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dnwon Ask HN: What is your team's development practice?

Curious what type of production triage are you using AI for? Incidents or bugs or both?

dnwon LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Oh no! Thanks for the heads up!

dnwon LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

I need a Brother for TVs.

dnwon Qantas Airbus A380 catastrophic engine failure in 2010 (2023)

Also this documentary is very good: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nZS-mkygGWI

dnwon Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

It’d be great when they start releasing these machines with the local models ready for use!

dnwon Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

yes

dnwon Google has abandoned Google News?

Google Finance’s redesign is also a disaster, IMHO. I liked the “classic.”

I also don’t remember the last time I used Google search.

dnwon Our position on open-weights models

He is not advocating for banning models per se but the proposal makes a business model (i.e. serving open weight models) that is starting to work more expensive.

dnwon Our position on open-weights models

> Open-weights models—it does not matter whether they come from China or anywhere else—do potentially present a higher risk than closed models

I don’t think this is open or closed; this is aligned and unaligned. I bet Grok would be as open as any open weight models to answering questions.

dnwon Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)

Similar to Paperwork Reduction Act, we may need Slop Reduction Act.

dnwon US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

PowerPC Mac G4 (1999): https://youtu.be/lb7EhYy-2RE

dnwon Moving beyond fork() + exec()

What do you mean by "a completely new process"?

dnwon Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

I would say it is the responsibility of the CTO (whoever is responsible) to talk some sense into the CEOs (whoever in the exec team is having AI psychosis). Yes, yes—what if they themselves are having psychosis but that’s the point.

dnwon Local privilege escalation via execve()

A CVE for exeCVE()

dnwon Data center drains 30M gals of water — until residents complained of pressure

I had some questions in my mind about DCs using closed loop systems and read the article a little. In case anyone else also has similar thoughts: —-

The company said its water consumption was so high last year because of temporary construction-related activities, such as concrete work, dust control and site preparation. Once operational, the company said the data centers only will use water for domestic needs, such as bathrooms and kitchens. That will total the equivalent of what four U.S. households use per month, the spokesperson said. That may not happen for another few years, however. The company is still actively building and expanding its Fayetteville data center campus. It aims to finish in three to five years.

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dnwon From $200 to $30: Five Layers of LLM Cost Optimization

Yes, I meant auto research. Sorry about the typo.

Looks like you have a pretty good closed-loop and data set to run it on.

dnwon From $200 to $30: Five Layers of LLM Cost Optimization

Good write up. I wonder what approach an LLM would have taken for this optimization, say using autosearch.

dnwon Behind-the-Scenes of MacBook Neo Introduction Video

Even in the world of AI good to see good old fashioned prop making for a video.

dnwon Polymarket weather bet manipulated with a hairdryer

https://polymarket.com/event/highest-temperature-in-paris-on...

dnwon Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

Somehow a ton of people are caught in the variant.

dnwon Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis

Long-term relative to lifespan of the 401K holder. Outcome changes a lot for those who are ready to retire.

dnwon Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

Interesting that they actually acknowledge there was a change on March 6th. Kudos to the prompt analysis work that uncovered it!

dnwon Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

Thank you!

dnwon Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

To give credit where it is due: Boris actually submitted a few PRs this week to OpenClaw to increase prompt cache hits. You can see them here: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pullsq=is%3Apr+author%3...

I think the usage patterns of a lot of harnesses are pushing against their planned capacity. I would say they can certainly explain themselves a lot better.

dnwon Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

AH! Thanks, that's useful context!

dnwon Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell

Thanks for sharing the prompts: https://github.com/califio/publications/blob/main/MADBugs/CV...

dnwon Chuck Norris has died

Chuck Norris hasn’t died, he summoned the death. RIP.

dnwon Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

Curious, what are you building?

dnwon Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again

And transparent 1 pixel gifs :-)

dnwon Google Workspace CLI

Schema Discovery Service is interesting but I have been wondering whether it is finally time to start implementing HATEOAS[0] in REST services.

[0] https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypert...