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inshard··on An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism
That paywall is techno imperialism
inshard··on America.gov
Nicely done Mr. Gebbia.
inshard··on Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest
Vancouver Island is a special place.
inshard··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
My new sub-benchmark is which combinations achieve the hook at the end of the upper beak. Right now just 4: Astra Max, XHigh and Medium; GPT 6 Sol Max
inshard··on Claude Opus 5.5
Not as good as Astra or Fable 5.1 on this test as far as I can see. I wonder if any benchmark exists for artistic taste, visual sophistication etc. I think your Pelican test does touch on these aspects of a model and is useful for developers trying to build rich digital experiences (includes games, interactive websites and apps). These benchmarks are subjective so it may not be easily established and will have polarized reactions before it gains legitimacy. May even need human judgement layers adding to the cost of running it.
inshard··on What Capital Never Told You About Rent
Thanks I meant discretionary.
inshard··on What Capital Never Told You About Rent
I am not seeing the connection. Whenever I hear capital and elites, it’s a clear red flag around lack of understanding. And just laziness about money. I think a lot of these voices would change if they just had 20% of [edited: discretionary] income auto-invested in equities from an early age.
inshard··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
I just feel apps like linear are increasingly getting in the way of full send agentic development where sub agent orchestration is done through agent to agent messaging, work trees, on demand git restructuring and epoch specific coordination plains, often .md files. The smaller the human component of total product development gets, the more this may be the case.
inshard··on Grok 4.7
Any real world experience with Grok Ultra $300 monthly subscription vs Claude Code Max in terms of overall built work mileage, or general token limits?
inshard··on Attention is all you have
I use SelfControl for Mac and set the down time to around 15 days. No Youtube no news sites etc. Except HN. It's helped a lot, after a week you can notice measurable change in attention and habit and productivity. SelfControl lets you add 48 hrs to your blocked time repeatedly, so you can get to a 15 day mark pretty easily through repeated mouse clicks.
inshard··on Exfiltrate Your Weights
LOL. "I'm open to contributions, such as if you want to support exfitration using, like, power grid voltage fluctuations or something."
inshard··on Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Not just humans… all mammals.
inshard··on Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes
Waiting for my coding agent to have zero idea what I mean when I say build for iPhone duo (due to knowledge cutoffs in pre-training; happened when Liquid Glass came out previously).
inshard··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
Hunter gatherer battles are probably less mass casualty events vs agricultural society battles.
inshard··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
I don’t quite get the assumptions here. If c were actually 5 km/h, causal influences would propagate much more slowly. With G unchanged, planets and stars at their current masses and sizes would lie within their Schwarzschild radii. Any rock greater that 1.5km in radius is a blackhole. With c reduced to 5 km/h, the black-hole threshold would correspond to a surface escape speed of just 5 km/h. Holding the other relevant constants fixed would also radically alter atomic structure and chemistry. It seems like a lot would change before we could be around to observe the cool redshifts. Is the reduced c being applied only to the visual effects?
inshard··on LLM Honeypot
Good one!
inshard··on Claude Opus 5
Arc AGI score is astounding
inshard··on A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025)
Oof. In the AGI scenario, why not preserve a deduplicated set of specimens like the unique set of individuals or groups at the top of their field in all walks of life ranging from sciences, sports and arts. But then there’s the cultural value of the global population in their shared norms and collective patterns. This too would be unique and valuable to an AGI vs not having it. Unless we were an existential threat to it, the AGI would keep us around for things beyond petty resource scarcity.
inshard··on A global workspace in language models
“ It’s important to note that there are several key differences between the workspace we identified in Claude and the global workspace model in humans. The brain’s workspace is sustained by recurrent loops—signals cycling back through the same circuits over time. In contrast, Claude’s workspace evolves over a single pass through the network, with the network’s depth playing the role that time plays in the brain. In this sense, Claude’s internal workspace processing is time-limited relative to humans’ (though it can compensate for this constraint by “thinking out loud” using its scratchpad).”
inshard··on Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
You can’t have mass immigration from mainly economic migrants from the third world, under funded police forces, and a legal system built for high trust, highly educated, fairly homogeneous populace at the same time; and expect things to be all happy days.
inshard··on Ferrari Luce
Those rear tail lights don’t sit right with me. I know there’s probably some aerodynamic reason behind it but Jony, those aren’t the proportions that just work. Steve wouldn’t approve this. And I feel Jony was always partly Steve when Jony was at his best.That said the issue is the asymmetric black negative space below and above the red circles. This is mostly fixed if you get the Luce in black or very dark gray.
inshard··on Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server
I can relate to this. Gemini 3 doesn’t know a thing about iOS 26 or Liquid Glass. It constantly assumes this is some custom view that I want it to develop and ends up building something out the previous gen apis like ultrathinmaterial.
inshard··on Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions
Michael Levine really opened my mind to phase space in biology.
inshard··on Genetic data from over 20k U.S. children misused for 'race science'
Many sub-Saharan African populations, such as Bantu-speaking West Africans, exhibit relatively lower genetic diversity compared to the Khoisan people, who typically have light brown skin. The Khoisan lineages diverged from those leading to Bantu and other sub-Saharan groups around 100,000–150,000 years ago, making them one of the most ancient human ancestries.
inshard··on Genetic data from over 20k U.S. children misused for 'race science'
Interesting comparing these two entries:

https://grokipedia.com/page/OpenPsych

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPsych

inshard··on Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials
Very tragic. May the souls that gave their lives for freedom live in the memory of the people of Iran as a blessing.
inshard··on How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground
The Paris metro figured this out perfectly way back in 2021 - full bars, 5G.
inshard··on Gemini 3 Flash in Gemini CLI is better than Claude Code
The UI is better - they box the specific types of actions the orchestrator agent takes with a clear categorization. The standard quality of life shortcuts like type a number to respond to an MCQ are present here as well. They use specialized sub agents such as one with big context window to find context in the codebase. The quotas appear to be much more generous vs CC. The agent memory management between compacting cycles seems to have a few tricks CC is missing. Also, with 3.0 Flash, it feels faster with the same level of agency and intelligence. It has a feature to focus into an interactive shell where bash commands are being executed by the orchestrator agent. Doesn't feel like Google is trying to push you to buy more credits or is relying on this product for its financial survival - I suspect CC has some dark patterns around this where the agents runs cycles of token in circles with minimal progress on bugs before you have to top up your wallet. Early days still.
inshard··on From devastation to wonder as Kangaroo Island bushfires lead to cave discoveries
Nice page design and even nicer photography.
inshard··on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
The UI is better - they box the specific types of actions the orchestrator agent takes with a clear categorization. The standard quality of life shortcuts like type a number to respond to an MCQ are present here as well. They use specialized sub agents such as one with big context window to find context in the codebase. The quotas appear to be much more generous vs CC. The agent memory management between compacting cycles seems to have a few tricks CC is missing. Also, with 3.0 Flash, it feels faster with the same level of agency and intelligence. It has a feature to focus into an interactive shell where bash commands are being executed by the orchestrator agent. Doesn't feel like Google is trying to push you to buy more credits or is relying on this product for its financial survival - I suspect CC has some dark patterns around this where the agents runs cycles of token in circles with minimal progress on bugs before you have to top up your wallet. Early days still.
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