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NewsaHackO

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NewsaHackO··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
This is why people use AI so heavily. Because no matter how bad or ill formed a question is, it wo answer it the most "caring" way possible, and never berate you for it being a stupid question, common sense, etc (as long as it is about some forbidden topic of course)
NewsaHackO··on Regressive JPEGs
If i remember correctly, some other places of the internet (4chan) completely this sort of behavior because people use it to hide images of ...unsavory topics
NewsaHackO··on Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B
It's funny that you don't realize you are doing the same thing; you are giving the absolute change like the article is doing; you are just doing the change in the rate instead of the underlying quantity. A 4% change in my rate if the original rate is 4% would be a 100% rate rate change, which of course is substantial.
NewsaHackO··on Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B
The fact they gave a raw number instead of a percent of a quantity that is a change hinted that this was the case. $23B is more impressive than 4%.
NewsaHackO··on Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
>Jarred has managed public relations very poorly (e.g. ghosting the Zig foundation)

I actually love the use of ghosting in this post. It is almost a Freudian slip about how Zig looks like from the view of outsiders. Zig moves exactly like how toxic exes do. They point fingers, make passive-aggressive statements, unnecessarily air out dirty laundry, and downplay all of the good their partner has done during the relationship.

NewsaHackO··on $85,000 in tokens later: What I learned from scaling agentic coding at Lovable
I wonder how much he burned on this article.
NewsaHackO··on Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
I feel as thought Meta, compared to other tech giants, have a vested interest in saying that AI failed, as they are the only major tech company that has almost unequivocally lost the AI race.
NewsaHackO··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
I agree, my wording was a bit off. What I meant was a tool call in a harness. Claude Code should itself be the harness.
NewsaHackO··on Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
Yes, I didn't look at the replies until late, but you are correct. The invariant of the situation is that there are a large number of people who want 1-2 positions, and there are not enough resources in the company to interview and evaluate them all in person. My point is that when you remove measures like a performance on a project from play, and are forced to whittle down a group of applicants to an interviewable-sized group, people will start to pick increasingly "unfair" ways to do so. No one wants to risk hiring a person for a position who simply cannot perform at the level necessary for the job. If they don't have a project to separate the people who can perform versus the people who can't, then they have to use other markers to say why one person has a better chance of performing well than another, of which previous employer/alumni and references from trusted sources are by far the easiest ones.
NewsaHackO··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
Half of those don't actually require proxying Claude. Also, Claude has made it apparent time and time again that it does not want people using Claude Code as a "tool" in a workflow. If you want to select a model dynamically based on the prompt difficulty, Anthropic wants people to use the API for this. It was the whole issue Claude had with OpenClaw.
NewsaHackO··on Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
Yes, people don’t realize that’s why a lot of desirable jobs/grad schools become filled with people from top universities and previous employment. Pedigree is probably the lowest hanging fruit when it comes to shaving off a good chuck of applicants to a level that at least you know would be adequate.
NewsaHackO··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
It’s anti AI, so people would actually believe the data centers are going to singlehandly melt the icecaps
NewsaHackO··on Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI
I guess it may be semantics, but I agree that I would have the same expectation. However, I also I think getting fired would be a justified punishment in the situation.

It’d like playing a computer game during free library time at the school when I was a kid; I would expect to be reprimanded, however just outright barring use from the computer during free time would probably be justified.

NewsaHackO··on Claude Tag
>It takes multiple seconds to launch,

Yes, this is the ubiquitous memory issue that I mentioned. Unfortunately, it is now the baseline in all modern apps.

>random lines disappear in the scroll back, it’s internal state gets messed up causing the TUI to show duplicate and/or offset lines,

I haven't seen this issue, other than when I am using a shell that is bugged and does it with all TUI/console programs (usually a virtualized shell which I resized). Do you have a reproducible example of this?

NewsaHackO··on Claude Tag
How are Anthropic's production applications poor quality? Other than memory use (which unfortunately is the industry standard nowadays) Claude Code is pretty solid.
NewsaHackO··on There is minimal downside to switching to open models
The issue is that the legal system is retroactive, and information that is made public cannot be retracted. If a random company gets your sensitive data and disseminates it to the world, then sure, they will face legal repercussions, but the damage would have already been done to you.
NewsaHackO··on There is minimal downside to switching to open models
I don't think they can, at least if they are making an argument for why the Defense Production Act should not apply to them. Their original argument is that they will not help with anything that is unconstitutional, such as the unlawful spying on American citizens, without a warrant.
NewsaHackO··on Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
source?
NewsaHackO··on Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and your PC's stability
You (and me) commented on it, which is the journalist's main purpose of writing headlines like these.
NewsaHackO··on McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (2016)
Huh
NewsaHackO··on French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation
OK, that is relevant context, because the quotes that people are saying he plagiarized wouldn't make sense to count as plagiarism in a physics thesis. I was scratching my head, thinking of how he could have plagiarized Camus in a physics thesis that isn't just some turn of phrase.
NewsaHackO··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Why after thier IPO?
NewsaHackO··on Making Claude a Chemist
I think one time I asked opus about copyfail when it just came out and it did treat me like some sort of criminal, but are there really people that run into this on a regular basis other than cybersecurity experts (which cannot be a big enough group to generate all of this criticism)?
NewsaHackO··on Human Routers of Machine Words
I do not agree that the concept of writing can be considered a specific tool at all. Maybe a pencil, but writing opposed to remembering everything is a more substantial level of a paradigm shift than AI use is.
NewsaHackO··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
This is like a smoker that lives to 100 saying that he had no increased risk of developing lung cancer because he didn’t at 100.
NewsaHackO··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
It has to be sort of impressive, given that you tried so hard to use it instead of the regular Opus.
NewsaHackO··on Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes
I guess the issue is that when someone can't use a product immediately, they have an urge to abandon it altogether, not learn how to use it.
NewsaHackO··on Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
The personalized algorithm is not the root issue though. The root issue is that social media sites live by increasing engagement of its viewers. Because of this, they all get away from the original stated purpose of bringing people together, and go all in on maximizing engagement by increasingly shady ways. Of course, the personalized algorithm is a huge one, but there are also things like "Show HN" controlling what is on the front page, selectively taking down flagged material. Remember, HN has advertisements as well, and will regularly post job ads for positions in startups. They know that outright going in the direction of 'personalized algorithm' would alienate their viewerbase, so they avoid it, but still do all of the other practices that social media sites do.
NewsaHackO··on Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
Yes, just because it is uncomfortable for them to realize, doesn't make it not true. Words have meanings.
NewsaHackO··on Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas
Do you have any actual examples of documents where it did not work?
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