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Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:21AM (#50243180)
In 5 years that strategy might not be competitively viable anymore
Re:'Jonathan' Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:30AM (#50003682)
oldest known animal
>Students need to understand what AI is and is not.

Do we really understand what AI is and is not? For example we all know AI can hallucinate, but how does that knowledge help us in practice? If I'm leaning something new I would have to fact check everything which would take about as much time as learning from verified sources.

Re:Vinix – A modern operating system written in V on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:28PM (#49745415)
V is a super young language, I wonder if llms even can produce decent code with it.
Re:Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? on Friday September 04, 2026 @02:05AM (#49561063)
>MCP apparently reduces probabilistic failures

Does it really do that much difference? I mean in the end robots process MCP output the same way they would process API docs.

Easily? The only one I'm aware of is Asahi Linux and they are still far away from having good level of support
Re:Octane – React's programming model, compiled on Monday August 03, 2026 @06:07AM (#49153643)
It seems like an attempt to port Svelte's features to React-like api?
Interesting, I wonder what does no-runtime option mean, no event loop and no async code then?
Interesting, I have been skeptical about .net as a platform, is it really open and doesn't lock you with microsoft in any way?
Go, C# and .Net? And here I am wishing for typescript-like language for backend systems.
Re:Reality has a surprising amount of detail on Saturday July 04, 2026 @07:22PM (#48789968)
I can't prove it in scientific ways, the thing is at some point scientists defined an atom as something indivisible, today we know they study sub atomic particles, and even finer things, waves or strings or whatever. In the same way 100 years from now our science will look primitive, physics will be few levels deeper, but there always be the next thing. Its like a pattern of nature.

I'm saying this from a perspective of practicing powerful spiritual practices and having certain experiences. They actually make one experience infinitive nature of consciousness, and somehow realize this is the way everything is made.

Re:Reality has a surprising amount of detail on Saturday July 04, 2026 @07:10PM (#48789909)
Even human perception is able to peek into the infinite nature of things, not the intellect though, the intellect can only work with limited and defined "things".
Re:Reality has a surprising amount of detail on Saturday July 04, 2026 @07:09PM (#48789900)
It's unknowable through current means of science. There are ways to experience that, I did some of them so I'm talking from my experience. And no, I can not prove it, if it was provable like that it would be already done.
Re:Reality has a surprising amount of detail on Thursday July 02, 2026 @06:52PM (#48768413)
Reality does not have amount of details, it is infinite in all directions. Its only that we perceived certain amount of details, some more some less. One can spend their whole life mastering a single aspect and there always will be room to improve.
Re:Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion on Saturday June 27, 2026 @10:09AM (#48698453)
I'm not defending it, I'm saying "cringy sexist bullshit" is just a modern liberal western take. It could have been something like "people might see it problematic", and I agree with that.
Re:Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion on Saturday June 27, 2026 @10:00AM (#48698378)
>I don't think I have that, really

Thinking and doing is not the same.

>people who objectify groups of other people

What is the objectification here exactly?

>you do not seem particularly open to criticism either.

Right, and how would you know that? Just make sure you make your opponent look bad and you win the argument - this worked in school, not sure why try to do it here.

Re:Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:52AM (#48672070)
Its the plague of western people thinking they have the moral high ground over other cultures and nations. In the place where I grew up this kind of scene would be considered normal. But you must be the one who dictates what is right and what is wrong, don't you?
Comments on the internet are also optional, yet you do it
Re:How many of the 170k English words do you know? on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:07AM (#48608322)
Nice one, what I noticed is that out of 4 options 1 wrong is just something looking similar in letters, and 2 options are opposite meaning of each other - so actually the choice is 1 out of 2, not 4.

Also many highest difficulty words are actually combinations of multiple smaller words which makes it easier to guess, I got more right in expert/grandmaster than in advanced.

>when everyone and their dog are either vibe-coding with Rust or constantly shouting about it's superiority, I've lost any interest in the language

None of this makes Rust worse as a language

You assume that its used to show advantage, but we are on a technical forum and for me, as an engineer, its always interesting what language or tech was used to create a project.
Re:Debug Project on Monday June 01, 2026 @08:11PM (#48364221)
I don't understand non-breedable part, mosquitoes are a part of a food chain as everything else, surely you don't think eliminating them will have no consequences?
Re:Blorp Language on Monday June 01, 2026 @12:11PM (#48358807)
In my experience there are many problems with significant whitespaces, things like copying pieces of code require much more work, when indentation actually changes the logic you can not ask your tool to do it automatically - because there is no single right way to do it. Tabs vs spaces can also be a problem.
Re:Blorp Language on Monday June 01, 2026 @09:53AM (#48356892)
Readable syntax with mandatory indentation is a very questionable idea. For me its easier to understand that something ends with a specific designation, not with a lack of it. Indentation should be solved by formatter and not the language.

And I don't quite understand the memory model, is it something similar to Rust?

Now with AI I find myself in need for a space that can combine multiple repos into a single "project". For example for debugging an issue across the system, or asking it to verify if FE/BE communication schema has any mismatch, or describing the complete feature flow from one end to another.

Is Cate's canvas per git-repo or can I add multiple?

Re:Ferrari Luce – Designed with Jony Ive on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @07:39AM (#48278345)
Define ugly
Interesting story showing how complex todays tech is, and your whole security plan can be compromised by regexp matching rules.
I see this as a much more solid and mature take than those who "boo" about AI taking their jobs.
Re:If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog on Friday May 22, 2026 @09:10AM (#48235390)
I have no idea, in theory it might catch some miss-configured agents off-guard
Re:If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog on Friday May 22, 2026 @08:30AM (#48234973)
That's the smartest thing I saw in quite a while

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