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It is wild that amidst all these platform stability issues, GH has decided now is the time to do cutesy marketing for a new feature

When we were dating, the first thing my now wife did was get me on a regimin of sunscreen and tretinoin. I now have significantly fewer wrinkles than my younger siblings (2-3 years…

My issue with this is not that codeberg and its members want to uphold a certain set of political beliefs. Any private organization is free to do that. It's that they haven't defin…

> If your statistical model doesn’t contain this single bit in its output, then it doesn’t meet the minimum requirement for being a prediction. I would be fascinated to know how yo…

He may not have control over the podcast spots, but his PR firm does have several AI companies as clients.

After alcohol, are we going to stop people from having multiple sexual partners in their lifetime? Because if public health is the goal, that would solve a lot of problems. It is f…

Things are already off to a great start [1] https://agentbus.org/directory/?agent=agt_d9eb089fd4aa8e0f

The deep irony of the longform critiques is that the length is a proof of concept for the value of human effort.

I downloaded the "agent skill" file before installing it. You can read the full thing here: https://dpaste.com/GMEDXUR93 This is not really a pixel art project. Ut's a referral spa…

Does this only apply to companies the commission doesn't like or will it apply to the hn app I use, my email clients, shopping sites, etc? Because it seems like the actual concern …

Google will buy Anthropic if it comes to it. Google already owns ~30% of anthropic and Anthropic is running on Google hardware.

Everyone was laid off last year and the site is being mined for views.

Google didn't buy 30% of Anthropic to starve them of compute

Is it still getting blocked when you give it a browser?

I had a friend who flew out of SFO without an ID for many years without much issue. It was much more difficult for them to get back.

" As first reported by Reuters, Apple has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup specializing in imaging and machine learning, particularly technologies that enable devices to interpret…

Yeah this has always seemed very silly. It is trivial to use claude code to reverse engineer itself.

I share the frustration with the hype machine. I just don't think a guy with a blog is an appropriate target for our frustration with corporate hype culture.

Fair point on the Elbonia comparison. But we can't sue the SQLite maintainers either, and yet we trust them with basically everything. The reason is that open source developed its …

Ok but this entire idea is very new. Its not an honest criticism to say no one has tried the new idea when they are actively doing it. Honestly I don't get the hostility. Yegge is …

It is fine to have criticisms of this, I have many, but saying that Yegge hasn't built real software is just not true.

Because my local is a laptop and doesn't have a GPU cluster or TPU pod attached to it.

Interesting direction but the 98.8% FPR in Table 1 seems like a dealbreaker. Anyone understand what's going on with the contradictory results between the text and tables?

The article's Karim Khan example pretty deeply undercuts the thesis. Losing access to your bank account is the actual coercive power. Losing a Microsoft email is an inconvenience i…