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All the people who ever worked on Oracle iProcurement fired into a volcano?
The Koenigsegg CCGT1 looks quite nice.
Claude for Legal

Claude for Teachers

Claude for Government

Claude for Financial Advisors

Claude for Clowns

Claude for OpenAI Employees

Claude for People Called Geoff Who Were Born In June

It's a long list.

We're going to need sites where 100% of contributed content is human-written

It needs to be verified. That's all. That could be by a human, but it could be by AI. The point is that any content that's written by AI might be wrong, so if you're not checking it you can't trust it. AI is pretty good at checking it's own work.

I imagine with a fan wiki (or company docs in my experience) no one bothers to put the effort in. That's probably because the rewards are for writing the content, and there's absolutely no reward for checking it's correct.

Can you fly a drone that's covered with a cloak?
it could just be me, but I think there's a difference between maximizing the efficiency and utility of some RAM and maximizing the output of a person. The person has freedom and choice. We want them to be able to do what they want, because the downside is slavery, which is bad.

'Enslaving' RAM so we can get the most work from it as we can isn't quite the same.

He's right. Most people don't use much of the RAM in their PC. Having 16GB or 32GB as standard on a PC when Apple's 8GB M1 demonstrated you can do a huge amount of work with much less proves it. Moving the majority of RAM to data centers where it's utilization could be much higher would be a more efficient use of resources.

There are still reasons for people to have a lot locally, but it shouldn't be the default.

There's a meme for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreaking:_The_Worst_Perso...

Re:Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:32PM (#50281880)
I'm not suggesting Formlabs would do this, but advertising the $79 add-on and then making very few of them available would be a way for a manufacturer to look open while actually not supporting openness.
Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:15AM (#50271739)
Why are we comparing the M6 to the M5 Max?

Because the question is "Which is better for local inference out of the M6 or the M5 Max?"

If an M6 Pro/Max was an option that would change the question.

Re:Internet Security: We're Doomed on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:48AM (#50271515)
The point is that it's getting a lot easier to find security holes that people would be unlikely to spot. They might be hard to exploit, but when they're not it'll be a massive problem. We can't exactly assume they'll all be difficult.
Re:Genie 4 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:49AM (#50270378)
It's a huge leap from 3 years ago, but not a huge leap from other current AI models. People who are deep in the AI rabbit hole have seen impressive generative video that has fewer problems (or possibly just better chosen examples).
Re:Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:11AM (#50240167)
The fact people did this sort of thing by accident is why the cards he had were valuable. If everyone who had cards as a kid still had them no ones would be worth very much.
Next.js supports fully static export, so they should went with that.

Keeping an unnecessary dependency for legacy reasons is never a good move. Be bold and delete things. Your software will be better for it.

Re:The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:11PM (#50186939)
Chaos engineering as a service.
Re:After automation: Solo founding will be the default on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:09PM (#50186913)
we discovered that the share of solo founders has nearly doubled between 2018 and 2026 to 39 percent of new startups

That seems like a less interesting metric than the percentage of successful founders who go it alone. If there are just more startups because founding something alone is much easier, but you're no more likely to succeed as a solo founder, then all that's changed is the number of failing startups. That's not a great ad for starting something without a someone to share the burden.

FWIW in my experience with startups it's the relationship between founders that keeps the product on track and heading in the right direction. Founders keep each other honest (mostly) about whether something is worth building. When someone is going solo they build what they want, which goes brilliantly if they have taste and experience of their market, and horribly when they don't. And it's much more common to see the latter.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:54AM (#50181014)
I'm not really advocating for childlessness. I'm accepting of people who choose that life, but I don't have any skin in the game regarding whether or not anyone besides myself have kids. It's their choice.

The only judgement I make is people who have children and have no regard for the environment. I think those people are risking their children's long term welfare. That's a dick move. If you have kids you have a moral obligation to try to make sure the planet they live on in adulthood isn't fucked.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:49AM (#50180924)
I don't think there's any expectation that humans will go extinct. We're here to stay. Suggesting this is about the extinction of the human race is a strawman.

The question is each of us needs to answer around having kids is firstly about whether or not you want to raise them in the world we live in, and secondly about whether you want (or care) that your children live in a world where the climate is broken, and having to deal with the resource issues, heat, wars over liveable land, etc. Heck, I'm sure plenty of people on HN are under 30 - there's every chance that they'll be around to see these problems first hand.

People who do want to have children are arguably very fortunate that there are lots of people who don't. The children who are born with have to deal with less contention for resources. That said though, they're still in for a pretty bad time by all accounts. Even if technology magically fixes everything, you still have to wonder if your kids will be in the part of society that can afford it.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:54AM (#50178822)
but no children as a conscious effort to help the climate is something I don't buy that ever happened

That's not what I said. People are choosing not to have children for lots of reasons. One of the benefits is that they end up having much less impact on the climate; that's not saying it's the reason they're doing it.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:11AM (#50178428)
I would not say people have give up.

On the contrary in fact, I think a lot of people have decided to do something that will have a tremendously positive impact on the climate in the future: they've chosen not to have children. There will be downsides to that decision, but as far as climate goes it's by far the most impactful thing anyone can do.

we've made a whole bunch of new work around verification and testing of said stuff?

The verification is what we always wanted but never had time for. For 30 years I wrote side project games without extensive testing or a fuzzer or anything because I wanted to spend my time writing the game. Now I can do that and still have the testing I always knew I should be building.

I recently moved my project guardrails into a separate set of skills in a repo that I can bring into a new project fairly easily. It's focused (wrong word, it's seriously not focused) on implemented as many different levels of testing as I can think of. Right now it does this https://github.com/onion2k/guardrails/blob/main/GUARDRAILS.m....

The goal is to get to a point where I can say with a good level of confidence that a change didn't break anything. It might be the wrong change, and it might be crap code, but I can ship it without anything blowing up. I've been using it for a while across a few game projects and so far it's worked quite well.

The day Mosaic added an <img></img> tag was the day it all started to go wrong.
Insider info on what OpenAI is planning is likely worth a lot more than anyone could ever make working there, and it comes with the added bonus of not needing to do any work.
It was plugged into a USB port on the back of a television in an executive conference room and had been concealed in toilet paper, the complaint says.

This guy thought anyone looking at the back of a TV would see some toilet paper and just think "Yeah, that's totally normal, I'll leave that there."?

Surely Spycraft 101 says "Make your device look like something that should be there."

I'm not particularly surprised that this guy was caught.

I don't know how you guys in Europe managed to gaslight yourselves into justifying regression of social and technological development.

The evidence for man-made climate change is quite compelling, and taking personal responsibility for your own impact on it isn't hard. I don't really see doing my washing at 6am as 'social and technological regression'. Quite the opposite actually - my washing machine has bluetooth and an app. I can tell it when to start.

The fact there isn't global pressure on corporations to be similarly responsible means my act of selflessness is ultimately a futile waste of time, but that's your kids and grandkids problem. I've chosen not to have kids, so I don't really care. I would suggest that choosing to have a family but not choosing to protect the environment as much as you can is an act of incredible selfishness towards your own children. They're the ones who'll have to live in a world with problems like water and food shortages. There is every chance that your grandchildren will die in a war over resources, and your view that tech is awesome will be little comfort to them.

You won't be able to wash your clothes when you feel like, you will have to adapt to when there is spare power, like in developing countries.

Firstly, that doesn't sound like a particularly hard thing to accept if it genuinely helps. "I want to use my washing machine whenever I want" sounds like a very poor reason to destroy the environment.

However, regardless of that, this isn't new. There have been time-of-day based electricity tariffs for decades that are aimed at incentivising people to do more demanding things at particular times e.g. when industry isn't using the power. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_7

Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:50AM (#50067297)
Used to be everyone learned assembly in college.

I imagine that was x86, which was relatively easy but also horrible. Very few people are writing assembly today because you'd need to be able to do x86-64 SIMD, ARM64, and maybe RISC-V, which are all quite a bit more complicated.

Re:Fingerprints Are the New Cookies on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:31AM (#50052122)
Poor people couldn't borrow and middle-class people paid really high interest rates. Credit ratings are pretty much what enabled the expansion of availability to everyone.
Re:Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:47AM (#50016465)
Code lives here - https://github.com/terrapapagalli1516/quake-srp (SRP stands for 'slop rust port'.)

I think 'standing on the shoulders of giants' is the phrase for something like this. It's the confluence of browser rendering, WASM, Rust, and LLMs. For me it's less a demo of what AI can do, and more a showcase of the human effort from the past few decades on the parts that needed to fall into place for an LLM to come in at the (relatively speaking) last second and claim a win. Sure, an LLM did the port from C to Rust, but think of all the things needed for it to all work. That's pretty damn amazing, and it wasn't done with AI.

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