted efforts, with good chunk of the industry believing in "lethal trifecta" as if it were the holy Trinity, and convinced it's something that can be solved without losing all that makes LLMs useful in the first place. A little bit of anthropomorphising LLMs, squinting your eyes and seeing them as little people on a chip, will immediately tell you these "bugs" and "vulnerabilities" are just inseparable facets of the features we care about, fundamental to general-purpose tools, and they can be mitigated and worked around (at a cost), but not solved, not any more you can solve "social engineering" or better code your employees so they're impervious to coercion or bribery, or being prompt-injected by a phone call from their loved one.
>The decline is not just about the heart. VO₂ max falls by approximately 46% between ages 20 and 70, while maximal cardiac output falls by only 31% over the same period. The gap between those two numbers is the first quantitative signal that something beyond cardiac output is driving the loss.
The difference in % is modest enough that it just seems to implie it's not directly 45 degree linear, but has a not that impressive multiplier. Why would vo2max and cardiac output be perfectly direct? After all vo2max also takes into account the lungs and muscles for example.
However, very few tapeloader games ever tried to load more assets from tape. Generally it would just load a memory image and that would be that for the entire game.
Couldn't care less for a missing table or figure, or even for the whole paper. The theory is interesting in itself.
If Apple products are so compelling why are so many devs using Electron, React Native and Flutter on macOS, to the point it deserved being mentioned at WWDC 2025 State of the Nation Keynote?
My point was don't throw stones when having a big glass roof as well.
Apple isn't the perfection you make out to be, also has a rich history of failures, and only did not went bankrupt due to sheer luck of doing the right decision when there were not many remaining to take.
> What problem it exactly went out to solve? Did Microsoft want developers to be able to run their applications everywhere too? Absolutely not.
So .. initially it was "Microsoft Java", a managed language with tight integration into the Windows APIs, and non-portable. That was .NET Framework. A while ago they realized that even Microsoft didn't want to be tied to one platform, and moved to the cross-platform ".NET Core". It now occupies a similar role to Java but is IMO nicer.
Milla Jovovich is one of the developers: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWzNnqwD2Lu/?igsh=MWZ2OWN0bWx...