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thunkleon Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant

There's only one way out of this predicament. AI reviews. It's what we have to do.

thunkleon 'Rogue' Cursor AI agent loses control and wipes company's database

Wait. Cursor had access to the production DB???

thunkleon Just How Much Should You Worry About Eating That Burnt Toast?

I would never eat burnt toast, but dark roast coffee, a pint of Guinness I wouldn't think twice. How bad are these comparatively?

thunkleon Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

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thunkleon MCP is dead; long live MCP

So if I release a new cli. How do I get the LLM to know about it? Do i tell it every time to run the command? Do I build a skill. Should I release a skill with the cli? Do I just create docs on GitHub and hope the next crawl gets into the training set?

thunkleon 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

Just have to ask. Will I be spending way more money since my context window is getting so much bigger?

thunkleon LLMs Are Not Fun

Doesn't matter what we want or how we feel. Product, C-suite, Customers just want software as fast and as cheap as possible. They don't care about the code and the craft. If that's the case then we have to use AI if we want to stay marketable.

I wonder if customers even appreciate the organic artisanal labels that some sites are putting up e.g. https://play.date/games/diora/

thunkleon We Need to Die

What if you live forever on Earth but miss out on a much better place God has created for those who die.

thunkleon How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

I just paid for it, downloaded the kindle app, and dragged the .awz8 file and it says it doesn't support the format!

thunkleon An illustrated introduction to linear algebra

How do I get to chapter 2!

thunkleon Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

Live github PRs that you are tagged in.

thunkleon We're Joining OpenAI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45115941

thunkleon Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

For me it's the blinking cursor at the top... It's hard to focus on the text.

thunkleon Big banks explore venturing into crypto world together with joint stablecoin

Just pointing out https://www.worldlibertyfinancial.com/ 60% owned by the trump family and also Steve Witkoff (special envoy to the middle east) just got funded $2B by the UAE. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Liberty_Financial No conflict of interest here??? Who runs the justice department? Who is not supposed to receive gifts from foreign nationals

[Edit] corrected website URL.

thunkleon Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal

I like the self depreciation here: > itter.sh is built with TONS of bugs on:

thunkleon Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

I see this on the example: 6 ft 2.0000000000000000004 inches

thunkleon The Cost of AI Coding

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eDr6_cMtfdA

thunkleon Eight or more drinks per week linked to brain lesions

> Of those who never drank, 40% had vascular brain lesions. Of the moderate drinkers, 45% had vascular brain lesions. Of the heavy drinkers, 44% had vascular brain lesions. Of the former heavy drinkers, 50% had vascular brain lesions.

I mean when you put it that way it doesn't seem so bad.

thunkleon Ancient Dagger Up to 2.5k Years Old W Stars/Moons/Geometric Patterns Unearthed

How did they manage to pack so many video ads into a single article?

thunkleon Show HN: Play with real quantum physics in your browser

Oh man, me too

thunkleon Lua is so underrated

I just started using lua and have types in vscode using lua annotations. https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server/wiki/Annotation...

thunkleon Lua Is So Underrated

I've been writing lots of lua recently. The only two things that bother me are indexes starting at 1. It's made my 2d grid math more complicated. I also don't like how I have to write a goto statement if I want to continue/next inside a loop. Other than that I love the simplicity.

thunkleon Drinking 3 cups of coffee linked to preventing multiple diseases

What about those with high blood pressure?

https://clinicalnutritionespen.com/article/S2405-4577(23)021...

thunkleon Steam Families Is Here

Can I prevent access to the game community art section which often has inappropriate content regardless of the games rating?

thunkleon Brain Scientists Discover the Glue That Makes Memories Stick for a Lifetime

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

thunkleon Major Fire Breaks Out on Maersk Containership in Arabian Sea

Can you explain what you mean?

thunkleon The joy of reading books you don't understand

I spent so much time on "Road to Reality". I was mostly confused, but then every once in a while something would click and it was mind blowing. Now I'm going back through linear algebra. I'm also looking at the hardest book I've tried "Moonshine beyond the monster" I'm trying...

thunkleon Harvard Study: Planetary Health Index Diet – lower mortality and 30% lower CO2

The diet:

> The food-based reference diet for generally healthy individuals aged ≥2 y emphasizes high consumption of high-quality plant-based foods (e.g., whole grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts and legumes, and unsaturated plant oils), low to moderate amounts of animal-sourced foods, and low intakes of saturated fats, refined grains, and sugar.

thunkleon Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior

Effects of Toxoplasma on Human Behavior

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526142/

>> the men were more likely to disregard rules and were more expedient, suspicious, jealous, and dogmatic. The personality of infected women, by contrast, showed higher warmth and higher superego strength (factors A and G on Cattell's 16PF), suggesting that they were more warm hearted, outgoing, conscientious, persistent, and moralistic. Both men and women had significantly higher apprehension (factor O) compared with the uninfected controls.

thunkleon TTE: Terminal Text Effects

I feel like a good use case for this would be on an oldskool roguelike.