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Calling something "vibe-coded" nowadays is a permission slip to unload on it with hyperbole and insults because you can presume there's no human in the line of fire. I really don't…

No, it's part of the Machine. Direct quote from the Steam Machine page: "Steam Controller's wireless adapter is built right into Steam Machine for direct pairing. " It has dedicate…

There's a section of his pay package that says: The Performance Hurdles will be adjusted by the Committee equitably and proportionately as determined by the Committee in a manner d…

HN has a "second chance queue" that sometimes revives posts and gives them another shot. Not entirely sure how it works, but it sounds like what happened here.

Click on the home page and look at their other headlines, read the "About" description. It's just an endless stream of clickbait AI slop. Their "archive" goes back two weeks and ha…

It's absolutely shocking how many people think that inverting all the quality metrics that we've traditionally used "because LLMs" will lead to good things. Nothing about this will…

I went down a bit of a rabbit-hole trying to figure out exactly who Matt Shumer is and why anyone should care what he thinks. The best information I found came from this article, w…

Thought this name sounded familiar... Matt Shumer was one of the people responsible for the "Reflection 70b" hoax a few years ago. There is no reason to take anything he writes ser…

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/ Note that nothing about that depends on it being a local or remote model, it was just less of a concern for local models …

It's using "Fortnite" as a synecdoche for Epic Games, because "I have to give an age verification company owned by Epic Games my passport to use Bluesky" isn't quite as effective a…

Two years ago there were also hundreds of people constantly panic-posting here about how our jobs would be gone in a month, that learning anything about programming was now a waste…

Believe Andrew Ng's new course is all Python now, yeah. Amusingly enough another class that I took (Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers) kinda did the opposite move - when I t…

I was in one of those early cohorts that used Octave, one of the things the course had to deal with was that at the time (I don't know about now) Octave did not ship with an optimi…

Durov is also, relevantly, a naturalized French citizen in addition to his various other passports. It's not just "some jurisdiction", it's one he opted into!

Top-level players regularly are in the 90-95% range aggregated over many games, with spikes up to 98-99%. If you have 98 or 99% accuracy over the course of an entire game (which ha…

The vast, overwhelming majority of chess games are not played in front of cameras or even in-person. The accusation in the article was about online play, and specifically blitz whi…

I actually like Helix a lot too, but it is different than (neo)vim in a lot of significant ways. It feels like alternate-universe vim more than just better defaults. It also doesn'…

Lists like these are almost always more accurately titled "How I wish I'd been taught X" and are aimed squarely at a student who has never really existed, one who simply learns wha…

It has never been anywhere close to certain, we just had 20 years of wild, unsustainable growth that encouraged people to cover their eyes and pretend the ride would go on forever.…

The feature the person you're replying to is talking about is not arrow functions (`=>`), but what are called "threading macros" in other languages. In Clojure[1], the main one is …

The same trend is noticeable here on HN. Many threads are full of top-level posts that are just someone pattern-matching on a word they don't like in the headline and using it as a…

Those choices and Certbot strongly encouraging snap installation was enough to get me to switch to https://go-acme.github.io/lego/ , which I've been very happy with since. It's ver…

"AI slop" is following the same path as "Dunning-Kruger effect," "enshittification," and so many other terms. Someone introduces a term that's useful to describe an actual phenomen…

If you use Make as a task runner like in the article, please make sure that you're also declaring your tasks as .PHONY targets: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/P…

2.50.1 is available on Homebrew now, for anyone seeing this.