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It's giving Vishnu, but the world cannot exist without Shiva.

What's the monetization pathway here? No private repositories (because everything is on ATProto) so near zero commercial use potential - CI is free, everything is free, no pricing page... Am I the product if I use this service?

"The law in America relies on intentionality, notes Rune Kvist, head of Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which insures AI firms. If no human intended to hack anyone, no crime can have happened. The ability to sue for damages is limited too."

This is sloppy. Criminal negligence exists (although some crimes do require intent). And civil tort certainly doesn't require intent.

But if you told an embodied AI to do a home cleaning task, and it decided to pick up a gun and start spraying bullets, you might not want to be held liable for that.

Out of curiosity, what exactly is a "fully mechanical scissor switch"? And is this the first such switch on the market? If I search for other such products I can only find "metal scissor switch over rubber dome" style.

"Visual graph editor for AI workflows" seems like an extremely saturated market (Langflow, n8n). Consolidation seems natural as the agent engineering industry matures.

Multiple levels of disappointment here. This is about Hilbert curves, not physical lawn mowing. The participant interviews provide self-reported strategy, but the phrasing "why some people..." implied that there would be some discussion of causative factor beyond that, maybe a correlation between 2d Hilbert curve construction and performance in other more familiar tasks like 3d shape rotation, or measured testosterone levels.

Disappointments aside, this reminds me of how engaging the old game Flow Free was!

I feel obligated to warn future readers that this post contains decaying corpse imagery and is therefore not suitable for breakfast.

I find it interesting that they gave the father a funeral. So there likely was a proper eulogy given. People in that position often don't get a funeral.

I feel this way about gpt-5-nano (EOL December 2026). It seems like the open weight models have progressed a long way since these old models were released though. Deepseek V4 Flash is even cheaper than gpt-5-nano. I'm still going to pay a cloud provider to run it for me, I'm not local inference pilled yet, but I _can_ run it myself in the future if worse comes to worst.

Objectively testable evals are one thing, but how does one judge whether a new model is adequately reproducing the subjective "writing style" of an old model that you've gotten accustomed to the feel of?

Starlink is also satellite internet, right?

Denver has this... nominally. 3 machines (2 in circulation, one is a "Display"). 4 week checkout period. 103 current holds. 103*4/2/12 ≈ 17 year wait time.

Oh, didn't read that part of the news. That's great. Ability to run x64 docker images seminatively was one of the big reasons I jumped to the M1 platform when it came out and I was baffled that they would remove it.

Not for long!

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Plaid wants you to enter your bank username-password into their form. If it was just routing+account it would be truly no different than other bank connection methods.

Try clicking "Stumble" a few times...

After reading this and remembering an old hobby project, I decided to switch the deploy from a systemd service to PM2, which apparently has rolling deployments without needing Docker engine (for those of us minmaxing instance RAM).

Porque no los dos. Force a platform. Deploy non containerized. Build a dockerized version of the forced platform for cross-platform local dev.

>I read the Fogbank story and recognized it immediately. Not the nuclear material. The pattern. Build capability over decades. Find a cheaper substitute. Let the human pipeline atrophy. Enjoy the savings. Then watch it all collapse when a crisis demands what you optimized away.

>In defense, the substitute was the peace dividend. In software, it’s AI.

Before it was AI, the cheaper alternative was remote contract dev teams in Eastern Europe, right?

Interfertility is not an equivalence relation, does not form equivalence classes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

For real work I'm already on Opus full time (plan+execute). I think there's a different space for cheap-but-good-enough options for small-to-med repo hobby projects. (Not enough usage to warrant a plan.) And Opus is only ~30 tok/s while grok-code-fast-1 is ~120. So planning with Opus and executing with grok-code-fast-1 is still on the table for me - it's good at following explicitly written plans, lightning fast.

What feedback did your pitch analyzer product give to this pitch about itself?

Do you have evals for this claim? I don't really experience this

Meanwhile on the HN main page right now: "Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637757

If it's between a human or an AI copywriting SEO slop, I'm happy to see an AI take that job. SEO content marketing is so painful to read once you realize you're reading it, and I have to imagine it's as painful to write if you're a technically talented writer.

"It is the first time since 1972 that humans have travelled outside of the Earth's orbit." But they're not tho (Earth's gravitational dominance extends 4x the distance to the moon)

Previously posted in 2022 as Obsidian Canvas before being open sourced in 2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34066824

"Free encyclopedia service founder disparages competing free encyclopedia service" See also entry for "encyclopedia salesman"