jonas21

Isn't the Pope like the canonical high-status non-profit worker?

The author labels COVID and the launch of ChatGPT on the graph, but fails to mention that Stack Overflow was acquired in June 2021 by Prosus, a Dutch private equity firm. That looks to me like it matches pretty well with the entire downward trend.

The 22:20 timestamp from the body of the post is wrong. The timeline section (where the 22:10 timestamp came from) is consistent with itself, and also contains:

> May 19, 22:19 UTC - Root cause identified: Google Cloud Platform has suspended Railway's production account.

They couldn't have identified the root cause before it happened.

This is an engineering choice: do you merge first and then fix the remaining issues or do you get everything perfectly clean first and then merge?

I've seen large rewrites and migrations take both approaches -- in my experience, the former usually works out better.

Yes, but the title of this page is literally "Keep OSS alive on company time".

Is your negativity a knee-jerk reaction to TikTok and AI, or do you have a substantive criticism of the idea?

There are so many papers being written these days that it's difficult to find all the ones that are relevant to your work and interests. Likewise, there's a discoverability problem for authors who are not already well-known. Andrej Karpathy's arXiv Sanity site used to be a decent way of sifting through papers in some areas, but sadly it's been down for a while now.

CAPTCHAs were designed as a type of Turing Test, not a reverse Turing Test. It’s not surprising that the effectiveness of these weaker variants has collapsed, given that AI can now pass the real Turing Test.

That's what they did. They migrated to Better Auth, which stores everything in your DB. It's the equivalent of Django auth for the Typescript ecosystem.

> I’ve been mourning the old Internet over the past year or two... As a kid on the Web from the early 2000s through the mid-2010s, we knew we were living through something special.

It's funny because I knew lots of people in the early 2000s who were mourning the loss of the "old Internet" then. Kind of like how everyone thinks the music they listened to as a teenager is the best and it's all been downhill since.

> the lack of physical home button

You can use the Accessibility settings to add a virtual home button that's always displayed in the same place on-screen. That seems to work pretty well for the older folks I know.

The issues with Claude Code lately look to me like symptoms of being part of a service that is experiencing insane growth (fastest growth in history, by far [1]), while being severely constrained on adding capacity (GPUs are hard to get quickly right now, even if you have the money). I assume they're constantly fighting fires trying to keep the core use cases of Claude Code working, even if that means limiting OpenClaw usage in somewhat draconian ways.

It's annoying, but I don't see this as a bad thing at all for Bun.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/anthropic-revenue-growth-ai

Seems like a fairly conventional economics paper title.

Perhaps you're misparsing the second sentence? "Shocks" is not used as a verb here -- it's a noun, part of the phrase "labor market shocks," which refers to sudden events that disrupt the labor market.

> You get unlimited travel for $100/month on Trimet.

Only because the government is subsidizing 90% of TriMet's operating costs.

It might be interesting to see what sort of system Waymo could build with a similar subsidy... but that's never going to happen.

Google has been supporting Blender for over 20 years, initially through Summer of Code [1, 2], and also via corporate sponsorship once Blender started offering it.

And I'm pretty sure I've seen most of the other big names in tech on the sponsors page for many years now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code

[2] https://code.blender.org/2011/04/google-summer-of-code-2011-...

Or perhaps they're sponsoring it so artists can spend less time fiddling with Blender's UI and more time creating art?

> That's why every chat box has that "Regenerate" button.

Wait, are you doing this in the web chat interface?!

That's definitely not a good way. You need to be using a harness (like Claude Code) where the agent can plan its work, explore the codebase, execute code, run tests, etc. With this sort of set up, your prompts can be short (like 1 to 5 sentences) and still get great results.

And before that, he was a columnist for the New York Times for 25 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman

And winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics.

It's a business with huge up-front capital expenses and typically very low margins. Supply is scaling up slowly because it's hard, and if you overshoot, you go out of business.

Nobody is "allowing" this. It's a natural property of being both advanced technology and a commodity at the same time.

If you didn't have the humans on board, you wouldn't need to pressurize the cabin with oxygen. Or even have a cabin.

> Supporting people that want more AI regulation to stop this?

How are you supposed to know what sort of regulation is needed if you don't even know what the issues are yet? Similarly, won't it be much easier to make the case for regulation if you can point to results of experiments like this one instead of just hypotheticals?

That's kind of the opposite problem -- the agent doesn't have robot arms or legs or a parcel of land. It has to rely on people to get access to land and plant and harvest the corn, and those people are ignoring it.

But if you look at the HTML on the official blog, it has the tag:

   <link rel="canonical" href="https://blogfontawesome.wpcomstaging.com/we-have-a-99-email-reputation-gmail-disagrees/">

So... still a bit of a clown show (and maybe why it got submitted to HN with the wpcomstaging.com subdomain).

This is much less concerning to me than mass surveillance. If someone calls 911 and you need to send a first responder, why not send a drone to get there faster while a person is on their way?

Are cold starts an issue?

They're not coming out in favor of Chat Control -- they're coming out in favor of having some option where they can operate without violating the law.

The problem right now is that they can be held liable for distributing CSAM content on their services and, since April 3, they can also be fined if they try to detect that content. It's an impossible situation.

Now, I'm not claiming that these companies always have noble intentions. But there's nothing nefarious here -- they just want regulatory certainty: do X, Y, and Z and you won't be fined or sued.

> people may feel sorry for you but they won't know why.

Or worse, they'll just think you're a jerk and not feel sorry for you.

The graph in your Macrotrends link shows the exact same numbers as the AI source, but is harder to read and the page is half ads. It's not an authoritative source -- the data was most likely parsed out of Oracle's earning reports by some janky regexp. I don’t know why you would trust this more than AI.

> For one thing, we don’t have access to all the data

In the US, we do have access to all the data [1]. They're required to report every incident with an injury or any amount of property damage, and it's all available for download as CSV.

> For another, it at best shows that Waymo is safer than average.

No, it shows that Waymo is 6 to 12x safer than average.

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-orde...

It can speed up the loading of the above-the-fold content because the images on the rest of the page can be loaded as the user scrolls closer to them.

You probably haven't noticed it before because when it's done well, it's a subtle and pleasant effect that can be used to draw your attention to particular elements on the page.

This site is intentionally doing it very poorly to make a point. Really, the takeaway should be don't do things poorly. But that's kind of obvious.