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Re:Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:54AM (#50350389)
This is probably only relevant if you go over the 150 engineers putting you in the enterprise bucket and forcing you to pay by the token rather than the subsidized Claude code plans. If you need 150 engineers all with frontier model accounts maybe you are doing something wrong ;)
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:53AM (#50350003)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Yeleycqt1Dw

Ted: I met a girl; she's a cashier. John: No way! That's awesome! We should fuckin' double date or something, you, me and Lori and w-what's her name? Ted: White trash name. Guess. John: Mandy. Ted: Nope. John: Marilyn. Ted: Nope. John: Brittany? Ted: Nope. John: Tiffany. Ted: Nope. John: Candace. Ted: Nope. John: Don't fuck with me on this! I know this shit! Ted: Do you see me fuckin' with you? I'm completely serious. John: Alright, speed round. I'm gonna rattle off some names, and when I hit it, you fuckin' buzz it, okay? You got me? Ted: You do it. I will tell you. Yeah. John: Alright: Brandy, Heather, Channing, Brianna, Amber, Serena, Melody, Dakota, Sierra, Bambi, Crystal, Samantha, Autumn, Ruby, Taylor, Tara, Tammy, Lauren, Charlene, Chantelle, Courtney, Misty, Jenny, Krista, Mindy, Noel, Shelby, Trina, Reba, Cassandra, Nikki, Kelsey, Shawna, Jolene, Urleen, Claudia, Savannah, Casey, Dolly, Kendra, Kylie, Chloe, Devon, Emmalou, fuckin' Becky? Ted: No. John: Wait; was it any of those names with a "Lynn" after it? Ted: Yes. John: Oh, I got you, motherfucker! I got you! [Ted laughs] John: Okay. Brandi-Lynn, Heather-Lynn... Ted: Tami-Lynn. John: [Exasperated] Fuck!

> But I feel the only reason Chinese models have been able to gain such popularity is BECAUSE they are open source.

Why do people keep calling these "open source" models? They're not that different from NVIDIA's binary blobs. Sure, they work, and you can run them and get results, but the source code, training data, and training process are largely hidden and proprietary. Publishing weights is not the same as publishing the source. They're open-weight models, not open-source models.

Re:The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:25AM (#50324247)
And a little research turns out that anthropic itself makes available a *react* based artifact builder so you don't end up with SLOP from the get go. You could probably modify the template to work with your framework of choice.

https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/web-ar...

Re:The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:16AM (#50324184)
my experience is that one-shotting a simple front end works great. Then you want to add features and move things around and each turn starts getting slower and the single page with JS and CSS and HTML starts to turn into a 3000 line monster and your context window starts to creak under the strain of even simple changes, because the LLM has to keep more and more of the application in its head just to make relatively small changes without breaking something else. Either you should have started with some kind of framework with hygienic rules on how to separate concerns or at minimum a good set of coding standards that force the LLM to start building clean components from scratch. The benefit isn't necessarily cleaner code for its own sake, it's that the LLM can work on one part of the application without having to understand the whole thing every time. That being said, once you have a 3000 line prototype it's not that complex to simply ask the LLM to refactor it into a set of orthogonal components. As long as it was building unit tests using playwright or something this can turn your slop into framework code cleanly. The interesting question is whether you saved anything by putting off that structure in the first place.

I run into this problem turning claude artifacts into things I might want to maintain longer term.

I'm sure he drives stick as well because offloading cognitive function to an ECU changing gears for him would also be against his religious beliefs.
Liam Neeson?
Some research suggests that clustering simply on public vs private is correlation not causation. Many public utilities in the USA are clustered around hydro electric system and dense urban system whilst private utilities pick up the more expensive to run and traditionally less well serviced markets.
I suspect the whole field of mathematics will simply disappear as a career path. It seems obvious that the trajectory is for the machines to be able to provide proof on demand for any solvable problem. Whether or not the proof is understandable by humans is perhaps irrelevant in the larger sense. Doing hard math will simply become another black box tool in the larger AI toolkit for goal optimisation. Is this sad and should we try to prevent it? Is it any less sad than the venerable London cabbie who spent a life time memorising every street to gain "the knowledge" and almost overnight supplanted by machine intelligence.
Re:What Is Codemode on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:17AM (#49991709)
Claude scripts can be anything and can call any library.

https://gofastmcp.com/clients/client

Re:What Is Codemode on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @02:25AM (#49989055)
How is this different to Claude writing mini scripts to get jobs done which it does quite often?
Re:Open Source as We Know It Is Dead on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:17AM (#49974104)
There is also the fact that Maintainers simply don't need contributions any more. This I've noticed also happens at work. Everyone is maintaining their own mini stacks of things. Contribution is up cooperation is down. Why go talk to a colleague when you can talk to Claude? Change is everywhere.
Re:Sites in ChatGPT on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:22AM (#49945076)
Text is not ideal in many cases. I work with CNC algorithms. I have opus 5.5 optimising algorithms. When I don't understand what it is blathering on about I ask it to sketch some svg animations to explain itself. I've been shocked at how on point most of them are. You still have to watch out for the odd hallucination but I have some base prompts that tell it always to use scripts and real math to generate SVG rather than do it by inference. With some tweaking it can create some shockingly godd one off animations to explain part of an algorithm it's working on. Text is simply difficult to comprehend when a picture can do the job much better.
Re:Aweb – Communication for AI Agents on Thursday October 01, 2026 @11:43PM (#49929618)
You are probably still writing for agents. It's more than likely these constant "AI smell" insults on HN are simplY themselves agents scanning posts for any AI smell simply because it gets upvotes to post such slanders.
Re:Goodbye Google on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:14AM (#49840739)
Why is uncertainty about the motives of one form of superintelligence terrifying, whilst, at the same time, uncertainty about the motives of another, omnipotent supernatural intelligence comforting? i.e. the “I don’t know God’s plan, but I sleep well knowing He has one” line of reasoning.
Re:Spymarks, Not Watermarks on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:22AM (#49797076)
Wouldn't synthid type watermarking fall under GDPR. Personally identifiable information attached by third party to content in the expectation that it would be published and trackable?
Re:Who gets to define the rules for AI? on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:45AM (#49692838)
If you want a seat at the table then your AI must prove itself capable of winning some competition against the incumbents. How about a nice game of chess?
Cancer is simply cells breaking free of the cooperative jail. Essentially the grey goo scenario of nano machines. Instead of cooperation they just do their own thing.

Cells have a certain optimised DNA mutation rate kept in check by various machinery. Multi cellular life expects each of these little replication machine to co-operate in the grand scheme of running a body. But it's also required in the grand scheme for DNA to mutate a little bit to ensure population variance. So you could say that cancer is the tax paid for having cooperative yet flexible and adaptive nano machinery.

So yes the propensity for cancer developed under evolutioniary pressure towards a non zero level.

The population could have optimised for zero cancer but it would not have paid for itself in terms of overall population adaptability and survival.

Let's use AI to test the validity of an AI generated clickbait article.

Fable 5.1 was presented with the following prompt to do research.

> https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-n... states an interesting causality. Generate an artifact that tests this claim. Is it causal or coincidental. ie if libreoffice downloads have been increasing every release then it's possible to claim any recent feature change is responsible for the download. You need to get access to the download stats and then see what other major features could be responsible

https://funny-taffy-f8d6c0.netlify.app/

Conclusion is that the claim is speculative.

(This post was meat written. The report is AI generated content. )

Re:Muse Spark 1.3 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @01:58AM (#49546409)
There are still job interviews?
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:10AM (#49532365)
Prompting it often to use simplified technical english generally stops this kind of horrid prose.
So I run my app in a linux container under windows and I'm exempt from age verification? Isn't android linux under the hood? I'm sure the law is not so easy to get around. How does it work?
The assumption that because something is important and the consequences are dire when it fails, infinite resources should be allocated is simply wrong. At some point 911 calls will be backlogged. What to do then? Maybe AI triage is the best of the worst options.
Re:Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:32AM (#49142332)
Back in my day, "nerd" meant actually being an intellectual. You know, reading books, doing math, being interested in physics, etc. How did consuming comic book slop become false signaling for what Nerdom once was?
Re:Codex Micro on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @12:41PM (#48923502)
I checked the date but no.
Re:We Don't Have to Be This Bad at Improving Society on Thursday July 02, 2026 @05:29AM (#48758747)
It doesn't work because politicians are not allowed to admit failure. A politician who admits that they tried something, no matter how small, and it didn't work, is fish food. This means there is no difference in downside, for the politician, between going all in on a big decision with huge risk versus taking baby steps. The politician is dead no matter what. They either keep claiming the bad decision was a good one in the hope that something turns up, or eventually resign or get voted out. But if they ever dare to publicly change their point of view in the presence of new evidence, they are accused of the worst crime a politician can commit. They are a "flip-flopper."
Re:Tidal AI Policy on Monday June 29, 2026 @10:30AM (#48719753)
Tidal should simply ban AI generated music from upload if they are not willing to pay uploaders should the music become popular. Under these rules an AI generated country and western song that makes it to number 1 on the billboard chart makes Tidal money and the uploader nothing.
The

"Appreciate it" / "cool carry on"

Is exactly the sort of confusing non choice options cookie banners give. Along the lines of

"Accept all" / "more information"

Then I'll retract my claim but it is bad UX to make a popup on the landing page that looks like an evil cookie banner.

What the fuck is their cookie banner. Worst dark pattern I've ever seen. The options are

"Appreciate it" or "Cool carry on"

I don't feel inclined to click either and exited immediately.

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