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There are numerous fingerprinting opportunities from just layer 4 packet analysis.

Rust for web browsers…how’s Servo going?

Anthropic IPO will be a better example.

NVIDIA is still a widget business.

Investors like a story that lets their imagination run wild. TSLA offers that. AI / NVIDIA has that 10-fold. It’s “man’s last invention” - you couldn’t come up with a better hook to raise capital.

Short of an emergency rate hike to 10%, nothing stops this bubble.

Cash because no AI bubble means the market is cooked for a decade or so

Honestly a crash upward is more devastating for the working man

Many U.S. corporations have built solutions based on one of the free local models.

If you spend a ton of money, time and goodwill to situate your trojans inside someone’s infrastructure, you don’t just blow it immediately. They would wait for a declaration of war.

You’re simping for a totalitarian regime that still practices communism

C++ can do this as well with tuple unpacking. Rust copied it from C++.

Why are people trying to implement PHP in 2026?

A much better exercise I’d like to see is using C++26 reflection to accomplish the same thing. Because that will actually be used while Zig will not.

I have zero doubt that every model coming out of the CCP has some Manchurian code word built in. Being “local” is a nice way to get root.

People in the 1950s also perfectly predicted AI in its current form. It wasn’t entirely hard to see coming.

Ok, and?

His comment seems to imply there was some inherent virtue in doing the thing rather than letting the machine automate it.

Only if the electric grid shuts down. At this point, I have more faith in Anthropic continuing to exist as a going concern than I do for the U.S. government.

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Every single one of these cases is someone who is too old applying to be an IC. That’s the elephant in the room no one is ever going to acknowledge but everyone knows.

This is basically like the RIAA/MPAA in the early 2000s trying to lobby politicians to crack down on torrents. It won’t work either.

Today, movies make money from in person theater tickets and records make money from tours. I don’t know what the equivalent would be for AI (maybe IRL robots?) but it does not look promising.

I have always wondered why TOTP is always the “2nd” factor and not the 1st. The password should be the 2nd factor you opt into if you’re paranoid.

For grandma, include a Login with Facebook button.

Startup idea: Crowdsource Claude tokens for distillation, routing a copy of all your tokens to your friendly Chinese distiller, compensating users with a small rebate on token cost (payable in Google Play gift cards to avoid CCP capital controls).

> If we believe AI can replace all cognitive labor, then it follows that it'll be able to replace all physical labor with robotics fairly quickly

No, it actually doesn’t follow. Atoms are a lot harder to move than bits.

I think GitHub repos should have a new tag listing the model used to write it along with the token cost.

I don’t want to bother reading anything sub-Fable, and this one looks sub-Fable.

For any greenfield project, pick up Rust instead of C++. Why? Ask any AI and it will pick Rust. Since AI is writing the code now and it likes Rust, because the pre-AI internet in its most trustworthy training dataset liked Rust. Therefore all code will eventually be Rust.

There is a third option, which doesn’t involve making your small application responsible for reinventing the wheel.

Take whatever is pushing the site over the wire (nginx, Apache, lighthttpd) and use its public APIs to implement your web application.

You can make your nginx.conf list the routes along with the C functions for each route, which nginx looks up in your shared library.

You can host numerous web apps just by updating adding an .so and updating the nginx conf.

This is also structurally more efficient your hand rolled web server which in all likelihood has to reverse proxy via nginx anyway.

That’s ironic because 99% of PHP code today is served using PHP-FPM which is essentially a FastCGI wrapper around PHP.

These things usually get 1 visitor per month and it’s Googlebot

Both nginx and Apache have modules that keep a Python/PHP/Perl interpreter loaded and invoke your entry point using FastCGI, completely leaving HTTP handling to the real web server. They went out of style for some reason, but there’s nothing stopping you from using them.

You can write a ngninx module. That would be the actual 2026 way to write C web apps. Used to be a huge pain, but now AI can just read the nginx source and do it correctly.

Why would anyone want free software to win? Dont most of us here draw an income from software that’s explicitly not free?

Release the weights or buy an ad

Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power (TRAMP)