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I miss o3 in that regard. if GPT-4o led people into virtual romance and over-validation, o3 gave me the same sort of "madness" but with work.

when I tried GPT-5, I was sad mostly because GPT-5 had some added wordiness. fluff, if you will. o3, though, is a black hole you can talk to, and it only gave information back if there was something to give back. that kind of vibe is my dream coworker

I tend to agree, but I also should highlight how expensive this shit really is.

in one month, Google actually went cash-negative. [0] even still, they are subsidizing their stuff a lot less, have the most opaque and variable limits, and increase adoption through bundling and shuffling features. I can't even share my Google One storage without subscribing to a Google AI plan anymore, but previously any plan except Google One Lite was shareable.

if you tell me that's not enough to go after frontier, then how much money are Anthropic and OpenAI burning?

[0]: https://www.techspot.com/news/113214-google-records-first-ne...

how the hell do we even track that? and before someone says...

—"Benchmarks!"

...I'll tell that they can be gamed so easily, and they are on a consistent basis.

where did they mention Bitcoin? much like everything "first generation", Bitcoin is objectively garbage nowadays, when we have continuously evolving Ethereum for modern all-around-good experience and Monero for actually private payments. oh by the way, cryptographically significant quantum processors are eventually coming, and Bitcoin still didn't make up its mind on PQC, to my knowledge, whereas Ethereum did.

no one writes a fresh C99 project in a 2000s Visual Studio with whatever formatting was the most trendy back then anymore.

you have more chances to shine only because everyone around you is not shining, but instead competing on volume

this.

crypto has a lot of theoretical value, but in practice people only really think of crypto when they want to tap into shadow economy.

I do not deny that this technology will be instrumental to network communities, provided we are ever allowed to form such. I do not deny that offline POSes and fully offline tap-to-pay may become a possibility if an existing fiat currency adopts crypto as one "interface" among traditional banking, Apple/Google Pay, and cash. (this, by the way, would be incredible in Ukraine - right now it's power off, and you can't use your bank for offline purchases.)

in practice it's only really shadow economy. at this point it's not even a speculative asset of some notable value

> some underpaid military man [...] abuses AI [...] hallucinates that nukes are incoming

here it is: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/report-us-almost-boarded-...

> To be fair this is a fairly low risk, but it's _a_ risk.

it's much higher than you think, at least during Trump admin. have you seen how LLM agents are being shoved down our throats at tech companies? the government is no better in that regard, there are all incentives to skip output verification

a year or two ago, I'd enjoy this comment as some usual HN satire. nowadays, especially here, I do see a lot of people that actually believe this, enough to make me think whether to laugh

same, switched from Scratch to C at age 8, but I only really wanted my programs go fast back then :)

> The question is, how do we prevent China and India from just taking our research and copying it for free

centralize all chemistry research behind the closed doors, weapon-level export controls on U.S.-made fever drugs simply because they are U.S.-made, severely control international collaboration, and so much more.

the problem is that the scientific community will rightfully revolt and the rest of the world will pull ahead of the U.S. in a relatively short amount of time. plus, since open science will have been long dead in the U.S. under such conditions, random breakthroughs at a basement or a non-prestigious university will cease to exist as a concept.

China and India piggybacking is the least bad thing to happen. rather, it's an indicator of how open the open science in the U.S. is

and Europe. Europe should also decouple itself from the U.S. as much as it is possible, and not repeat the mistake of overreliance with China. not because China is somehow worse, but because you always should be able to say "no", no matter how good your partners are

TIL that "Muphry's law" is a deliberate misspelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

well, yeah, now I understand that. whoever has the money dictates the kind of 1984 you are going to have

this was literally the reason pointed out in chat. devs liked how I worked, had zero questions on review, and that's despite me seeing their tech stack second time in my entire life

I consider myself a high-quality junior, rivaling my senior industry peers on flexibility, systems thinking, low-level engineering, and understanding of user experience. yet all I found this year was a place I got fired from 2 weeks after getting hired. the reason? I called Claude Code "a decent search engine" on a meeting. perhaps I would have been fired anyway because the heatwave was building in Ukraine and I had absolutely nothing but a basement (where I can't move my desktop to) to cool off.

okay, now we are boiling the ocean. literally.

P.S. for pedantic folk: yeah, it's far from the actual boiling threshold of ~100°C, but to boil the humanity, you don't even have to go 80-90% of the way there

on "reboot and re-root" - some exploits are known to last only for a single boot. look at some console soft-mods that fly away on reboot, especially PS3, early PS4, and early Switch 1. in Android 4 days, the OS was full of them, which were seen and used as windows into "permarooting." permaroot is your normal Magisk or (now obsolete) SuperSU. so, I was not phased by that part in particular.

but yes, there could be a screenshot. but even still, even with a screenshot, this could be a device that was rooted back when it was rootable and just picked up from the shelf. the motivation is obvious:

> This will make you famous, we will write it up and share on news.ycombinator.com.

number go up people be hapi. I, too, am vulnerable to that, hence why I comment on this.

who said that you still technically cannot disseminate the results? bulletproof hosting and private communications still exist. if law is being used to harm the consumer, the consumer in question has full moral right to speak out against it, and taking ownership of your hardware (like OP tells they did) is one of the best ways

it's especially fun when you do it yourself, I advise toying around with https://crackmes.one. with time and practice, everything becomes open-source because you can read assembly XD

the Hister extension is available on Firefox for Android :)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hister/

I spent a month trying to set this thing up, to no avail

well played, hats off! :D

that is more manageable but c'mon I can't even keep Google One 100GB up on a consistent basis, that's how poor I am. self-hosting would be a far better option because apparently I find enough people to provide free Hetzner VPSes and stuff as long as I can sell this as mutually beneficial.

for context, I would GLADLY move there my Neovim plugin. all it does is brings the current jj message into your editor and lets you integrate it with a status bar (or anything in nvim, really). that would be a decent measure against drive-by slop contributions, and I'd accept contribs over private github mirror from those who I know but can't bother setting up git mail

EDIT: TIL that one can host SourceHut themselves. discoverability may still be a problem (sr.ht just ranks higher in search engines) but 1) fixable with github mirror that points to sourcehut instance as a canonical development platform, 2) it's moderately easy to sync contributions between tangled and sourcehut, so tangled is also an option

EDIT 2: the email part would be PITA, so $4/mo is attractive on that background

I'm betting on Tangled and Codeberg. Tangled has a better press and in general is a dark horse, Codeberg has the "brand" and some network effects from projects that moved to there. (famously, Zig.) I heard that Sourcehut is having a moment as well, and I love the idea of email-based workflow and not having to have an account to contribute to someone's project hosted there, but I'm not maintaining anything worthwhile paying the $4/mo sub.

if you knew how to cook it, you could use make older EF Core (and original EF) go brrr. you sound like you do know. my problem is that it is hard to find out what exactly is the best without dropping down several abstraction layers, sometimes, as you noted, to raw SQL.

why not just construct SQL queries in a type-safe DSL, like, say, JetBrains Exposed does? you are writing what's basically SQL that your compiler understands and your existing tooling checks for free. (granted, C# may need an additional Roslyn analyzer, but it's still simpler than either guessing what transaction LINQ will make or writing SQL in strings.)

> Windows XP had its own share of complaints. The original wallpaper for Windows XP was Red Moon Desert, until people claimed that Red Moon Desert looked like a pair of buttocks.

oh thanks, now I cannot unsee it. :)

EF Core is so easy to turn into a disgrace for performance, developer experience, AND build times...

everyday transactions and subscriptions still go through banks and apps. also,

> Preparedness is having several thousand euros in cash.

totally agree. not that I, much like any average Ukrainian, have more than €400 behind my name, but I agree, and by that definition only the wealthiest ~10% are truly prepared

Diia and plastic are treated equally valid within Ukraine, but losing my ID is going to deal more damage than losing my phone. so no, I don't carry ID with myself at all times - why when I can just scan the QR code and keep the "real stuff" locked at home?

well, me being in Ukraine also means readiness to move out of my house whenever the need (or opportunity to escape abroad! I hate this war and kidnap-conscription) may arise. it's as much convenience as it is preparedness