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Re:Automating AI Away on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:34PM (#48824181)
It could still be useful if the spec is roughly as hard as a simple implementation, in case you have automated methods to find more efficient implementations, guided by the constraints of the spec
Re:Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:32PM (#48824162)
Okay, so it allows to run the same image, but is not CLI-compatible with docker that's what you mean? But is it more / less / equivalently efficient ?
Re:Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:12PM (#48823048)
How does it compare to something like OrbStack?
Re:Automating AI Away on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @02:38PM (#48821769)
Problem is, usually describing the problem you want to solve *correctly* using formal tool is a task as hard (and often, equivalent to) the implementation. That said, having a formal description is useful
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Re:When 2+2=5 on Monday July 06, 2026 @10:32AM (#48805222)
On the 1-element monoid it's trivially true
Re:Working with AI on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:34AM (#48743413)
When I say "novel ideas" it means something groundbreaking, indeed, not rehashing common "this is the best practice for a simple CRUD backend"
Re:Working with AI on Monday June 29, 2026 @05:57PM (#48725835)
Exactly, LLM is good at "code inpainting" : define clear structures and goals, and it will fill the boilerplate. But it doesn't work for reasoning and abstraction, so it fails to synthesise and propose novel views. But that's integral to the way it's designed and has been trained, to do a kind of "averaging" which limits it's capacity to explore novel designs
Re:Data centers trigger voter backlash on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:43AM (#48717983)
Yes. Because a few golf course are produced every 10 years / 20 years or so. But people generating videos is going to increase exponentially. So this is going to be a huge difference
Re:Data centers trigger voter backlash on Friday June 26, 2026 @05:33PM (#48692267)
You realize that "golfs are even worse so why people complain" is not a serious argument?
Re:Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:43AM (#48671576)
The fact that EVERYBODY here sees it but you, tells you that perhaps you should take a step back and try to understand... it might be YOU who don't get it at all...
Re:Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:42AM (#48671574)
Yes, even reworking a classic "infra diagram" with connection between a web browser and a server, but showing it as an animation could be interesting, but those little stories add very little
Re:Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:41AM (#48671562)
The fact that people in the tech-world don't realize that they are embodying deeply ingrained sexist / toxic behavior is the reason why women aren't more present, and why people like Musk or other sociopaths have been celebrated by this community, while the rest of the world hate them...
Same for Elon and Paypal
Re:Help I Accidentally a Wigglegram on Monday June 22, 2026 @05:02AM (#48627642)
If you're using an iPhone, couldn't you automate this by extracting "Live images" which are kind of "mini-videos" around the photo you took?
Re:Ten years of ClickHouse in open source on Friday June 19, 2026 @11:58AM (#48600051)
Interesting, so you can bind a Clickhouse table as an extension to Grafana? Would you make a little Gist / post about it to show?
Interesting, have you also looked at other formal methods, like Abstract Interpretation?
Re:Ten years of ClickHouse in open source on Friday June 19, 2026 @07:11AM (#48597263)
How do you use it for visualization? Do you use ClickStack? or something else?
Meanwhile, the fragile-ego loser Musk is hoarding wealth and trying to destroy the planet
Re:SpaceX Is Buying Cursor on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @10:16AM (#48555704)
I guess they're getting bought because they had access to a lot of codebases from a lot of companies, and perhaps there's something to mine in those logs...
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars on Sunday June 14, 2026 @04:55PM (#48532579)
Okay, now try applying your thinking to abusive healthcare insurance companies and see how well this fares...
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars on Sunday June 14, 2026 @04:52PM (#48532555)
Did he... totally miss the point of AOC?

She said that no amount of "work" can "earn" billion dollars. So you earn billions through capitalism by rent, through owning companies, and having other people work for you. And ultimately, it should be obvious that societies have to cap this

Re:Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive on Saturday June 13, 2026 @06:08PM (#48521976)
We can TOTALLY say that there's a causal link, it's been proven by scientific stories
Re:Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:07AM (#48505148)
The frequency and magnitude of the event is directly related to the warming up of climate
Re:Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:07AM (#48505144)
Have you heard of "rebound effect"? Sure you can say, individually, one query is not that much... but then it becomes integrated in search engines, so suddenly when there was no queries at all, now there's 500 billions per day, and it gets included in your CICD at every commit, and soon enough in your OS, etc
Re:Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:05AM (#48505129)
The real point is not "one session", it's the fact that people now do that routinely, that CICD are using those to check every commit, and each search engine query now does that too, so it multiplies
Re:Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:39AM (#48501917)
And ruin the planet with more heating, CO2, and wasted water
Re:Travel Locally, Where You Are on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:36AM (#48501899)
Right = "let me do this thing for myself to get ahead, and then forbid everyone else to do the same"
Re:Travel Locally, Where You Are on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:35AM (#48501891)
That's a global problem everywhere. But when you're traveling locally, you go there for the landscapes / buildings / history / cuisine. Not necessarily to hang out with people on TikTok
Re:Show HN: Claw Patrol, a security firewall for agents on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:34AM (#48501882)
"The principle is that the agent doesn't need code changes, including skills/MCPs - it just accesses systems."

That's why you're having safety issues.

The real (and boring, and tedious) way to do it IS to create a unique way (API, MCP, whatever) for the agent to access your data / infra in a secure way.

Think about it as "typing" in language. Sure it's boring to have to put all the type info (even though in many case it makes dev easier too, because it forces to construct stuff cleanly), but then once it typechecks, you're relatively sure that it's doing what it's supposed to.

Here it would be the same. You build basic building blocks that you know are safe for the agent to access, and you let it compose them

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