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forgotTheLast··on Zohran and the Short Link
The closest I could find to that claim was a Townhall article¹ mentioning that he posed for a picture with an imam whose mosque was attende by terrorists. Townhall as in the conservative radio/news site and not the NYC town hall.

1. https://townhall.com/news/jeff-charles/2025/10/20/fbi-agents...

forgotTheLast··on New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
Agreed, our real-life corporations are still trying to convince themselves (by 'them' I mean employees) that they're the good guys and wrap everything in a layer of HR-speak' "We're helping connect the world! Yay!", " We're collaborating with the ministry of War to zero people, but only if they have a signed judicial order", etc.

Their fictional counterparts don't bother.

forgotTheLast··on The Defense-Tech Bubble Is Headed for Consolidation
Publisher not author
forgotTheLast··on Meta glasses are a workplace menace
When I was shopping for wearable body cameras last year, I searched for reviews on YouTube and about half the search results were creep shots of retail and restaurant workers. Gives you a good idea of who the early adopters for this tech are.
forgotTheLast··on Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces
That's my personal theory too. The model is stuffing its own context with vaguely related tokens, which helps the attention heads retrieve the right tokens.
forgotTheLast··on Humans aren't the only animals that seem to like having pets
Reminded me of The Great Silence by Ted Chiang. https://electricliterature.com/the-great-silence-by-ted-chia...
forgotTheLast··on Build Wide, Ship Narrow
I work on a small team maintaining multiple services and this is very similar to our approach. Although I generally find review easier _without_ splitting every PR by backend/frontend. The additional context helps and you don't have to switch back and forth between two sets of files/changes to make sure the interfaces align. Good ol' feature branches are also useful when you have multiple interdependent breaking changes.

P.S. Bruno if you see this please skip the LLM fluff-up next time. It makes it hard to read.

forgotTheLast··on Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results
Don't blame LLMs if the zeitgeist for coffee shop websites is sepia tones and a Papyrus-like font.

My university's Principles of WebDev course 10 years ago had a similar assignment and the results all ended up looking like that too.

forgotTheLast··on Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection
Unless he shows evidence of independent re-development like his LLM agent history or at the very least git commits, I'll consider that a lie
forgotTheLast··on YouTube's AI Detection Kicked Us in the Face
Another story about $BIGCORP's automated systems fucking over or locking out one of their users, but luckily the specific user was big enough or had a friend working at $BIGCORP that could escalate their complaint for proper human review.
forgotTheLast··on Less Coffee, Better Sleep
I started tracking my sleep quality (measured by a smart watch) and caffeine consumption a few months ago. Turns out caffeine didn't make much of a difference for me. Other things that correlated much better with good sleep were avoiding alcohol, exercising and cold showers and reading before going to bed.

As the saying goes, measure first, optimize later.

forgotTheLast··on Canadians are leaving the country at record levels. Can anyone solve this?
Alternate title: net emigration as a % of total population has been steady since the 2000s
forgotTheLast··on "Opus 5 is a really bad model"
These rants every time a new model iteration comes out reminds me of the large number of users complaining every time an established piece of software releases breaking changes. People understandably don't like having to change their workflows or refactor. The difference with LLM upgrades is that you don't get a changelog, you (probably) don't have unit tests to catch regressions, and if you use a proprietary model you have no reliable way of knowing which exact version of the model you're using or which runtime settings are being used.
forgotTheLast··on PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
Non-textual can mean audio or video call, not necessarily in person.
forgotTheLast··on 75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why
Just make car registration fees proportional to the odds of killing or injuring someone:

Cost ∝ mass² × blind spot ratio

You could also add another mass⁴ term to compensate for road damage.

forgotTheLast··on Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe
GPS interference is estimated from ADS-B data which is broadcast by airplanes so that they can be tracked. The lack of data over Ukraine is because their airspace is closed to civilian flights.
forgotTheLast··on The SpaceX IPO Will Be the Theft of the Century
If this is expected to be bad for ETF investors, what's stopping let's say Vanguard or Blackrock from creating their own index that tracks the NASDAQ but without the new inclusion rules, and then changing their ETFs' target indexes to that one. Vanguard is investor-owned so it would be in their best interest wouldn't it?
forgotTheLast··on 'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
Yes, it's derivative of the onion article on mass shootings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...
forgotTheLast··on Maladaptive Frugality
Humid air has higher heat capacity and higher heat conductivity than dry air which both increase convective heat loss.
forgotTheLast··on Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
I think that's more of a NextJs thing than an LLM thing.
forgotTheLast··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
Luckily Congress passed a law with bipartisan support to protect US service members from ICC custody (commonly referred to as The Hague Invasion Act).
forgotTheLast··on Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
It's hard to claim ""bad apples"" when the top brass acquits soldiers who get caught on camera sexually abusing a prisoner and instead prosecutes the whistleblower for leaking evidence of the crime.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2xrz71zm3o

forgotTheLast··on Ad-tech is fascist tech
It definitely is a thing in the eyes of Delaware courts:

In eBay vs Newmark: >Having chosen a for-profit corporate form, the craigslist directors are bound by the fiduciary duties and standards that accompany that form. Those standards include acting to promote the value of the corporation for the benefit of its stockholders. The “Inc.” after the company name has to mean at least that. Thus, I cannot accept as valid for the purposes of implementing the Rights Plan a corporate policy that specifically, clearly, and admittedly seeks not to maximize the economic value of a for-profit Delaware corporation for the benefit of its stockholders—no matter whether those stockholders are individuals of modest means or a corporate titan of online commerce.

https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=143440

In the Trados case: >It is, of course, accepted that a corporation may take steps, such as giving charitable contributions or paying higher wages, that do not maximize profits currently. They may do so, however, because such activities are rationalized as producing greater profits over the long-term. Decisions of this nature benefit the corporation as a whole, and by increasing the value of the corporation, the directors increase the share of value available for the residual claimants. Judicial opinions therefore often refer to directors owing fiduciary duties ―to the corporation and its shareholders. This formulation captures the foundational relationship in which directors owe duties to the corporation for the ultimate benefit of the entity‘s residual claimants. Nevertheless, ―stockholders‘ best interest must always, within legal limits, be the end. Other constituencies may be considered only instrumentally to advance that end.

https://courts.delaware.gov/opinions/download.aspx?ID=193520

forgotTheLast··on Ad-tech is fascist tech
It depends on your legal jurisdiction but it means COs need to act in the corporation's best interest and not their own. In some places, that requires them to take shareholders' interests into account (especially for mergers or takeovers) but also the employees, consumers or creditors. In the US and notably Delaware, courts generally value shareholder value over anything else.

Considering the vast majority of US corporations are incorporated in Delaware, I think it's accurate to say most US companies only aim to maximize shareholder value.

forgotTheLast··on Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours
the only thing I see is the cover picture and the 3 sentence "AI Powered Summary"
forgotTheLast··on US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide
That's skewed by the number of retirees, which naturally increases in an aging population like white US men.
forgotTheLast··on Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
Not exactly what you're looking for but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810282
forgotTheLast··on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
Two flat images, one for each of the sensor's camera
forgotTheLast··on FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
I actually think it is fitting to read about a government agency weaponized by an unscrupulous billionaire going after journalists working for an unscrupulous billionaire on an unscrupulous trillionaire owned platform.
forgotTheLast··on Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
Zero temp just uses argmax, which is what softmax approaches if you take the limit of T to zero anyway. So it could very well be deterministic.
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