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Oracle, the law firm with a tech business attached, probably wants to retain the option to sue other people for AI-washing their proprietary code, and that doesn't work if they're …

Yes, strong agree, normalcy resumes at some point. But you want the hook in first. I mean, I'm phrasing that in marketing terms, but in this case it's in harmony with what your use…

I love the ambition and the fact that this is not just another "state of the art in 2015" language like I see so often. It's trying to do something genuinely different. The field o…

Yeah, IIRC my django site was 3 queries, all correctly indexed, for a main page hit, and 2 for the actual posts. I don't recall the exact perf numbers, but I'm pretty sure it was e…

"A $5/month VPS won't cut it anymore." Are you speaking from experience, or inferring from articles like this? I serve a static site on the lowest Linode $5/month VPS and it is gro…

Yes, I don't mean to imply that this is some sort of clear majority situation or anything. I just mean that I've definitely both seen on HN and participated in real life in some co…

In this context, a capability is something that allows the code, or the transitive closure of the code that it may call, to access some particular function, to put it very briefly.…

A language that revives capabilities, brings them up-to-date, and works in the modern environment is my #1 request from the programming language community right now. I don't need a…

"What a serious security model for a meatbag agent looks like?" Yes, I think that's very related. Humans can be punished for their crimes but they can also experience benefits that…

What would a serious security model for an agent even look like? I'm sure I've already got a dozen people reaching for the reply button, but slow down there, cowboy. I don't think …

This is a really important concept for developers. One aspect for developers that I see quite often is the assertion that "We can't have X without giving up more Y", most commonly …

I think you misunderstand. The idea is not that one feeds a cryptographic text to LLMs and they crack it. The idea is that one feeds a cryptographic algorithm to an LLM and they br…

Rovo has my favorite example of AI misfeature. Just checked, it's still there in Cloud Confluence. In Edit mode for a page, you can select a range of text and a menu will pop up, w…

Ah, my favorite exception to fraud: Puffery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery If everyone knows it's a lie... well then I guess it's not a lie anymore, is it? I kind of unders…

I think you really want to look at this in terms of the fact that it was already getting difficult to convince companies to hire junior engineers. They already don't want to pay fo…

Memory isn't what I meant by the partitioning; I meant the entire context of the memory. But to your implied point about getting an advertisement into a memory file... that makes i…

Oh wow, thank you for that chart. That is fantastic. The premium is huge . And for good reasons.

The best way for a politician to lie is to convince someone else of the truth of the lie and then put that someone in front of the cameras. That way, there's no hint of body langua…

I mostly use languages where the feature doesn't even exist. We don't generally miss it. I also blocked a proposed mandatory dependabot at work a few months back because I didn't l…

IPOs experiencing significant drops after their IPO is not a crazy theory, it's pretty much the norm: https://potomacwealthmanagementllc.com/2026/03/04/underperfo... Not guaranteed…

Lock in isn't about physical versus digital. This came up a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138750 Disks can be locked in and digital can be completely f…

You will also not get very far in engineering if you have a production incident, someone proposes a thing that will mitigate it partially but significantly, and you insist that we …

I hate that it's hidden too. There's no reason for it to be hidden and arguably some reason for it not to be hidden. I did discover one reason for it not to be just "env" though, w…

I don't think you're quite getting it. I'm saying, don't get in the box . "But the bait looks so nice!" Yes. Yes it does. Yes, you may have to sacrifice and not get some things you…

Nobody is claiming this is a complete solution to security. I would call this "necessary but not sufficient". You won't get far as an engineer if you refuse to implement "necessary…