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So it has converged to the same UI/UX as the Claude/Codex desktop apps. If that's the case, why use Cursor over those more canonical apps?
Everybody has a JSON extension, and they're all slightly different.
I just got hit badly by Dreamhost, which is still running MySQL 8.0. That version has a "JSON extension" which is almost totally useless. I designed something before discovering how different MySQL 8.4 and MySQL 8.0 are.
Essentially yes. It only has traction on X, but in the AI world that is all that is necessary. (its engagement metrics are poor for its size on all other platforms)
>Counting is something that even humans need to learn how to do
No human who can program, solve advanced math problems, or can talk about advanced problem domains at expert level, however, would fail to count to 5.
This is not a mere "trains also need to learn this" but points to a fundamental mismatch about how humans and LLMs learn.
Speaking of falsifiable info:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/01/27/fac...
> Experts say the rising tally of polar bears reflects an increased ability to track bears – not an actual increase in the population. The graph is based on various estimates of the global population that include unscientific estimates, extrapolation and insufficient data sets, according to scientists.
The same goes for college.
I've advised college students to leave their laptops in their dorm room. Take a spiral notebook to lecture, and a couple pens. Write down everything the professor writes on the chalkboard.
When studying, going over the notes, you'll hear the lecture again in your head.
Of course, if the professor doesn't use a chalkboard, and does a slide presentation instead, that will make studying harder for you.
The best presentation I ever gave was when the presenter didn't show up, and the conference asked for volunteers. I volunteered and gave an impromptu presentation using markers and the big whiteboard. The back-and-forth with the audience was very productive!
Most conferences have no way to do this. I tried using an overhead projector and markers, but the conference people thought I was crazy. There was just too much expectation of a packaged slide presentation.
The average person — that would be me — thinks "nah, I have no idea how to install an ad blocker or how one works, and I'm afraid I'll screw up my computer."
>Assuming we knew enough about how a dog behaves (or less ambitiously, a more primitive organism) I would assume this could be described in a formal language. But why would Principia be needed for this?
It explains this directly before that phrase:
"Their language was dense and the work laborious, but they kept on proving a whole bunch of different truths in mathematics, and so far as anyone could tell at the time, there were no contradictions. It was imagined that at least in theory you could take this foundation and eventually expand it past mathematics: could you encode in pure logic how a dog behaves, or how humans think?"
>Math have been used to model natural phenomena a long time before Principia.
Which means little in this context. The question posed wasn't if you can use some math to describe some natural phenomenon.
The question posed was whether one could model the whole thing (e.g. how a dog behaves) in a formal language - not just take some isolated equations and apply it to this or that aspect of phenomenon (especially if it's a mere approximation). That they already knew, e.g. the equations for planetary motion.
> An passive investors are going to get hosed by this thanks to NASDAQ cooking the rules
I’m genuinely confused how a passive investor winds up tracking the NASDAQ 100 versus a broader index.
Also, if you’re picking and choosing your exposures, you aren’t passive.
> The amount of firepower that China can muster from the mainland is enough to completely overwhelm any amount of conventional firepower that the US can bring
A lesson we learn again in 2026: one can’t seize and hold territory with air power alone.
China can almost certainly deny U.S. warships access to the Taiwan Strait. They can probably deny U.S. access to the South China Sea. But the U.S. (and Taiwan and Japan) can do the same back, similarly from a distance, and that’s the equilibrium currently keeping the peace.
I ran these in LM Studio and got unrecognizable pelicans out of the 2B and 4B models and an outstanding pelican out of the 26b-a4b model - I think the best I've seen from a model that runs on my laptop.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/2/gemma-4/
The gemma-4-31b model is completely broken for me - it just spits out "---\n" no matter what prompt I feed it. I got a pelican out of it via the AI Studio API hosted model instead.
Everyone is so confident in their reading of tea leaves
> it was first and foremost a military enterprise, just like GPS
This is sort of like arguing cutlery is a military enterprise. Like yes, that’s where knives came from. But that’s disconnected enough from modern design, governance and other fundamental concerns as to be irrelevant. The internet—and less ambiguously, the World Wide Web—are more commercial than military.
You can be inspired by the company and skeptical of its finances.
> Especially the simulation footage where the lack of brightness made it hard to see the vehicle - they might as well have used KSP for it
Livestream simulated footage continues to be a joke with all space agencies, private and government alike. They really should be using KSP for it - it's not hard to wire up with external telemetry, and with couple graphics mods, it looks way better than whatever expensive commercial professional grade simulator rendering they're using (which I suspect is part of a package that may be really, really great at simulations - and is intentionally not great at visuals of this kind, as it doesn't show anything that isn't directly representing some measurement).
The benchmark comparisons to Gemma 3 27B on Hugging Face are interesting: The Gemma 4 E4B variant (https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E4B-it) beats the old 27B in every benchmark at a fraction of parameters.
The E2B/E4B models also support voice input, which is rare.
Pretty solid Pelican: https://gist.github.com/simonw/ca081b679734bc0e5997a43d29fad...
I used the https://modelstudio.alibabacloud.com/ API to generate that one, which required signing up for an account and attaching PayPal billing - but it looks like OpenRouter are offering it for free right now so I could have used that: https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.6-plus:free
They always did that. Did they say anywhere they'd open all their models? They still have a business.
I suspect this is a frequency thing. Early SpaceX broadcasts were pretty rough. NASA just doesn't do launch coverage with the same sort of cadence.
Honestly, they should consider outsourcing that bit.
>where-as Alaska is contiguous with the United States, but requires crossing through parts of Canada to reach by land.
Contiguous means the 48 connected (contiguous) states. It never includes Alaska.
And even though definitionally/officially continental could include it (it's in the same continent), in common use "continental US" is not meant to include Alaska either.
Additional citation:
https://www.governance.fyi/i/192862936/who-pulled-the-ladder... ("Who Pulled the Ladder Away") from Marc Andreessen Is Right That AI Isn't Killing Entry-Level Jobs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613752 - April 2026
> The noncompete story is more galling. Legal experts describe the period from 1990 to roughly 2010 as the golden age of noncompete enforcement in America. What started as a tool for protecting senior executives’ trade secrets metastasized into a blanket restriction applied to hourly workers, sandwich shop employees, pet cremation technicians. An estimated 30 million Americans, nearly one in five workers, are bound by a noncompete agreement. These agreements directly suppress the mechanism through which the job ladder operates: they prevent employed workers from accepting better offers.
> The FTC, under the Biden administration, attempted a nationwide ban. The estimated effects were large and specific: $400 to $488 billion in increased wages over the next decade, $524 per worker per year in additional earnings, 8,500 new businesses annually, and 17,000 to 29,000 additional patents per year. The rule was struck down in federal court. The Trump administration formally vacated it in September 2025. The FTC has shifted to case-by-case enforcement, including a February 2026 consent order against a pet cremation company that had imposed blanket noncompetes on 1,780 employees, including hourly laborers and drivers. The bipartisan Workforce Mobility Act, reintroduced in June 2025 by Senators Murphy, Young, Cramer, and Kaine, would ban most noncompetes nationwide. It has been referred to committee. No further action has been taken. Over 150 bills have been introduced in more than 35 states, creating a patchwork that varies by jurisdiction. The patchwork is the opposite of the clear nationwide signal that would restore competitive dynamics.
> The graduate scrolling LinkedIn is not competing against chatbots. She is competing against four decades of eroded mobility, in a labor market where the companies that might hire her face less pressure to do so than at any point since the data began. We all spent two years worrying that AI will trap young workers in obsolete careers, if they every get a career in the first place. Meanwhile, noncompete agreements have been legally trapping workers in underpaying jobs for decades, and we barely noticed.
An iPad absolutely doesn't make kids "better at technology", if anything it makes them worse because it just wraps everything up in a braindead simple package for consumption.
Ironically, Gen Z was supposed to lead the way as "digital natives", but in many ways they are (speaking broadly) much less technically adapt than, say, Gen Xers, because Gen Xers had to struggle to figure stuff out because it hadn't been all wrapped up with a bow yet, and thus we got to understand the details of how thing worked at a deeper, more fundamental level.
I recall reading some articles about how many Gen Zers new to the workplace didn't even understand how file systems or directories worked, because things like iPads largely hide those details from the end user.
And to emphasize, I'm not dumping on Gen Z - they're, like everyone, just a product of the environment they grew up in. But I strongly disagree that getting access to an iPad makes anyone more technologically adept.
This is also how you get a romantic relationship and friendships: you stop being uptight about everything and treat the other as a stranger, and start being more relaxed with bounderies reserved for strangers.
A lost art today, where narcisism is "everybody else is toxic" and boundaries for everything is the norm.
Archived: https://archive.is/ERUYP
Whenever I get some breathless email about security from my organization I send a phishing report for it even if I think it is real. All the messages about mandatory password resets and the like just increase the surface area for phishing. There should be a policy like "we will never send you an email about the security of your account" See
https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/201...
a policy that's been talked about for more than 10 years and that the industry is almost catching up to.
Just to be clear about it, we’re not “the stacked diffs company,” that is, we consider stacked diffs table stakes for good code review, not the entire point and focus of the product.
That said, we haven’t talked a ton publicly about what exactly we’re building yet, because we’re very focused on building it. But if you or anyone else is dealing with pain around source control management, I’d love to hear about it: steve@ersc.io
"Over 100,000 packages on Nixpkgs. Every CLI tool you can think of. Installed declaratively, cached across container restarts, no Docker rebuild."
Mrs. Holbrook, who gave me a D in high school English, would point out that there isn't a single sentence there. On the other hand, I've had times when I made most of my income by writing. What do you want, good grammar or good taste?
The “Hacker News - Complete Archive” on Hugging Face,[1] recently popped up here. “The data is stored as monthly Parquet files sorted by item ID, making it straightforward to query with DuckDB, load with the datasets library, or process with any tool that reads Parquet.”
Out of curiosity, I tinkered with it using Claude to see trends and patterns (I did find a few embarrassing things about me!).
Like posted or "gets to the top page?"
I would rather pay people and websites for content. I already do this today for journalism orgs and a handful of high value substacks, I'm happy to pay for more. I'd pay for HN. Free does not scale (with the caveat being orgs like Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, and others who have an endowment behind them and can self fund alongside donations; this, of course, is a model others can adopt), people need to eat, pay for rent, etc, and ads are ineffective when everyone can block them.
Ads are a symptom of the problem that people want human generated content for free; they either do not value the content enough to pay for it, or cannot afford it. Ads do not solve for those problems.
Not mine. And why do we say LinkedIn, it is just Microsoft, just like Github is Microsoft and a whole raft of other companies are just Microsoft in a trenchcoat.
I'm a retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist (38 years in practice). I read Perrow's book several years after it was published. I was struck by how relevant his points of failure were to the practice of anesthesiology, the concept of the danger of tight coupling. I referred to this book over subsequent decades in my presentations on Grand Rounds, but to my knowledge none of the residents or other attendings ever read it.
Read a sample here: https://www.amazon.com/Normal-Accidents-Living-High-Risk-Tec...
Another good reason not to use extensions, and leave whatever they do for utility apps.
I just wish Apple would let devs cancel and refund subscriptions for people.
People get really peeved when we tell them that, believe it or not, we can't do it on our end.
No, they employ those.
In Zuck's case especially, in order to use what we know about childhood development and education to get kids addicted early.
The "The Attack: How it works" section explains how it works. It's not an API.
I am a little surprised something like CORS doesn't apply to it, though.
The existence of science does not obligate us to either receive a double-blind study of massive statistical significance on the exact question we're thinking about or to throw our hands up in total ignorance and sit in a corner crying about the lack of a scientific study.
It is perfectly rational to rely on experience for what screens do to children when that's all we have. You operate on that standard all the time. I know that, because you have no choice. There are plenty of choices you must make without a "data" to back you up on.
Moreover, there is plenty of data on this topic and if there is any study out there that even remotely supports the idea that it's all just hunky-dory for kids to be exposed to arbitrary amounts of "screen time" and parents are just silly for being worried about what it may be doing to their children, I sure haven't seen it go by. (I don't love the vagueness of the term "screen time" but for this discussion it'll do... anyone who wants to complain about it in a reply be my guest but be aware I don't really like it either.)
"Politicians" didn't even begin to enter into my decisions and I doubt it did for very many people either. This is one of the cases where the politicians are just jumping in front of an existing parade and claiming to be the leaders. But they aren't, and the parade isn't following them.
If life keeps giving it them, they should instead invent a combustible lemon.
I'm assuming less than the average ambulance ride in the USA
Both is fine.
Prosecute, and get rid of the loopholes that made it necessary to do so.
It’s a leavener when you get it wet, so swallowing enough will definitely feel like digestive upset from all the gas.
why not just buy 2 sets ? problem solved ?
I am impressed with the Steam Deck. Playing The Hundred Line on the deck brings back the glory days of the Playstation Vita. And it's the one device I have (including iPhone, iPad and Mac) for which AirPods are 100% a "just works" experience.
Software has gotten drastically more secure than it was in 2000. It's hard to comprehend how bad the security picture was in 2000. This very much, extremely includes Linux.
Yeah, 12 years ago or so I had trained an LSTM to make fake clinical reports based on clinical reports abstracts from pubmed. It was clear then that starting out in an empty state was a poor way to sample because the process that generates those documents doesn't start with 'pick the first letter' but it starts with the condition of a body which is revealed in the clinical encounter -- all of which is in the "state vector" of the real world so of course it should be in the state vector of the model.
The sponsor wasn't interested (people weren't interested enough in optimizing text generation then) so it never happened but it is nice to see that it works.
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Thanks, that's a much better link. That original submitted link is garbage.
But there was much less awareness of buffer overflows and none of the countermeasures that are widespread today. It was almost defining of the Win95 era that applications (eg. Word) frequently crashed because of improper and unsafe memory management.
Nah, it's a much lower part count and much simpler to put a microcontroller in. If you're concerned about cost cheaper parts are available.
“Reversing was already mostly a speed-bump even for entry-level teams, who lift binaries into IR or decompile them all the way back to source. Agents can do this too, but they can also reason directly from assembly. If you want a problem better suited to LLMs than bug hunting, program translation is a good place to start.”
Huh. Direct debugging, in assembly. At that point, why not jump down to machine code?
We don't do politics. We just do 'curious conversation'. /s
Personally I install Ubuntu wherever I can because it is what I know. I did go through a phase years ago when I would try any Linux distribution but now one would have to do something special to get my attention.
> looks like the next generation will be reusable
To the extent original Falcon 9 and earlier Chinese rockets were. It will be obsolete on release.
The main use of these certs is to give people that actually want to do their job a stick to hit their bosses with.
Own Red-Hat, thus major contributions to Wayland, GNOME, GCC and Java, at very least.
Have their own Java implementation, with capabilities like AOT before OpenJDK got started on Leyden, or even Graal existed, for years had extensions for value types (nowadays dropped), and alongside Azul, cluster based JIT compiler that shares code across JVM instances.
IBM i and z/OS are still heavely deployed in many organisations, alongside Aix, and LinuxONE (Linux running on mainframes and micros).
Research in quantum computing, AI, design processes, one of the companies that does huge amounts of patents per year across various fields.
And yes a services company, that is actually a consortium of IBM owned companies many of each under a different brand (which is followed by "an IBM company").
> "Batteries included" means "ossification is guaranteed", yah. "stdlib is where code goes to die" is a fairly common phrase for a reason.
Except I rather have ossified batteries that solve my problem, even if not as convinient as more modern alternatives, than not having them at all on a given platform.
Z/OS for ARM then? ;-)
I’ve been running VM/370 and MVS on my RPi cluster for a long time now.
Even C compilers have to hit machine code, and ISO C doesn't even acknowledge modern harware, it is all language extensions or manually written Assembly code to take advantage of it.
Not in the real world, but this is kind of how Asimov’s robots interpret their 3 laws - it’s about consequences much more than what the order is. Also, they weight consequences of inaction as well and might be driven to action when not acting could cause a violation.
Our AI is nowhere near the level of sophistication required to implement something like that, but it’s still an interesting idea.
> "and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have".
Ahh, yes, the SyneRyder effect.
I'm worried that this regulation is overreaching and will kill innovation in dark patterns. Yet another example of how Europe trails behind the US by allowing their busybody lawmakers to get in the way of progress. If you can't trick your subscribers into being unable to unsubscribe any more, how will companies survive?
I used to like chess and probably had a very good memory. But I never studied openings because I felt that those were 'other peoples games' and I figured the whole idea of playing a game is to have fun and see what you can do, not to regurgitate a bunch of paperwork and feel clever by congratulating each other on recognizing obscure opening variation #1922. Obviously the chess club wasn't amused: they cared about winning matches, I cared about having fun. So chess stopped being fun and I quit playing for a long time. Now I'm having a ton of fun playing with my kids and none of us have ever studied an opening book.
> Apple Support lives on apple.com and getsupport.apple.com, nowhere else.
Meanwhile: “Microsoft support uses the following domains to send emails:
microsoft.com
microsoftsupport.com
mail.support.microsoft.com
office365support.com
techsupport.microsoft.com” [1]
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/general...
Underrated secondary option: git bash. Lower setup overhead than full WSL, although it is slower if you need to work on a lot of files or spawn a lot of processes.
Worse are the folks claiming how much productive they are with AI tools, without understanding that it means companies will require less of us to do the same job.
Like in many scenarios, they always think the victims will be the other ones.
Yeah, the Flash has a wear lifetime. Battery has a finite lifespan too. Anything over five years is pretty good going. My wife managed that with a Nokia 1020, the last and best of the Windows phones.
Like everything else, phones need to be backed up.
> They are persisting with HLS though
Through what? What experimental data do you think renders this path foolish?
Because I’m seeing a rapid-reuse heavy lift system with a fuel depot being built.
Make it into a browser extension. Or, honestly, just a page with outputs and a tip jar. If there are interesting findings, highlight them-maybe blog about it and post that.
>You might want it to be fiction, but he's been very good at figuring out business plans to leverage his ultimate goals.
Not very good on delivering tech though, which is what makes it more fiction than not.
That's like when the Library of Alexandria was burned
It has never been ripgrep for decades for those of us on IDEs.
I hated the small title tabs for dragging windows but apart from that it was a nice OS and incredibly responsive.
On Gnome I use the multiple workspaces extensively. When on my desk, I use an Apple trackpad for the gestures and it works perfectly.
> I suspect it's the optics of it.
That's probably the justification for sending four people. First test flight probably could have been done with one or two pilots.
If I get that kind of content, my first reaction is to close it, it is kind of low effort content nowadays.
Unfortunely at work it isn't as easy with all the KPIs related to taking advantage of AI to "improve" our work.
The original post was edited with "this is not April Fool's"
To note that HP-UX Vaults and Solaris Zones predate these efforts, where only BSD and Linux keep being discussed.
With IBM and Unisys big iron predating ever further in the historic evolution, outside UNIX based operating systems.
I’m afraid to ask, but why, and who, tries to or wants/needs to remember IPv6 addresses?
For many decades, the only way the commercial aviation business survived was carrying the mail.
It will reach 10% in 2050 thereabouts, given current velocity, assuming current computing models are still relevant by then.
You can't buy an inverter that is certified that doesn't do this. As well as a whole raft of other safety measures and grid quality measures besides.
See for instance:
https://www.netbeheernederland.nl/sites/default/files/2024-0...
Every region has their own set of rules which requires inverter manufacturers to have a bunch of different settings depending on where the inverter is installed.
In the same vein as adblocking, the fundamental question here is, does a service have the right to control how you DON'T use their service? Are you legally obligated to be mentally influenced by adverts and cannot close your eyes or look away?
I'd love to see the EFF or similar take on Big (Ad)tech and settle this in court.
They've gone after youtube-dl and lost, Invidious is still there, etc.
A somewhat related legal case from long ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone_v._United_States
You’re ignoring data and facts, that’s a choice of course.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/decoupled-how-spain...
> Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables
> Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the electricity market.
Good luck when you're trying to troubleshoot and DNS not working is one of the symptoms. 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.x are easy to remember.
I'll bet you could make it in a weekend.
That other country has also people killing other people over a holy book.
I wonder how much more effort it would take to get working on Win9x (the first of the Win32 API).
I think it lasts for about a month.
Here's a remark I made about setting boundaries in a completely different forum:
More from the pasture: The herd has settled. The chestnut mare is boss, and she's a good alpha. My paint mare is second. The old draft horse gelding is third, and the grey is fourth. Today I went into the pasture to catch the paint. I call her, and she comes to me. But chestnut boss comes up and herds the paint away from me. So I have to have a talk with the boss.
I make eye contact with her, and walk up to her. She glares at me, but doesn't show hostility. I wave my hands a little at waist level, and she backs up one step. That's a mild submission, and all I needed. Now I can halter the paint mare. The boss mare watches closely, but does not interfere.
As someone else says, handling horses will teach you about setting boundaries in a very practical way.
Praying for these astronauts to have a safe return. The heat shield stuff has me really rattled. These folks are really brave to go through with this.
This is Bleichenbacher's rump-session e=3 RSA attack. It's pretty straightforward, and is in Cryptopals if anyone wants to try it. If you don't check all the RSA padding, and you use e=3, you can just take an integer cube root.
Direct indexing is pretty easy these days.
If it powers 30-50% of the web, including thousands of major websites, it works at some level.
Ivory tower "just don't use a low-cost solution" people aren't going to hand over money to people to use a higher-cost one, are they?
And ignoring why it's used besides the sloppiness means they have a huge blind spot to what people actually want:
"wordpress is valuable because it allows very bad developers / marketing people to write very bad code and get away with it, driving extremely low cost solutions for clients who are cost concious"
Nothing in this quote doesn't describe very real needs.
It needs a llama.cpp fork, too; so the stock runtime (based on stock llama.cpp) used by LM Studio presumably won't work for it.
This is driven by AI datacenter demand, not fuel prices. RAM prices have actually dropped significantly in the last couple days as the Iran war hit and the possibility that interest rates might go up and pop the AI bubble sunk in. (Though let’s see where they go after the last couple days of whipsawing.)
> Has there ever been a period o time where people saw a bubble coming and that we were in one, but it just inexorably refused to pop/drug out this long?
The housing bubble that peaked in 2006 was raised as an issue at least as early as 2000 and became a big topic of conversation in mid-to-late 2002, which is comparable to if we had started talking about an AI bubble roughly simultaneously with the release of GPT-3 and it had become a topic of wide concern shortly after the release of GPT-3.5.
So, in short, not only “this long”, but much longer.
What would all these companies do without Microsoft shipping VS Code as open source, probably still stuck with vi and Emacs.
Still curious which ones will survive when the AI gold diggers finally settle.