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by NYCNews | 2025-12-02 18:30:38+00:00
NYPD Release Photo of Suspect in Knifepoint Robbery

Queens Voice December 2, 2025

QUEENS LOCAL NEWS - A Queens mugger had an interesting demand of his victim when he held a knife to the man: give me food. Cops are looking for a man, they say, robbed a man of food at knife point.

At around noon on November 22, a 50-year-old man was approached by a stranger while walking near Rockaway Boulevard and Digby Place. The man came up to him and pulled out knife. Then the robber demanded food.

Without hesitation, the stranger took food from a nearby box and fled the scene, heading southbound on Digby Place. Cops said the mugger only made off with food and no money or other possessions from the victim.

The suspect is described as a male, last seen wearing a black baseball cap, a dark gray hooded jacket, black jeans, and black sneakers. While the police have not provided further details about his age or race, they’re hoping someone might recognize the outfit or the description from nearby surveillance footage.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on X @ NYPDTips.

All calls are strictly confidential.
by asim | 2025-12-02 18:30:46+00:00
It's more honest than the Replicate answer but I think inevitably if you can't raise the next round and you get distracted by the shiny AI that this is the path taken by many teams. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. There was an exuberant time when all the OSS things were getting funded, and now all AI things get funded. For many engineer founders, it's a better fit to go build deep technical stuff inside a bigger company. If I had that chance I would probably have taken it too. Good luck to the Bun team!
by o11c | 2025-12-02 18:30:51+00:00
Compiler speed matters. I will confess to not as much practical knowledge of -O3, but -O2 is usually reasonable fast to compile.

For cases where -O2 is too slow to compile, dropping a single nasty TU down to -O1 is often beneficial. -O0 is usually not useful - while faster for tiny TUs, -O1 is still pretty fast for them, and for anything larger, the increased binary size bloat of -O0 is likely to kill your link time compared to -O1's slimness.

Also debuggability matters. GCC's `-O2` is quite debuggable once you learn how to work past the possibility of hitting an <optimized out> (going up a frame or dereferencing a casted register is often all you need); this is unlike Clang, which every time I check still gives up entirely.

The real argument is -O1 vs -O2 (since -O1 is a major improvement over -O0 and -O3 is a negligible improvement over -O2) ... I suppose originally I defaulted to -O2 because that's what's generally used by distributions, which compile rarely but run the code often. This differs from development ... but does mean you're staying on the best-tested path (hitting an ICE is pretty common as it is); also, defaulting to -O2 means you know when one of your TUs hits the nasty slowness.

While mostly obsolete now, I have also heard of cases where 32-bit x86 inline asm has difficulty fulfilling constraints under register pressure at low optimization levels.
by _wire_ | 2025-12-02 18:31:05+00:00
It has no values; it doesn't think. As to "training", consider the class of people who produce Grok and their dear leader: His Hitler salute on stage was clear and unambiguous. The young Republicans are brimming with bigots and racists and running hard towards fascism. His minions e.g., DOGE "Big Balls" Edward Coristine are not exceptions. Grok is imprinted with the "values" of the people who develop it.
by criddell | 2025-12-02 18:31:06+00:00
That's really cool.

Music is funny. I played the closed hi-hat sound (https://synthrecipes.org/#closed-hi-hat) a couple of times and my brain instantly started playing AC/DC's, Back in Black. I probably haven't listened to that song in 15 years and now I'm shuffling AC/DC on Spotify.

Also, the "Sub bass" link might be broken:

https://synthrecipes.org/#Sub-bass
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by buttersmoothAI | 2025-12-02 18:31:16+00:00
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by re-thc | 2025-12-02 18:31:44+00:00
> I say don't muddy the water with the public panic over "will it won't it" bubble burst predictions.

It does matter. The public ultimately determines how much they get in funding if at all.

> The effective demand for Opus 4.5 is bottomless; the models will only get better.

The demand for the Internet is bottomless. Doesn't mean Dotcom didn't crash.

There are lots of scenarios this can play out, e.g. Anthropic fails to raise a certain round because money dried up. OpenAI buys Anthropic but decides they don't need Bun and closes out the project.
by westurner | 2025-12-02 18:31:44+00:00
That's a helpful TPS Report.

TIL `SAVEPOINT` can occur in a BEGIN ... END SQLite transaction, and that works with optimizing batch size on a particular node with a given load.

Is there a solution for SQLite WAL corruption?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45133444 :

> "PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44672902

> sqlite-parquet-vtable, [...]
by rvz | 2025-12-02 18:32:06+00:00
It does actually.

Claude Code is a 1B+ cash machine and Anthropic directly uses Bun for it.

Acquiring Bun lowers the risk of the software being unmaintained as Bun made $0 and relied on VC money.

Makes sense, but this is just another day in San Francisco of a $0 revenue startup being bought out.
by neilv | 2025-12-02 18:32:14+00:00
Nice to see Memtest86+ being maintained.

I use it on random machines as one of the burn-in tests of hardware. Not only of RAM, but it also lightly exercises CPU, and helps test cooling.

Early on, I used it on a bootable CD-ROM. In recent years, I've been putting it in the Grub boot menu (on systems not afflicted with UEFI).
by Hikikomori | 2025-12-02 18:32:29+00:00
He believes that democracy has run its course (did so in the 2008 crash as well) and believes in the ideas of Curtis Yarvin that think that tech CEOs should reign as feudal lords over small fiefdoms that he calls network states. Essentially the plan is to break the federal government and buy up its assets for pennies on the dollar. If this sounds bad for most people is up to you I guess.
by LogicFailsMe | 2025-12-02 18:32:38+00:00
While I think one party started it back in the '90s, both parties are mostly 2-minute hate daily talking point driven at this point.

I don't think that bodes well for our geopolitical competitiveness in the long run. And you can already see it in the irrational hatred of renewables on the right and the irrational hatred of AI on the left. Meanwhile, enough of the rest of the world has better things to do that we seem destined to become a geopolitical NPC.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-02 18:32:43+00:00
That happened due to the China-South Korea trade war following the installation of THAAD in SK in 2016 [0]. Notice how the Chinese OEM spike and Samsung's decline happen following the 2016-17 diplomatic crisis. It was also during this period that Korea Inc began shifting to Vietnam [1][2] and India as a result.

Additonally, that spike for Xiaomi and other Chinese OEMs also happened right when Chinese OEMs expanded their India business in 2015-17 [3][4][5]. On that note, notice how all those Chinese OEM saw sales dropped and then flatlined from 2021 onwards. While the pandemic did play a role, India began lawfare against Chinese companies following the Galwan Crisis in 2021 [6][7][8] with the Indian government de facto forcing Chinese firms to "indianize" [9] - which ironically is similar to how the Chinese government operated in the 2000s and 2010s with Western firms and what the Chinese government leveraged against Korea a decade previously.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-12/china-sai...

[1] - https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20181122001200320

[2] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/s-korea-d...

[3] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/baxiabhishek/2017/09/12/the-ris...

[4] - https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-techn...

[5] - https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/oppo-grew-...

[6] - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-seizes-725-mln-xia...

[7] - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-accuses-chinas-opp...

[8] - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-enforcement-direc...

[9] - https://etplay.com/business/why-chinese-cos-have-been-indian...
by mritchie712 | 2025-12-02 18:33:37+00:00
> At the time of writing, Bun's monthly downloads grew 25% last month (October, 2025), passing 7.2 million monthly downloads. We had over 4 years of runway to figure out monetization. We didn't have to join Anthropic.

I believe this completely. They didn't have to join, which means they got a solid valuation.

> Instead of putting our users & community through "Bun, the VC-backed startups tries to figure out monetization" – thanks to Anthropic, we can skip that chapter entirely and focus on building the best JavaScript tooling.

I believe this a bit less. It'll be nice to not have some weird monetization shoved into bun, but their focus will likely shift a bit.
by skybrian | 2025-12-02 18:34:00+00:00
Apparently Claude Code being built on Bun was considered a good enough reason? But it looks more strategic for Bun since they’re VC-backed and get a good exit:

> Claude Code ships as a Bun executable to millions of users. If Bun breaks, Claude Code breaks. Anthropic has direct incentive to keep Bun excellent.

…

> Bun's single-file executables turned out to be perfect for distributing CLI tools. You can compile any JavaScript project into a self-contained binary—runs anywhere, even if the user doesn't have Bun or Node installed. Works with native addons. Fast startup. Easy to distribute.

> Claude Code, FactoryAI, OpenCode, and others are all built with Bun.

…

> Over the last several months, the GitHub username with the most merged PRs in Bun's repo is now a Claude Code bot. We have it set up in our internal Discord and we mostly use it to help fix bugs. It opens PRs with tests that fail in the earlier system-installed version of Bun before the fix and pass in the fixed debug build of Bun. It responds to review comments. It does the whole thing.

> This feels approximately a few months ahead of where things are going. Certainly not years.

…

> We've been prioritizing issues from the Claude Code team for several months now. I have so many ideas all the time and it's really fun. Many of these ideas also help other AI coding products.

…

> Instead of putting our users & community through "Bun, the VC-backed startups tries to figure out monetization" – thanks to Anthropic, we can skip that chapter entirely and focus on building the best JavaScript tooling.

https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic
by pelagicAustral | 2025-12-02 18:34:18+00:00
I think I would also ad to the mix that young folk these days are incredibly overconfident and averse to criticism. A few years back they got a junior dev in here, and I was supposed to help him get on our stack, and ultimately mentor him.

This kid would not accept seniority, would constantly and publicly try to divert from the stack we worked with, he would not take any input on his work without actively fighting the process and will crowd the conversation at team meetings with never-ending Reddit-tier takes that contributed to nothing other than fill his ego.

In the end I managed to convince my boss to get him out, and he now works in Cyber, which will probably cause even more damage in the long run, but at least I can now say "not my problem".
by drjasonharrison | 2025-12-02 18:34:52+00:00
A cage around the drone, there are kids toys like this, and also commercial products for inspection. Prevents contact with other objects, contact can be sensed and reacted to. https://www.flyability.com/elios-3

Doesn't protect against everything, like Spanish Moss which dangles from trees, but that is a lot bigger than a long thin wire.
by carsoon | 2025-12-02 18:34:56+00:00
Its definitely a mix, we have been codeveloping better models and frameworks/systems to improve the outputs. Now we have llms.txt, MCP servers, structured outputs, better context management systems and augemented retreival through file indexing, search, and documentation indexing.

But these raw models (which i test through direct api calls) are much better. The biggest change with regards to price was through mixture of experts which allowed keeping quality very similar and dropping compute 10x. (This is what allowed deepseek v3 to have similar quality to gpt-4o at such a lower price.)

This same tech has most likely been applied to these new models and now we have 1T-100T? parameter models with the same cost as 4o through mixture of experts. (this is what I'd guess at least)
by waffletower | 2025-12-02 18:35:02+00:00
You can straw man all you like, I haven't used an LLM in a few days -- definitely not to summarize this article -- and what you claim is the central idea, is directly related to my claim. Its very easy to combine them directly: students intellectual development is going to be impaired by AI because they can't be trusted to use it critically. I disagree.
by cryptonector | 2025-12-02 18:35:21+00:00
Here's the problem though: people have used the absence of tooling to justify the creation of new, supposedly-superior schemas and codecs that by definition have strictly less tooling available on day zero and which invariably turn out to be worse than ASN.1/DER were in 1984 because the authors also refused to study the literature to see what good ideas they could pick up. That's how we end up with:

- PB being a TLV encoding, just like DER, with all the same problems

(Instead PB should have been inspired by XDR or OER, but not DER.) - PB's IDL requiring explicitly tagging every field of every data structure(!) even though ASN.1 never required tagging every field, and even though ASN.1 eventually adopted automatic tagging. - PB's very naive approach to extensibility that is just like 1984 ASN.1's.

It's a mistake.

Some people, when faced with a dearth of tooling, will write said tooling. Other people will say that the technology in question is a nightmare, and some of those people will then go on to invent a worse wheel.

I'd be ecstatic to use something other than ASN.1 if it wasn't a poor reinvention of it.
by hamasho | 2025-12-02 18:35:38+00:00
Does anyone know if it's possible to run Strudel code on VS Code (or NeoVim)? Tidle Cycles has add-ons where I can play/stop updated code or part of code with ctrl(cmd)-. and ctrl(cmd)-space. I mean, one of Strudel strong point is the browser based rich visualization, but I just want to edit JS code with my favorite editor.
by TheFlyingFish | 2025-12-02 18:35:53+00:00
I haven't used Deno, but I do use Bun purely as a replacement for npm. It does the hard-linking thing that seems to be increasingly common for package managers these days (i.e. it populates your local node_modules with a bunch of hard links to its systemwide cache), which makes it vastly quicker and more disk-efficient than npm for most usage.

Even with a cold cache, `bun install` with a large-ish dependency graph is significantly faster than `npm install` in my experience.

I don't know if Deno does that, but some googling for "deno install performance vs npm install" doesn't turn up much, so I suspect not?

As a runtime, though, I have no opinion. I did test it against Node, but for my use case (build tooling for web projects) it didn't make a noticeable difference, so I decided to stick with Node.
by ryandrake | 2025-12-02 18:35:53+00:00
> I think it has something to do with Silicon Valley's obsession with money. To SV-people, billionaires are like gods.

Just look at some of the comment threads here. So many replies essentially White-Knighting for a billionaire! Why does one take time out of their day to post an impassioned defense of this guy? He doesn't need your help. Do y'all think he's going to Venmo you $100 every time you defend his honor online?

Same thing for Musk. Say one thing bad about him, and the Musk Defense League reliably crawls out of the woodwork to passionately argue for him and downvote criticism. What's the point?
by bigbuppo | 2025-12-02 18:35:57+00:00
I don't want to shit on this project, because that's not my intent. My biggest gripe with static site generators in general is that for some reason they require the author to write their pages in something other than plain HTML. It's literally a machine-readable format and yet they all want to mix json, yaml, or something with markdown. And "but the output html would overwrite the input html" isn't really an excuse since they all tend to output to a build directory.

And before someone says, "well you can work on your dream static site generator yourself", rest assured, I am, but I'm also very lazy and usually stop once it gets to a "good enough" state for my own use, but isn't quite ready to share with others.
by CSSer | 2025-12-02 18:35:58+00:00
This article talks a lot about AI, but what I find odd is that in my relatively short (but long enough) ~9 yr career so far, this problem predates AI. I don't deny that it exacerbates it, but you don't kill a disease by addressing the symptoms. From the first time I was ever involved in the hiring process, senior leadership always encouraged me to hire more experienced staff, always most heavily scrutinized juniors, and had negotiations fall through with mid-level candidates the most. This was despite juniors passing technical screens with strong showings. This was not at a Fortune 500. This was a micro-cap subsidiary of a private, billion dollar company.

And although it hasn't discouraged me, I have to admit that I've been burned by juniors when caught in the middle between them and senior leadership on output expectations or strategy because frankly it's much more challenging to mentor how to navigate company politics than it is to mentor professional coding acumen. I want to be humble here. I don't think that's the junior's fault.

It feels like these problems go a lot deeper than AI. Most shops want software teams that are either silently embedded black boxes that you insert rough instructions into and get working software as output or an outsourced team. We've all experienced this. It seems silly to deny that it's directly related to why it's so hard to mentor or hire juniors.
by thefaux | 2025-12-02 18:36:00+00:00
This design seems very similar to async in scala except that in scala the execution context is an implicit parameter rather than an explicit parameter. I did not find this api to be significantly better for many use cases than writing threads and communicating over a concurrent queue. There were significant downsides as well because the program behavior was highly dependent on the execution context. It led to spooky action at a distance problems where unrelated tasks could interfere with each and management of the execution context was a pain. My sense though is that the zig team has little experience with scala and thus do not realize the extent to which this is not a novel approach, nor is it a panacea.
by rolph | 2025-12-02 18:36:01+00:00
also:

Feral children [2002]

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1279985/

there has been professional recognition of a problem for some time, some lack of rules or guardrails, a deficient degree of socialization during formative years.

its a bigger problem than a "deprogramming" as there is no foundational patterning to recover.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-02 18:36:16+00:00
History?

I didn’t say it was definitely the end or definitely would end up worse, just that someone who’s followed tech news for a while is unlikely to take this as increasing the odds Bun survives mid-term. If the company was in trouble anyway, sure, maybe, but not if they still had fourish years in the bank.

“Acquired product thriving four years later” isn’t unheard of, but it’s not what you expect. The norm is the product’s dead or stagnant and dying by then.
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-02 18:36:54+00:00
Not entirely apocrypha. Among the ones we can most easily name and shame from available source files there were early versions of the Java JDK known to have tests exactly like that in low level library code. Presumably Microsoft's famous app compatibility lab found many more that were closed source that they were not allowed to name and shame.

There's also different apocrypha about the numerology aspect that 9 is a very unlucky number in some cultures and commonly skipped in version numbers (similar to but more so than 13 in the US being skipped on many elevators). (Also why it is said other companies like Apple often skip 9 to make it easier to use the same version cross-culturally without cultural taboo mistakes.)
by messe | 2025-12-02 18:37:35+00:00
Let me rephrase, you can't call it like any other function.

In Zig, a function that does IO can be called the same way whether or not it performs async operations or not. And if those async operations don't need concurrency (which Zig expresses separately to asynchronicity), then they'll run equally well on a sync Io runtime.
by Jtsummers | 2025-12-02 18:38:14+00:00
Yes, it's ok to look. I generally don't until I've solved it, and then mostly to find hints on faster ways to solve it.

Instead of hints, try asking for, or finding, test cases. Several of us posted additional test cases that found most people's problems in part 2. Once you have a test case (with a small input size, so you can easily step through it by hand) you can usually identify the particular problems in your solution. This will also help you understand why it works.

If that still doesn't work, then find working solutions and try to understand them. Some people's solutions get really clever, don't worry about those. If it's not even remotely clear to you what's happening in it, it's not a solution you need to study yet. Find the simplest, brute force solutions first. Then find ones that look similar but are optimized in some way.