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robryan··on Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
The key requirement is memory safety, which would rule out Zig.
robryan··on Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption
Yeah, Serenityos was build everything from scratch for fun. Ladybird is build where an alternative implementation is going to add value. No need to get sidetracked reinventing SSL or ffmpeg.
robryan··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
Highly valuable right now with how high leverage it can make a good engineer. Who knows for how long.
robryan··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
I think discord became popular in the first place because it was so much better than the alternatives, at least for the gaming/ hanging out with friends use case. Discord was initially competing with a bunch of self hosted stuff, vent/ mumble etc with higher barrier to entry and less features and Skype which was terrible.
robryan··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Not easy though, the US has to basically allow it.
robryan··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
Assuming these end up in open source code llms will learn about them that way.
robryan··on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
And assuming people want deeper integration is the browser even the right level of abstraction? Arguably it would be better to have something that was operating at the OS level, like siri/gemini assistant style.
robryan··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
To include discord you have to extend it to messaging services. To include Roblox it should be all online games with chat.
robryan··on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Yeah the example they gave does feel like pretty isolated unit test territory, or at least an integration test on a subset of the system that could be ran in isolation.
robryan··on Go's Sweet 16
Go does have iterators: https://pkg.go.dev/iter
robryan··on Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try
It would be a waste of time to develop right now, if it isn't on starship it would be a dead end in terms of progress. So they are better off just waiting until starship can be sent.
robryan··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
Was it actually a cut or was it not renewing something that was expiring? A bill to fund the government seems like the wrong place to be debating new spending.
robryan··on It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
AI PR reviews do end up providing useful comments. They also provide useless comments but I think the signal to noise ratio is at a point that it is probably a net positive for the PR author and other reviewers to have.
robryan··on Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time
I liked the leaderboard prior to AI. Was fun to click through to various profiles and see who was in there and what their solutions looked like.
robryan··on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
New Glen was meant to fly something around 6 times this year. At this point the best they will do is one additional launch to go with their first launch in January. Hard to see them doing any better timeline wise than SpaceX.
robryan··on Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement
Training aside, an llm reading a pdf as part of a prompt feels similar to say Dropbox storing a pdf for you.
robryan··on Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
Sure you could end up with occasional misinformation, but the speed at which you can get information more than makes up for it. Niche topics that would otherwise take hours or days to pull together and summar ise obscure sources takes minutes with LLMs.
robryan··on GPT-5
Seems like a good benchmark for AGI. Start with things that are easy for humans but hard for LLMs currently.
robryan··on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
They will either pay for it to be generated or get good enough at producing synthetic data that actually improves LLM quality.
robryan··on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
Claude code can get pretty far simply calling `go doc` on packages.
robryan··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
It can get you 80% of the way there, you can still be exacting in telling it where it went wrong or fine tuning the result by hand.
robryan··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
This is the Australian system as well. A lot cheaper for the government to collect with the tradeoff that small no name Chinese sellers can pretty much ignore it without penalty.
robryan··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
Kind of. People can always refuse to pay it and charge back. I'd imagine the US is about to have a massive amount of unclaimed parcels to deal with.
robryan··on Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
To note as well the Techcrunch article specifically says 71% ownership.
robryan··on The deterioration of Google
Social media still has a lot of links. They are probably all have "nofollow" on them. Assuming google honors that.
robryan··on ChatGPT Search
Wouldn't googles energy per search also be way up with the llm snippet at the top now?
robryan··on Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres
The problem is more our lack of ability to build them quickly and in a cost effective way. An investment in solar will much more reliably and quickly turn into a certain amount of power generation.

Hopefully this changes once every nuclear project isn't some complex bespoke thing that is likely to be late and over budget.

robryan··on Cassie LaBelle: "eBay completely destroyed my life"
Nothing to loose if the process for the first one goes nowhere. Use a separate company/ address/ bank account. A past company I worked for had multiple accounts and eBay didn't seem to be on top of this anywhere near as much as Amazon tends to be.
robryan··on OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain of thought
Yeah seem fair, as long as they also check the terms of service for every site on the internet to see if they can use the content for training.
robryan··on OpenAI Pleads It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
It is interesting that they both licence content and say it is fair use. Seems like those who complain the loudest will get something for their content and everyone else will get nothing.
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