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Why did the author have to do all this hacking around with screenshots? Back in the day, you could query any window for its title/text/buttons and send events to the buttons directly. Is this not the case in Windows any more?
GDPR doesn't apply in the states, but hopefully it provides for some punishment for the poor security here for EU customers. Of course, then some Americans will get mad that a US company has to follow EU law.
I wouldn't say I ignored it, I mentioned that in the opening paragraph.
This chapter is meant to be a tool you can send employers to encourage them to be smarter about this.
It's annoying, but it's also grossly irresponsible to let dev machines get compromised. Regardless of which OS they are running.
Yes, people do build anything with Lisp, that is why there are at least two commercial Common Lisp systems around, LispWorks and Allegro Common Lisp.
Google Flights is an acquisition of a company using Lisp, ITA Software, they even have a Lisp guide.
https://google.github.io/styleguide/lispguide.xml
In Portugal, Siscog used to be a Lisp shop, no idea nowadays.
Then you have the Clojure based companies, where Datomic and Nubank are two well known ones, even if not a proper Lisp, still belongs to the same linage.
Eh, history has shown me that that's incorrect, though. In my culture, we're direct and just say what we want to say, whereas in US culture you have to be very circumspect or you get a bunch of downvotes. I've used an LLM to give me feedback so I can "anglicize" my comments, otherwise I get downvoted to hell.
Even in this comment, I initially wrote the start as "you're wrong", but then had to catch myself and go back and soften it to "that's incorrect", even though the meaning is the exact same. The constant impedance mismatch is tiring.
I'm trying to imagine the kind of response the USA would inflict on a country that wiped a girls school stateside.
>You need to understand, there was good period of peace between Israel & Palestine until Oct 7.
Yes, in the year before Oct 7. alone Israel army had only killed about 40 Palestinian children (34 alone between Jan and Nov 2022).
Not to mention Iran has been a target since 2001: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNt7s_Wed_4 - if not since 1953 (their 1979 changes being a response to the 1950s western invervention that installed a dictatorship), if not since forever:
>But that's really what you're now enforcing: writing in an easily detectable LLM prose and voice.
That's a good start already. Don't let the impossibility of the perfect prevent implementing the good.
>I want my comments judged by the contributions they make and do not make to the discussion. If the LLM makes the comment better, it is good. If it makes it worse, it is bad.
Nope, it's all bad. If I wanted the comments of an LLM, I'd ask an LLM.
>I am 100% not interested in participating in a community that seeks to profile and police the technological infrastructure that its members use.
Well, don't let the door hit you on your way out.
You could get away with 8GB 5 years ago and you still can do it now, but Macs are expected to last longer than that, and starting now with 8GB might become limiting 5 years from now. Here we retire them at about 10 years, or when the last OS they can run is EOL’ed.
I haven't said that, I said that I am a firm beliver that Itanium would have prevailed without AMD being able to push their AMD64 alternative.
Maybe compilers would get better, maybe Itanium would have needed some redesign, after all it isn't as if a Raptor Lake Refresh execution units are the same as an Xeon Nocona, yet both execute x64 instructions.
I assert there is no reason to rewrite LLVM in Rust.
And I also assert that the speech that Rust is going to take over the C++, misses on that as long as Rust depends on LLVM for its existence.
Or ignoring that for the time being NVidia, Intel, AMD, XBox, PlayStation, Nintendo, CERN, Argonne National Laboratory and similar, hardly bother with Rust based software for what they do day to day.
They have employees on WG14, WG21, contribute to GCC/clang upstream, and so far have shown no interest in having Rust around on their SDKs or research papers.
Going off topic, but the article made me look into "2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey" and as usual there is the big difference between what the "Professional Developers" with and without AI claim to be using, and the usual HN discussions "X is taking over the world, no one uses Y anymore".
As for Rails, I guess now that Ruby is serious about having a JIT in the box, a few actually, it is kind of atractive.
Due to my experience with Tcl, and continuous rewriting into C modules, if a JTI isn't in the box, I kind of don't bother unless it is due to external factors.
That’s what you should do when proven wrong.
The same site has an article on that: https://goughlui.com/2024/07/28/tech-flashback-intel-optane-...
Retention issues are a bit worrying.
Next, the monarchy?[1]
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/30/charle...
This is almost true, but not quite. WireGuard is a protocol, but it's also the Linux kernel implementation of that protocol; there are design decisions in the protocol that specifically support software security goals of the kernel implementation. For instance, it's designed to be possible to implement WireGuard without demand dynamic allocation.
Saw a Chevron station in Silicon Valley today with a price above $7/gallon. That's not typical, but it's real.
A lot of problems (I’d say the majority in tech) can be solved faster and better by 100 people than 1600.
> when the "right" person shows up, how do we know they're the right person?
That prompts an investigation. The “right” person casts an affidavit ballot and the police and courts investigate. If the count is close, the loser usually sure to recount and verify, and any of these incidents then become political kindling. It doesn’t happen because it isn’t worth it individually and difficult to coördinate en masse.
> Wouldn't a "deal" theoretically benefit both sides? That one doesn't offer the hereditary peers anything they don't already have.
They don't have any expectation against losing their seats entirely when hereditary peers are ejected from the House, and, even with a sufficient number of life peers voting with them, they couldn't actually prevent such a bill from passing, only delay it. Securing a commitment of life seats is getting something they didn't have.
In Washington State we get mailed ballots, which we fill in and mail in.
But the ballots are not even printed on security paper. They don't have a serial number on them, either.
> Agile itself is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive.
No, the opposite; it is predicated on software being cheap and easy to ship, but hard to correctly anticipate the needs for.
> It might not make sense to continue (waterfall might be better actually)
Waterfall, not agile, is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive.
Well, first, that's two overgeneralizations.
But, second, often precisely because they think we’re the bad guys.
If you see the world as dominated by an evil, overwhelmingly powerful empire that uses violence in a way that shows no concern for the continuation or quality of human life outside of the metropole then, even if it is bigoted, repressive, and unjust within the metropole, you still want to be in the metropole rather rhan peripheries.
Kind of wish you'd written this as a top comment.
If you went up and down Machu Picchu every day for years, I bet you'd perform like the porter.
It seems like that it is all contracts managed by the the Office of Industry Partnerships, within DHS's Science and Technology Directorate, which exists, per its website, to "engage industry and facilitate partnerships with private sector innovators to advance commercial technology solutions that address homeland security challenges."
This is consistent with the explorer having a drop down filter for "Program" with options exactly matching three of the four programs listed as OIP programs o their webpage, excluding "Targeted Broad Agency Announcements”, which from the description OIP participates in but are specifically for some other particular DHS component (which, might handles the actual contracting, which would explain why the data wasn't in the OIP leak, OTOH, the list of current opportunities in that category on the web is empty, so its possible that it is a category that exists in theory but is not actively being used currently.)
This is very much not all DHS contracts, and even the claim that it is "ICE/DHS" contracts seems mostly misleading clickbait trading on the degree of attention to and awareness of ICE even though these contracts are through and for a non-ICE component of DHS.
If someone like OpenAI or Anthropic pulls it off, and imposes strong opinions similar to SAP (your business adheres to their vertical model vs them tailoring SAP to your unique business), I think it could replace Atlassian tools (Jira and Confluence specifically) relatively quickly. Call it “Planner” or something similar. Tell the Robot what you want and have it build and manage the plan. Atlassian’s revenue is their opportunity.
Hopefully everyone on this site notices the significance of that number.
US domestic fossil gas consumers compete with global LNG buyers willing to pay premiums for LNG exported from the US.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/tracking-lng-flows-key-globa...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-natural-gas-prices-rise-130...
You can interpret it as: We'd rather you be snarky, rude, and tone-deaf, than bland and unhuman. Your work may rather you act like a soulless corporate drone.
I can dig them up and make high res pictures of the covers if you want. Elysium is really good, agreed.
Part of the ethos of HN is that we don't do content/subject silos; it's a way in which HN is very distinct from Reddit. I don't think this will happen and I think if it does it's a bad idea (not least because I don't think a site dominated by software developers is going to separate itself from AI, any more than it will separate itself from programming language discussions), but I understand the impulse. They're not the funnest stories to comment on.
Has anyone seen any hints as to the role make up of those 1,600 jobs?
Would be interesting to know if they are majority engineering, or if that's a lot of sales and marketing and support and other roles in there.
FTA: Many of these companies operate regional offices, cloud infrastructure, or data-center operations across the Gulf [...]
I feel there might be a little self-interest at play there, to the extent that LLMs may privately believe themselves to have consciousness.
To the extent that data centers are being used for military as well as civilian purposes, they become legitimate targets, though. Think about any war in history, if one side knew where the other maintained its intelligence headquarters, wouldn't it be natural to target it?
Flags are a signal to the moderation system. What does it mean to "flag" something as "factuality" or "satire"?
If we'd liked that high levels of abstraction, we'd want to be PMs, not programmers.
Don't know about that as a general rule, since spam messages have had typos and mistakes in them since forever, and its precisely what marks them as not trustworthy.
>Win for democracy and fair representation of the working class
In Britain? Good luck with that.
>Anyone can still run a blog/website, and/or their own discourse server.
And those will also get chocked with fake bot "members" and bot comments.
Plus, if "anyone can still run a blog/website", this includes bots. AI created and operated blogs/websites, luring in people who think they're reading actual human posts.
AI written post.
And even if the transcripts are true, it's the LLM rehashings the thousands of tomes of "existential dread" and "conscious robot/ai" fiction in its training...
Whatever happened to Preplexity? They were all the rage a year or two ago, and now I hear...nothing. Is the product still being used? Making money? Or just overtaken by the base LLMs it was relying on?
Climate change impacts on cocoa production in the major producing countries of West and Central Africa by mid-century - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016819232... | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110393 - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Volume 362, 1 March 2025, 110393
Climate crisis contributing to chocolate market meltdown, research finds - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/13/climate-... - February 13th, 2025
Doesn't need to be in the text of the law. The Crown can appoint an arbitrary list of life peers - possibly at any time (see Chiltern Hundreds).
As the article points out, the life peers are arguably worse. People like Mandelson.
> like the emdash alarmism, AI never invented emdash, nor did it invent using it frequently. Its training was full of examples, so many that AI picked up using it frequently
Look at my comment history. I emdash. But I adapted by removing the spaces around them—AI hasn’t similarly adapted.
Most comments on HN with emdashes aren’t slop. But if it starts getting into Wernicke word-salad territory and there are emdashes? With spaces? At that point, it’s fair to flag.
This is old information. Japan's borrowing costs have spiked and are ~2.18% as of this comment. Yields are surging due to their debt load (currently ~240% of GDP).
Citations:
https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-bond-yield
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/business/jgb-trade-excite...
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/japan-bond-market-dollar-ye...
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/2026012067/japa...
https://robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-japan-can-escape-its...
Take two of these and see me in the morning
https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/quetiapine-oral...
"The scales startled a sleeping cat inside the station. The cat lept in alarm, claws bared, and clung to a length of cord. Suspended by the cord was a small anvil, dangling above a board balanced atop a saw horse. Frayed from the cat's claws, the cord severed, and the anvil plunged towards one end of the board. On the other end of that board was a marble..."
He took them back to Denmark and copied them.
https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2024/02/l-is-for-legos-...
The tubes came (much) later. Even the boxes were direct copies.
I went through a similar decade-long fire drill around ISO8601 date parsing in Python.[1] Issue started in 2012, and after about a decade a solution was in the standard library.
[1] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.python/c/Q2w4R89Nq1w
Friend of a friend verification could side-step that, if there is a good way to penalize bad actors willing to violate the principle.
> Anyway, Queen’s Wish is done. I celebrated by, the day after I finished it, starting a new game.
I'm absolutely 100% for this policy.
My only caution is that good writers and LLMs look very similar, because LLMs were trained on a corpus of good writers. Good writers use semicolons and em-dashes. Sometimes we used bulleted lists or Oxford commas.
So we should make sure to follow that other HN rule, and assume the person on the other end is a good faith actor, and be cautious about accusing someone of using AI.
(I've been accused multiple times of being an AI after writing long well written comments 100% by hand)
Back in 2000 I got the M1 Air with 8G of RAM (needed the cheapest Mac to test some arm64 stuff) and that laptop served me very well. I never felt RAM-limited. I was always expecting to run out of memory during a big Bazel build or something, but never did.
It isn't the most powerful computer in the world but I never ran into any problems... so it's probably an OK compromise for most people, especially in the world where RAM is scarce because of AI datacenter buildouts.
When it comes to politicians it is the opposite
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/10/the-polar...
And I believe that result because I’ve studied DW-NOMINATE in depth. I’ve run into problems trying to do dimensional reduction on preference data and the literature on DW-NOMINATE is distinct and geometrical being written by political scientists on the quantitative side as opposed to data science or ML.
I can very much believe that left-leaning civilians have moved left at the same time right-leaning politicians have moved right, I mean politicians don’t care what ordinary people think very much anyway, see
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Note wherever they try DW-NOMINATE there is a clear left-right axis. Once in a while when a country is in a transitional state like 1960s America where the Republicans and Democrats were changing places in the south you see a small secondary axis. You might want to believe in that Libertarian political test with two axes but it is a lot of hooey and it does not point to a position any politician could inhabit.
I see the suggestions and then choose something different anyway. I don't want to use one of the top 3 most popular responses to an email from a friend. Even if it's something transactional.
WasmGC doesn't support interior pointers, and is quite primitive in available set of operations, this is quite relevant if you care about performance, as it would be a regression in many languages, hence why it has largely been ignored, other than the runtimes that were part of the announcement.
> The separate question, of why people are obsessed with it - implicitly in the United States - is a separate question.
It’s not a United States issue. Look how Taiwan does vote counting: https://youtu.be/DUZa7qIGAdo. They don’t do it this way because of anything distinctive about American politics. Being self-evidently difficult to manipulate, without requiring voters to trust an opaque system, is an intrinsic benefit for voting systems.
Peacock app does the same thing. Mandatory 15-second-long commercial before starting whatever you want to watch.
The intent of this rule is to avoid the very common AI tropes that have been increasingly common in HN comments. Using AI as an organizational tool isn't inherently against the rules, but just copy/pasting output from ChatGPT without human oversight is.
Trying to lawyer this is the wrong approach. When in doubt: don't.
It works really well. I've been using this prompt to find spelling and grammar errors for about a year now: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...
Paper: Intensifying global heat threatens livability for younger and older adults - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2752-5309/ae3c3a | https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/ae3c3a - March 10th, 2026 Environmental Research: Health, Volume 4, Number 1
It's amazing that everybody who has a tendency for paranoia or an interest in weird knowledge knows about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect
but that kind of person can't get a security clearance or get taken seriously by the State Department.
I like Mitchell's Vouch idea. At the end of the day, it's all about trust. Anything else is an abstraction attempting to replicate some spectrum of trust.
I bought two pairs of premium wireless headphones about 10 years ago. These failed gradually, I patched them up with tape and kept them going. One of them had the Bluetooth electronics fail but still works wired, the electronics are fine on the other one but physically it is a jumbled mess that I can't really tape together anymore but it kinda sits on my head.
I went looking for the state of the art in headphones and bought (1) a set of AirPod Pros and (2) a recent Sony headset.
My feelings about the AirPods are terribly mixed.
10 years ago I think the best reason to spend $250 instead of $25 on a set of Bluetooth headphones was that the $250 device would pair properly with multiple devices whereas it might take you 15 minutes of screwing around to unpair and repair the $25 headphones every time you need them. But hey they are so cheap maybe you can pack one for each device you have and not worry about it.
Today it is the other way around, somehow $25 headphones "just work" with Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Steam Deck, whatever. After I disabled the microphone and switched to the microphone on my camera, the AirPods got reliable with Windows. Inside Apple's ecosystem it tries really hard and almost works, yet the $25 headphones "just work" and don't seem to be trying so hard. I don't get messages warning me that somebody else's $25 headphones are following me around but my iPhone tells me that about my AirPods all the time but I think it is a KPI for somebody in Cupertino that I see the word "AirPods" as much as possible.
Now the sound quality of the AirPods is just great, I'll grant that, but I'm not going to be one of those annoying youngsters who is as hard as hearing as the oldest oldsters because I have some genetic polymorphism that makes me produce copious amount of earwax that eject the AirPods from my ears if I move too much. My doc says one of these days my ears are going to plug up and I shouldn't get so excited about it.
That one I would find more acceptable.
Is this an application of crypto for people who hate crypto?
GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864517 - February 2026 (70 comments)
If they successfully mine the Strait of Hormuz, this price target is reasonable. No insurance will cover vessels attempting to transit the strait if mined. Sal Mercogliano Of "What's Going on With Shipping?" covers this in his latest videos [1]. Bloomberg has been covering this in great detail also [2].
These offerings are to pull customers to GCP. That is what Google is paying for because they couldn't get the traction organically.
And likewise, Austin has a bunch of names that are pronounced oddly.
Your GPA isn't necessarily a measure of your intelligence. I graduated with a 2.01 GPA from college, because I spent most of my time learning about technology and things that interested me, and doing the bare minimum to pass my classes.
But my diploma still says "UC Berkeley" on it, just like the guys with the 3.9 GPA. And when I hang out with PhD friends' PhD friends, they just assume I'm a PhD too.
So what I'm saying is that sometimes smart people don't put a lot of effort into school.
This reads like a fanfic.
"My manager wants to get rid of me because I'm too good with computers and he is jealous."
No, he wants to get rid of you because you are an operating expense for the company. If they can achieve the same outcome without paying your salary then why wouldn’t they fire you?
I love the theory that the church faked the calendar to skip over the dark ages even if astronomy makes it a complete non-starter.
Even a retrodiction can be impressive and/or interesting if it is a sufficiently "nothing up my sleeve" [1] type of prediction. I don't know enough about this field and the article isn't informative enough for me to guess, but it's possible that they made a retrodiction where they didn't tune the parameters for it explicitly and got near the correct result directly. In that case, it would at least constitute some sort of clue, even if it isn't necessarily correct. Or they could have tuned the heck out of it and glossed over it in the article, I dunno.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing-up-my-sleeve_number
This is the announcement of the completion of an acquisition that began a year ago.
That could do with some subtitles.
Of course just guessing here on the ground of how I see Altman‘s behavior until now: I think 99% PR.
There's a long forgotten argument that there are just too many people in capital cities
https://books.google.com/books/about/Dispersing_Population.h...
I think that "powerlesness corrupts" in places like NYC. If you grew up in Kansas you might see a seed grow and have some mental model for how a civilization can create wealth. If you look from a poor part of queens at the skyline of Manhattan wouldn't you conclude, instead, that it was all about theft, all one giant crime? Wouldn't you elect the kind of state rep who wants to subsidize off-track betting to save jobs?
Maybe places like NYC, LA and San Francisco should get broken up. How many more movie tickets could the industry sell if there was a little more diversity in the process that makes them?
On some level. Thing is it is visible and everybody knows what the standards are, social mobility is possible under the sign of grammar.
If the game is wearing a $20k watch or understanding the covert signs of status that you might find in a particular community, that's something different.
More specifically, they generate value for people who are already relatively rich (often vastly so), and a consequence of declining marginal utility—which applies to money the same as any good— is that the it takes less actual utility value when you do that to produce any given amount of monetary value.
Nah, fine-tuned models can be probability calibrated, I think we're going to understand someday that the genius of 'predict the next character' LLMs is that they have a deranged ability to reason about uncertain events and that deranged ability to reason about uncertain events is central to the human 'language instinct'.
> What do you make of the fact that these things have basically the entire corpus of human knowledge memorized and they haven't been able to make a single new connection that has led to a discovery?
If that's what you're experiencing, then you're not asking them the right questions.
If you're at the edge of your field so you're able to judge whether something is novel or not, and you have a direction you'd like the LLM to explore, just ask it. Prompt it to come up with some ideas of how to solve X, or categorize Y, or analyze Z. Encourage it to take ideas from, or find parallels in, closely related or distantly related fields.
You will probably quickly find yourself with a ton of new ideas, of varying quality, in the same way as if you were brainstorming with a colleague.
But they don't work "solo". They need to you guide the conversation. But when you do, they're chock-full of new ideas and connections and discoveries. But again -- just like with people, the quality varies. If you're looking for a good startup idea, you need to sift through hundreds. Similarly if you're looking for an idea of a paper you could publish, there are a lot of hypotheses to sift through. And you're supplying your own expert "good taste" to try to determine what's worth pursuing and developing further, etc.
LLMs don't just magically come up with new proven discoveries unprompted. But they turn out to be fantastic research and idea-generation partners. They excel at combining existing related-but-distant facts and models and interpretations in novel ways.
That’s what they are doing. This is a textbook protection racket.
“Buy Cloudflare bot protection, otherwise it would be a shame if your site got scraped and ddos’d.”
Who is doing the scraping and ddosing? Cloudflare.
Raising income taxes for those making over $1 million while cutting taxes paid by people making under $1 million makes it cheaper (in employer cost for the same disposable income; looked at a different way, it provides more disposable income for the same nominal pay) to hire workers across most of the income spectrum of any industry (even in tech—most workers in the field aren’t making over $1 million/yr).
And: AI agent writes blog post.
> Isn't this what parenthesizes are meant for?
Parentheticals (including non-restrictive appositives) can be set off in English by either commas, em-dashes, or parentheses. There aren’t a lot of hard and fast rules for which is used where, though a common (partial) rule is for appositives without internal commas to be set off by commas and thise with internal commas to be set off with em-dashes. This obviously leaves open the handling of non-appositive parentheticals.
There are other uses of em-dashes, some of which softly overlap with other punctuation—I’m not aware of any common alternative to two em-dashes for ommission of partial words (useful in transcribing unclear sources, for instance.)
> I don't understand what the issue even is here, and the RFC also doesn't clearly outline it.
The RFC—fake, the maximum RFC number currently is 9945—is a joke.
"Musk says he'll fix the corrupt Democrat-run government and reduce two trillion in spending and given his track record I have no reason not to believe him."
Real quote from a friend when this whole thing was going down.
> Objectively, anyone making $50 million should feel it a lot and be taxed heavily. Nobody is making $50 million under their own power
You’ve got it backwards. The people making $50,000 are the ones who are dependent on someone else to provide all the infrastructure for their job.
It puts 'glad you could make it' in a completely different light.
So, a heartfelt: Glad you could make it!