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Wow. The brainwashing is still real, half a decade later.
If you think this is somehow "wrong" and that was "right", or vice-versa, you do not believe in free speech.
What is the lamp, the one that‘s like a paper globe?
That was everywhere in my childhood.
Most likely biometric data on crime suspects to correlate with other forensic data. Obtaining this data on a case by case basis is expensive so it is most likely to be used in high stakes cases like murders or bank robberies where police and prosecutors need to show a win.
For example, A is known to have been an associate of B. B died violently at a certain time and date. Phone data put both of them in the same general area around that time. A seems evasive and won't talk. But A's biometric data reveals intense physical activity around the time of B's death...
Other suggestions in this thread like algorithmically making things worse for people in general are predicated on continual availability for a whole deanonymized population.
> The airbus A380 family is associated with 1,490 fatalities…
What? The A380 has never had a single fatality or even injuries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380#Accidents_and_inci...
> Incidents are over five years old have minimal impact in terms of current competition between Boing and Airbus.
Airbus (and Boeing) has a decade-long backlog. They absolutely do. https://flightplan.forecastinternational.com/2026/04/14/airb...
We really should build an open source ALPR system of cameras that gives real time information on the position of every law enforcement vehicle. Including the cars driven by the officers to and from work. That would have been helpful in finding license violations in California by ICE officers.
A while back "oops, we accidentally canceled ebola monitoring" was a White House press conference laugh line made by Musk, in fact.
There's likely plenty of them still in use in industrial/embedded applications.
Does encryption at rest actually do much? The percentage of attacks that were perpetrated by people getting physical access to a drive must approach zero.
No, the court ruled that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their cell phone records. You're going to get to some weird and inoperative places if you try to generalize from jurisprudence like this. You do not generally have an established right to move without being observed in the US; the very fact that you're required to keep a clearly visible tracking device on your car or motorcycle shows that.
This unfortunately won’t be news again until, and I think this is now an until versus if, we find evidence the disease is spreading uncontrollably outside the DRC.
Every time I work in another language I miss PHP’s arrays.
> the once-responsive Oura has not yet replied to any of my inquiries, or committed to releasing the numbers
Illinois has a tight biometric-privacy law [1]. I’d bet Oura isn’t particularly careful about prohibiting e.g. a Texas police department querying the protected information of Illinois residents.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_...
> whilst the EU is out there building the new free [trade] world, with itself as the biggest lynchpin
In the same way America is stuck in its military heyday past, the EU is stuck pretending its brand of multilateralism is still a thing outside its own borders.
You act like these scientists and engineers are all above reproach. A mayor in the LA area was just charged for acting as a Chinese agent: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/14/nx-s1-5819933/china-trump-tri.... A Navy engineer and his wife (who was a teacher at my kids' school) were convicted a few years ago for trying to sell nuclear submarine secrets to foreign governments.
Scientists and engineers aren't any more moral than the rest of us, and interactions between them across national boundaries raises security risks.
Here's a useful note on how well screen readers support DL: https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/updated-brief-note-on-desc...
It all depends on your vision, doesn't it? 13 inches was a normal-size screen when we had five pieces of information on it at 640x480, but now that we have 4k screens jam packed with elements, it's no longer a good size.
I'm not sure saying something like "we used to send letters to each other a hundred years ago so we should be fine without mobiles" is such an ironclad argument.
People talk like "status quo" was inherently a bad thing, and that any change to it is good by default. On the contrary, "status quo" is usually a hard-won place, a foothold against strong tides, a position that you try to preserve while carefully considering your next step, because a careless step will just send you falling back down to whatever hellhole reality your predecessors dragged themselves up from.
Status quo is not a stable state, it's a state you defend.
One can only hope.
C++/WinRT is in maintenance, and you will notice the WinUI 3.0 does most of their demos, and gallery with C#.
It sounds as much as delusions of grandeur (impossible business) as romantic delusions. Notably he had romantic delusion problems even before the chatbot entered the scene.
Like many Pratchett fans I have not read the last published Discworld book, The Shepherd's Crown, because then I will have read them all.
The author of this piece hasn't read the Witches books! I'm jealous, they still have so much great Pratchett to get through.
> GPL itself does not forbid you from dynamically linking
GPL does not contain the words "dynamically linking". That‘s just a common interpretation as a shortcut.
In this case there are arguments for the program-plugin communication to be "intimate" and as such falling under "derivative work". But it‘s easy to take the other side, as well.
> in the time that Python can perform a single FLOP, an A100 could have chewed through 9.75 million FLOPS
wild
Any software tool requires intelligence to be used well, including AI.
Quite often in these cases the mother is an abused minor themselves.
Rather like pre 2022 Russia, governments get warnings that something bad is going to happen that it would be expensive to prepare for, and put off preparing because you don't get political rewards for that.
What do you think they do all day?
The larger pattern is not unique to writing code. Think of it next time a reorg comes, or some random thing gets "improved" in the name of "efficiency" only management seems to see.
It works on my Android phone with Vivaldi, though I need to be careful because the text doesn't allow me to scroll
Agreed, this is the first thing I thought of too. Don't teach people to paste unknown commands into their terminal!
Depends on what you're optimizing for. I'd hope that "after the subsidy ends", the "cheaper/local providers" will be at the level of at least current SOTA models. If not, then there's hardly a point using them anyway; if yes, then by sticking to subscription workflow you'll be learning the very workflow you'll be using "after subsidy ends".
Either way, I don't see much point of intentional austerity in times of extreme growth. There will be time for austerity once the growth ends.
I've decided to stop making analogies on HN because, instead of focusing on the helpful part, people always take them way too far and then act as if they invalidated your original point.
In case you aren't aware, the whole codebase of Bun did not explode into debris just because it hit a bug. They can just fix the bug and recompile.
When did C got safe strings and arrays?
Ideally neither C nor C++ should be used when security matters.
re APL:
BQN is a new take on APL w/ high performance implementation
https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/
Dyalog APL is a well supported proprietary APL implementation
re open source k implementations:
there are many by now
here is a current non-exhaustive list grouped by k dialect they orbit (to my understanding)
k9
ktye (Go w/ Go, wasm, C targets) https://github.com/ktye/i
k6
ngn/growler (C): https://codeberg.org/growler/k
oK (JavaScript): https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok
kiwi (Zig): https://github.com/kiwi-array-lang/kiwi
k3
kona (C): https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona
gk (C): https://github.com/cmh25/gk
ksharp (C#): https://github.com/ERufian/ksharp
k-like
goal (Go): https://codeberg.org/anaseto/goal
klongpy (Python) https://github.com/briangu/klongpy
I'm working on kiwi.
kiwi has a focus on supporting Apple Silicon and can make use of Apple Silicon GPU (via MLX and Metal) as well as the Accelerate framework to speed up some workloads.
kiwi also comes with companion apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple watch in case anyone wants to run k on a watch:
> If developers are being laid off because AI is better/faster/cheaper
This is, in my opinion, tripe. SWEs are being laid off because of post-Covid over-hiring. The only evidence for labour destruction is in junior hires. But not because anyone is being fired, but because entry-level jobs are being cannibalised.
Algorithms in the LZ family were always popular with self-decompressing executables, because of their simplicity and high efficiency; like a natural extension of RLE, they can achieve very high compression ratios while needing only a few dozen bytes for a decompressor.
employee's government furnished phones
In other words these were always the property of the government.
If you think this is going to immunize you from the worst of what the MAGA movement has to offer I think you're in for a rude awakening.
> simple fast lane for the 100% legal, non-complicated case
Immigration policy in the current administration (which seems to be driven by Stephen Miller) is not based around legalaities, it's based around cutting immigration as much as possible because that's what satisfies Trump's voter base. These people do not care if you 'did it the right way'. They have an atavistic hatred of foreigners.
We should have left C in the 90's already, but then FOSS happened,
"Using a language other than C is like using a non-standard feature: it will cause trouble for users. Even if GCC supports the other language, users may find it inconvenient to have to install the compiler for that other language in order to build your program. So please write in C."
The GNU Coding Standard in 1994, http://web.mit.edu/gnu/doc/html/standards_7.html#SEC12
Honestly, I can't think of a more deserving bunch of people than the owner and target customers of that website. Super genius people like that need entertaining challenges in their lives to perform at their peak.
I feel confident in predicting there will be a glut in 5 years.
Nice work by SpaceX engineering.
Good summary. The booster appeared to hit the water at 1400 km/h (a bit under 900 mph) so not really survivable :-). Engine out on ship seems to left them with just enough fuel to land but not enough to do the hover thing (simulates being caught by chopsticks). They notched it down to two engines (vs planned 3) on the landing it seems?
Basically if they can figure out the engine issues, it looks like they should be able to do a full end to end flight. That's reasonable progress. Given the IPO this was a pretty important flight and I don't think they hurt it (like blowing up on the launch pad would have). So their one step closer it seems.
There's an important difference between tax (predictable, evenly applied) and corruption (uneven, unpredictable, and doesn't go to the government but individuals)
> evidence of how skilled immigrants are immensely beneficial to the US economy.
That's irrelevant. "Justice" means following the rules. Congress gets to decide the immigration laws. Congress has never created a real system for skilled permanent immigrants. The term "H1B" actually comes from 8 USC 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(B).
Subsection (a)(15) literally defines the term "immigrant" to exclude people in the subsequent subsections, including (H)(i)(b). Subsection (a)(15)(H)(i)(b) then reiterates that the category is for someone "who is coming temporarily to the United States to perform services." Congress didn't hide the ball.
It's just an example of how the immigration laws have been a bait-and-switch for decades: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/podcasts/the-daily/electi...
> Is it possible even in principle for a conscious entity to have an instinctual understanding and awareness of every low-level detail comprising its design?
Access is possible, complexity limits what you can do with it.
It's like having a JTAG port on a chip with a lot of test access. You can read the state of most of the gates, but now you're overwhelmed with data. Processing that data takes more resources than the system being monitored.
At a larger scale, though, this starts to work. Modern industrial plants and cars have sensors all over the place, more than are really needed to operate the system. They're there to diagnose it.
On the contrary, Microsoft acknowledged those that buy NeXTSTEP evolution laptops to do Linux work, showing that actually any POSIX support will do, and since nowadays Linux distros have won the UNIX server room wars, they packaged Linux in a VM.
Just like Apple eventually did witn Virtualization Framework, because they cannot be bothered to keep pushing OS X Server.
Thus WSL alongside Virtualization Framework are the actual Year of Linux Desktop.
The U.S. doesn’t have a real statutory pathway to permanent residency for skilled immigrants. The current H1B to Green Card pipeline is built on a legal fiction papered over a visa program that was the word “non-immigrant intent” written all over the statute.
Gemini gets this correct: “The H-1B visa is a nonimmigrant classification that allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign nationals in ‘specialty occupations’ that require highly specialized knowledge and at least a bachelor's degree.”
I know not the point, but is "PNL" a term people use now vs P&L?
The AI Bubble – No One's Happy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230753 - May 2026
I thought the tiles were designed for easy replacement, so not a big concern with replacing cracked ones.
Right!
And it's not just the product design either - the number of steps it takes to get a piece of software in front of other people, correctly deployed, with backups and analytics and monitoring and a domain name...
Even with all the LLM help in the world you still need to know a whole lot about how web software works to pull that off.
> The US is trending towards a Russian style oligarchy
There's a step after that. There's an article in the current Economist about how the Russian oligarchs are being crushed by Putin's cronies and losing their assets.
Starbucks is moving its headquarters from Seattle to Tennessee.
Many other businesses that are not large enough to interest the newspaper are moving out as well.
I've been using it pretty extensively over a month and I'm at maybe $7. It thinks for quite a while, but the results have been better than Sonnet for me.
It is definitely not the case that human remediation was the bottleneck for most vulnerability eradication 10 years ago. Proving out vulnerabilities was much harder than resolving them.
I like how you omit that this is the House Republicans’ report.
“Official” is a big stretch.
Just a quick note that Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel, not a work of reporting.
It concerns me that anyone with anything important to protect might trust what this paper calls "Injection detectors deployed to protect LLM agents" - Llama Guard and the like.
There are unlimited combinations of tokens that can be used to attack an LLM system. The idea that some kind of "detector" can catch them all just feels inherently absurd to me.
Neat, maybe he can do a followup on how OrangeDAO X Press Start Cap Fellowship Program for new Web3 entrepreneurs is going.
Sigh. Kids don't realize that before "the internet" there was Usenet, dial up modems, and store and forward nodes. But the same kids want all the things that the surveillance economy pays for, but they don't want to pay. It's definitely messed up.
I actually designed a device about 10 years ago, it was connection like Tailscale but embedding a 32 bit IPV4 experience in the IPV6 space. You still had to pay $1/month or so to cover the cost or running a network specific DNS somewhere but you already pay for your own Internet access, and putting a "server" in the form of a RaspberryPi on this network would be super oldschool. Think Metro-scale 'NAT' where the 'NAT' part was just the lower 32 bits of a 96 bit prefix. You can lift and run, unchanged, the IPV4 world if you want. Your own private 4 billion address space to play around in.
I am careful with the world “lie” to denote “you knew the statement was false but you said it anyway” as opposed to “you said something false because your beliefs were false”
I'm more curious about the caching:
> (2) For all models, the input cache hit price has been reduced to 1/10 of the launch price. This price adjustment takes effect from 2026/4/26 12:15 UTC.
There is no end date. Currently, it's 2% of the input price for DeepSeek V4 Flash and 0.8% with this new V4 Pro pricing, which is extremely low compared to competitors to the point that it affects the unit economics a bit and I thought it would be temporary.
In the case of V4 Pro, the effective cost is ~$0.04/M input tokens given the caching (based on OpenRouter's metrics: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro), which is significantly cheaper than even small models from competitors.
The idea is to take the human out of the loop.
I never look at code. It used to be that it quickly became unmaintainable spaghetti where the agent struggled to make any change at all, but in the past year (and with a three step plan/develop/review workflow), the quality is so good that I basically just don't look at the code any more.
It definitely has fewer bugs than a senior developer, but it really hinges on getting the plan right. 20 minutes of planning and 20 of implementation sounds about right for my workflow as well, just make sure you have GPT as a reviewer. It's very nitpicky and finds lots of bugs.
You mean this one? https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jag...
That's the one that says:
> We took the specific vulnerabilities Anthropic showcases in their announcement, isolated the relevant code, and ran them through small, cheap, open-weights models. Those models recovered much of the same analysis.
> Very sad to see the US fall away from the rule of law, into kleptocracy.
This is what is so hard for me to handle, and it really feels like I'm grieving a death. Because no matter what happens, even if some things eventually get better, I feel like the US as I knew it is dead - there is simply no coming back from the fact that it's been laid bare how quickly and easily vast swaths of our political leadership would sell out to completely destroy our Constitutional principles.
I had to laugh when I read a title on the Washington Post today, "President Trump faced a wall of opposition from Senate G.O.P. lawmakers, in part over his plan to create a $1.8 billion fund to reward his allies", with of all people Susan Collins in the header image. Lol, I'm sure she'll release a statement saying how she's "very concerned" and end up doing nothing anyway.
This was my opinion circa 2011 or so when I was recapping the old AI.
Consider, for instance, the successful early medical diagnosis program MYCIN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin
which like any kind of diagnosis process is a problem of reasoning with probability. Language understanding has the same issue, like if you wrote a grammar for English you'd find that common sentences have 1000s of possible ways to parse and you will need to either make a guess or keep your options open.
MYCIN had a half-baked approach to reasoning about uncertainty that worked, one of the reasons why symbolic AI fell out of favor was that nobody developed a generally useful approach to bolt probabilities onto logic.
Why is it "nearly immediately" at a consulate but "backlogged" in the US? Why can't that be fixed?
> Where did that money come from?
The value created by his company. That value can be turned into money by selling shares of it (stocks), or by borrowing against it (bonds).
Money is created by banks. When banks loan you money, that money is created by a notation in the bank's ledger. But they only loan money on collateral, which would be in this case the value of the company. The money gets destroyed (!) when the loan is paid off. But the value of the collateral remains.
> They're just randomly flagging
What is the purported legal authority they’re acting under? Some of the housekeeping in the next years will involve pulling those statutes.
I like "...lead is responsible for the loss of 824,097,690 IQ points as of 2015" which is something I never hear from the people who are so interested in IQ and who can't stand it that the rest of us aren't.
A thoughtful piece that has me thinking about translational problems for technology in the game industry. Like how Microsoft and Google and Facebook all seem like they "just don't get it" when it comes to games and keep pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.
There was that cloud gaming fad a few years back when it seemed for... some reason... every "big tech" company had to be doing something. [1] Google's Stadia had some good ideas on the controller front yet did nothing to really change the industry: GCP stocks a large number of huge machines with multiple GPUs which would be capable of running multiple player games where a single machine runs a shared simulation for all players and streams the graphics to them. Risky? Yes. But had such an effort succeeded it would have had a major impact on the industry, and it was something Google could have done better than anyone else.
I like the theme too that "instruction following will never teach an LLM to talk like an NPC" but I do think the innovation out of this space are going to come out of things like "character.AI" where the relationship to the character is the endpoint whereas you might add really revolutionary NPCs to a game and find users don't really engage with them.
[1] ... itself a structural problem in the industry
It is to disincentive those on a temporary visa to apply for permanent residency, without eliminating the visa path entirely. What your mental model is optimizing for (easy, efficient) is different than what they are optimizing for (hard, inefficient).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-22/trump-to-...
> The policy change could impact hundreds of thousands of people a year and potentially reduce legal immigration further amid a sweeping government crackdown, according to immigration-law experts. President Donald Trump’s administration has introduced a series of restrictions affecting everyone from asylum seekers to students and highly skilled workers.
> The new rules generally apply to any foreigner who came to the US on a temporary non-immigrant visa, including students, employees on H-1B or L visas and visitors. The US awards about 1 million green cards a year, though roughly half of those are for foreign relatives being sponsored by an American citizen. Those applications are generally already processed outside of the US.
(POSIWID [The Purpose of a System Is What It Does])
> Naturally, our Congress is full of technical and administrative expertise…
Congress knew of that issue; for decades, Congress has delegated the nitty gritty to regulatory agencies, who employ said experts.
SCOTUS, on the other hand, are the idiots you seek. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loper_Bright_Enterprises_v._Ra...
This post isn't offering anything better.
There have been conglomerate fads from time to time in American business. Interestingly ITT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Inc.
used to have a big position in hotels and just about everything else and it trained quality movement advocate Phil Crosby
> When your power is to determine which day the recycling truck is dropping-by, hardly anyone wants to coerce that power.
I take it you've never encountered a homeowner's association.
Goldman Sachs renamed HR human capital management when they were still known for being the smartest people on the street. So the convention of calling employees human capital stuck. From there I can totally see how the other, much longer-lived, convention of rating employees as high and low value bled over.
> can’t just quit the “career” that I’ve spent years building
One, I think the talk about AI replacing developers is tripe. We’re still correcting the post-Covid hiring binge.
Two, even if that level is breached, I’d consider your skillset more broadly than what you can literally do right now. Organizing people and technical systems is hard. And the article highlights how that doesn’t seem to be something AI is focused on improving on right now. (Would take larger context windows. Which would make inference more expensive.)
That's just a snarky way to describe all business investment that requires purchasing things made in the future. It's entirely normal.
You could literally rewrite the quote to be about iron and about building railroads for trains and passengers that don't exist yet. See how silly that would be?
Except the "profit that is mathematically impossible" part. That's just made up and false. It's entirely possible that we are actually underestimating demand, and there is going to be tons of profit. Nobody knows for sure, but profit is very, very, very possible.
As someone that works in projects with standard IT tools, not supporting NPM made it a non starter for us.
No way it would go through standard build pipelines, or team skills.
> A model that knows more in general, will often be better at specific tasks
Is this your hypothesis or broad conclusion among AI experts?
> it is about paid influencers and not about heretical opinions
This makes sense. If she took money from Americans agitating for separatism in Canada to promote separatism in Canada, and that violates Canadian law, I can see a legitimate path for investigating and imprisoning.
> You "can" stop me from singing your song... But can you?
Yes. I kill you. Stealing was usually punishable by death in ancient cultures.
> You don't even know where I am
This isn’t a thing in early human societies.
Like, yes, you could theoretically get away. Lots of thieves of physical property actually get away. That doesn’t make said property indefensible in principle.
The only people I see bristling are the ones who don't want to hear an uncomfortable viewpoint.
"When it comes to jobs, I'd rather listen to a business wizard from 2011 than a technical wizard from 1981" is hardly contentious, but if people liked hearing "AI has changed the world and you're all fucked", the students wouldn't have been booing in the first place.
Honestly, if you don't like what Eric Schmidt was saying, you should have a long hard think about whether unchecked capitalism is really as great as advertised.
That is a SV thing, in many places it is a regular office job.
You are already in a treat if having free coffee and fruit.
And I'll still be waiting a year to play Half Life 3 on it.
PC games tend to be the reverse: they demand control over the machine, in order to try to detect or prevent being run alongside various forms of cheating software.
They also need low-latency access to the GPU, which I suspect is a fertile vector for privilege escape exploits.
> But now we can’t even get them excited about technology?
> What have we done?
Arguably this transition happened a lot earlier; the first half of the 20th century was the time for pure techno-optimism, then somewhere between nuclear weapons, global warming, and reporting like The Silent Spring people realized that there were downsides. Medicine had its peak with antibiotics, the edge blunted by the thalidomide disaster, and now sits in a complex web of paranoia and propaganda.
It's not enough for technology to be "cool" in an apolitical vacuum. People have to believe that there will be benefits for them. And the big pitch from the AI companies is the "great replacement" of all white collar jobs with AI. No wonder they're upset.
FSFE distanced itself from FSF at one point: https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210324-01.en.html
This is making me feel a lot better about my plan to lease a $25k EV simply because it's available at a massive discount. I'll probably end up using less electricity, too.
Nazism wasn't exactly unpopular in the US at the time (and still is, unless you mention it by name - think Alex Karp). It required a concerted propaganda effort to reverse that, with limited success - in the end Americans hated the German nazis, but never completely rejected their ideas about race supremacy.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryfo...
https://archive.ph/Cy2qN