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It's not for everyone, but I write all the code and then I ask the LLM for a review. It catches something minor thing every single time (out-of-date comments on a function or metho…

Oh man, if you weren't sure if the administration is staffed with people who do not understand the technology they are trying to manage, doubt no more! From the article... Treasury…

It's really tough on people with a particular health condition and it can turn into an additional expense if a critical provider is suddenly out-of-network. Employers have definite…

Agreed. I was thinking more along the lines of what does it mean to say "I want to hire the next Steve Jobs as our CEO"?

Yes, my opinion is that after being the CEO of Next and Pixar he became the CEO we associate with Apple's success in the 2000s.

Is Steve Jobs even a good example of "the type of person I want to hire as CEO"? I think he probably is not. He was a demonstrably bad CEO, so much so that the Apple board fired hi…

IMHO, municipalities are much more serious about these permits and, at the same time, neighbors seem even more sensitive to any kind of noise or even a visual disturbance. If your …

I have worked with people who have this attitude ("do the story, now!"). I think it eventually de-motivates people and you get a lot of bare-minimum type work from the development …

Does not at all appear to be a game you run in the console. The first video on the Steam page does include a lot of stylized Hacknet-ish looking text. https://store.steampowered.co…

I think both things can be true: new models benchmark higher and eat more tokens.

I’m not so sure this matters. My team manages a couple pretty new projects and I still see LLM tools doing this. I’m starting to suspect that vendors are building in these behavior…

I’d be curious to see the financials on the Kindle readers, my suspicion is that they very quickly make the cost back through book sales. If retaining customers was a concern they …

Strong disagreement on this one, I think the coverage has proven that the current crop if anti-LLM sentiment is a much bigger thing then whatever is happening on this website. In t…

I feel that "good" music has some emotional resonance with me, at some level. In my opinion AI won't ever be able generate what I'm looking for, it always strikes me as somewhat bl…

I thought the NY Times article was pretty good, they had some nice illustrations. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/01/science/spudc...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityB... > This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could all…

Even people who do read the content of every AUR package they install could use a helpful heads up and some detail in the new threat they should be looking for. If a package is com…

I think a notice on the front page of the AUR would make sense here. IMHO, a blurb on the Arch homepage with a link to a notice on the AUR page would also help. If you don't want t…

> All his numbers about costs, revenues etc are guesses or attempts to work backwards from off the cuff and frequently inconsistent comments by tech executives. They could easily b…

I don't read Ed Zitron, aside from when he appears here on Hacker News, and I also find his tone to be over-the-top. I think we might agree on that much. These articles are lengthy…

I hear what you’re saying, I’ve wondered this myself. My suspicion is that if we let duplicate or very similar code accumulate, eventually we’ll have enough that it will start to s…

I’ve been using Claude Code with Opus 4.7; it’s not that the code it produces is wrong, it simply tends to write too much of it. In my opinion it’s still worth thinking about a par…