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codechicago277··on Pirating the Pirates
I’ve been buying dvds and surfacing a lot of the content to Jellyfin and Tailscale, it’s a lot easier than it used to be and they even have smart TV apps on some of the platforms. Don’t even have to pirate to get use out of it.
codechicago277··on How to Write with an LLM
It’s difficult if not impossible to know where to look for edge cases or performance problems without understanding the code.
codechicago277··on Foundation Model Engineering: From Theory to Production
100% AI on Pangram.

Would be great if we could automatically tag posts that contain a certain level of AI content. If the author couldn’t be bothered to write it in their own words, I can’t be bothered to read it, and at best will have an AI summarize it instead.

codechicago277··on The AI job market in 2026
Pangram flags this post as 100% AI
codechicago277··on Shopify moves back to Native from React Native
Getting 11% AI on Pangram, which isn’t bad tbh.
codechicago277··on Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElonJet

Turns out only one of the major platforms banned this account…

codechicago277··on Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
They were already heavily limited and essentially useless by then, definitely not enough access to sync your profile to another network.
codechicago277··on Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
A few recent examples: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/currencies/articles/bessen... https://theprint.in/world/us-military-says-it-completed-late... https://www.reuters.com/technology/brad-lightcap-leaving-ope...

It’s still the go-to platform for public figures to broadcast unfortunately, so if you want to verify the original comments you need an alternate frontend or an X account.

codechicago277··on Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
Few details but glad to see the project will continue. Given how much crucial information is posted exclusively to X, having an alternative frontend is important.

Interesting that they were inspired by Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend). That’s another project that could use some love. Hopefully AI coding tools can do some good and make it easier for these projects to find ways into the walled gardens and work around the counter measures.

Waiting for the day all the social networks allow api access and become usable again. Maybe we can call it “agent first” to help move things along.

codechicago277··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
I need to take a step back.
codechicago277··on Don't Wordle
You already guessed a word that had a “T” in it, and the game confirmed that “T” is not in the word. So you can’t guess another word with a “T”.
codechicago277··on My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes
Or Silicon Valley.
codechicago277··on Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes
I’m not a logician either but believe this is what Tarski’s definition of truth solves for. In order to make a statement about the statement itself, you have to introduce a new meta language. Then a statement in the meta language is only true if the underlying statement is true.

Much more rigorous explanation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tarski-truth/

codechicago277··on I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore
It’s sad to see people in the thread conflate capitalist greed with the “Protestant work ethic.” Despite the popularity of prosperity gospel teaching in the US, Jesus’ actual teachings clearly condemn greed and oppression of those who have less. A work ethic is still valuable, because goods have to be produced, but the reason we can’t solve worldwide poverty by just writing a check is that oppressive leaders at some point in the chain will use that money to enrich themselves, or they will take it from those who can’t defend themselves.

This isn’t to say that the purpose of Christianity is to fix these social problems, but it’s easy to forget how central generosity and compassion are to the Christian message. “Money Cult” by Chris Lehmann is a good exploration of how American Christianity corrupts these truths.

codechicago277··on Our position on open-weights models
Yeah, this response is pure propaganda, say one thing in the headline and the opposite in the body.

Anthropic does not support a ban on open models, except for any models that aren’t closed.

codechicago277··on What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
Even with an LLM you still have to kick it off, which is mental effort.
codechicago277··on Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected
In this framing, clean coding abstractions gain a purpose beyond helping humans understand the code and actually help enforce that the end result is reasonably bug free. Building code out of understandable pieces can ensure that the whole thing is reasonably understandable.

While the article is focused on “low level” bugs, the key insight is that human understanding has limits, and bugs show up when the human is overconfident in their understanding, and unwilling to verify the code by running it on a sample of test cases. This does seem to help explain why “high level” bugs occur, where the reality somehow doesn’t match the assumption. Maybe a dependency is on the wrong version, a global variable isn’t initialized in certain cases, etc.

In a world of LLMs producing code that isn’t always understandable to humans, it does raise the question of how to enforce that AI code is bug free, and maybe forcing coding agents to stick to human abstractions is the missing piece.

codechicago277··on What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
Becomes a problem when the next version of Mac OS changes the api, and you have to dig up the code, install dependencies, recompile and fix it. Meanwhile potentially breaking something else.
codechicago277··on International chess federation sanctions Kramnik
This was unsubstantiated and took a similar toll on Niemann. The recent Netflix documentary interviews the key players, and it’s pretty that he didn’t cheat in that situation. Magnus’s cozy relationship with chess.com made Danny Rench jump to conclusions, giving the Magnus team the impression that cheating had happened, but a later chess.com analysis showed that was unlikely. It made for a good viral story, but wasn’t fair to Hans, no matter how unpleasant his personality is.
codechicago277··on International chess federation sanctions Kramnik
They mostly did very well, other than Levon Aronian not knowing some basic chemical formulas and Hikaru’s brain freezing on the cube side question.
codechicago277··on It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026)
In how many companies or countries is the smartest person in charge? Raw intelligence is just one of many factors that affect a person’s abilities.
codechicago277··on Siri AI
Siri, wake me up at “time”… Months later you have dozens of saved alarms, all at different times.

Set a timer for 50 minutes…always get a timer for 15.

codechicago277··on We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued
Only a matter of time before SpaceX starts selling parcels of land on Mars, surprised they haven’t yet. It has to be good for a few extra billions.
codechicago277··on xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab
GPUs do have a life expectancy. They don’t run forever, especially at high temperatures and full utilization.
codechicago277··on Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
It’s been covered extensively and is common knowledge. One example after a 5 second google: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/may-jobs-report-stock-marke...
codechicago277··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
Seems structurally sound, kind of like a pyramid.
codechicago277··on Greg Brockman interview [video]
Completely missing the other costs associated with any of these things. If money was enough to “feed the hungry” Musk or Gates would have already done it. The real problem is systemic injustice, like governments stealing foreign aid that’s meant to go to the poor. Money can’t always solve these.

Time is more valuable than money and unless you have tons of time and space that simulator is just an expensive paperweight.

codechicago277··on Flipper One – we need your help
Agree, I find AI valuable for writing reports on the behavior of features in our codebase, but I’ve started sharing the prompt at the top of the file before sending it out, and reviewing the content line by line to catch obvious errors.
codechicago277··on Flipper One – we need your help
The criticism is that this is a respectable project, so when you read obvious AI tells like “Honestly, …”, or “Flipper One isn't an upgrade to Flipper Zero — it's a completely different project with its own goals” in the first few paragraphs, it’s distracting and takes away from the content.

A simple fix I use for AI writing is disclosing it. Here, a simple note that “this article was translated with AI assistance” would have made it much less distracting.

codechicago277··on Chasing Chicago's movable bridges (2014)
Surprised the article doesn’t mention the McCormick Bridgehouse Museum. It’s something like $5, and you can see the inside of one of those bridges.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/eUXWfkm8LVuYMDsc7

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