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Re:Scaling Git at OpenAI on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:47AM (#50350802)
At least they weren’t using brotli.
Re:Apple reports fourth quarter results on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:30PM (#50345709)
Fiscal 4th quarter. It doesn’t have to align with the calendar year and usually doesn’t.
Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:44AM (#50336080)
> So why wouldn’t a competent AI find those vulnerabilities during development?

It probably would. Except it’s internal, and not a reportable CVE, so the fix will be deferred.

Re:A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:29AM (#50324988)
> The author points out that this might be a more practical way to deliver a basic income, and more amenable to both sides of the argument.

We almost have that with the earned income tax credit. The catch is you have to work: https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/earned-in...

Re:Anthropic's path to the Nasdaq just got a lot bumpier on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:06AM (#50315352)
The article has some good information, but the (somewhat) interactive circular financing UI halfway through is what's really interesting.

The spending commitment numbers are staggering. Deals in the 100s of billions of dollars all over the place. Sometimes the same place!

I could imagine some people getting motion sickness from watching.

Could also be the Stars of David (1m46s) and swastikas (2m24s) that end up drawn by the repeating patterns.

Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:49AM (#50302679)
Not updating air gapped systems is a security feature, not a bug.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:16PM (#50298696)
Living anonymously is about more than just shit posting. Not publicizing your wealth is a highly effective strategy.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:02PM (#50297473)
You mean FTX?
From the article:

> The Peltola campaign has repeatedly denied any involvement in his candidacy. But The Times has found, based on interviews and text messages, along with documents prepared for a potential lawsuit against the campaign, that not only did Ms. Peltola’s team work with people trying to recruit Mr. Sullivan to run for Senate, but the effort was much broader. The group worked to coax other would-be spoilers into the race, to dilute the incumbent’s support and help catapult the Democrat to victory.

If this is not election interference, get ready for some interesting future elections.

Imagine having multiple Donald Trumps or Hillary Clintons on the ballot with no reasonable way for an ordinary voter to differentiate between them.

Re:Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:20AM (#50271327)
The smart man makes his own luck.

In some way ways, that’s what smart working does. Being at the right place, at the right time, because you were smart enough to realize you should hang around that place.

So that people with off the books defi assets can diversify their holdings as if they bought into the non-defi world, without any of those pesky taxes or KYC requirements.
Re:The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:03AM (#50256770)
> A meeting between all the stakeholders to agree on requirements easily runs $1,000/hour. Taking your $4 functional PoC into that meeting is going to save so much time..

It is though! Because previously your have the meeting last 4x as long to end up with a list of notes that you already knew.

Now you can generate the PoC, showcase it during the meeting and leave with actionable changes in project direction.

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:54AM (#50243748)
The interface being arbitrary text makes the moat even looser. The cost of experimentation with alternatives is getting lower and lower.

It’s going to be hard for companies to justify paying $1000s per month to frontier providers when they see what’s doable with open versions.

These AI generated docs would make more sense if you instruct it to not include numbers unless they form a complete example.
What does this mean (from your link):

> Nested data stays inline. A string, an array of strings, a record with variable-size fields and an array of those records are each one contiguous block with no pointer in it. A record that is 160 bytes and an allocation in C++ is 29 bytes and none in Goose.

I’m having trouble parsing that last sentence.

Re:CVE Tracker on Saturday October 24, 2026 @07:04AM (#50220119)
But they don’t research, validate, or PoC anything. It’s a just a centralized place to issue unique ids and eventually publish a bunch of text.
> … an index designed to track the 500 largest companies is required to exclude some of those just because they happen to be run by a guy you dislike?

Emotions about the executives and founders aside, it may be worthwhile to exclude securities with multiple concentrated voting classes (like Meta) or those with one owner with more than X% of the float (like SpaceX).

Re:Docker Is Weird on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:58PM (#50203995)
> The only time it flirts with complexity is multi-stage Dockerfiles, but 90%+ of Dockerfiles are a single stage.

And multi stage builds are just a directed graph short hand for having separate intermediate dockerfiles. There’s nothing special about them either.

If I had to pick one thing that is tricky for someone new to docker to understand, it’s how the filesystem state is cached using the previous state, the env, and the raw command text.

Re:Speeding up code review with `small-change` on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:49PM (#50203937)
It can be even more lines as long as the hunks are continuous. Once you lose the context of change and have to “zoom out” to see where it fits in, the review time grows significantly.
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> Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

Seriously. How often do we get a story that intersects power generation and volcanos?

I read, or at least lightly skim through, the article I post about. But always post whatever comes to mind, regardless of how it will come across.

I’ve been expecting Oracle to do this. It’d solve their current data center power problem. And it gives a place for Ellison to have video calls with the UN.
> Nvidia announced Wednesday a new product that will put seven of its Vera Rubin AI racks into a shipping container, the company’s latest effort to move up the stack and offer complete systems for artificial intelligence computing.

> Nvidia did not announce a price for the system, but analysts say a single Vera Rubin rack can cost more than $7 million.

So around $50 million in one shipping container. I bet they put more than an air tag to track those on the move.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:01AM (#50179462)
There’s plenty of delicious vegetarian dishes. I’m not a fan of the ones that try to be meat dishes replaced with vegetables or anything processed to pretend to be meat.

Vegetables are delicious on their own. There’s thousands of years of cultures around the world making vegetables taste wonderful.

What the chances there’s another CA key out there with something like unix time as the key?
Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:31AM (#50178615)
Have you ever enjoyed a reverse seared marbled ribeye?

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