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by bdesimone | 2025-09-10 18:49:05+00:00
FWIW, I'm very happy to see this announcement. Full MCP support was the only thing holding me back from using GPT5 as my daily driver as it has been my "go to" for hard problems and development since it was released.

Calling out ChatGPT specifically here feels a bit unfair. The real story is "full MCP client access," and others have shipped that already.

I’m glad MCP is becoming the common standard, but its current security posture leans heavily on two hard things:

(1) agent/UI‑level controls (which are brittle for all the reasons you've written about, wonderfully I might add), and

(2) perfectly tuned OAuth scopes across a fleet of MCP servers. Scopes are static and coarse by nature; prompts and context are dynamic. That mismatch is where trouble creeps in.
by casey2 | 2025-09-10 18:49:18+00:00
There are 3 grade levels and 9 subjects giving 27 possible groups. It seems entirely inappropriate to pick out 3 and highlight the fact that (on a different test of students studying a different curricula) the results went down.

Especially when the NCES Data Usage Agreement clearly states "Use the data in any dataset for statistical purposes only."

As an example 4th grade reading has on a scale from 0 to 500 been between 213-223 for 20 years with of course this year (215) not being the lowest point. This is a test where many jurisdictions have 10+ point swings from test to test. There really isn't that much signal in the noise here.
by mbesto | 2025-09-10 18:49:24+00:00
> people seem to develop very weird mental models of what LLMs are or do.

Why is this so odd to you? AGI is being actively touted (marketing galore!) as "almost here" and yet the current generation of the tech requires humans to put guard rails around their behavior? That's what is odd to me. There clearly is a gap between the reality and the hype.
by runjake | 2025-09-10 18:49:34+00:00
Here's the summary snippet from the post because the server is dead:

"Embarcadero is very happy to announce RAD Studio 13 Florence along with Delphi 13 and C++Builder 13 is available to customers starting today. The RAD Studio 13 Florence release offers a 64-bit version of the RAD Studio IDE, an updated C++Builder Clang compiler, Delphi language extensions, AI components, an AI companion, along with a number of enhancements of existing features, and a significant focus on quality."
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-10 18:50:02+00:00
Difficult to call it sprawling given the geography, and I don't know what "pedestrianized" even means here since walking in many neighborhoods is both common and designed for.

There is plenty of accommodation for vehicles in Seattle, that is true. Even people that walk everywhere often own one in order to take advantage of the prodigious outdoor activities for which the region is famous.
by PhunkyPhil | 2025-09-10 18:50:03+00:00
> It absolutely targets a problem that exists. Even in places with pretty great public transit, there is some demand for taxis/Uber/etc. Oftentimes even moreso, because if I don't need a car for 90% of trips, I might not have a car at all. So I use an Uber or a taxi when a certain trip demands it.

This says nothing about self driving cars

> So I'm not used to simply pretending this person I'm sharing a space with doesn't exist. Instead, I need to navigate the fuzzy line between courtesy and service.

I don't mean to be harsh, but, get over it? We live in a service economy. Do you feel the same way about the barista taking your coffee order?

> Waymos have none of this shit. They're clean, show up when they say they will, I can play my own music, adjust the air conditioning, and have obnoxious conversations with my friends. They drive safely, and, as a cherry on top, they're cool as hell.

I don't like the assumption you're making that Waymos are the only solution to ubers, taxis or driving yourself. Well designed and well working public transportation (Which is doable and exists in the world) is far cheaper and far more predictable than any form of car-based transportation.

Not only that, but you're not responding to my actual argument. The annoying part of driving is not the act of driving, it's the time spent in your commute.
by loozhengyuan | 2025-09-10 18:50:42+00:00
IMO it might be more ideal to do the updates from the tap side, similar to how upstream does it. This workflow[1] allows you handle updates even for formulae/casks you do not own. Using the `brew bump` command, you scan all formulae/casks and create PRs that update them. In these PRs[2], you can use the `brew test-bot` command to ensure the updates are tested working.

[1]: https://github.com/loozhengyuan/homebrew-tap/blob/main/.gith...

[2]: https://github.com/loozhengyuan/homebrew-tap/pull/11
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-10 18:50:58+00:00
I'm not familiar with the situation of New Zealand with respect to Australia (its neighbours). But the problem in the EU, is that there are a few countries (Ireland and the Netherlands inside the Union, and Switzerland which is right next door and enjoys many advantages and no constraints) which charge way less tax than the "central" EU countries. So companies have a tendency to set up their HQs in those countries.

I'm not one to cheer for absurd taxation (which is a French specialty), but I understand why this setup does ruffle some feathers in France.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-10 18:51:23+00:00
The alternative is going bankrupt, thus leading to forced and callous austerity by the IMF and ECB - just like what Greece faced. That would solve the problem as well, but French voters would have no say or autonomy.

French voters need to get it in their head that they need to accept their government tightening belts, otherwise they will have no say on what gets cut.
by mothballed | 2025-09-10 18:51:27+00:00
You don't see the difference between every driver being able to be a bouncer, and only sworn police being able to be a bouncer?

Private citizens generally can't trespass people on public property. You have to get a policeman and the policeman has to cite a specific policy or law they have violated.

The private system in this case is way more pragmatic since every driver that is already on the bus has bouncing rights.
by bdcravens | 2025-09-10 18:51:47+00:00
Unfortunately I didn't have time to load them all into a spreadsheet, perform sentiment analysis, and pick a few based on a proprietary scoring algorithm. Like most people, I scroll HN when I have some free time, and respond to a few comments here and there that catch my eye. It seems to me that you're seeing a deeper meaning to what you see as an "attack".

If you would like to point out a few comments that are hurling blame at children, I'm more than happy to offer my opinion on those as well.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-09-10 18:52:15+00:00
Managed devs have been begging for such fixes since the start, so many important perf gains were just left on the table at the same time we were being given the message that C++ and Javascript was the future. My exposure to it at MS was during the Win vs Dev Div conflict (the Steve Sinofsky / Steve Balmer era) and the message that managed software was slow was a core part of that battle.
by Gud | 2025-09-10 18:52:24+00:00
I'm not really arguing that the world adopts the Paris metro system. First of all, there are turn stills everywhere which is nowhere to be found in Zürich. Why not create choke points and erect this annoying block everywhere in front of people who wish to reach their destination as quickly as possible. Great idea.

In Luxembourg, public transport is for free. Also great.
by AndrewLiptak | 2025-09-10 18:52:26+00:00
It's situational. It's helpful to us that our executive director is a carpenter: he makes and fabricates a lot of things that end up in displays.

As far as 3D printing, we haven't dabbled with it, but we have had folks come in to scan our objects, which is pretty cool. But we're also a small staff that doesn't have the time to really dig into the tech as much as we could.
by levkk | 2025-09-10 18:52:40+00:00
It's good to have some guarantee that a write is atomic and won't be left in a half-written state. I think that's strictly worse even if it's only "eventually" consistent. "Eventual" means within a couple milliseconds, really.

> you can redesign your app/system

You generally don't want to do that if you can avoid it. Also, easy to make a mistake there while 2pc is pretty deterministic.
by zdw | 2025-09-10 18:53:17+00:00
Ah, the first one is where I went - 科学技術館 (Kagakukijutsukan) in Kitanomaru park between the imperial palace and budoukan. It has some english (but, as always in Japan, knowing a little Japanese greatly helps), and the exhibits are fairly self-explanatory.

Good to know that there's another nice place to go.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-10 18:53:28+00:00
Sounds like eliminating the NL's ability to give secret sweetheart deals to major billion dollar corporations that also benefit from tax breaks in other countries, would fix some of these problems.

If you build/design your products here then you use EU's trained labor, EU's infrastructure, EU's legal system, EU's defense, etc. then you should pay your fair share to support these facilities that help you be a billion dollar corporation.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-10 18:53:37+00:00
Alas... it's unclear who you're replying to. Are you calling me a liar or Vance a liar (or some other poster here a liar.) I think Vance is more of a Bullshitter in the Frankfurt meaning of the term. Me? I'm more of a liar. If I propagate an untruth, I usually know it's an untruth and am doing it for a specific purpose. That being said... I do try to limit the number of lies I tell. I also try not to lie to myself, but that's the most vexxing of all. Figuring out the untruths you believe because it makes your day easier or frees you from having to help someone you would rather not help is hard.

Not that I'm implying you're a Liar or Bullshitter, but we're all bozos on this bus and give a sinner a break.

But specifically, I am not lying when I say that some people have cast doubts as to the degree of poverty Vance lived in as a child. And if you're saying that the people who say Vance didn't live in abject poverty for most of his childhood are lying, then I don't know what to tell you. We all have to choose what we believe. Some people believe vaccines cause autism. The data supporting this assertion seems kinda thin when I look at it. But having tutored a number of pre-med students through stats classes, I'm not confident members of the AMA are the people who should be doing medical research (thankfully that is changing recently as we get more MD/PhD programs where they teach experimental design.) But I digress...

This seems like one of those "fact resistant" issues and I apologize for bringing it up. People on both sides of the "is J.D. Vance a poop-head" debate should understand there's plenty of mis-information out there and while some people may believe he's a cynical charlatan banking coin on the suffering of people in Appalachia, others believe he is bringing light to a largely under-reported pandemic of systemic under-investment in rural quarters of our country.

It's probably a good idea to examine your own beliefs and biases, and maybe this is a good touch-stone to begin that process. Why do you think Vance is a dork? Why do you think Vance is a valiant defender of social justice for an under-served community?
by general1465 | 2025-09-10 18:53:55+00:00
That's a noble quote, but Russia is hell bent on becoming USSR again. Part of USSR used to be Baltic States which are now part of NATO and EU. Collision curse is set and war at least between Eastern Europe and rest of Russia is inevitable at this point.

And I am saying that as an Eastern European who is going to be drafted in case of such a war and almost certainly won't survive.
by dang | 2025-09-10 18:54:01+00:00
Not offending me - I'm just letting you know that you're breaking the rules and if you keep doing that we will ban you.

Telling someone that by following your instructions they can become "more useful than a tin can" and "might actually learn something", and that they haven't given "figuring it out themselves a try", is for sure over the line into personal attack.

Moreover, if we take all those swipes out of your GP comment, there's literally nothing left! That's definitely not what we want on this site, as should surely be clear from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-10 18:54:06+00:00
I picked up my son today at the kindergarten, and we walked for 25 minutes back home. Here in Riga most cyclists go on the sidewalks, I'd say that 2/3 of them don't respect a minimum 1.5 meter safety distance, and about the same amount go as fast as they can. I stopped and scolded a food courrier (who is incentivized to go as fast as he can) who was slaloming between pedestrians as if it was a game.

No, I don't feel safe at all, and my son can't walk freely either. In Paris it's the same (my wife, who was pregnant then, got hit at a crosswalk by a cyclist who seemed to believe that red lights were for cars only). Even Le Monde published an piece about it!

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/our-times/article/2024/11/17/anti-...
by simonw | 2025-09-10 18:54:14+00:00
Unsurprisingly I entirely disagree with you.

One of the reasons I publish content on my own site is so that, when it is relevant, I can link back to it rather than saying the same thing over and over again in different places.

In this particular case someone said "I see no mention of prompt injection from Anthropic or OpenAI in their announcements" and it just so happened I'd written several paragraphs about exactly that a few hours ago!
by griffzhowl | 2025-09-10 18:54:21+00:00
> It's thought that life on Earth started with RNA mayhem, not with vessels to isolate from it.

They're not mutually exclusive. You could have various kinds of autocatalytic sets of molecules, including RNA, inside and outside lipid vesicles, and some of them might have re-produced better than others. Anything that could have happened in an open ocean of nuleotides and amino acids could also take place within a lipid vesicle, just that within some vesicle maybe the right concentrations of molecules had at some point emerged that could more easily reproduce itself than in the open ocean where the particular autocatalytic set could be washed away by the surrounding molecular chaos.
by lurking_swe | 2025-09-10 18:54:24+00:00
kids with a poor home life often act out in class, or have other behavioral issues. It’s not their fault, and it’s not “fair”, but it IS a valid characterization.

I don’t think it’s controversial to say that kids with a great home life _probably_ have parents or grandparents that advocate for them and really try to get them placed into a good school district.

One could argue that getting your child into a good school district is an indirect way of surrounding them with like-minded kids and parental influence.
by PhunkyPhil | 2025-09-10 18:54:25+00:00
Fair enough. I will ask, how many billions have been spent in not only FSD but the car infrastructure that makes room for FSD investment?

I'm being slightly fanatical, but if our priorities were not car-centric in the 50's, do you think we would have spent more, or less money over the last 70 years on the transportation economy?
by ryandrake | 2025-09-10 18:54:27+00:00
Almost any film from the mid-70s and earlier, go online and read recent reviews, and they're all full of complaints about the pacing. "Too boring!" "Too slow!" "Fell asleep while watching!"

I mean, first of all, who falls asleep during a movie? Even stuff I've seen 30 times already, is still engaging and holds my attention from start to finish. Yet, then again, we've had to cancel "friends movie night" in our house because people would come over, sit down to watch the movie, and after 10 minutes they're all scrolling their phones and bored with the movie. Unless it's got frantic action every second, you're going to lose people. Something is really wrong with our attention spans.
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-10 18:54:39+00:00
> Right now there is a deliberate veil of secrecy and serious mysteries that aren't denied by anybody serious. They definitively exist.

OK, I get that you're a cryptozoology/"aliens walk among us!" kinda person, but...

A lack of evidence against a theory is never evidence for the theory. It's very hard to prove a negative.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-10 18:54:42+00:00
Fair enough. I haven't used an Android device since 2017... Do people have these issues on iOS too?

On Linux, I have no problem running either bare wireguard or tailscale alongside Forticlient. On Windows and macOS it's a bit more janky, specifically the DNS resolution, but I don't daily drive these platforms so I may be missing some kind of knowledge to fix this.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-10 18:55:19+00:00
To be devil's advocate it is really practical to develop and roll out digital experiences. You can be a lot more creative about it than the "big tablet" experience you have at McDonald's. Some friends of mine have built experiential art installations that have things like a custom coin-op video game, Pepper's Ghost style displays, a "time machine" experience using video projectors, etc.

I'd love to be able to sell location-based XR experiences to museums: like you go to the paleontology museum and put on a headset and now the museum is a mixed reality Jurassic Park. For that matter I'd love to set up a multiplayer VR park in a big clean span space. There are a lot of difficulties like the cheap headsets don't really have the right tracking capabilities for a seamless location-based experience [1] plus getting together and paying a team which can deliver that sort of thing. A museum with really robust funding could probably afford an XR experience and subsidize development that transfers to other museums but I can't see the economics working for turning an old American Eagle at the mall into a VR experience park: malls have unrealistic ideas about their spaces can earn and most of them have posts in them that player would crash into.

[1] It already knows where it is the instant you put the headset on and it doesn't have to retrain like the MQ3 would.
by barbazoo | 2025-09-10 18:55:37+00:00
> I've wrestled a bit with how to prepare financially for what could lie ahead but decided that there was really no harbor that is sure to be safe. I'm prepared to basically be poor and die from a thing that could have been prevented with some measure of health care.

Personally I'm preparing for this by aggressively paying off our mortgage, putting less money into the market. Also avoiding lifestyle inflation and even cutting back here and there. It's all about reducing fixed cost so that if shit hits the fan, we can absorb the higher cost or lower income as much as possible.
by casey2 | 2025-09-10 18:56:03+00:00
From your list it's hard to explain why jurisdictions such as San Diego (reading 4th grade male) test score have risen continuously since the 2000s seems like, if the students are defecating themselves at ever-increasing rates test scores would go down there too.

Or is San Diego immune to these problems? I think the reality is that these test scores aren't majorly affected by literally any of the things you listed.
by sethpurcell | 2025-09-10 18:56:07+00:00
Author here, thanks for your comment. I'm really sad to hear that everyone was let go; as I said, I loved TFI like nothing else when I was a kid.

I completely understand the incentives re: Body Worlds, Harry Potter (I've even seen an Angry Birds exhibit). But there's a fine line between a non-profit doing what it must to survive, and drifting so far from its mission that it no longer deserves to survive. TFI is still far from that point, but the trajectory is worrisome to me, so I called it out.
by tonymet | 2025-09-10 18:56:19+00:00
it varies by industry and traffic.

It's better to think about your goals. what are you trying to convert when the traffic arrives at your website? Joining a mailing list, adding to cart, buying a product? Contacting sales? How many of those leads do you need a month?

then work backward in the funnel and see how much google traffic you need to make that happen.

And remember google is a shrinking segment -- other social media channels will likely have a bigger impact.

websites aren't driving a lot of action these days.
by kev009 | 2025-09-10 18:56:20+00:00
Some interesting trivia, Netflix' cofounder Marc Randolf spent time at Borland.

RAD Studio is kind of the closet experience to VB6 where you simply drop controls on a form and can easily wire it up.. with a much better language.

The tools were/are too expensive and Microsoft pile drove them from early dominance to niche by undercutting them handily, and it's been extractive rather than growth oriented since. There is the Lazarus/FreePascal project which offers an alternative.
by e98cuenc | 2025-09-10 18:56:22+00:00
Everybody loves to hate BendingSpoon, but there is a lesson here. They consistently rewrite the code of their acquisitions with a tiny team, fire everybody and are able to maintain and improve the product. They basically skip everything but engineers, and they are kept at a minimum. Feedback from users is the products they take over 1) become more expensive, 2) they ship features waaaay faster.

It looks like next generation private equity, and my guess is more houses will start copying them.
by Flimm | 2025-09-10 18:56:38+00:00
Gaza Sky Geeks [0] is/was a startup accelerator or tech hub in Gaza, with backing from people from Mercy Corps, Google and Microsoft. Needless to say, their activities have been severely interrupted by the violence since October 7th, 2023. I'm subscribed to their email newsletter, and the updates are heart-breaking.

If anyone from Gaza Sky Geeks is reading this, please consider sharing those updates on your blog as well as on your email newsletter, so that they can be shared more widely.

[0] https://gazaskygeeks.com/
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-10 18:56:53+00:00
I literally just got let go from AWS two years ago in the midst of hundreds of layoffs. Absolutely no one cared why I wasn’t there anymore or even asked. I had four interviews and three offers within two weeks.

Even more relevant, one of my former coworkers at AWS who was now a director at a well known public non tech company knew I was going through the focus -> PIP process and encouraged me to stay until I made it through my next vest, got offered severance and said call him when it happens and if I’m interested he will either make a permanent position for me if possible or at least give me a very lucrative contract. He didn’t even care and he knew I was getting PIPd
by Leynos | 2025-09-10 18:57:00+00:00
Codex web has a fun one where if you post multiple @codex comments to a PR, it gets confused as to which one it should be following because it gets the whole PR + comments as a homogenized mush in its context. I ended up rigging a userscript to pass the prompt directly to Codex rather than waste time with PR comments.
by AtNightWeCode | 2025-09-10 18:57:04+00:00
Bs, basically, the docs about upgrading between frameworks and what works with what is actually pretty current and often disappears after some years. Especially anything about edge cases. Several upgrades also demands that you do the upgrade version by version. It is tedious work if you don't have a full understanding of the app. Nuget has also become a complete dependency hell. Today you often have to point out what to use to get your legacy apps to build with newer .NET versions. You can't just go with latest.
by vdupras | 2025-09-10 18:57:05+00:00
10 years of covering 100% of spending? That sounds like a really sweet deal to me, and more than enough to invest into the nation enough to go back to a balanced budget in that time frame.

I mean, try it with yourself. Imagine that you take your current salary, keep it for 10 years, and have 100% of your spending covered? How life changing would that be to you? Probably a lot.