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The article linked appears to have entirely fabricated the quote, as referenced by another commentor. The story has been slowly circulating today but there doesn't appear to be any…

> their own software/APIs are quite buggy Our org has been attempting to trial Fast Mode on and off but enabling it in Claude Code just says something like "not available with your…

I guess fandom is just in Terry's DNA: http://shanghikid.50megs.com/Otakudom/ContReal/contReal.htm

"unauthorized" is a bit different than "unauthenticated". The former suggests trying to access something you don't have permission for while the latter suggests you're just not log…

I can't help but be distracted by the 26MB flag video that my fibre connection is only able to download at 150 KB/sec here in New Zealand?

I wrote a little bit about my experience with this sort of stuff a little while back if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393437 I would add to that a few m…

Probably not too relevant but off the top of my head, the New Zealand Government's guidance on ransomware payments is that you could technically be fined if you pay a ransom to an …

> An average unaware person believes that anything can be put in words and once the words are said, they mean to reader what the sayer meant, and the only difficulty could come fro…

I had wondered if this was actually a bug and not intentional: > When a user downloads or updates Chrome, Gemini Nano is downloaded on demand to ensure Chrome downloads the correct…

Unfortunately, navigating to this page seems to display: > Too many requests are being made from an unsupported application. This unfortunately degrades the experience and makes fe…

Having ads in the middle of an article about newsroom policy is pretty wacky

Oh, I missed the memo that Amazon Leo is the new name for Project Kuiper, rebranded in November of last year. I saw a presentation back when it was Kuiper so have still been callin…

I focused too much on the non-Steins;Gate works when I replied (as pointed out elsewhere) so to be clear, when I say "worth watching", I was referring to the "other animes" bit. St…

Oh yeah, the Steins:Gate animes are perfectly fine to be clear! I was only thinking of the non-SG animes which are... pretty messy! The Chaos;Head anime barely makes any sense, eve…

For readers who are vaguely aware of Steins;Gate, you may be interested to know that it's actually part of a wider universe called the Science Adventure series (or SciADV for short…

Worth watching? Not really but they are definitely worth playing. It's hard to fault the anime adaptions because they have limited time compared to the 20 - 40 hours that some of t…

Well, I assume this is all just generated with Claude Code, right? Whether there is much back and forth with the LLM is a valid question and nothing wrong with generating websites …

Here are some relevant excerpts from an October 2025 article[1]: > In a message to GitHub’s staff, CTO Vladimir Fedorov notes that GitHub is constrained on capacity in its Virginia…

I'm not explicitly authorised to speak about this stuff by my employer but I think it's valuable to share some observations that go beyond "It's good for me" so here's a relatively…

I think Claude Code's frontend design is quite a fan of serif fonts from what I've seen in the past. They did disclose AI usage which is good: https://github.com/ahgraber/stopslopp…

This is a "productionisation" of the same content discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528 I would caution readers to do their due dilligence as the presentati…

This is effectively a duplicate of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528 I would also encourage taking a critical look at the underlying investigation as it seem…

I came here to say that this is pretty much my view having poked around a little bit as well. This file does not exactly fill me with confidence: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-l…