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Once a company gets to a certain size, they no longer optimise for product development, instead they optimise for risk mitigation. A lot of processes will be put in place with the sole purpose of slow…

Humans have been hallucinating responses given a prompt long before chatgpt was a thing!

If Linus Torvalds got paid based on his impact on the world he might just be the world's richest man

In the last election, Australia's Green Party was the only party whose housing plan involves actually building homes. The major parties went with throwing more money at the problem.

I like to remind myself that Wordle, when it went crazy viral, had a domain that was very unmemorable https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ Not having the "right" dom…

Isn't that owned by a government official?

Tired: rocks don't have souls Wired: we will put a soul in this rock for $10,000

But look at all those tails! That person must be a failure at life and therefore justifies me never flipping any coin.

As a person who was born in a third-world country, it's amazing (and a bit lucky for me) how many first-world folks can manage to squander this opportunity!

In general, stuff that helps humans make changes safely will also help AI make changes safely. So you have rollbacks, but you also have things like automated tests, staged changes, robust observabilit…

I've paid $20 for 1 month's worth of Claude Pro. So far it seems sufficient if you want to dip your toes into this form of development.

> it's concerning these vibe coding tools must be coerced into semantic markup These things are becoming more and more humanlike every day

Great way to remove the jostling users...!

Same here. If I wrote an honest piece about my last employer, it would sound very similar in tone to what was written in this article

Homer Simpson is also a fictional cartoon character

Here's what the frontpage looked like on the day of Erlang: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11 …

I'm using Cursor agents + Claude to build a new Android app. I'm building an app that uses WebRTC, which is not something I am deeply familiar with. I have found Claude to be useful at worki…

Gentle reminder for Australian folks here, you can get a bowel screening test kit for free, if you're between 45 - 74 years of age. https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/nationa…

Putting an emdash in a comment about how human you are is a bold move!

I presume the onus will now be on the AI scrapers to decide whether that AI-slop site is worth paying for. How they will figure this out will be interesting to see.

The Australian passport curl was so disappointing. I have a decade-old passport from my third-world country of origin, and that was in far better shape than my new Australian passport that was freshly…

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The way Google implemented leap seconds wasn't by sticking a 23:59:60 second at the end of 31st Dec. The way they did it was more interesting. What they did instead was to "smear" it ac…

The lesson I took from this is that it is useful and important to dig into how any piece of data was sourced.

What other forms of "local" are there? Don't mean to be snarky, apologies if it comes across like that. I'm genuinely curious

The difference between o3 and o4-mini is so substantial I think this is the reason why people can't agree on how capable LLMs are nowadays.