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pennaMan··on Being an old school web-based sports sim dev in the era of vibe coded games
Please note that I did not imply devs won't exist in my contrived fantasy.

Who do you think will be operating those mythological tools?:)

pennaMan··on Being an old school web-based sports sim dev in the era of vibe coded games
someday we will have models that can resolve physics to such degree to predict the future with surgical accuracy and when someone says "maybe models will become advanced enough to create a whole other universe from scratch" you will be there saying "highly doubt it"
pennaMan··on Being an old school web-based sports sim dev in the era of vibe coded games
don't ask how the sausage is made
pennaMan··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
You have an US-centric (an really naive) view of the judicial systems of the world. In many countries the judges have to follow the exact letter of the law. In others, this "spirit of the law" excuse makes way for enabling systemic corruption.
pennaMan··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
The reason is self evident: central planning regulatory hell is incompatible with inovation.
pennaMan··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
You are incredibly naive. There is one on every street, they are just called "sports bars" instead of casinos.

You're probably talking about the big Vegas style entire-hotel casino that aren't so popular in Europe anyway outside a niche crowd. The average lower class Spanish person frequents these "sports bars" heavily

pennaMan··on Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick
>It’s literally text prediction, isn’t it?

you are discovering that the favorite luddite argument is bullshit

pennaMan··on Migrating to the EU
> the EU currently has the most user-friendly laws when it comes to data protection

This is laughable. The EU has the most big-tech regulatory capture friendly data laws that make it really hard for small companies to compete, nicely packaged under consumer protection pretenses.

Those same laws give the institutions of the state complete and total right to silently wiretap the digital existence of anyone, at any time, for any reason.

pennaMan··on The three pillars of JavaScript bloat
This is one of the best parts of agentic development. I almost never had to reach for any npm package besides the foundational staples like the tailwinds and react queries. My pacakge.json dependency array vs project size ratio is just incredible nowadays
pennaMan··on Have a fucking website
>pedophilic fascist speed freaks

the LLMs have a wider vocabulary, argument range and worldview nuance than whatever the dogma of the month or whatever the fuck this is

pennaMan··on Have a fucking website
the sudden left turn into political bullshit really left a sour taste

and it's mostly just the same walled garden rant we've all heard and even made a variant ourselves

is this the type of content we have devolved into on here? I'd take endless ai slop over endless random cringe political posturing any day

pennaMan··on Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
> europe

> we don't engage in mass surveillance

you're incredibly naive

pennaMan··on 15× vs. ~1.37×: Recalculating GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark on SWE-Bench Pro
efficiency per token has tanked but it's still faster. given this is the first generation for Cerberas hardware this is the worst it's ever going to be.

when it reaches the main 5.3 codex efficiency at this token rate this kind of articles will seem silly in retrospect

pennaMan··on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
> they are trying to quickly create alternatives to anything American

They're the same bright minds that ensured no alternatives could naturally come out of the European market trough relentless bureaucratic central planning. I have zero hopes of a good outcome

pennaMan··on Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
this is amazingly cool, great work!
pennaMan··on Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)
The industrial revolution also created clean drinking-water systems, sewerage and wastewater treatment, basic sanitation and hygiene infrastructure, mass-produced vaccination, antibiotics, antisepsis and sterilization, anesthesia, obstetric and neonatal care technology, refrigeration and cold-chain logistics, food safety and industrial food processing, pasteurization, canning, mechanized agriculture, synthetic fertilizers, modern crop breeding and seed systems, electrification and power grids, hospital infrastructure engineering and medical imaging.

To name a few.

pennaMan··on Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)
To the human race. The only reason we're not living miserable animal lives is because of technological progress. Wanting to slow that down means you are anti human.
pennaMan··on Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)
in this case the best compliance is non compliance

degrowth decels are a scourge

pennaMan··on Streaming platform Twitch added to Australia's teen social media ban
one more step towards let's age-restrict (KYC) everything that is not government approved propaganda

make no mistake, this is about deanonymization and has nothing to do with "think of the children"

pennaMan··on Gemini 3
> It also returned 8 "sources"

well, there's your problem. it behaves like a search summary tool and not like a problem solver if you enable google search

pennaMan··on Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right?
Yes, it is easy. LLMs have reduced my maintenance work on scraping tasks I manage (lots of specialized high-traffic adfield sites) by 99%

What used to be a constant almost daily chore with them breaking all the time at random intervals is now a self-healing system that rarely ever fails.

pennaMan··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
so your definition of "understand" is "able to develop the QC test (or explain tests already developed)"

I hate to break it to you, but the LLMs can already do all 3 tasks you outlined

It can be argued for all 3 actors in this example (the QC operator, the PhD chemist and the LLM) that they don't really "understand" anything and are iterating on pre-learned patterns in order to complete the tasks.

Even the ground-breaking chemist researcher developing a new test can be reduced to iterating on the memorized fundamentals of chemistry using a lot of compute (of the meat kind).

The mythical Understanding is just a form of "no true Scotsman"

pennaMan··on EU age verification app not planning desktop support
Why stop there? Go all in: they should not run their open source totalitarian digital control nightmare codebase on closed source hardware, because that's the real issue!
pennaMan··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
hey, I got a bridge to sell you, was $20k but we can lower it to $15k if you pay in BTC
pennaMan··on Italy drags Meta, X, LinkedIn into €1B+ VAT showdown: free sign‑ups now taxable?
when you shoot yourself in the foot before the race all competition is "unfair"
pennaMan··on Italy drags Meta, X, LinkedIn into €1B+ VAT showdown: free sign‑ups now taxable?
> they do everything they can to avoid paying taxes

as any rational entity should

pennaMan··on Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality
They are not trying to solve it. They are pretending to solve it by masking the underlying issue and making things worse in the proccess.
pennaMan··on The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering
prediction is the result of reasoning
pennaMan··on The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering
I always used "prompting" to mean "providing context" in genral not necesarlly just clever instructions like people seem to be using the term.

And yes, I view clever instructions like "great grandma's last wish" still as just providing context.

>A given prompt may work poorly, whereas it would have worked quite well earlier.

The context is not the same! Of course the "prompt" (clever last sentence you just added to the context) is not going to work "the same". The model has a different context now.

pennaMan··on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
Basically, the GDPR doesn’t guarantee your privacy at all. Instead, it hands it over to the state through its court system.

Add to that the fact that the EU’s heavy influence on the courts is a well-documented, ongoing deal, and the GDPR comes off as a surveillance law dressed up to seem the total opposite.

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