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> Either way, there's no reason to name numbers until AFTER the company makes an offer with included compensation package details.
I agree that a candidate shouldn't name numbers until after an offer.
But I think the company should give a range as early as possible. This is because of point #2 above. As an engineering manager I've had at least one heartbreaking experience where we took a candidate through the hiring cycle and then found out we and they were way out of line re: comp. Hiring sucks enough without that curveball.
That's why, for all the warts, I'm a fan of salary disclosure laws (like those in Colorado, USA). Yes, it's hard to have an accurate range, because jobs and skills are squishy. Yes, candidates anchor towards the top. Yes, it's weird for a buyer of a thing (labor) to state a price.
But companies have more power in the hiring process (there are, after all, many employees working for a company, but usually only one company an employee works for). Companies, or the hiring managers, also have a budget.
If you are a hiring manager, I'd encourage you to have your salary range shared with candidates as early as possible in the process.
That the targets also get almost religious about the product
TIL a new shorthand for "the real problem is capitalism", thanks!
>Tattoo-Associated Uveitis: An Emerging Eye-Health Challenge
I know it's popular comparing coding agents to slot machines right now, but the comparison doesn't entirely hold for me.
It's more like being hooked on a slot machine which pays out 95% of the time because you know how to trick it.
(I saw "no actual evidence pointing to these improvements" with a footnote and didn't even need to click that footnote to know it was the METR thing. I wish AI holdouts would find a few more studies.)
Steve Yegge of all people published something the other day that has similar conclusions to this piece - that the productivity boost for coding agents can lead to burnout, especially if companies use it to drive their employees to work in unsustainable ways: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163
Related:
Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958399 - February 2026 (1020 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963089 (Wero subthread)
No, it does not mean that. In the purest sense it means 'fractional ownership', which can or may lead to profits.
> I wear ratty old clothes with holes in them, and nobody will dare to question it because I'm the important one here
I live in a wealthy town. It’s less sinister than explicit counter signaling. More that I’ll wear comfortable clothes until they wear out because I have better things to do with my time than shop, and I don’t need to use dress anymore to get the access I want and need.
Most reporting I've seen rhymes with this, from last year https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/05/english-s...
https://www.edf.fr/en/the-edf-group/dedicated-sections/journ...
(TLDR The deployment of more utility scale battery storage is required in France)
This is the fundamental tension in this story, yes.
Oh man. That would be incredibly cool. I use dictation all the time on my iPhone, for example I'm dictating this comment right now. It's just almost always faster than typing. But I'm never going to dictate anything at the office or on public transportation. But if I could just hold the phone up closer to my lips and have it transcribe just as well while I "talk" silently, that would be really interesting. And in the same way we've completely normalized people who seem to be talking to themselves, until you realize they're having a conversation over their earbuds, we'll completely normalize people silently mouthing sentences to their phones. What a weird but fascinating idea.
Proton allows Linux users to enjoy Windows games, developed on Windows, with Visual Studio and DirectX.
The median income in the US was $83,730 in 2024
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-28...
Now in some cases that is two or three people working, but a $52,000 a year job is not impossible to find for many people.
I wish Apple would pause the Major Number bumps across all the OSes. Perhaps a 3-year OS update cycle. No Rush. They can still do the Marketing thingies with feature additions and bug fixes, like, “This WWDC is all about the 0.5 update, and you will love it.”
Will iOS 28 bring silent voice interface? https://www.newsweek.com/apples-2b-ai-acquisition-could-have...
> users [could] interact with Siri and future Apple devices without speaking out loud.. AI systems capable of interpreting facial expressions and subtle muscle movements to understand so-called “silent speech.”
Because 99% of the time it's not what users want.
You can get it to ask you clarifying questions just by telling it to. And then you usually just get a bunch of questions asking you to clarify things that are entirely obvious, and it quickly turns into a waste of time.
The only time I find that approach helpful is when I'm asking it to produce a function from a complicated English description I give it where I have a hunch that there are some edge cases that I haven't specified that will turn out to be important. And it might give me a list of five or eight questions back that force me to think more deeply, and wind up being important decisions that ensure the code is more correct for my purposes.
But honestly that's pretty rare. So I tell it to do that in those cases, but I wouldn't want it as a default. Especially because, even in the complex cases like I describe, sometimes you just want to see what it outputs before trying to refine it around edge cases and hidden assumptions.
"asking Claude what it thought about the pictures. In total, Claude produced and signed 2 drawings."
Have people gone utterly nuts?
In what concerns game consoles, since we are on a thread about Sega, industry never standardized on OpenGL and Direct3D in regards to game consoles.
Playstation never had OpenGL other than OpenGL ES 1.1 + Cg, in parallel to their own, but that was hardly adopted and was dropped.
Nintendo has had flavours of OpenGL like, but not quite the same, and while Switch supports Vulkan and OpenGL, the main API is NVN.
Also anything that doesn't look like a SaaS app does very badly. We had an internal trial at embedded firmware and concluded the results were unsalvageably bad. It doesn't help that the embedded environment is very unfriendly to standard testing techniques, as well.
Too many people in the know about this stuff I think to keep it hidden for that long. At the same time, we keep finding stuff that that should have held for and it didn't, so maybe you're right.
Truths are definitely not always somewhere in the middle.
That's the dumbest possible response to this.
> The only durable moats will be compute, energy, and data
"Compute" is capital investment; normal and comprehensible, but on a huge scale.
"Data" is .. stolen? That feels like a problem which has been dodged but will not remain solved forever, as everyone goes shields-up against the scrapers.
"Energy" was a serious global problem before AI. All economic growth is traded off against future global temperature increases to some extent, but this is even more acute in this electricity-intensive industry. How many degrees of temperature increase is worth one .. whatever the unit of AI gain-of-function is?
Good that they actually raise the question of users not wanting to be archived. I think the semi-ephemerality of channel based systems like Discord is increasingly popular partly because of various sorts of "cancel wars", well- or ill-intentioned capture and use of posts out of context.
This is odd; this is supposed to be public information, isn't it? I suspect it's run into bureaucratic empire-defending rather than a nefarious scheme to conceal cases.
Relatedly, there's an extremely good online archive of important cases in the past, but because they disallow crawlers in robots.txt: https://www.bailii.org/robots.txt not many people know about it. Personally I would prefer if all reporting on legal cases linked to the official transcript, but seemingly none of the parties involved finds it in their interest to make that work.
"Implements + tests against sqlite3 as oracle"
That's the real unlock in my opinion. It's effectively an automated reverse engineering of how SQLite behaves, which is something agents are really good at.
I did a similar but smaller project a couple of weeks ago to build a Python library that could parse a SQLite SELECT query into an AST - same trick, I ran the SQLite C code as an oracle for how those ASTs should work: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-ast
Question: you mention the OpenAI and Anthropic Pro plans, was the total cost of this project in the order of $40 ($20 for OpenAI and $20 for Anthropic)? What did you pay for Gemini?
It includes all forms of storage except for USB devices, GPUs and high end CPUs. The latter you can still get but you're going to have some severe sticker shock.
Pelican is OK, not a good bicycle: https://gist.github.com/simonw/67c754bbc0bc609a6caedee16fef8...
In the excellent and underrated The Mitchells vs the Machines there's a running joke with a pug dog that sends the evil robots into a loop because they can't decide if it's a dog, a pig or a loaf of bread.
No, the only issue is that it was a purposeful distraction from the real heinous shit. The rest is a distraction from the fact that it was a distraction.
We are, after all, a couple centuries of civility pained over millions of years of vicious apes. There are places the varnish is very thin.
Tcl has stopped being everything a string with the release of Tcl 8.0 and bytecode engine.
> In earlier versions of Tcl, strings were used as a universal representation; in Tcl 8.0 strings are replaced with Tcl_Obj structures ("objects") that can hold both a string value and an internal form such as a binary integer or compiled bytecodes.
http://www.ira.inaf.it/Computing/manuals/tcl/man-8.0/Changes...
I remember this quite well, because as part of the core team tasked with writing native C extensions, the migration to Tcl 8 had quite an impact on our code.
I learned Python with version 1.6, and have a few O'Reilley books proving the point the language wasn't really that simple, those that never bothered reading the reference manuals end-to-end though it was.
It’s because the soviets were investing the full output of their nation in the military and space program to sprint forward on that front. While the U.S. was doing all that as just a side hustle.
>It's funny to me how still so many don't realize you don't get hired for the best positions for being a 10x programmer who excels at hackerrank, you get hired for your proven ability to deliver useful products
For a programmer, that's based on them "being a 10x programmer who excels at hackerrank".
For manager types it might be "Creativity, drive, vision, whatever".
>Code is a means to an end
For a business in general.
When hiring developers, code IS the end.
I'm generally not this pedantic, but yeah, "I wrote an embedded database" is fine to say. If you say "I built SQLite", I expected to at least see how many of the SQLite tests your thing passed.
But what would be the legal basis for such a decision?
> Which is still quite expensive.
OTOH, if they managed to do that in an efficient way, they have something really interesting.
Yes, but: crucially, not in the USA. The EU human rights framework includes non-citizens, because they are still humans. The US constitutional rights framework does not include non-citizens, which is why ICE have free rein to abuse them.
Ah, this is the Boris Bus Distraction technique: https://spectator.com/article/the-boris-bus-conspiracy/ (not endorsing the Speccy, but this is an accurate summary)
This is the JavaScript port anyway, https://github.com/mrdoob/three-descent
License laundering and the ability to not credit or pay the original developers.
>And indeed, Sonnet and Opus 4.5 (medium reasoning) say the following:
Sonnet: Drive - you need to bring your car to the car wash to get it washed!
Opus: You'll need to drive — you have to bring the car to the car wash to get it washed!
Gemini 3 Pro (medium): You should drive.
On their own, or as a special case added after this blew up on the net?
I keep enjoying SSR with Java and .NET frameworks as much as possible since the 2000's, no need for Go alone.
React is alright, when packaged as part of Next.js, which basically looks like React, while in practice it is SSR with JavaScript.
Someday, someone, or some robot, will find it and ship it back, for museum display.
So far I have seen no plans to replace the reference implementation with Cranelift.
Do you have any evidence that this actually works as a strategy?
I'm glad this comment was here, it was the first thing I latched on to that seemed very specific to this person (or at least uncommon amongst general "podcast guys").
In particular, check out the pronunciation of the trailing S is the word "this" at 28 seconds in the clip of Davide Greene compared to 24 seconds in the Notebook LM clip. Really seemed uncannily similar to me.
As someone who isn't much into AI, you make me want to use AI more just to spite the eco-virtue-signaling idiots.
It's fun to harness all that computing power. That should be reason enough. Life is meant to be enjoyed.
> the biggest problem is that the DOM was built for documents, not apps
I don't see the difference. They're both text and graphics laid out in a variable-sized nested containers.
And apps today make use all the same fancy stuff documents do. Fonts, vector icons, graphics, rounded corners, multilingual text including RTL, drop shadows, layers, transparency, and so forth.
Maybe you think they shouldn't. But they do. Of all the problems with apps in web pages, the DOM feels like the least of it.
I watch a lot of synthesizer videos, and over the years an wholly organic 'no talking' genre has emerged for just this reason. Some people do reviews via subtitles.
Researchers observed 25 healthy adults, ages 21 to 41, in a sleep laboratory during eight-hour sleep opportunities over seven consecutive nights.
Absurdly low n. Additionally, I've become very skeptical of anything coming out of sleep labs after my wife was sent to one (at a prestigious teaching hospital) by her doctor some years ago: the 'sleep opportunity' was lights out at 9pm for 8 hours, and the staff were wholly indifferent to the fact that she's a night owl and prefers to sleep after midnight. Additionally she reported that it was not particularly quiet or dark.
I am not a fan of noise machines but I have noticed that I sleep best on rainy nights, which has a similar average sound spectrum, and is about the same as the sound of your blood circulating near your eardrums. Testing pink noise along with aircraft noise (which is closer to red noise) is equivalent to just making the noise level higher with slightly more midrange energy. Some noise can be relaxing for light sleepers; too much is just annoying.
Now that understanding video and projecting what happens next indicates we're getting past the LLM problem of lacking a world model. That's encouraging.
There's more than one way to do intelligence. Basic intelligence has evolved independently three times that we know of - mammals, corvids, and octopuses. All three show at least ape-level intelligence, but the species split before intelligence developed, and the brain architectures are quite different. Corvids get more done with less brain mass than mammals, and don't have a mammalian-type cortex. Octopuses have a distributed brain architecture, and have a more efficient eye design than mammals.
One issue that bothers me in this video is that, from the point of view of the traveler, the galaxy on the background would evolve at increasing speeds as the traveler descends into the gravity well and time dilates. By the time they are about to cross the event horizon, the universe outside must be much older (almost infinitely older) than when we started the fall.
I wouldn’t say “laughable” as the FTC can do a lot of damage before Apple’s case against it can be heard or tried.
Yup, it's absolutely not his voice. The NotebookLM voice is pitched significantly higher.
Nor does it seem like his voice but changed "just enough" (like in pitch).
I agree, he just has a very generic-sounding "podcast guy" voice. And obviously, NotebookLM trained on tons of podcasts and is generating a highly generic, average-sounding voice. Which is why it's pitched higher, since David Greene has a lower than average pitch.
This lawsuit is either just to generate buzz to build his personal brand, or maybe he's worried about the competitive threat from AI. But there's no way he's going to win this suit. This isn't like the case with Bette Midler, where Ford intentionally hired someone to mimic her voice.
I have never experienced issues with pip, and I’m not sure it’s whether I’m doing something that pip directly supports and avoiding things it doesn’t help with.
I’d really love to understand why people get so mad about pip they end up writing a new tool to do more or less the same thing.
As someone who has been doing Win32 development for literally decades, I'm not particularly convinced this is a problem that needs more code to solve. You don't need VS to get the compiler (which is available as a separate download called something like "build tools", I believe); and merely unpacking the download and setting a few environment variables is enough to get it working. It's easy to create a portable package of it.
Disappointing TBH. I completely understand that the OpenAI offer was likely too good to pass up, and I would have done the same in his position, but I wager he is about to find out exactly why a company like OpenAI isn't able to execute and deliver like he single-handedly did with OpenClaw. The position he is about to enter requires skills in politics and bureaucracy, not engineering and design.
I wonder how long the battery lasts. The LCD backlight probably draws more power than the CPU (<0.1W, even with no special low-power idle modes.)
Obviously, all the people that disagree with your framing and see AI as the largest possible boost to mankind, giving us more assistance than ever.
From their standpoint, it's all the negativity that seems crazy. If you were against that, you'd have to have something wrong with you, in their view.
Hopefully most people can see both sides, though. And realize that in the end, probably the benefits will be slow but steady (no "singularity"), and also the dangers will develop slowly yet be manageable (no Skynet or economic collapse).
Twitter is not a place for positive posts.
> Only thing that killed web for old computers is JAVASCRIPT.
JavaScript is innocent. The people writing humongous apps with it are the ones to blame. And memory footprint. A 16 MB machine wouldn’t be able to hold the icons an average web app uses today.
Show us your prompts.
Two questions:
1. How are you using Claude? Are you using https://claude.ai and copying and pasting things back and forth, or are you running one of the variants of Claude Code? If so, which one?
2. If you're running Claude Code have you put anything in place to ensure it can test the code it's writing, including accessing screenshots of what's going on?
> As long as Alito and Thomas are still alive, this will never happen.
Unless the court shrinks down to three seats (or four, if the Circuits cooperate) Alito and Thomas alone can’t dictate the way the Court treats the issue.
> “Give me liberty or give me death.” It is hard to express in more definitive terms on which side of that liberty-versus-security trade-off the U.S. was intended to fall.
No, that's a gross misrepresentation of what he said and meant. Patrick Henry was referring exclusively to political liberty from British colonial rule. There is no sense whatsoever in which he was referring to civil liberties against domestic rule. It didn't have a single thing to do with "security".
> But the core premise of the West generally, and the U.S. in particular, is that those trade-offs are never worthwhile.
Also totally false. This is the core premise of libertarians in the West, who are, and always have been, a minority. It is not, and has never been, the "core premise" of the West or the US. Or else, quite obviously, we wouldn't have the constant tension between these liberties and the need for security. The idea that "those trade-offs are never worthwhile" is not a core American idea. We make those tradeoffs every single day. And continue to argue about them, e.g. over what degree of gun control is proper after each school shooting that happens.
There are many things in the world that happen slowly right up until they suddenly don’t. It’s very possible the climate is one of these.
> This language moves beyond platform-level age gates and toward infrastructure embedded directly into hardware or operating systems.
This is lurching toward what the US military calls the Common Access Card. This is a security token carried by most US military. It's used for everything from logins to building access to meals.[1]
Merely having a Common Access Card doesn't allow access to anything. The system reading it has to recognize the identity. So there are lots of databases of who's allowed to do what.
Is that where we're going?
Unsold apparel is a headache, but banning it probably won't work. Something still has to be done with the stuff.
In the first dot-com era, I knew some startup people who were trying to create an online secondary market in used apparel, called Tradeweave. It flopped. You can see their web site on the Internet Archive up to 2004.[1] Then, suddenly, it's gone. There's a Stanford Business School case for this company.[2] Amusingly, the Stanford case study is dated 2000, before the collapse, and makes it sound like a success.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20040323045929/http://tradeweave...
[2] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/case-studies/t...
OK, send them somewhere else or sell them at a discount
but brand dilution
I don't care. If you over produce then you made a bad economic decision, tough luck. Destroying goods for accounting reasons is an abhorrent policy driven by greed.
Friends have to buy houses together to make it in this macro. Dual income+ or bust.
https://pca.st/episode/5b83929a-a9fc-40a0-818a-4bfb6d3a461c?...
I'm on the $200/month Claude Max plan and I rarely run out of my token allowance.
I'm also paying $20/month for OpenAI Codex and again it's rare I hit the rate limits there.
That doesn't appear to be accurate, at least from the Wikipedia article.
Robert Bork (sorry to add my personal commentary but an absolute shit stain of a human being) was nominated for the Supreme Court (which, thankfully, he always not confirmed), and a reporter went to a video rental store and asked for his rental history, which there was no law against. The published article didn't include much, as Bork hadn't rented any particularly salacious material, but there was bipartisan outrage that this had occurred.
Just goes to show how far we've fallen when there was once bipartisan outrage over accessing your Blockbuster rental history, when tech giants now have 10 times as much surveillance on you - your 1 am "shower thoughts" in your search history, all the websites you've visited, all your social media posts, and even social media posts about/including you posted by someone else, everything you've ever commented on a blog forum, your location history, etc.
The purpose isn't information, the purpose is drama.
Er, sorry. I meant: the purpose isn't just drama—it's a declaration of values, a commitment to the cause of a higher purpose, the first strike in a civilizational war of independence standing strong against commercialism, corporatism, and conformity. What starts with a single sentence in an LLM-rewritten blog post ends with changing the world.
See? And I didn't even need an LLM to write that. My own brain can produce slop with an em dash just as well. :)
> had already been warrantied once and then “recycled” by our recycling service.
Couldn't this be prevented by, say, sticking it on a drill press and drilling a large hole in it, and then recycling it?
TIL about window.stop() - the key to this entire thing working, it's causes the browser to stop loading any more assets: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/stop
Apparently every important browser has supported it for well over a decade: https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_window_stop
Here's a screenshot illustrating how window.stop() is used - https://gist.github.com/simonw/7bf5912f3520a1a9ad294cd747b85... - everything after <!-- GWTAR END is tar compressed data.
Posted some more notes on my blog: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/gwtar/
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
A lot of slaves had no last name, or only their owners’.
That's pretty common in small companies. It's less common in large companies but can happen - you may use the "CTO" title for the founding engineer who still leads code and architecture, then hire someone under a different title (frequently "VP of Engineering") to handle the management / team growing side of the role.
The clearinghouse in question has wide latitude, broad mechanisms, and constant aggressive risk management available to manage high volatility market conditions without impacting individual ownership, this is fear driven propaganda.
> nobody wants to hear about the hustle anymore
Plenty of people are still ambitious and being successful.
> basic stuff like e-mail and payment processing should be provided by the state
You're looking at America in 2026 and concluding we want to give the state more control over private lives?
> The key is that robot arms are not labor-replacing, but labor-shifting. Robots decrease hourly labor while increasing labor demand for programmers, maintenance technicians, and skilled trades for installation.
If anyone things that the demand for the latter would match the demand for the replaced former, they really have no idea why robots are used in the first place...
Of course I went agents to run tests in a repository - I do that all the time.
I don't want the agent to run tests in a new repository until I've given it the go-ahead to do that.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this: NewPipe is an Android app, and consuming YouTube on a mobile browser is a much worse experience.
"Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Palantir ties"?
https://x.com/a16z/status/2018418113952555445
For my whole life in technology, there was this thing called the Mythical Man Month: nine women cannot have a baby in a month. If you're Google, you can't just put a thousand software engineers on a product and wipe out a startup because you can only... build that product with seven or eight people. Once they've figured it out, they've got that lead.
That's not true with AI. If you have data and you have enough GPUs, you can solve almost any problem. It is magic. You can throw money at the problem. We've never had that in tech.> He explicitly writes that he did not do drugs or alcohol.
What are you talking about? He specifically mentions drinking beer and doing ayahuasca in the past.
> I've sometimes dreamed of a web where every resource is tied to a hash, which can be rehosted by third parties, making archival transparent.
I wrote a short paper on that 25 years ago, but it went nowhere. I still think it is a great idea!
I have seen enough compiler (and even hardware) bugs to know that you do need to dig deeper to find out why something isn't working the way you thought it should. Of course I suspect there are many others who run into those bugs, then massage the code somehow and "fix" it that way.
Ask around and see if you can find anyone you know who's experienced the November 2025 effect. Claude Code / Codex with GPT-5.1+ or Opus 4.5+ really did make a material difference - they flipped the script from "can write code that often works" to "can write code that almost always works".
I know you'll dismiss that as the same old crap you've heard before, but it's pretty widely observed now.
the Free University Compiler Kit, also known as VUCK. (The Dutch word for “free” is written with a v.)
I'm not sure if I'm reading satire or they are having some fun trolling.
https://archive.ph/V5Xdd