Insanity

Haven’t bought a physical game in at least 15 years (because of Steam). I do wonder how many people still buy physical copies these days. Not sure what the sales are like on PS but at least on Steam y…

A (sad/funny) anecdote. Someone told me earlier this week "Not using a coding agent today is like using Vim for development instead of an IDE, you're just lagging behind". As someo…

There have always been plenty of “9-5” programmers who will do the minimum to get by. Even just being on HN is somewhat of a bubble of people more interested in keeping up with tech than the average J…

Yeah, was to be expected. It's a nice idea though, mooi gedaan!

It’s a new account (2h old as of me commenting) and it does read like LLM content to me.

That's pretty cool, I like that idea. I'm in Canada now so shipping cost would make it more than 30 EUR though. Might have to ship one to my family in Belgium instead lol. edit: just checked…

You raise a fair point, but I'm not convinced it'll offer a meaningful difference in performance as long as we're stuck with the current AI paradigm.

But you have to factor in that this device will last you 5-10 years. That said, I wouldn't spend almost $7k USD on this macbook lol.

Could be, I don't follow the CEOs closely lol. Any source on this?

I haven’t used Mullvad, so can’t say how it compares to ProtonVPN but I’m happy with Proton. It is super easy to set up, even on Linux and iOS devices.

We're at an interesting time for programming language development. Typically, newer features made the developer experience better. Either a faster way of doing something, it being safer, or easie…

I'll +1 that, and I'm one of those people but only if I'm already in a poor mental state. When I have something to feel anxious about (e.g, health concerns), then coffee consistently ma…

Or avoid the trails all-together. Given the 30th anniversary of Trainspotting this seems relevant: https://youtu.be/xtbS_PdA198?si=8ba8Fp8_uzdpIq6J . I’m pretty wary of ticks, when you…

At least they didn't use quotation marks for "emphasis".

Yup exactly :) I named July/August for the connection to real people, but yeah it’s pretty much all around us.

Just wait for Hollywood to create a film about Roman mythology and not cast a single Roman! But less tongue-in-cheek, the other thing is that the legacy of the Romans is pretty much all around us. The…

If there are these places on the internet the article mentions which perfect bread ingredients “to the gram”, someone should share that with American bakeries. It’s near impossible to find decent brea…

This looks quite nice! But suspiciously absent data points.. no Java or Go for the languages? Seems odd. No Amazon in companies, yet I think it's often mentioned. I wondered if "go" got…

I was never in the army, and I still enjoyed and would recommend Catch 22 regardless. It (sadly) applies to the goofiness of companies and bureaucracies more broadly. That said, being in the army migh…

Sorry, I should have said "profit path", good catch! They have revenue, but their cost scales with revenue and they're losing more than they are making. See: https://www.whe…

They are reserving future HW productions to meet their hypothetical usage as well. Which is why others (like Apple) can’t reserve it for their future products. Yet the AI labs are speculating on usage…

You are assuming the HW shortage is the result of meeting a real demand and not just build-outs for a hypothetical demand that might never materialize.

Oh wow. I attended one of his seminars in Brussels after he was awarded the Nobel prize. Memorably event, he seems quite charismatic and a good speaker. Always a bit of a shame that the “Higgs” Boson …

LEO is incredibly saturated.c if you build a data center there at the size needed you deal with space debris. MEO is about 500-1000ms latency in a good scenario (blanked coverage), that’s not snappy.…

Literally on the HN homepage today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48645386

It’s an insane idea that Musk needed to boost SpaceX value. It’s not feasible in the near future, there are latency constraints, power constraints (both to ship the materials to space as well as run a…

This tells me you are likely from North America? Credit Card usage is really different between those regions. While I lived in EU, I rarely used credit cards (even paying online works with debit cards…

I'm not sure if that's really an Anthropic problem you're pointing to vs a problem that their infra layer handles (Amazon, Google, whatever hyperscaler). i.e, they might be scaling quic…

I'm assuming that the reason I didn't have good success rate is because it was not scanned documents, but photographs, and lighting conditions weren't always ideal. I think scanned busi…

Ask your LLM to 'write like a phishing email' to have it seem more human. I'm actually curious if this works, haven't tried but I assume it would.