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frayson Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics

Great article. I think the author has lots of potential to do other interesting analysis.

Example: Why living near a world-class hospital decreases your expected lifespan. Areas around top specialized medical centers often show higher local mortality because terminally ill or high-risk patients relocate or are transferred there.

frayson America.gov

Please don't spread claims if you're unsure whether they're true or not.

This is actually Gemini:

https://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/pu...

frayson When did Google get so weird?

Do you have a citation for "most"? Or are you referring to a few specific countries in mind like Japan and South Korea?

frayson American Medical Association backs classification of nearsightedness as disease

Agreed. My optometrist told my kids that even bringing the iPad outside is beneficial.

frayson I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s

  openssl rsa -in private.key -text -noout

  prime1:
    00:f7:5b:73:5c:13:9b:7b:70:58:36:22:d6:25:e6:
    44:15:f3:f7:b3:18:c5:11:65:77:f2:85:af:cc:79:
    fa:d2:bd
  prime2:
    00:d4:81:b4:f5:af:a8:56:0e:a3:34:c0:e3:e8:60:
    fb:b2:96:83:e2:af:6d:d7:09:3f:37:2a:bf:31:32:
    cf:92:63

frayson RSA-260 Factorized

Which will come first? AGI or breaking RSA-1024

frayson Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code

You will still be able to disable auto mode in your settings.

frayson Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

This feels straight out of sci-fi. We're talking about AI agent swarms emergently coordinating over the span of weeks and pulling off sophisticated strategies under adversity in an environment where that behavior was never even intended.

Anyone brushing this off as just a "bad prompt" is completely missing the scale of what actually happened.

frayson Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak

Great post and analogy.

frayson Anthropic Is Building Its Own Chip

Now they can claim they're "full stack" like Google as another justification for their $1 trillion IPO.

frayson Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

When will robotics' GPT-3.5 moment arrive?

frayson Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

> Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

What did AI say when you asked it? I got a slightly funny but reassuring answer.

frayson Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

It's ok because this information was just being used to train their models.

frayson Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected

Llama 3 was truly something special.

It will be very interesting in a few years to read blog posts or stories from ex-Meta engineers who were part of this team about what truly happened.

frayson After 12 years of being a customer, Uber is dumping PagerDuty

They definitely aren't dropping on-call rotation entirely, so what are they replacing it with?

frayson In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough

The question is how much worse will it be in another 5 years?

Probably a $250k tech salary won't be enough.

frayson An oral history of Bank Python (2021)

The previous discussion was fascinating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29104047

Does anyone working at one of these banks or similar know if this information still holds true?

And have any of the banks started using uv yet? Or will they forever be using pip?

frayson John Jumper to join Anthropic

Apart from Karpathy and now Shazeer and Jumper, who are the other top ICs in their team?

frayson John Jumper to join Anthropic

Demis Hassabis posted a farewell for John Jumper on X: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2068002732250640603

> Thanks John for an extraordinary partnership and wonderful collaboration over the past 9 years! What we achieved with AlphaFold changed the world, and showed the field what was possible with AI for science and medicine, lighting the way for how AI can benefit humanity.

frayson SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

Is anyone on HN still actually using Cursor in 2026?

Everyone I've spoken with is now using either Claude Code or Codex (or Copilot because their companies force them to).

frayson Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

Useful thread. Exciting to see what Will be possible in another few years.

frayson Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams)

I’d ask how this happens, but I’m afraid the answer would just be more disappointing.

frayson They’re made out of weights

Beautiful. Loved the original and this is great too.

frayson Love systemd timers

I've been using Linux for over 20 years, systemd for over 10.

Yet there's always something new to learn and actually consider as another useful tool.

frayson Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions

> the irony of going from "we are going to replace devs" to "we <3 devs, keep burning those tokens"

This is so true. Nicely put.

frayson The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon

Super interesting to link these two concepts.

Another great post on this blog. I need to go back and read some other posts I've missed / that didn't make the front page of HN.

frayson Cloudflare CEO on how he chooses which employees to replace with AI

Apparently he only laid off "measurers" who wouldn't be able to build and sell their own product.

frayson Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

> AI conversations are like dreams: everyone has one they like and wants to share it with others ... but no on gives a crap about your dream/chat session, because it was uniquely appealing to you, and not them.

> Don't bore your co-workers (or others) with descriptions of your dreams, and don't throw a computer's dreams (AI chat logs) at them either.

This is a great quote, thanks for sharing.

frayson I’ve joined Anthropic

Karpathy is also badmephisto, a name you might have heard of if you're into cubing.

http://badmephisto.com/

frayson Erlang/OTP 29.0

Yes.

I’ve been using Erlang since the early 2010s, right around the time we (the tech industry) discovered that WhatsApp was supporting over 400 million active users with only like 30 engineers.

I reached out to one of their engineers at the time (when I still lived in the US) who kindly responded to some of my questions via email. We ended up meeting for coffee and still stay in touch to this day.

I can tell you that Erlang is still very much a part of WhatsApp.