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A large part of how actors act is specific cues given to them by the director, which is pretty clearly work by the director. A director also gives specific instructions for a lot o…

The downside is obviously that uncached queries take much longer (adding >100ms) and more queries are uncached since you can't share the cache with a large user-base. Unless you ju…

If you're referring to voters staying home, staying home is a vote for their state's majority. There's no sense in which the average citizen in a democracy is not responsible for t…

I don't believe that at all, the average person voted for this government.

I remember reading about how the reason that Rosetta 2 had good performance compared to other x86-on-ARM emulation efforts (like Windows') is that Apple built special instructions …

I think it's because mental ability and personal worth is pretty strongly tied in the modern world, in that way calling someone deficient is like insulting them. I don't know if yo…

The author isn't literally discarding their stances, they're temporarily putting it aside to investigate a specific question. The paragraph is pretty clearly a throat-clearing that…

I do, over the years they've replaced my phone three times, two of those were beyond the 1-year manufacturer warranty period.

Seems pretty high effort compared to a content blocker mobile app or native parental controls. I'm not sure why anyone would get this.

The difference is that it's pretty acceptable for you to reject family requests for money, it doesn't make you a pariah and being a pariah doesn't carry the same consequences when …

How about they keep the bug report open until they attempt and confirm the bug is no longer reproducible?

I doubt software development will stay as "low skilled prompting", or that it is even low skilled prompting right now. Productive LLM usage goes beyond typing in better prompts and…

Isn't that what is implied by the toughest job market yet for junior level candidates? Author is very confident that the answer to his question is "no".

How is it unsustainable when iOS has enforced even stricter rules for its nearly 20 year lifespan?

I think the key metric to good software has really changed, the bar has noticeably dropped. I see unreliable software like openclaw explode in popularity while a Director of Alignm…

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus-rog-strix-27-dual-mode-... I haven't found a glossy competitor, or even one with the same HDR spec, but this is the closest I could find so far…

The events are out of order, the bottom three events are: - Feb 27, 2026, 02:13 PM: OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation - Feb 27, 2026, 12:00 AM: Anthropic: Statement …

The keyword is "cancel", not threaten seizure with the DPA and destruction with a baseless supply chain risk designation.

Not this, because this is completely unprecedented? In fact, the Pentagon already signed an Anthropic contract with safe terms 6 months ago, that initial negotiation was when Anthr…

I think this mostly misses the biggest reason why writers would choose big tech platforms or other big platforms: discovery and aggregation. If you want to speak to be heard and no…

The recent frontpage post I see is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926245 (not on frontpage anymore, probably downranked by flamewar detector since it has tons of comments)

Sorry, I do not.

A lot of people are using Claude Code which many consider to be a noticeably better for coding than the other models. I think also they tend to be generating non-C++ code where the…