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SoftRam. Raymond Chen wrote a great technical analysis on what it actually did: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=10...

> There are a finite number of words and a finite way of combining them within an academic setting/field which means that we can't build a perfect classifier with just text. Maybe …

> They'll almost certainly spend more time and money on the process than is ever collected if this ever happens. The point of regulation isn't for the state to turn a profit. In fa…

Similar situation. I have no doubt that a large fraction of my childhood memories are fabricated, but there were a few that I kept to myself until I was over the age of 30 and were…

This gets said a lot and it kind of irks me. (I am a physician.) US software devs also make 2x what their European colleagues do, but that never gets called out as bloat. Plus US s…

I would be more willing to believe you only used Claude for minor editing tasks if you disclosed your usage of Claude upfront.

The value of a PhD thesis is the personal intellectual growth you get from putting it together. The end product isn't really the point. There's a lot to be said about publishing in…

To call out The Tribe as hypocritical, you first need The Tribe to have a consensus opinion. Agentic coding in particular has been very polarizing both on HN and in the developer c…

Octopuses are smart, but I've yet to see anything that suggests they are smarter than dolphins or whales.

Brains are resource hungry, especially oxygen hungry. Earth's air is orders of magnitude richer in oxygen molecules than its water. This likely made it easier for intelligence to d…

Gates famously came from a rich family, but Bezos did too - he used hundreds of thousands of dollars in investments from his immediate family members to get Amazon off the ground. …

> While fact investigation continues, BAM’s current state of its investigation has uncovered significant evidence of gross negligence in how the store was previously operated by th…

I believe they mean GPU threads. Plenty of cuda files in their repository.

Your sarcasm is misplaced because yes, this has unironically been true for large chunks of Latin American history. - Argentinians in particular are over 60% of Italian descent. - T…

If you're looking for international precedent, this is an old vs. new world issue. Birthright citizenship is rare in the old world, but it is the default for the Americas. Canada, …

I did look up numbers before I made that claim: From Yahoo Finance GME Jan 1, 2016: $7.09, $5.49 adjusted (accounting for dividend disbursements) GME Jan 1, 2026: $20.09 266% or 36…

GME also beat the S&P 500 over the past 10 years. Is this evidence that Ryan Cohen is a business genius? Tesla has been a meme stock for about five years now, maybe more. Its valua…

I consider myself AI skeptical-ish and I detest when people defend LLMs with "it's user error, prompt better," but in this case it actually is user error. If you want a particular …

> But it’s getting harder and harder to define a task that humans beat LLMs on. On pretty much any easily quantifiable test of knowledge or reasoning, the machines win. Quite to th…

I disagree, I use metaprogramming in application code quite regularly, although I tend to limit myself to a single construct (instance_eval) because I find that makes things more m…

I'm writing a compiler. When I have Claude write a new feature, I have validate that suite against a test suite of ~200 tiny programs. I have a shell script that automates this. If…

I'm skeptical of that reasoning because the original C wasn't too clean or performant either. For example emit.c from an earlier commit [1] It writes a separate call to emit_raw fo…

I know this is tangential to your overall point, but did really they murder everyone in the room? I was under the impression that a few Venezuelan generals kidnapped Maduro themsel…

spinel_codegen.rb is an eldritch horror. I always get spaghetti code like this when using Claude, and I've been wondering if I'm doing something wrong. Now I see an application tha…

What sorts of instructions?