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why is it a crisis ? because "longer is better" ?

proverbs wouldn't have stood the test of time if they were books.

Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:57AM (#50303967)
All those accidents you mentioned are "breaking a few eggs". The omelette is speed.

When the car was invented, there were a lot of accidents. Horses were slow and safe. Today, very few know how their car works, but none would go back to horses.

Same thing with programming in Assembly -> high-level-languages. The next logical step is the highest level language (natural).

women control the inside, men the outside.

that's just biology and it's the case the world over, not only spanish countries.

literally the first point under Why Goose -

"Faster than C++ and than safe Rust, ..."

perfectly legible ?

we need an equivalent of the medieval "stand under the bridge you built" trust system.

would you fly in an airplane if the software was written mostly by Claude?

If an engineer who mostly used Claude left the company, can his replacement understand his mental model, given that he himself doesn't ?

Re:Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:08AM (#50113971)
what about today ? is today the worst day of your life ?

yeah

that's messed up

Re:Docker Agent on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:48AM (#50005201)
At the end of the day, all programming is language. it just happens to be languages normal people don't speak.

All these translation layers exist because the computers only understand 0s & 1s. Imagine talking to a person who only understood binary numbers.

a good teacher remembers the journey, not just the destination.

socratic method exists. almost none follows it.

Re:How to Write with an LLM on Saturday September 19, 2026 @04:02AM (#49764405)
> you don't plan to read it

Not in full. I plan to read the LLM's summary. Most people could benefit from brevity.

author : writes the summary (prompt). LLM expands it to article.

reader : LLM summarizes the article. reader reads it.

both author and reader are free to use, or not use LLM. I don't see the big deal here.

both. they wanted to deceive people (lie). so they made up a reason (hallucinate).
Re:How to Write with an LLM on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:46PM (#49759252)
the author can ask the same question - why should I write something if you're just going to use a LLM to summarize it ?

This is an unnecessary argument both ways. Whether you use a LLM or write it yourself or read it yourself (and then comment on it), you're putting your signature beneath it. I don't care whether you use your natural brain or an artifical brain (LLM)

Re:T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees on Friday September 18, 2026 @10:54AM (#49755280)
> We (ideally) change our beliefs with every new piece of input. That's good.

sounds like a cope. like shifting goalposts. or no true scotsman fallacy.

if I see a tree in front of me, and 2 seconds later I close my eyes, and someone asks me if there is a tree in front of me, should I say yes because I "know" it, or because I "believe" it ?

In that 2 seconds, the tree could have fallen down. So if i said "yes", I wouldn't be lying but I would be incorrect.

Therefore all "knowledge" is belief about some past "truth". Whether you call it faith, evidence-based, dogma etc. they all do fall under the same bucket if you think deeply about it.

Re:T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:02PM (#49745072)
that's not knowledge - that's just theory and belief.

you know, like religion.

Re:The DeepMind Institute on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:44AM (#49738042)
Rarely do I sit through a 40 minute youtube video end to end, fully engaged - above was one of them.

It is the only video in that channel, and worth it.

Re:The DeepMind Institute on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:06AM (#49737803)
75 years and we get to play Victor Frankenstein ?

seems like a very short timeline to me.

Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:38PM (#49717761)
> feasible in 2-3 years from now

> long ways away

I'm constantly amazed by what people think is "long-term" on HN.

they're all men, too. and white. at least one of them is gay.

does that matter as well ?

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:03AM (#49708345)
how did you get this data ? do you work at HN ?
Re:Linux from Scratch on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:00AM (#49708320)
it's like their brain is unaware of the concept of a timeline
Re:Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video] on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:58PM (#49663528)
Every analogy, by design, has both similarities and differences. The intention is to focus on the similarities, and ignore the differences.

If I say, your face is like the moon, I mean it is bright, not that it is a million miles away.

it's the same tradeoff between :

- rigidity vs flexibility

- determinism vs creativity

- conservative vs liberal

- right vs left

if you know exactly what you want and how to describe it, use SOAP-XML/REST etc.

if you don't know exactly what you want or how to describe it, use LLM/MCP

Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns on Monday September 07, 2026 @07:28PM (#49604094)
> You'll just be cut out of the conversation

that's a bad thing ?

> you won't reap the benefits

but that IS my claim - I will reap benefits proportional to my actions (good or bad).

e.g. if global warming causes a flood, my house may be destroyed because I drove cars, but a boat would save me because I was vegetarian.

(the next salvo in this conversation will immediately turn into religious theology, so if that's not your thing, ignore this)

Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:26AM (#49584105)
I can never ever understand the sentiment of - 'If I do/do-not-do XYZ, it won't make a difference since millions of people are still not-doing/doing XYZ in the world'.

It gives same energy as "If I avoid murder, it won't make a difference since murders still happen in the world. If I avoid meat to help climate change, it won't make a difference since millions still eat meat".

The goal is not to get the WORLD to stop. It is to get ME to stop. I will reap its benefits regardless of what happens to others.

Re:Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:48AM (#49583938)
the suffering of the animals being killed for your tastebuds outweighs your suffering of the "vegan-high-horse".
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Saturday September 05, 2026 @12:37AM (#49573116)
He didn't say it was a cyber-attack, but it was a cyber-attack risk. Being able to bypass instructions (morality) and security restrictions (capability) is bread and butter for hacking.
Re:Lion-man – the oldest confirmed statue ever discovered on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:16AM (#49532018)
Nah, that is Hinduism as seen through the Western lens.

"Sanatana" in Sanatana Dharma means Eternal. The 4 cyclic yugas are well documented in every Sanskrit literature. We are currently in year 5127 of Kali Yug i.e. it started in 3102 BC with the departure of Bhagavan Krishna from earth after Kurukshetra war, which marked the end of previous yuga (Dwapara).

Kali Yug lasts 432,000 years. After which the next cycle begins.

Eventually after Brahma's lifetime is over, Pralaya occurs. Then the universe goes quiet for a long time, until Lord creates again. And this cycle of creation and destruction goes on forever.

i keep hearing this trope repeated ad nauseam cos people put no thought into it.

you only need people's money if you can't control their labor.

did a plantation owner in the 1600s need the money of his slaves ?

if you control a robot that can fight and take over land, enslave workers for things robots are bad at, harvest food, create buildings etc. what do you need other people for ? your entertainment? robots can do that too.

Re:Dolly Parton has died on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:11PM (#49443785)
The UK office's (Ricky Gervais) final words in the last episode:

"and some say she's just a big pair of tits"

Re:DeepSeek Harness on Friday August 14, 2026 @01:08AM (#49294929)
it was funny. and it's a matter of pride that they accused you of being AI.
how do you know the news is any more true than the source it is verifying ?

Now i have to research whether two sources are true or not.

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