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peterbower··on Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe
What comes next? Are traffic lights connected to networks in this fashion?
peterbower··on OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
There are quite serious misincentives here when OpenAI want a headline and then are done with it, leaving everyone else to mop up the mess.

If they want any credibility on these matters, they should be funding a lab of elite mathematicians and putting them to work alongside their own researchers to attempt to solve these properly within the realm of the community.

Propagating arse slop cannons onto social media and calling it a day is not that.

peterbower··on ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust
This is the thing. Anyone can one shot an app and accept what Claude does. But to go over every single feature where it gets it wrong, and actually get it to do the correct thing, over all of those tiny details in the program - that’s where the 3 days turns into a year and maybe 3.

There’s a major difference between a polished UI and a polished program.

The fact that a model can get this far is still impressive, and it will probably one shot the program properly in < 3 years.

peterbower··on Rust SIMD on the GPU
All well and good but where can we install it now?
peterbower··on Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3
This should be downloadable.
peterbower··on Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language
What would you say is its key value proposition compared to other languages?
peterbower··on Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
Vista came out after XP. They rushed 7 out after that.
peterbower··on Karpathy’s Pelican
I agree - they have not been good games. However, the fact that it is able to build and work with shaders effectively is promising - massive time saver and lowers the barrier to entry for people who need these capabilities without double majoring in advanced mathematics and computer science/game design.

One would hope it accelerates AR/VR - if decent studios finally get behind it.