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Hi, HN! Did you know that Chris Nolan's casting of Tom Holland and Zendaya eerily echoes a 3000-year-old dance battle between Athena and Telemachus? I've been working on an art pro…

> What Reame is NOT for — said plainly, because trust is built here It is so weird (or, used to be) to see an LLM's internal thought process pop up this way. Like imagine how stran…

I mean, we're talking about an administration that has already over-reached in regulating this specific company out of personal bias; is openly seeking leverage over companies for …

"They may speed up the good programmers a little, but those people were able to program anyway without LLMs." I don't think this is realistic. I'm a good programmer, and it speeds …

The article argues that shared memory and message passing are the same thing because they share the same classes of potential failure modes. Isn't it more like, message passing is …

The Agent Protocols Tech Tree is a Civilization-style technology tree that shows the evolution of more and more complex protocols for building agents, coming from a "rough consensu…

I don't have a job where I need this, but I love the UI experimentation you're doing here -- "fast muscle memory folder-based encrypted snippets for devops" makes total sense as a …

I knew about those internment camps -- because they were widely recognized afterward as a stain on our national character, something never to be repeated. And I knew about the hiel…

Thanks for your work! Is the project interested in supporting http-vfs readonly usecases? I'm thinking of tools like DuckDB or sql.js-httpvfs that support reading blocks from a rem…

> The president has something to offer as a solution. For everything. Unfortunately it is not a coincidence that the solution to all problems is always (a) make a loud noise (b) ta…

Opinion from 10 years ago, I suspect still valid: There are a million python libraries and tools to do some overlapping subset of the things you'd want to do with a pdf. There are …

Cases are being filed -- of ones with decisions, about 138 successful cases to block executive actions so far, and 91 unsuccessful. https://apnews.com/projects/trump-executive-orde…

> First people complain the app store has a ridiculous approvals process and people keep getting rejected unfairly. Now people complain that they are too loose and letting in shove…

Amusingly this makes them more like actual fingerprints, which also lack enough information for "true fingerprinting" -- there seems to be little scientific knowledge of the error …

This is why Slay the Spire is as loved as it is -- clearly defined skill and luck checks delivered one after the other at the precise limits of your ability. Minesweeper is more li…

Here https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-cha... It's been below 300 ppm for at least the last 800,000 years, had now increased to over 400 ppm in a pattern tha…

(I read the post but not paper.) Did you measure subjective fatigue as one way to explain the misperception that AI was faster? As a developer-turned-manager I like AI because it's…

> Signal already offers reproducible builds After a short google, I think it does not have reproducible builds for Mac, Windows, or iOS. It does for Linux and Android, though there…

The difference in fields is key here: AI models are going to have a very different impact in fields where ground truth is available instantly (does the generated code have the expe…

> It only seats two yet has a bed big enough to hold a sheet of plywood. Not really the point of the article, but, does it? This[0] says the bed is 60 inches long and 43 wide, and …

> People could have invented crypto versions of real-life things like insurances and mortgages. Crypto makes large technical sacrifices for the sake of being harder to regulate. I …

> I work for an org with close ties to arXiv, and just like us they are getting a lot more demand due to AI crawling Funny, I also work on academic sites (much smaller than arXiv) …

This might be what you mean, but for anyone reading -- the point of Simon's article is the whole agent and all of its tools have to be considered part of the same sandbox, and the …

I'll add "reduce code size and complexity" to the list of benefits. A python library to calculate a simhash, or track changes on a django model, or auto generate test fixtures, wil…

Here's the full decision, which (like most decisions!) is largely written to be legible to non-lawyers: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.721... The core sto…