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What it adds is making this kind of thing easy for normies, even if it's neither the best way to do things nor very difficult for hobbyists to do using existing tech.

Maybe it's the wrong approach, maybe what people really want is more deterministic software that they use agents to help write. But this kind of thing can maybe serve as a prototyping phase for that. Perhaps in the future, people's assistants will offer to "solidify" frequently used workflows into software that minimizes or eliminates the LLM's role. For existing Claude Code users, its like "please just skip to that step! its cheaper and more secure and more reliable". But to many people who are interested in automation, perhaps that seems out of reach as a first step.

The security industry absolutely has a serious "more is better" syndrome.

But the best antidote to many forms of ransomware isn't security software at all— it's offline backups.

Like so much in cybersecurity, an analysis by spending categories like this feels like vendors and their marketing teams driving the discourse. Even if we accept that dollars provide the right lens through which to look at this problem, companies that spend more on making sure they have good backups and good restore procedures aren't going to show up as spending more on cybersecurity in this kind of analysis.

Anyone can report illegal content on Cloudflare and Cloudflare will remove it. The pirate streaming sites pop up only in or just before the first few moments of the game, and LaLiga insists they must be removed instantly in order to prevent their losses. So what they actually want is preemptive removal without meaningful human review or anything else that could take 10 minutes.

That involves more than being responsive when someone reports abusive content or dropping bad customers. That requires becoming a censorship machine that preemptively treats all new customers as criminals, and probably having some unaccountable AI drive the censorship process. (That latter seems to be what LaLiga is pushing Fastly to do.)

That's beyond the legal obligations of infrastructure platforms, bad for the reliability of their service, and just a slice of what they'd have to do to rework their architecture to support this kind of preemptive censorship.

And, I guess, it's headless in the sense that you can't attach to it even if you want to. I get what you meant now.

Some countries also throttle pretty effectively. So you can connect but if you're trying to do more than read Hacker News it's not very usable.

Cloudflare literally wasn't even a party to the ruling by which LaLiga has been compelling Spanish ISPs to do the IP-level blocking. They're just an affected third-party because the blocking scheme the courts have allowed LaLiga to impose on ISPs is on a per-IP basis.

Spain hasn't asked Cloudflare to do anything. Only LaLiga has acted like Cloudflare owes them a huge, expensive rework of their CDN's architecture for the purpose of censoring things for LaLiga purely as a favor to LaLiga. What LaLiga has over Cloudflare isn't a court order. It's a protection racket, or maybe a hostage situation, where court orders involving other parties are the gun held to the hostage's head.

What I'm waiting for before I switch is mainly a really good bridge to Git. At the first couple tech companies I worked at, I led efforts to switch from Subversion to Git, and I did it by experimenting and I eventually proving a viable path using Git's built-in, two-way SVN bridge, which is excellent.

Whenever I revisit Pijul, I play with importing a giant (pathological, tbh) Git repository. Unfortunately, it runs for days and has never successfully completed for me. But the moment that bridge is good enough, I'm in! (Performance is nice but reliability is obviously the essential thing, especially when it comes to one-time operations like the initial import.)

PS: pmeunier, if you're reading this: I love your work. When Pijul can reliably import Nixpkgs, write a killer blog post about it. I'm sure it'll blow up here on HN. :)

And thanks for your work to advance the state of the art in DVCS! :)

PPS: I wonder if Pijul's fundamentally better merging behavior could become especially salient for teams (or individuals) whose codebases are seeing a lot of churn with heavy LLM use, so that it can help make automatic resolution of merge queues cheaper or easier or more reliable.

But for high-ish quality translations of substantive texts, you typically want a harness that's pretty different from Claude Code. You want a glossary of technical terms or special names, a structured summary of the wider context, a concise style guide, and you have to chop the text into chunks to ensure nothing is missed. Even with super long context models, if you ask them to translate much at once they just translate an initial portion of it and crap out.

Are you using it for localization or short strings of text in an app? I wonder what you can do to get better results out of smaller models. I'm confident there's a way.

This is generally how the GFW works in China. Instead of an overbearing nanny like a school or corporation's DNS blocker, you're left with a sense that you're on a version of the Internet that is just intermittently and somewhat mysteriously broken.

And indeed, in China, a lot of things that probably aren't fully intended to be blocked are not reliably accessible. Implementation varies, so you get strange routing and peering issues. It feels like an Internet that isn't fully formed, that hasn't finished coming together yet.

Nation states and corporations obviously gain some things sometimes by having Internet censorship/blocking frameworks in place. Maybe, sometimes, ordinary people even benefit, too, if it helps shut down illegal and genuinely harmful businesses.

But it feels like the whole world is gradually trending towards more and more Internet censorship without realizing that we are un-building a miraculous thing that took enormous effort and cleverness and expense to build. I wish we could think about this not only in terms of freedom (and we absolutely should think about it in terms of freedom), but how we are disintegrating the infrastructure of communication and computing.

But the opacity itself is a bit offensive to me. It feels shady somehow.

How is this normal?

If you want to break more rules, you might consider chickenwing-ing your arms a bit. Deviate from the homerow and learn to feel your way around at other angles. Then you can hold the laptop closer to you without putting your wrists at a weird angle (though you may have to use a non-thumb finger for spacebar, as I do).

As I type this, my laptop is partly on my belly and partly on my chest, and my wrists are so far out to the sides that they completely miss the front edge of the laptop altogether. The angle is pretty favorable, too: my palms rest on the laptop on either side of the trackpad, and my wrists rest over the left and right sides of the bottom case but have little to no pressure on them.

No RSI here, either. Just make sure you're loose and comfortable and not forcing anything! That seems to help a lot.

Those are Emacs keybindings, and they're also present by default in Bash since they were copied by GNU Readline. They're one of the few things I really like about macOS. (But I'm an Emacs user and I'm also used to using them in my terminal.)

The window manager never stops sucking. Rectangle and Contexts or Witch help. Ice helps with the stupid menu bar design and problems with overflowing icons or oversized menus.