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It’s never been clear to me why the HN algorithm isn’t public. It’s obviously nowhere near as complex as something like Twitter, and of course isn’t a trade secret. The fact it’s p…

“We care about safety so powerful open models are bad” - and what of OpenAI? What if Mythos got into the wrong hands? It’s a pretty weak argument

Dylan came to mind after reading the Chapman answer, not least because of his 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American so…

Anyone know what that keyboard is?

It’s become somewhat of a HN “flex” to call something out as AI slop, and it almost always comes across as preachy and just plain wrong

Poor George

> For the time being, it appears that all three servers are without power. This strikes me as odd, only three servers?

This is one of my fav blog posts

> Hardware (minimum): 1× H100 @ FP8 Cool to see this but seems like it would be pretty expensive to run

It baffles me that Hard Fork is so popular when they regularly have such uninformed takes

NIMBYism

It kind of ended up being a funny dance between 538, the NYT and The Athletic. The original sale to The Athletic probably would've made the most sense for 538 (in hindsight). Then …

NYT has a weekly version of this for those interested https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/upshot/flashb...

I had this in the back of my mind today https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.... Glad they got home safe and sound!

It would be impossible for me to not sing along to ABBA

I really thought this was going to be an Apple acquires Tailscale post

Same in Australia and only recently (that is, in the last year) has there been any restrictions on showing gambling ads during live sports events. It’s difficult to compare how nor…

Apple's cloud software has been buggy as hell for a long time, at least for me. I'm in a family iCloud group with my parents... one day I just woke up and had all my podcasts and m…

> Finally, I’d like to note that this sort of dev work goes beyond hubris. It’s dangerous. The more we assume we know without verifying, the greater the risk. In this case, the dev…

Curious if this has anything to do with Silicon Valley types getting into carnivore diets (though it's been happening for years so maybe not)

There are a few emotional trigger points that LLMs seem to cause in programmers and this is a common one -- the need for deep, first-principles understanding that LLMs make obsolet…

A torte is (according the Wikipedia): > a rich, usually multilayered, cake that is filled with whipped cream, buttercreams, mousses, jams, or fruit So you could be excused

Hard to not delight in the schadenfreude