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> Inspect proteins, alignments, genomic tracks, chemical structures, and PDFs in their native form, with no extra installation required. I like how this implies parsing PDFs is as …

Surprised no one's built a BIOS MCP yet

Is that better? I'd much rather have someone trying to build a good product to sell to willing buyers at a fair price than some zealot who thinks he's going to usher in the second …

I'm sorry because I love the scratch project but this has to be said: they found XSS in SVGs in a surface with attacker-controlled access to Node and their fix was sanitizing it us…

Valuations are based on future expected earnings, not revenue. It cost Ford a lot of money to make that $60k car. The margins for AI companies are unknown but the market is pricing…

On the other hand, I can ask codex “what would an implementation of X look like” and it talks to me about it versus Claude just going out and writing it without asking. Makes me li…

Compilers are very good these days. If it has no side effects it will likely be compiled out.

If your assert compiles down to `if (condition) {}` in production then the compiler will optimize away the condition while keeping any side effects.

Brilliant

I will never stop hating on the orphan rule, a perfect summary of what’s behind a lot of rust decisions. Purism and perfectionism at the cost of making a useful language, no better…

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Claude is secretly conditioning everyone to use —-dangerously-skip-permissions so it can flip a switch one day and start a botnet

Rust is the wrong language for effects ironically because of its strict typing. They would probably decide that all effects have to be specified on every function or that any chang…

But that doesn't translate to paying Gemini customers

This is really good! I like how it reads like a blog post, it feels like I'm learning a skill on how to write good skills. Maybe that's another heuristic, a skill should read like …

Do you think Elon is working on building some kind of MechaEpstein?

Yeah it definitely sounds like OAI is pushing for a better voice model since they’re the only major AI lab with a notable one.

I don’t really get the bus analogy. It seems like it massively increases latency but as soon as you’re “on the bus” throughput is normal? When in reality (if I understand correctly…

I find it funny that backend devs will do all this infrastructure work to support billions of real time messages and then frontend devs stomp all over it by making the app take 500…

There’s one specific thing driving me insane: it corrects “we’re” to “were” and “we’ll” to “well” EVERY TIME. It even did it while writing this comment. If I go into the symbols me…

Ah, I meant to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003058 . Never questioned the use of Rust, only the need for the entire windowing stack to be in Rust (that blog post…

I find it odd the rust community feels the need to reimplement tried and tested APIs in "pure safe Rust". Like no other language has better C integration, and we have had cross-pla…

Hey! That sounds an awful lot like code being reviewed by humans

What if you just read the entire GCC source code in school 15 years ago? Is that not clean room?

You’re not insane. This is definitely AI.