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Can't speak for anyone else but there was a step change in frontier models last November. Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.2 I think. When I colloquially say Opus level I really mean Opus 4.5 or…

But of course, wholesale surveillance on the rest of the world is fine. I guess our democracies don't count and we don't have any rights.

Source?

Basically coding in SQL, very cool.

Maybe they do perform canary deployments and Australia was the canary? Certainly feels like it's disproportionately affecting us down under.

I don't understand why this outage and the Azure outage earlier don't make it to the front page. I'm getting more up to date technical details from the regular media. This outage l…

Surprised this isn't on the front page, The whole region is down. * Azure Devops is down globally * Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) is down globally * Multi-Factor Authentic…

This game is a reply to last weeks thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36453856 with a different perspective.

The scale on those graphs is wildly different. Office have 120 down reports per period. Reddit has 40,000.

This week I re-created my passion project from 9 years ago. I've done very little Android development since then so it gave me a good opportunity to reflect on what's changed.

Seems like a win / win to me. An investor like Linus would bring a lot to the table.

For other JS developers the stuff about await isn't relevant. It's not the same as a JS async/await In JS an await is just syntactic sugar around a then() on a promise. The Await i…

I've recently been doing some hobby coding on a Commodore 128 and I'm getting the hang of editing basic programs without being able to edit inline very well. I use the list command…

Good reasoning in the article. Acknowledges that refusing them service won't take the site offline but makes a good argument for doing so. "They are no longer Cloudflare's problem,…

Put another way if you spend 20k hiring and you get a 9/10 male developer you could spend $30k increase the size of the funnel and get a diverse hire of the same quality.

You just need to increase the size of the funnel. If you were going to interview 100 people, interview 150. It's not about lowering the bar it's about making the extra investment t…

Interested to know why the gender of the manager matters?