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It also brings me memories of Japanese calligraphic art and the careful use of various sizes, shapes and textures for brushes, where even the smudges and splatters are deliberate.
>I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling the "deep expertise" OP laments was actually deeply inconvenient to many people.
And I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling that the convenience from ignoring the "deep expertise" and piling on hacks and lazy abstractions, all the way to modern multi-MB frameworks and Electron, is a regression.
Of course no one gives a shit about things like the user's computer/memory utilization. Or degraded experience. Or wasted bandwidth. Or the extra energy costs per 8 billion people - and the environmental impact.
>More people building things is straightforwardly good,
Is more people building public infrastructure "straightforwardly good"? If it means worse roads, worse bridges, systems that fail?
The same holds for software. And most things really.
I'd like a refund on the time I spent reading your comment.
Also from the outside, and as first generation out of Salazar's dictorship, all the signs of an authoritarian administration, yet plenty of people are behaving as it will go away with elections or something.
Many of those features were already available in MS-DOS and Windows 3.x IDEs from Borland for Turbo Pascal and C++.
Which is why when I got into UNIX development felt like going into the stone age of development tools, thankfully XEmacs was already there.
Which by the way, it was born for Energize C++, in 1993!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQTScuApWk
Also here is what NeXTSTEP development environment looked like, used for Quake tooling development, in a 1991 marketing video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg
Which is why, I usually assert I cannot understand the nostalgia of CLI and TUI, being there at the time, and not being able to use some of these systems, due to the amount of money they required.
It very much is. But it's a non-deterministic, more-lossy-than-usual abstraction: english to code.
0% if by testing you mean "somebody who uses a screen reader regularly was able to use the product successfully" because nobody seems to do that.
Something I've been trying recently for non-throwaway code is extensive refactoring, without typing any code myself but by closely directing the coding agent.
Prompts like "move the code relating to SQL query analysis into a new file", "look for opportunities to use pytest parametrize to remove duplication in that test", "rename method X to Y".
Early indications are that this is helping a lot with the problem where it's easy to churn out thousands of lines of code and not really have it stick in my head, even if I review every line of it.
Reviewing code and actively refactoring it is less tedious and more mentally engaging than reviewing code without changes.
If this was a human collaborator I'd be worried that I'm just creating busywork for them, but I don't care about busywork for LLMs!
The goal is to produce code that I understand and that I can remember just well enough that I get an updated mental model to help me productively make future decisions about the codebase.
Is it too much to ask that when giving a book review, a link to the actual book title, and possibly a listing on a website, should be prominently given?
It's probably easier to handle as civil negligence. Criminal damage has an intent component. Of course it would hinge on discovery - as soon as you find an email to the effect of "we know this will cause damage, let's test it on someone else's house", that counts as intent.
> Customers expect some products to be dangerous and rely on product reviews to determine which ones.
.. which are of course the easiest thing to fake.
> then overpriced incumbents use their influence over the laws to target any new supplier that tries to establish a trusted brand, which causes the foreign suppliers to have to sell through dozens of unknown labels so they can continue to dissolve them if any of them get prosecuted.
This is not an accurate description of new market entry for .. well, anything? And what are the new entrants being prosecuted for? Is it by any chance unsafe products?
>Simple fix, stop hovering the HN frontpage every hour, don't read every news item you come across, it isn't needed, and probably isn't good for our psyche either :)
A, yes, denial with fix everything.
Like when the AI either costs them their job, or crashes as a bubble and takes the economy and their livelihood with it.
Thankfully I have one with zero connectivity.
Problem solved.
Cable News Network Inc v. Perplexity AI, Inc.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73402641/cable-news-net...
And in other blue collar union environments, following the book is known as "work to rule" and considered a mild form of sabotage/industrial action.
Not really, no.
The product launch was a group buy of minimum 400 units. You can choose one of "compete with China" or "expensive product testing requirements for small-run products".
BUILD 2026 is happening next week and from the agenda I already seen it is worthless to spend any time looking at its sessions, other than probably what Mark Russinovich has to tell about Azure, almost everything else is AI.
Market crashes like the dotcom bust, and countless companies stock rising to high heavens to crash a few months after IPO to shit say otherwise. VALinux was a poster child for investment... lol
Not to mention even a total shitshow from an obvious crackpot like Theranos got $1.2 billion total funding, and a 9B valuation. Or FTX.
> This whole "permanent underclass" thing seems like it's just the Rapture in secular clothing.
The Left Behind version of the Rapture.
ESP32 can run FreeRTOS, and I think people nowadays have no idea how much stuff we could do in MS-DOS PCs even with all their limitations for the epoch.
ESP32 hardware is much better than they used to be.
Not everything needs to be under Linux monoculture, thankfully.
Databricks raised an L last year.
Southwest Airlines just banned humanoid robots on their flights.[1]
[1] https://aeronauticsmagazine.com/news/no-robots-allowed-south...
> A source indicated that one of the lightning towers may not be salvageable, and that the transporter-erector may also be damaged beyond repair.
My first thought is why wasn't the t-e moved away before launch?
They certainly are, CMS deployment projects are no longer relying on humans for translation and asset creation, at least not in the same amount.
Ah, looks like they will be packaging a Rust runtime on top, not as interesting as I thought.
It doesn't specify which "AI" though.
These days that pretty much means "somebody used a computer".
Before Maven came to be, we had built nice macros on our Ant builds that were quite similar to how Maven works, but Ivy wasn't also around.
Eventually Maven grew on me, however I would rather go back to Ant than deal with Gradle, the time using it when I did Android development a few years ago, was more than enough.
Which is why I always give library evolution as one example why editions don't solve everything as many people think they do.
Does anyone else find it surprising that rockets are a century old[1] and yet still seem to fail spectacularly with amazing regularity, often due to some small flaw? Is it just that they're still relatively niche machines and thus haven't benefited from mass manufacturing improvements?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Goddard_and_Rocket.jpg
For those wondering, you can still buy all the major components for a simple pre-computerised car from the aftermarket, and classic cars are definitely going to continue rising in value.
First model I've tried that gave me back HTML with a "Change Pelican Color" button: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/hy3-preview-pel...
(Transcript: https://gist.github.com/simonw/c2a0d8ecd3056a2681319eae8fc3f...)
If you're so good at it that they can't tell, does it matter?
Possibly AI-generated too? I can't tell.
Has anyone proposed a solution that balances privacy and consumers’ desires for connectivity features?
EDIT: Sorry, I meant a legal requirement.
I’m unsure if this solves the problem. Like childcare, we may need to collectively subsidize housing construction to make it affordable. Example: China.
The problem is that the costs of labor and materials from the past are behind us, and there are potentially no material cost and productivity improvements to be had. The costs are the costs and potentially unavoidable.
That's because LLM output is "average"; so if you're below, it will obviously look better than what you can do, and vice-versa. It will be interesting to see what happens when current LLM output becomes the bottom, as everyone worse has pulled themselves up to that level.
Key statement: "The fact that the ratio between costs of constructing a home and the costs of the various materials is already so low is fundamentally what makes achieving substantial economies of scale difficult."
That's striking. Building houses looks labor-intensive, but, if that's correct, labor cost isn't that large a fraction of the final cost.
I’m saying every time a quiet town’s housing market booms, that is peoples’ preferences around where they want to live shifting.
> Blue origin was _just_ selected to be the first moon lander mission
Just a rover [1].
Blue Moon is one of the two lander contractors. But pretty much everyone thinks Artemis is Starship HLS or bust.
Does Blue Origin not have another pad? (Did they blow up a pad or a test stand?)
[1] https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-blue-origin-t...
> You can’t secretly watch Airbnb guests through a window
Systematically? No. Casually? Of course you can. Why wouldn’t you be allowed to?
These aren’t corporate landlords, after all.
Nothing that special about finding a real CVE. They're not that different than what non-Mythos could spot.
According to https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-...
> An AI consultant tells Axios one of their clients recently spent half a billion dollars in a single month after failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees
Times that by 12 to annualize it and you get to add an extra $6 billion to the number!
I'm lost, what am I supposed to be confirming or denying here?
Yikes. That's a big bang.
That would be a reasonable worry, except that this specific issue has been discussed for like, a decade. It’s the only beef people have. It’s unlikely that they’ll find something else any time soon.
It's exactly this ethos, the "move fast and break things", and oh, we don't give a fuck about who/what we damage in the process - careless people indeed.
I am someone who came of age during an incredibly hopeful time about how technology could be a force for good. The silicon valley ethos at present is totally morally bankrupt and rotten to the core.
Enforcement cameras seem like the least objectionable thing police do. They catch law breakers without the possibility of violent confrontations with law enforcement or bias. Why do people object to that of all things?
No idea what's happening here, but the First Rule Of Major Bug Bounty Programs is that everybody involved on the vendor side is actively incentivized to pay out. In many cases, there are people whose internal metrics depend on payouts. Payouts are causes for celebration in these programs. Microsoft is almost certainly[†] not trying to save money by screwing over bounty claimants.
This might not be true of small companies (and is a reason why small companies shouldn't run bug bounty programs), but it is definitely true of FAANG/MAG7-scale companies.
This doesn't mean these bounty programs err on the side of paying out, or that they won't routinely make decisions that will piss you off. It does however work against claims that they're withholding payouts vindictively.
[†] Only hedging because it's been a minute since I've talked to anyone at Microsoft.
> But bear in mind that you have no clue whether two chargers (for example) are the same without disassembling them and checking.
Frequently, the listing uses the exact same photo.
It's especially clear for clothes listings, as there's usually a model.
Right, as noted above, last week The Economist finally said it's real. That's a reversal from their previous position. The Economist likes to look at actuals, which always trail real time, rather than projections. Now they can see it happening in past data.
AI deployment is going much faster than previous industrial revolutions, such as railroads and tractors and even computers. When these things take a generation, they get absorbed. When they take less time than a college education, there's a big jobs problem.
That may go with the task of looking for low-level security holes.
> Then Bricks & Minifigs Corporate took control of the Salem location from the original franchise owner
> They were found liable in court. They closed the store rather than pay.
This doesn't make any sense. If the corporation took control of the franchise, the corporation now owns it and its obligations. They can close the store if they want, but that doesn't do anything about their obligation to pay.
What's missing from this story? Because as presented, it makes no sense.
Related:
In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102583 - December 2025 (41 comments)
DNA testing firm 23andMe fined £2.3m by UK regulator for 2023 data hack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300220 - June 2025 (1 comment)
23andMe settles data breach lawsuit for $30M - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41536494 - September 2024 (3 comments)
23andMe told victims of data breach that suing is futile - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38874361 - January 2024 (33 comments)
23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38856412 - January 2024 (368 comments)
The LLM writing sameness is bad. Use LLMs to help your writing! But don't include a word they generate, even just a vocabulary adjustment, in your own output. Have them critique structure and flow, spot overused words and passive constructions and dumb picks for topic sentences. It's great for that, and those are all objective improvements in your writing that won't mess up your style.
The LLM sameness in web design is good. Most sites shouldn't try to be idiosyncratic. The best design for a site with real utility is legibility, and LLMs are better at that than the median developer. Always laying out the same buttons? Always using the same type scales? Good! If it looks good to you, you weren't going to do better on your own, and you were very likely to do worse.
This guy tried to resolve a legal dispute without a lawyer. Any competent business lawyer should have been able to straighten this out within days. He even tried to do process service himself, which nobody does. You pay a process server $100 or so for that.
>It's hard to avoid the topic when it literally redefines what it means to create software.
It redefines it because its shoved down our throats as redefining it.
Thinking that teachers (or AIs) are always right is the anti-intellectual way to go through life. Between a teacher or an AI just going off of its training data is a close call; between a teacher and an AI doing a web search it's no contest, it's the AI.
Wonderful!
At the bottom he notes: "I’m sitting in the UK as I write this. Under UK law, I believe this should constitute fair dealing: the purpose is quotation for criticism and review, and this single screen capture is in no way an alternative to paying to see the original film. The film comes from the USA, and under USA law I think it similarly constitutes fair use: it’s for non-profit educational purposes, the amount of the full work used is extremely small, and the effect on the value of the full work negligible."
I took down my entire "Behind The Screens" YouTube channel and transferred it to my own site: https://behind-the-screens.tv because of copyright notices from YouTube that were heavily skewed towards the studios and I didn't have the energy to fight what was clearly fair use in my videos.
What can quantum computing do right now?
I've read this 3 times now and I still don't really understand what he's trying to say. The split between EFF-style cryptography-coded "technopolitics" and Coinbase-style doesn't exist; the EFF is fundamentally a libertarian project and the Cypherpunks were/are enthusiastic progenitors of cryptofinance and "web3".
Is the CS community more prone to game metrics? I have a feeling most in the area would do that even if there weren’t any external incentives.
I’d go for prime palindromes.
Almost everything is correlated with zip code, most especially SES, so this comment doesn't really say anything.
All this sigint and no one is scanning and managing friendly RF [edit: data] leakage. Wild.
Edit: @bigyabai Corrected my incomplete thought and comment. My thought was not just RF, but also "these devices are reporting location and the US military must have some leverage to disempower data brokers from collecting this data for service members." The US gov knows who these brokers are, they buy from them [1] [2] [3] [4]. Mandate a process to provide device identifiers to disallow in data broker ETL data flows and punitive civil and criminal repercussions for not complying. Use national security as the justification if one must.
[1] https://www.eff.org/issues/location-data-brokers
[2] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/cong...
[3] https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillanc...
Tender offers.
https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/tender_offer
https://carta.com/learn/equity/liquidity-events/tender-offer...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
(secondary markets are sometimes an option, depending on stock transfer restrictions)
You can learn a lot developing a language and runtime but you will reach a point when you'll realize you can go back and do it all better.
Is it
(1) Didn't all the people who were into crypto get into Claude Code instead?
or
(2) I tried to tell them. They didn't listen. Now they're going to die.
?
Essentially the whole problem with housing prices in the US is failure to build housing, largely forced through restrictions on building housing, including restrictive zoning.
“Some of the supply of housing that is permitted to exist is used a short-term rentals rather than as actual housing” may be “part” of the problem, but its a vanishingly small part, in that if you deal with the basic building problem, there would be no actual problem, even if the short-term rental thing continued.
And? Back in the day people used to regularly go from northern California to southern and vice versa for a good party
By people I mean me, I'm sure some people are still doing it
The danger facing Apple is far more lethal than a temporary supply
chain squeeze. It is an existential hollowout.People who won’t stop struggling.
To nobody's surprise, the SATs actually measure math competence which is crucial for success in STEM.
The casual release of Opus 4.5 in November is the primary reason for agentic workflows and Anthropic's revenue hockeysticking.
> Earning…
Inheritance is, notably, not earning it.
> continue do productive work
That's a pretty bald assertion. Useless nepo babies abound.
> relying on public largesse
Any chance the existence of a stable, well-educated, high-trust society benefits the children of wealthy people at all?
> If you make the tax too high it starts discouraging the behavior you're taxing, which can paradoxically reduce overall tax revenue.
The Law of Supply and Demand is not a paradox.
Consider supporting Karakeep as a primary datastore for processing. It is open source and can do the heavy lifting of aggregating and archiving various content sources, and so processing can occur downstream.
MIT dropped the SAT requirement only to bring it back a few years ago: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/we-are-reinstating-our....
Dropping standardized test requirements is disconcerting. Of all of the institutions that should be making decisions neutrally based on the evidence, it’s universities. The fact that even institutions like MIT changed their admissions policies according to ideas that aren’t backed by evidence.
IQ testing in white collar US employment is not unlawful and several household name companies openly perform general cognitive assessments; the companies that provide those tests have logo crawls just like every other product company. Griggs doesn't say what you think it says.
IQ testing is uncommon in US employment because it doesn't do a good job of selecting candidates, not because it's unlawful.
“It always seems impossible until it's done."
I think Google's "AI Mode" does better at integrating search results and answering questions. It can find articles and scientific papers that match my memory in most situations and does a lot better at Arknights question answering than Microsoft Copilot (reskinned ChatGPT) does.
I do think the hardware is part of the Horizon Worlds story.
8 GB on the Meta Quest is not a whole lot. If you are willing to use game development techniques and pay game development rates you can write games for it. But if you want something that competes with the web, if you want businesses to create experiences for XR on a routine basis, you have to get the cost down. Horizon Worlds' limited authoring model works holistically but doesn't let me import 3D models, doesn't let me use photographic content and would force me to learn an idiosyncratic authoring system to make content for a platform where nobody was there.
A device with 16GB or 32GB of RAM would take some of the pressure off and make content authoring easier but with current RAM prices that's a lot to ask for.
Right. I was very surprised because there aren't laws against insider trading on prediction markets.
So I genuinely don't understand what he is being charged with. What precisely is the "fraud"? The entire point of prediction markets is to get people with better information to participate, i.e. "insiders".
Insider trading with public corporations has tons of specific laws around it to clearly define what is insider information and what isn't. Prediction markets don't have any of that.
And the article does nothing whatsoever to clarify what the heck the actual fraud is supposed to be.
(And I understand this is against Google policy, but that's not what this is about.)
In my mind it is about access to a high performance network inside the data center and to the rest of the world as much or more that I can rent a machine there.
I'd also say there are a lot of cases where we only need intermittent service, like why pay for a whole server to sit there to serve 100 requests which could be handled by a simple Lambda function?
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Lawyer A began chatting with the firm's AI on 20th March 2026 following receipt of my query of that date.
What is remarkable when reading those chats is, first, that one would think that the text attributed to the AI was produced by an intelligent human being.
The second remarkable thing is that, on a large number of occasions, it is plainly wrong or, at the very least, extremely misleading.
This seems like another case where the models are acting like humans. Assuming they were not allowed to search the web, I wouldn't expect the models to necessarily have detailed information about all of these things directly in their training set. As large as they are, they are only so large, and they only have so much room for "information storage" in them, and there's a lot more things they need to fit into their numbers.
This test is of only marginal utility in the real world compared to an AI with access to the web. While I wouldn't expect an AI with access to the web to result in Platonic Truth any more than it would in the hand of a human, it would probably get a lot closer to something humanlike.
I recall about a year how we were discussing basically turning web search into LLM queries, and I remember never being clear whether people meant simply directly querying AIs or turning them loose on the web. The former is what this is testing and is fairly transparently stupid, just by an information theoretic argument that the AIs simply can't contain all the answers to every query in them, they're just not large enough (and really can't be, practically). I've had good results with the latter, when using dedicated AI resources that I'm paying for (not the stuff coming out of the search engines right now, which I find are often quite terrible). Even non-frontier models can do OK when they've got good results sitting right there to look at. Again, the standard I'm applying here isn't that they yield Absolute Truth, but just that when I follow the links back, they basically say what the AI said they did and the summary is reasonable. I wouldn't expect a human to do better in a casual overview, not that the result is perfect.
If you can consistently construct "true but misleading" content, you may be qualified to work at a major newspaper.
ty for digging this up, appreciate the time saving
Learn a trade that involves using your hands.
Agents. An agent is a system for spinning up processes that use tokens, talking to other processes that use tokens.
I wonder how many megawatts that waste represented. Just one guy, worse than a small air force of private jets.
Interesting that this is under the DSA, since if they're the "importer" by mailing parcels to the EU it would also be covered by long standing rules on CE marking.
It's good to know that someone's actually checking this stuff. Self-reported compliance like CE always makes me wonder if I'm a mug for trying to comply honestly with the rules when it would be easy not to.
Probably a mini Iran-Contra. Get approval for paying $40m to [SECRET] to carry out acts of pro-US terrorism. Steal the gold. Tip off the enemies of the group so they fail/are killed/arrested. Then report to your superior that the mission was a failure due to enemy action.
Yeah, nobody wants to chew the rag anymore!
"Some of our employees are taking a forced voluntary separation"
Yes, read that. What these people are talking about seems to replacing training of NNs by something else entirely. The big question is, does that work? At all?
It's premature to discuss network architecture until that basic question is answered.
This piece is really good:
> The cost of building has collapsed, but the cost of aligning organisationally has not. If anything, it's gone up. When three different teams can each produce a working solution to the same problem in the time it used to take to write a proposal, the bottleneck moves from engineering to coordination.
We're still figuring out how to productively use coding agents as individuals, the next challenge is figuring out how to productively use them within teams. Coding agents reduce one bottleneck - producing working code - but that just moves the bottlenecks elsewhere.
(Note I said "working" code and not "good" code, that's a whole other thing.)