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theanonymousone··on Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI
Claude the model or Claude (Code) the tool? I'm not sure what to think about an article that doesn't make it clear which one they are talking about...
theanonymousone··on PL/0
Maybe referencing the reputation of IBM System/360?
theanonymousone··on Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
Non-native speaker here. Can someone please be so nice to explain why do we use the word "Harness" here and not e.g. Orchestrate or Steer?

It took me some time to realise what people mean by it, originally confusing it with harvest.

theanonymousone··on Most Americans don’t pay for news and don’t think they need to
I'm pretty sure it's not just Americans.

Just like open source didn't destroy quality software, maybe there an alternative model for journalism lying somewhere?

theanonymousone··on Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents
To me it never really clicked what MCP was/is, so I'm pretty happy with this development.
theanonymousone··on Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
But Python compilers exist, nuitka being a more famous one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuitka
theanonymousone··on Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents
Haha. Nobody ever cared that some humans preferred to use services via a CLI versus GUI. But now that "AI" needs it, CLI programs and APIs get released left and right :D
theanonymousone··on Moltbook was peak AI theater
"was"?
theanonymousone··on Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
No it's not. It's an "interpreter": The whole interpreter binary (in wasm) as well as the Python source is transferred to the client to be executed.
theanonymousone··on Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
I wish someone commanded their agent to write a Python "compiler" targeting WASM. I'm quite surprised there is still no such thing at this day and age...
theanonymousone··on Claude Opus 4.6
Even if not intentionally, it is probably leaking into training sets.
theanonymousone··on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Neither is Copilot. The title explicitly mentions Claude "Code".
theanonymousone··on Make.ts
I don't think you need any dependencies to match Bash scripting in capability.
theanonymousone··on Make.ts
I already do it, but not in TS. There is a scripting language that is as available in most/all (non-Windows) systems as Bash: Python.

Edit: zero-dependency Python.

theanonymousone··on ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions
Does that mean half of those managers will become engineers?
theanonymousone··on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
Why did "outsourced workers get (relatively) much more expensive after"?
theanonymousone··on Show HN: yolo-cage – AI coding agents that can't exfiltrate secrets
May I humbly and shamefully ask what does YOLO mean in this context, particularly "Yolo-ing it"?

The only Yolo I know about is an object detection model :/

theanonymousone··on The $200K Developer Dream Is Over – Here's the Reality in 2026
Thanks. And why is CS not in STEM?
theanonymousone··on Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?
A yearly Github copilot subscription :)
theanonymousone··on The $200K Developer Dream Is Over – Here's the Reality in 2026
> So do still learn CS or SE in college, but as a minor to another STEM field. My 2c.

What other STEM field, if I may ask?

theanonymousone··on Ask HN: Is Reddit Down(-Ish)?
Same for me regarding subreddits.
theanonymousone··on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
Is Claude "Code" anything special,or it's mostly the LLM and other CLIs (e.g. Copilot) also work?
theanonymousone··on Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
The way I understood it, you can do your inserts with SQLite "proper", and simultaneously use DuckDB for analytics (aka read-only).
theanonymousone··on Ask HN: Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development?
So why did Google make such a choice for their front-end framework?
theanonymousone··on Show HN: Motie – Replit for Web Scraping
> we’ve noticed a very long tail of websites that don’t require proxies

That tail seems to be getting harshly slaughtered by Cloudflare.

theanonymousone··on Programming language speed comparison using Leibniz formula for π
Is there a explanation for why C is slower than C++?
theanonymousone··on 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay
Yes. I also read it somewhere that, for example, if you hosted your service on Microsoft IIS, SSPL required you to publish IIS source, regardless of the fact that you don't have it.
theanonymousone··on 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay
/s would be nice. But just in case, I was suggesting to work closely with OSI and do enough back and forth until a license is agreed upon.
theanonymousone··on 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay
But SSPL was not approved by OSI. BY "investing" I mean getting it to the same status as AGPL :)
theanonymousone··on 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay
As a lay person, I still don't get what is AGPL missing that makes vendors "invent" so many new licenses and spawn so much debate? Why not just use AGPL, and if it's insufficient, invest in an AGPLv2 initiative?
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