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> jump into architects or prod management but not the opposite way. This has nothing to do with any intrinsic difficulty with coding and more to do with the industries penchant to …

This feels like post-LLM coding romanticization. Before LLMs, people would regularly say stuff like "I could build this in a weekend" under a "Show HN" post. How many times have pe…

The problem is that is speculation and the market barriers are currently too high for losing business to be a threat. The two outcomes are (1) you overbuild, you end being wrong, y…

> We aren't losing in Iran because of military incompetence, but policy incompetence. My point is these two things are inseparable, and to conflate them is simply Call of Duty-esqu…

> Why is pay.cloudflare.com so hard to establish? An engineer who vibes up a marketing site, and attempts to put it on the same origin as *.cloudflare.com now has to jump through 1…

> As for controlling Hormuz, the US military absolutely could control Hormuz. I'm confident it's quite capable of it. It's that the US public wouldn't support the immense cost in l…

I'm not sure that any of that actually matters. Wars are not Call of Duty. It's politically difficult to invest actual manpower in Iran and Unless China were to nuke Hawaii, an all…

The number is large - but I'm not quite sure it's existential. The hyperscalers have been making a ton of money and I'm not quite convinced that 200B of debt for Amazon is "world e…

> If the computer can't do it better than a human being, then what's the point? Because the benchmark wasn't testing "can an LLM draw a pelican like a human". The original article …

Sorry, rather the word "scamming", I should have used the word "user-hostile". I don't think Facebook is scamming users, but as it stands Apple is in the way from them using every …

It's posts like these that make me very unempathetic to developers who complain about Apple. I'm looking at the screenshots, and I can't understand what the app does nor how the ne…

> The idea that surveillance undermines high trust societies seems insane to me. Only because, I'm betting, that you view street surveillance as something that binds others, but no…

I think he's being a little facetious - what he probably means is that if you attempt to get any true scientific rigor of that is going on in biological or chemical systems you end…

`Cargo.lock` is a lockfile machine generated by Cargo. It's similar to package-lock.json. In any case, its machine generated the old fashioned way.

> There's a dichotomy being presented here where you have to either choose a "style guide" or a programming language feature in order to avoid bugs. The sleight of hand misdirects …

> What's the problem if a site is vibecoded? Typically if a site is well designed, that used to be a signal that a lot of resources had been invested into the project. Now that sig…

Off topic: Is there anyone doing any research on how to use Claude/Agents to design websites that don't look so, "Claude"?

> People reach for the things you mentioned wayyyyyy before they should. Most orgs are probably due for a technical reassessment. Scale that I believe would have melted postgres in…

They are already a public company.

> My clients will have outgoing connections to whichever co-ordination server I choose. Then it's no longer p2p? If I wanted to avoid paying cloud egress costs, then I would need a…

This isn't the same functionality - if I'm shipping a video conferencing application, tsnet would require all my customers be in my tailnet.

> The reach of this bug is what makes it serious. Any deployment that points FFmpeg at an attacker-influenced RTSP URL is exposed: media ingest pipelines fetching user-supplied str…

Given that they had originally selected OpenAI for Siri, and that deal fell through, I would guess something about their relationship with OpenAI fell through. Maybe OpenAI wouldn'…

> Everyone is now dopamine maxxing on smartphones and internet Childbirth has been collapsing for decades before Mark had launched "thefacebook.com". Japan's TFR cratered in 1960 a…

> The first page of RFC 882 explains outright that the DNS came about in the first place because the mechanisms for updating a HOSTS.TXT file and publishing it to loads of places d…