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Correction: the author accepted a grant for X options, that they must exercise to own. The author exercised a percentage of the options. They did not exercise all of their options. They left the company without exercising the remaining options. This is equivalent to forfeiting the options.

Now, 25 years later the author is preparing a litigation.

12345hn6789on Homebrew 7.0.0

Unfortunately this project has a case of dread with every update to me. To see what is being force changed, worse support or even removed features.

Looks like this release breaks Intel Macs. Very very sad. Not even 5+ year old hardware is apparently supportable to some devs

12345hn6789on iPhone Duo

This was not my experience at all on the fold. Only a very few small selection of apps did this. All were video game related, which made sense. Changing the resolution forced a restart.

12345hn6789on Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

A bit sad to see the author "10xing" his passion project with LLMs. I ended up moving one of my older projects in a similar way and I feel gross about it now. As if I didn't even work on it originally. I may just hard reset the LLM commits off my tree entirely at this point.

Hopefully he doesn't come to regret it either.

12345hn6789on The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

Gave up participating in the community once Jon Ringer was banned / the drama. Pretty much revealed how political the community is. Ironically I think the better a tool solves a problem the more radical the community gets. We don't have to bicker over how to solve the problem and thus people find another avenue.

Anyways the writing was on the wall for this and Nix is dying.

12345hn6789on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

"Once, in early 2002, when the index servers went down, Jeff Dean answered user queries manually for two hours. Evals showed a quality improvement of 5 points."

ahahah golden.

Will be following their journey

12345hn6789on GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

Uh.... Have you ever called customer service lately?

12345hn6789on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

12345hn6789on Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

(user othmanosx owns pyor)

whats the catch on pyor, how is it free?

12345hn6789on Librepods: AirPods liberated

FYI android 17 fixes the bugs in the Bluetooth stack that previously required root to fix. But, this app still charges $5 for using features your air pods have. I'll be spending my afternoon forking and enabling them.

12345hn6789on What it feels like to work with Mythos

The coin flip game does not work. I tossed 2 coins and it broke after that. You cannot progress forward.

Not a great start for "a generational leap in model effectiveness"

12345hn6789on Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

@dang, title should be updated:

`Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other middle east countries`

12345hn6789on Bun support is now limited and deprecated

1 million lines of code written and approved, in 9 days proves without reasonable doubt it was vibe coded.

12345hn6789on We've made the world too complicated

great post,

> Before you’ve noticed important details they are, of course, basically invisible. It’s hard to put your attention on them because you don’t even know what you’re looking for. But after you see them they quickly become so integrated into your intuitive models of the world that they become essentially transparent.

That quote really stuck out to me. Personally I help myself with this frequently by attempting to write down steps to recreate guides or other basic material - rubber ducking to a beginner essentially.

12345hn6789on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

Humans are no longer maintaining bun. There is no good faith argument that can claim a human understands this rewrite

12345hn6789on NPM Website Is Down

Azure is completely dead across multiple resources. Confirming....

12345hn6789on Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

Sir, your car cannot access these roads. Please upgrade to the latest model.

12345hn6789on Why I love NixOS

Flakes are the defacto standard and you're leaving one huge point out. Flake files come with flake lock files. You cannot get lockfiles without using flakes.

12345hn6789on The three pillars of JavaScript bloat

Reminder this user is paid per download https://github.com/A11yance/axobject-query/pull/354#issuecom...

12345hn6789on The three pillars of JavaScript bloat

A little more context since they scrubbed that PR.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447390

https://github.com/A11yance/axobject-query/pull/354

This user actively gets paid off of how many downloads their packages get, which makes sense why there are so many. As well as the attitude to change others repositories to use his packages

12345hn6789on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

Is the next prioritized epic to disable 24 hour wait for undesirable apks?

12345hn6789on Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19

This horse has been beat to death on HN. Because the apple laptop ecosystem is the highest quality laptop you can purchase.

12345hn6789on Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing

Luckily the plugin is<200 LoC

12345hn6789on Claude is a space to think

https://imgur.com/a/qYmznHa

I just asked gemini 3 5 times: `what temperature I should take a waterfowl out of the oven`

and received generic advice every single time it gave nearly identical charts. 165F was in every response. LLMs are unpredictable yes. But I am more skeptical it would give incorrect answers (raw goose) rather than your mother preparing the fowl wrong.

Cooking correctly is a skill, just as prompting is. Ask 10 people how to cook fowl and their answers will mimic the LLM.

12345hn6789on 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools

Yes these are found in a few places in Egypt and notably some are dug vertically [0]. Along with these "scoop" marks there are a few tombs "boxes at serapeum" that have nearly perfectly squared off cuts and perfectly smooth surfaces. [1] These are the main points of contention

We are leaning into conspiracy theories / not accepted history but making these marks with the currently thought tools seems quite insensible, and are related to the article. Folks seem to think we have not found the real tools that created these structures. The vertical inward scoop marks are especially suspect.

[0] - https://www.theancientconnection.com/aswan-unfinished-obelis...

[1] - https://www.theancientconnection.com/megaliths/egypt/the-ser...

12345hn6789on Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker

Enums is mine.

Going on year 4 working at $DAY_JOB and just last week we had a case where enums and also union types would have made things simpler.

12345hn6789on Claude is a space to think

Did you actually ask the model this question or are you fully strawmanning?

12345hn6789on Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode

Yes, there is no source code in here. This is their scripts / tooling / prompts repo. The actual code that powers their CC terminal CLI does not exist anywhere on their public GitHub

12345hn6789on Apple Creator Studio

A well paid lawyer defending a guilty client is upholding the Justice system. Every man has a right to a fair trial.

Apple wasting years of everyones time on bad faith UX design