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ajpikul··on Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
The only reason we're paying attention to this is because of the drama.

The fact that rust is likely more interesting than zig (which is also interesting) is indictated by community size (and other signs like linux kernel inclusion).

The fact that anthropic is very likely overselling their timeline and max-utility for an IPO is generally well accepted as well.

Also that us tech bros are somewhat annoying is also well understood.

But who doesn't love a good street fight?

ajpikul··on Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
...perfect
ajpikul··on GPT-5.2-Codex
Yeah I use both and this post feels VERY astroturfed.
ajpikul··on My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
Author is trying to improve their social skills and is noticing that some toxic traits have advantages.

It's okay to dazzle people though. I'm not sure you have to make it a core part of your personality but like, maybe as a hobby, a little razzledazzle here and there.

ajpikul··on Ask HN: How to get started developing with FPGA?
I <3 TinyFPGA and also it's open source DO IT
ajpikul··on Ask HN: How to get started developing with FPGA?
I mean, Algo traders I know are working on teams of 10-20 people with deep knowledge of $5k boards over a half-decade, so I think for "getting started" those might be pretty good.
ajpikul··on Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
Fantastic!
ajpikul··on LED technology breaks performance barrier
marginal gain with manufacturing hurdles /shrug
ajpikul··on The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
My issue isn't whether or not it's possible for hardware to be insecure or whether or not it's possible for exploits to exist.

My issue is this Chinese undetectable super chip creating unpreventable wide-scale vulnerabilities.

For what it's worth, I've worked in hardware security and I own a hardware quality control startup.

ajpikul··on The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
This article is more or less total bullshit. At _best_ that device might be a mechanism to cause failure intentionally. And there are tons of ways to detect it with commodity technology, and plenty of vendors who implement that technology for assembly manufactures commercially.
ajpikul··on In Silicon Valley, the Big Venture Funds Keep Getting Bigger
A) Paywall

B) Pewdiepie

C) That headline makes me think the article was written by a moron. "Investment funds continue investing, compound interest is a thing, what's a profit?"

ajpikul··on Launch HN: Templarbit (YC S17) – Protect Your Web Apps from XSS Attacks
Yeah, that sounds good to me. Being a bootstrapped startup, "pricing" is the first page I go to.
ajpikul··on [dead]
I don't understand how you can have the gumption to post some bullshit like this when it's been disproven so many times: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
ajpikul··on Launch HN: Templarbit (YC S17) – Protect Your Web Apps from XSS Attacks
Thanks for doing this, I'm definitely going to consider it since we're implementing token based authentication and my friends have told me XSS is what I should be concerned about there.

How did you choose to go with a trial period instead of a freemium model like slack?

The issue my startup has with trial periods is that it's like "you have 14 days to start generating revenue". Freemium is better for us because it's like "You can learn about our service, and use our service while your staging your release, and when you launch if you're viable (traffic+revenue), we'll be your partner (ie. charge you)".

That's how slack kept us, and Salesforce lost us.

We shouldn't have to worry about paying while we're still learning how to use your service. If I haven't on-boarded it by the time the trial runs out, I'm going to cancel it.

Then again, I don't know your costs, so forgive me if I'm wrong.

ajpikul··on Interactive Polarized Light Waveforms Tutorial
What techs did they use to build that demo?
ajpikul··on It is as if you were doing work
ugh windows
ajpikul··on YC Summer 2017 Invites/Rejections
I feel like an incubator increases responsibilities and risks, and potential rewards, but some people see it as the "where they want to end up".