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Re:Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:29PM (#50307259)
Parent is talking about the company's ideological stance on AI, not the legalities.

Anthropic has repeatedly shown it prioritizes pushing a set of values over building a general purpose tool.

Ironically, comments that reframe the issue as a legal one make the case for why regulating these companies. Else they can quietly impose their preferred ideology on users.

Reminds me a recent article that went viral on HN, claiming: "There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability"..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188948

Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:21PM (#50291549)
It's already too late, the UX already adjusts on touch as we witnessed in the demo. I don't think we'll be going back once people get used to it.

All the apps will likely have to be compatible with both modes as well moving forward.

Didn't he already force Google Maps to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America? ..
Re:Brazil's Flavio Bolsonaro headed to US, sources say on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:16PM (#50264301)
What else is expected? When the sitting president is a convicted felon? .. Has US ever punished any criminal politicians ?
Re:New iMac with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:13PM (#50264261)
Aesthetics obviously.. engineers and tech nerds are not the target audience for this machine.
I asked a genuine question. Does Laravel deliver a superior developer experience than let's say Rails or Djano?

Like if I were to sell PHP in 2026 to a new team, how would I position it?

I suppose my question would be: what would be the reason to choose PHP in 2026 for a greenfield project over the plethora of other available languages?
Telesat launches are still on SpaceX Falcon 9s. So the non American alternative still depends on American launch capacity to get there.

Don't forget that US can always strong arm Canada and make it bend to its will. We are too dependent on them. It's nearly impossible to disassociate with United States due to our proximity.

The timeline has changed before, like the ASIC issues pushed full service into 2028. Also scale and capability obviously differ, but it could be a good starting point.

Regardless, I think Europe is better served focusing on its own tech like IRIS and Eutelsat.

Re:Job Loss and Cortisone Mania on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:00PM (#50214524)
I'm not sure why there's an urgent need to attack people on HN for their religious beliefs ? Isn't freedom (in all aspects of life) one of the core tenants HNers pride themselves itself in?

My point is this: it's fine if you don't agree with their beliefs, you can simply ignore that part of the comment and reply to its essence. The parent wasn't trying to convince anyone to take a magic pill.

I disagree with many people here on various topics such as politics, philosophy or outlooks but never have the urge to attack them.

We have a very complacent population, which explains the lack of innovation coming out of the country. People's idea of "business' right now is simply renting out their basement.

Most go to work, accept whatever policy the government decides is good for them, and don't push back as their living conditions decline. Given that, is it surprising that we don't see much activism?

I wish it was different but I don't know what to do. Perhaps Canadians should steal a page from the French?

This is because Christianity played a major role in Western law. While the laws and courts predates Christianity, after the fall of Romans, much of it was rediscovered through Church.

Many of the courtroom customs were partly influenced by this. For example the Robes/gowns or the emphasis on "law as an absolute", higher standard that sits above personal feelings is also inspired from Christian natural law ideas (i.e rulers and judges under a higher law) even though those ideas were built on Roman foundations.

So the kind of person who can treat the rules as more important than their own feelings isn't that surprising in that tradition. It requires a certain bit of.. religiosity.

Re:What shall I teach my son? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:45PM (#50175846)
Actually, it's more basic than that: you're not going to be able to afford having a wife and children if you can hardly pay your own rent.

I wish we were living in a world were people could earn a living and follow their passion but capitalism doesn't allow for that. It's designed for consuming things and increasing profits, not for improving the well being of people.

Re:Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:26PM (#50168813)
Democracy is not perfect but it's the best alternative we have right now.

I think that a two-party system is more vulnerable than a multi-party system however Yes parties can still form collations and push their agendas but it's more difficult.

You can see this in action in Canada for example.

Re:Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:57PM (#50160024)
"War" for the sake of "war" is pointless. It should be tied to a political objective for some kind of gain.

Ideally, it would be the last resort in limited capacity when diplomacy fails.

Otherwise you're unleashing horrors on humanity.

You're thinking with your engineering brain.

For corporations, sales, probability and feature release cycles take priority over maintainability or code quality. AI is allowing businesses to build features faster than ever, so management is happy.

By the time maintainability issues hit, they've either pivoted, raised more capital or can throw money at the problem.

I asked the same question, so that I could apply..
> The clear specifications, reasonable timelines, and enough technical freedom, let you focus on clean, secure, resilient architectures.

I have no idea where you work but 90% of companies are not like that. In fact, it's the opposite: filled with awful management, terrible timelines and legacy code.

Engineering had always been a nuisance to them and getting basic approval for maintenance regarding technical debt has been an uphill battle.

Has legalizing hard drugs ever worked?
I do this, but only if the problem is novel or requires deep thinking. Once something becomes second nature, I'll stop thinking about in "words".

It's like the minds-eye or "hearing music", I can do those but only if I intentionally need them.

Re:I Became a Citizen of Japan on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:06PM (#50142976)
This applies to many places.

Experiencing something as a tourist for a few weeks or seeing its image from the sidelines is very different than living it permanently.

Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:45PM (#50132647)
Support burden? When did companies care about customer support or system maintenance?

They already did the bare minimum allocation to both despite engineering screaming at them.

I highly doubt executives are going to accept slower release and sale cycles in order to provide better support.

If anything, I expect this trend to accelerate. I’m imagining the opposite, a plethora of AI slop with increasingly burned-out engineers.

Re:How the Claude Code team does code review on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:54PM (#50125261)
I think a more generous interpretation of the parent comment would have been: "No one [in business] cares about good code" .

Your end users certainly don't either, heck they'll gladly sit there and scroll through their phone until the 50GB React app loads.

You mean like Google's "Don't be evil" motto? ..

Why would anyone trust these rent seeking corporations? They are losing millions, they know their funds are at risk, Chinese models are catching up to them at lower costs and investors demand returns.

It only makes sense for them to go for regulatory capture. They'll probably advocate for severe handicaps on foreign and domestic models including open source (if not an outright ban).

Once they achieve monopoly, they can do as they please with little competition.

Re:Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:29PM (#50097583)
This is excellent advice.

The best thing you do is to just grow your network until you find someone you like.

Whenever I go out, I always collect phone numbers and contacts if I can.

Before you know it, you have 100s of people on your phone. Befriending women is also excellent, they can introduce you to other women if they feel like you are worthy!

Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:00PM (#50097375)
If your account is already not protected by passkeys (it has access to traditional username + password credentials), it can be phished regardless.. in those cases you just need to send them a traditional "reset password" phishing email.

The point is that those attacks would be (nearly) impossible if you have a truly passwordless system.

Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:57PM (#50097348)
Security is never perfect, if your device is already compromised, you have bigger issues. None of the traditional methods would protect against compromised devices anyway.

The point is that passkeys significantly reduce the attack surface.

Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:38AM (#50087623)
LLM is clearly not 100xing the mistakes as we have witnessed Anthropic’s success. Otherwise the system would not have been functional. It’s not like their system is not tested.

The thread is about jankiness, lack of feature cohesion and code quality.

What we are discussing here is: is it acceptable to accept poor code quality and trade it off with delivery?

Uber has been great, I can get around to almost anywhere with a click of a button and have food delivered from a variety of local restaurants at any time of day.

I'm not sure why you think it was a massive mistake? The taxi industry was awful and unsafe, food delivery for many local places was either not available or poorly implemented.

Also many whole food chains didn't have proper delivery for groceries.

Because code is not art and the corporate culture doesn't care about artisan code, neither do the users. As long as the software sells, they are happy.

In fact executives demand the opposite: token max to get the features out of the door faster, all in the same of closing that one last sale.

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