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ssalka··on Kevin Bass on X: "Women gained all of the new jobs since January 2025
This is not saying that all new jobs went to women. The key word from the tweet is "net" – that is, men certainly got new jobs too, but also were let go from them or quit at an equal rate.
ssalka··on Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
Do you pay for Spotify? If so, I hope you never have to experience the dumpster fire that is their free version. Half the time you select a song to play it'll just start playing related tracks.
ssalka··on Why are rivers so mathematical?
Rivers form fractal shapes just like how Iterated Function Systems[1] and L-systems[2] form: by simple branching, carried out at varying levels of scale. A gentle reminder that fractals are nature's favorite building block.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system

ssalka··on Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
I took a look at the black hole interactive demo/widget and dragged the Mass slider up. It crashed the widget.
ssalka··on Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers
Cue the crypto bros touting their decentralized spam-detection blockchain
ssalka··on Claude Opus 5
I think some variance is to be expected since LLMs are typically non-deterministic, however that's a huge difference that I think warrants further explanation.
ssalka··on Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
I think the Qwen team is probably aware that the NSFW community is very quick to adopt any new image gen model (see: Civitai). So, it seems like a good SEO approach to try and surface their model in search results that said community is likely already checking.
ssalka··on Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine
There are lots of skills available that enhance Claude's design capability, eg:

https://www.tasteskill.dev/

https://www.usehallmark.com/

https://layers.jamiemill.com/

https://impeccable.style/

ssalka··on Only 2 of 128 YC-backed dev tools companies block unchecked merges
This seems crazy to me. At bare minimum, checking that simple install, lint/format, test, and build commands work without error should always be required in any code repository. That is, if you care to maintain the repo whatsoever.
ssalka··on New Shai-Hulud malware wave compromises 600 NPM packages
Affected packages & versions here:

https://airtable.com/appQsN6RIDefm93kd/shrMwE9m9GqU7pjU5/tbl...

Edit: this is not a follow-on attack from the one last week, OP's linked article was published on May 19.

ssalka··on Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
How do you guys plan to sustain the business, given that your product here is open source & already has many competitors doing similar things?
ssalka··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
You can make literally any position sound awful by saying that orphans will be killed as a result. Let's try to think posts through.
ssalka··on Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
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ssalka··on Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
Sometimes I get random inspiration for an idea while out on a walk or otherwise away from the computer. It's really nice to be able to throw a couple instructions out there, let your agent run with it, and see what it came up with later. Sometimes I do this 3-5 times before returning to my computer. IMO it's really nice to be able to start from X% done rather than 0% when I finally do sit down to review/iterate on the code.
ssalka··on Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC
honestly any indicator would help <3 love the game! I keep coming back to it haha
ssalka··on Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC
Not sure how you feel about including sound, but I feel like there needs to be a warning sound that plays when you're low HP, like in Pokemon. I keep dying because I don't realize I'm at low health
ssalka··on US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
I feel like this is a symptom of AI psychosis
ssalka··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
At one of my previous jobs, there was a function `createEntityWithRandomUUID` which would basically do the same thing as a light wrapper around database inserts. If a conflict occurred, it would generate a new ID and try again, up to 5 times I think. No logging to indicate whether any conflict actually ever happened.
ssalka··on Show HN: Ableton Live MCP
Things I would use AI for in music production:

1. Generating track layouts (add tracks + empty audio/midi clips throughout)

2. Generating MIDI sequences

3. Generating Serum patches

4. Extracting stems from existing audio

5. Automating common workflows (eg sidechaining)

6. Semantic search of sample library

That being said, I don't think I want a full agentic workflow for vibe-producing. Point solutions seems like a better fit for me, personally.

ssalka··on Mozilla Thunderbolt
I immediately thought "oh, the email client? It's AI now?" Then I realized this is Thunderbolt, not Thunderbird. Kind of an odd choice by Mozilla to have two products with such similar names.
ssalka··on Nucleus Nouns
This makes me think of domain models in domain-driven design. Very useful to think about what these models are and how it makes sense to set them up & relate them in your area of work.
ssalka··on LM Studio 0.4
Personally, I would not run LM Studio anywhere outside of my local network as it still doesn't support adding an SSL cert. I guess you can just layer a proxy server on top of it, but if it's meant to be easy to set up, it seems like a quick win that I don't see any reason not to build support for.

https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lmstudio-bug-tracker/issues/1...

ssalka··on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over
For those interested, National Geographic has the "Out of Eden Walk" [1], a journey along the path of historical human migration, led by Paul Salopek. He started in Ethiopia in January 2013 – nearly 13 years ago – and just recently made it to Alaska. The planned end of the trip is at the southern tip of South America.

[1] https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/

ssalka··on I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs
I'm just gonna say that some aspect of the data collection here seems flawed: among the SF clubs listed are DNA Lounge and Public Works – which are great clubs, don't get me wrong – but they are very much on the smaller side. And, Phonobar? That is a bar/restaurant, not a nightclub at all. Meanwhile, The Warfield and 1015 Folsom are left out – how does that make any sense?
ssalka··on The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful
Eric Weinstein refers to this as an Embedded Growth Obligation (EGO), whereby organizations and economies at large assume perpetual growth, and that things really start to unravel when that growth inevitably slows. It is pretty mindblowing how we have basically accepted growth as the default state, it is not at all a given that things always grow and get better.
ssalka··on Open music foundation models for full-song generation
Something interesting... the first 10 seconds or so of the "Death Growl" example[1] is basically copied verbatim from "Ov Fire And The Void" by Behemoth.

More specifically, I think the part that seems copied is at 2:13 of the original[2], as it leads into a solo-ish bit which in the AI version sounds similar still, but goes on to do its own thing:

[1] https://map-yue.github.io/music/moon.death_metal.mp3

[2] https://youtu.be/vAmnsKKrt9w?t=133

ssalka··on Gemini CLI GitHub Actions
Maybe a skill issue, but I've tried using Gemini 2.5 Pro in Cursor several times, and each time it is an abundance of thinking and very little (often incorrect) actions. Claude Sonnet is cheaper and much more effective for me.

Having a hard time imagining the GHA integration will be much different.

ssalka··on The era of ghosting job candidates is slowly ending
https://archive.ph/uiPhA
ssalka··on Do variable names matter for AI code completion? (2025)
The names of variables impart semantic meaning, which LLMs can pick up on and use as context for determining how variables should behave or be used. Seems obvious to me that `current_temperature` is a superior name to `x` – that is, unless we're doing competitive programming ;)
ssalka··on Anthropic Faces Potentially "Business-Ending" Copyright Lawsuit
IMO cases like this won't matter until the supreme court decides to hear or not hear an appeal for one. There's no way we will allow "fair use" training in certain regions of the US while prohibiting it in others (at least, no way that will last very long).

That, or Anthropic wins their case and we continue with the de facto argument of fair use.

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