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vasachi··on Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59
In reality it got me 30% there.
vasachi··on Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
You could have free education, for instance. I think that would be preferable to any sort of student loans.
vasachi··on Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
I don’t get it. How much do AC units cost in EU? I can buy one for, like, $200-300.
vasachi··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Why not?
vasachi··on Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents
Surely git’s source is already in LLM’s training corpus. So this is far from clean room approach.
vasachi··on Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
You wouldn’t get one if you followed the law and released the server.
vasachi··on How Claude Code works in large codebases
I find that most “techniques” are basically user hallucinations. Simple plan-write-refactor loops and trivial CLAUDE/AGENTS.md, generated by the harness itself, work nicely. Maaaaaaaaaybe write a skill or two, but usually it’s better to just write a script.
vasachi··on Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints
I can’t compare raw intelligence of these models, and I certainly can’t say anything about their advances in mathematics (without repeating press releases). But, erm, does it really matter? It’s not like some engineer somewhere will vibe-calculate how much weight a bridge can hold.

Well, yes, someone probably will do that. But I’m pretty sure there will be consequences for the engineer errors in this vibe-calculations.

vasachi··on Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints
I’ve used DeepSeek 4 Pro through Claude. It’s fine. Plans are similar to what sonnet/opus make. Same massage-the-plan -> massage-the-code loop. Maybe the code is a bit worse, but that’s the “months behind” thing.

The thing is, vast majority of code tasks aren’t a venture into the unknown. We as an industry for the most part build CRUD interfaces and dashboards. That can be achieved, with supervision, with frontier open-weights models quite well.

vasachi··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
The economy, not the workers :) It feels like pretty soon white collar workers will be in a “You have nothing to lose but your chains” situation. Except we are not as fit as the proletariat of the past.
vasachi··on The Bromine Chokepoint
Look, it is calming to think that Trump is somehow a Russian agent, and not a sign of collapsing political class, but let’s be realistic here.

If it is indeed true, then Russia managed to put its puppet as The President of the United States of America. Twice. Without triggering any red flags from a dozen or so of US TLAs. That would be the best intelligence operation in the history of everything. At that point, USA should just put the chairs away and turn down the lights.

Epstein files yes, I grant you that.

vasachi··on Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)
IP is what, four layers of protocols lower than OAUTH?
vasachi··on Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate
Doesn't USA do that all the time with .com and such?
vasachi··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
Didn’t Juicero get more than a $100M? Do you think they had a clear plan? How much did Rome get? Did they have a clear plan?
vasachi··on Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales
First, they released it only 10 years ago, and second, Microsoft marketed it as the last windows version. So yes, this is a own goal)
vasachi··on We reverse-engineered Flash Attention 4
Are… Are you pulling out the “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” trick?
vasachi··on Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks
If only there was a high-ranking official at Microsoft, who could prioritize security[1]! /s

[1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/03/prioritizing-sec...

vasachi··on About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5
I'm pretty sure Google can buy a femtocell to simulate local mobile network of their own.
vasachi··on Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)
Initial commit: Jun 24, 2025. Already has a migration path from 0.x to 1.x.

Why am I feeling so old now?

On a more serious note, do any models support this?

vasachi··on Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub
Given that it’s going to be a part of “Microsoft CoreAI organization”, whatever that is, there will be even more AI stuff.
vasachi··on Who got arrested in the raid on the XSS crime forum?
Ah yes, because only Russians can be criminals. And also Russians cannot be born in Eastern Europe.
vasachi··on JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
Usual arguments for "upgrading" are:

* We can't hire specialists for older frameworks.

* We can't generate positive hipe over older technologies.

* New technologies are better, so we will deliver features faster.

In reality, it's almost always resume-driven development.

vasachi··on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
I’d just wait a bit. At current rate of progress winner will be apparent sooner rather than later.
vasachi··on Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365
My coworker uses thunderbird since time immemorial, and I don’t think it ever corrupted his mailbox.
vasachi··on A look at Firefox forks
Microsoft doesn't compete with Google.
vasachi··on I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts
When you need to calculate a square root of 12.345 during a physics exam, professor doesn't care that you use a calculator, because the exam doesn't test your calculating ability. But it does test your knowledge of physics. What is the point of allowing LLM use during such a test?
vasachi··on Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
Can you provide any details?
vasachi··on A Comment on Mozilla's Policy Changes
So current employees want a leader that basically only thinks about said leader's salary, I guess? That is a shared value among many, can't argue with that.
vasachi··on Tesla Is Alienating the People It Needs Most: Study
You do know there are other EV manufacturers, right? Tesla can go bankrupt today, and supply will not be all that worse.
vasachi··on iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin
Say they introduce a bug, that will try to call that API even when there is no key.
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