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by vladdoster | 2026-01-14 00:38:11+00:00
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by dustfinger | 2026-01-14 00:38:13+00:00
Appreciate this breakdown and the disclosure.

+1 for highlighting that PR quality is the bottleneck. Garbage-in/garbage-out is exactly what I ran into and it’s why I’m planning to introduce PR templates so the why/what changed/impact is consistently present. For sparse PR bodies, I also optionally add truncated diff context for the LLM summary so the output isn’t just a long list of raw PR titles.

Also agree there is a split between dev-facing changelogs vs user-facing release comms that need to land where users are. What I built is aimed at the "developer-consumer" audience, people using the library, not contributing to it: it renders into our docs and is meant to be readable as a curated changelog, not a raw list of commits.
by tehjoker | 2026-01-14 00:38:39+00:00
This is the definition. People thought long and hard about what genocide is, because people are quite creative in finding ways of trying to destroy other people.

Israel is committing genocide because they have tried to destroy part of the population. Their goal is enthic cleansing. If they do not achieve it, they will continue to escalate, especially now that international law is shown to be toothless.
by rambojohnson | 2026-01-14 00:39:13+00:00
except that what you’re describing is the CONSUMER SIDE of meaning, not the SOURCE of it.

yes, listeners project their own memories onto music, no one’s disputing that. but that doesn’t make the creator, context, intent, or labor irrelevant. treating music as interchangeable stimulus is how you end up defending systems that strip human work of attribution, risk, and livelihood while still feeding on the cultural residue artists created in the first place.
by heelix | 2026-01-14 00:39:44+00:00
I was able to pick up recycled flourinert, which I used for an immersed dual celeron setup. It was mind boggling to see the submerged motherboard chugging away and silence beyond the the soft whir/gurgle of the water pumps. My first CRAYon machine was so messy. I always hoped that it was coolant from our U of MN's Cray.
by dont__panic | 2026-01-14 00:39:52+00:00
I love the linux philosophy at work here. Pandoc is an incredible tool that every documentarian knows. Markdown is a great tool that covers 80%+ of docs requirements (admonitions and tabs are not well-defined in vanilla markdown, for instance, but you don't strictly _need_ those).

I've worked on docs at quite a few companies at this point. Almost every company I've ever seen has built a Rube Goldberg machine and totally overengineered their docs for reasons I simply can't understand. It's funniest when the overengineering doesn't even solve problems better than the vanilla solutions out there like AsciiDoctor and Sphinx. So many useless checks. So much unmaintainable javascript and styling. So many botched search and AI chat implementations. And don't even get me started on Vale, which generally just annoys the hell out of contributors instead of helping them.

Great work on the site, Tangled. Your docs site contains useful instructions and a sidebar that clearly communicates an organization structure. It doesn't peg my CPU or RAM. It's amazing how that makes your site better than 90% of docs sites out there.

One tip: could you add a favicon? Bonus points if it's slightly distinct from your main site's favicon so I can distinguish docs tabs at a glance.
by tonyarkles | 2026-01-14 00:39:56+00:00
https://borretti.me/article/notes-on-managing-adhd

Came across this a few months ago on HN here and there’s a fair bit of exposition on things you’ve mentioned. My personal takeaway from it was to try Todoist, which has been a complete game changer in my life. I’ve used other systems before but something about Todoist worked better for my brain (plus the mobile integration is awesome… my second best over the years was org-mode but the mobile story is way too clunky)
by NegativeK | 2026-01-14 00:40:13+00:00
I have so many text files (technically wikis and GDocs text docs, but I'm not doing more than lines of text). I was talking to a coworker today about our graveyard of pen and paper notebooks, todo apps, reminder thingies, post-its..

I need two things: ubiquity, so that I can add ideas, todos, etc. wherever I am; and exaggerated simplicity so that I don't end up turning the note solution into its own project that's abandoned or exchanged in a year.
by xp84 | 2026-01-14 00:40:33+00:00
> Create a new organization with new leadership. Ban anyone from a leadership position in ICE from being employed by the new organization.

That will solve almost nothing though. 90% of the people who want to abolish ICE today would still want to abolish... let's call it NICE for "Nice Immigration & Citizen Encouragers" if NICE is empowered to deport anybody for any reason. Most liberal Americans I know do not think anyone should be deported for any reason. That's the disconnect. I actually agree that the tactics of some of the agents are probably wrong, but I won't ever align with the Democratic Party on the issue because they demonstrably want to make it impossible for anyone to be caught, which de facto means open borders.

Factual reasons I say this:

1. Democrats overwhelminglhy oppose requirements to be here legally to use government benefits

2. Democrats openly and proudly establish sanctuary cities and similar policies where local police explicitly aren't allowed to report people suspected or known to not have a valid immigration status.

3. Democrats overwhelmingly oppose automatic deportation for felonies committed by undocumented immigrants.

They do this mainly on the well-meaning grounds of "but what if mom or dad is illegal, we don't want to tear a family apart" but are so intellectually lazy that they don't bother to ask or answer how we could ever ethically deport anyone then, since anyone can claim to have some special family connection to someone with legal status.
by WolfeReader | 2026-01-14 00:40:41+00:00
I see no point in making this a numbers game. (Like, I was supposed to say "five" or something?)

Let's make it more of a category thing: when AI shows itself responsible for a new category of life-saving technique, like a cure for cancer or Alzheimer's, then I'd have to reconsider.

(And even then, it will be balanced against rising sea levels, extinctions, and other energy use effects.)
by gbnwl | 2026-01-14 00:40:52+00:00
For me it's not really the length, I'm surprised that on HN news of all places you'd think it's that. Outside of the obvious em-dashes (yes I know people have always used em-dashes but one every other sentence does catch the eye right?), it's the common and completely self-assured phrasing like

"which is why you get that "barrage of micro ideas" breaking through during focus."

This for me was the biggest tell. Unless OP gives their credentials who talks like this? The smartest people I know in related fields go out of their way to avoid sounding like they can diagnose your exact subjective experience based on such little information. The absolute lack of reasonable hedging is the giveaway for me.
by Vaslo | 2026-01-14 00:41:21+00:00
Music is big for me - there are some good lists on YouTube.

Taking a few steps forward on something help me get over the initial paralysis. Get people to help you need priorities. I constantly check in with bosses to ensure I’m doing the most important thing.

Interesting about sleep, I definitely feel most productive in the morning after a solid night of sleep.

It has its downsides but a constant comment/compliment I get from friends how much I get done with my limited time. I have to always be doing something that consumes my attention or I’ll go nuts. I can’t watch sports for example because all the constant stops and starts make me lose my attention and go somewhere else.
by tombert | 2026-01-14 00:41:48+00:00
Totally reasonable question, and I only am making an assumption based on observed progress. AI generated code, at least in my personal experience, has gotten a lot better, and while I don't think that will go to infinity, I do think that there's still more room for improvement that could happen.

I will acknowledge that I don't have any evidence of this claim, so maybe the word "likely" was unwise, as that suggests probability. Feel free to replace "is "likely to" with "it feels like it will".
by antonymoose | 2026-01-14 00:41:48+00:00
“Politically Correct” came out of the late 80s / early 90s era. I’m certain you saw socially insane things in the 80s. I’ve had similarly insane anecdotes of investors holding court in strip clubs dangling venture capital in front of our firm in the late 2010s. Shitty people in power will always exist.
by crispyambulance | 2026-01-14 00:41:58+00:00
> I have ADHD. I think. Pretty sure.

You might be right, but until you get a professional diagnosis you can't really be sure. Hacker-news will disagree but it is impossible to be objective about your own mental health. The good news is that if you do have adult ADHD, it is treatable (much more so than other conditions like depression).

Some people might try to spin it as something cool, but that last "d" stands for disorder. It's a disorder and NOT a "founder thing", regardless of what Paul Graham thinks. ADHD can do enormous damage to your life, relationships, and professional development.
by amrocha | 2026-01-14 00:43:13+00:00
I don’t see what’s wrong about either of these examples.

If diversity is your goal, and you have two equally skilled applicants of different sexes, you should choose the under represented applicant. Elastic made the right choice.

Likewise at Ubisoft, if you don’t explicitly make room for diversity at the top level of the company then you’re never going to get to an equitable state.
by joe463369 | 2026-01-14 00:43:43+00:00
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/abolish-the-mona...

> Police Scotland said the 22-year-old woman arrested outside St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh on Sunday had been arrested for “breach of the peace”.

> The woman was holding a sign reading “f** imperialism, abolish monarchy”, but the sign is not understood to be the reason for her arrest
by Aurornis | 2026-01-14 00:43:44+00:00
> I was very glad to be able to give the feedback which can be summarized as "no opencode, no subscription"

Anthropic doesn’t allow using the Claude Code dedicated token as a workaround for their API billing process. It wasn’t targeted at OpenCode, it’s just an obvious policy. This was never supported or advertised, so there’s no bait and switch going on.

If you want an API token for use with your tools or use cases they have an option for that.

None of this is new or surprising.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-14 00:43:50+00:00
> I have ... pointed out fallacies committed by you and others.

This is moot. Losing points in a debate competition does not invalidate the belief for which one is arguing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy

You're not going to suddenly change your mind strictly because you realized you made a bad argument; admittedly, you might do so after your bad argument makes you rethink the matter but it's certainly not a guarantee. Critically, anyone's ability to change their mind starts first and foremost with it being willing to adopt such a change.

> You have merely asserted that the evidence corroborates your perspective.

This is all you've managed to do as well, despite using more words; there seems to be no reason to point it out. Of course that is what we are both doing. Oftentimes it's called a "discussion". The problem I am having with this one, which I believe is shared by others, is that you don't seem to be taking other perspectives seriously. Why should I, or any third party who sees this this, offer yours that dignity?
by maccard | 2026-01-14 00:44:14+00:00
You’ve missed my point here - I agree that gen AI has changed everything and is useful, _but_ I disagree that it’s improved substantially - which is what the comment I replied to claimed.

Anecdotally I’ve seen no difference in model changes in the last year, but going from LLM to Claude code (where we told the LLMs they can use tools on our machines) was a game changer. The improvement there was the agent loop and the support for tools.

In 2023 I asked v0.dev to one shot me a website for a business I was working on and it did it in about 3 minutes. I feel like we’re still stuck there with the models.
by alexfoo | 2026-01-14 00:44:46+00:00
What quietened the “thousands of competing thoughts” that used to go through my brain constantly was an ADHD diagnosis and then medication (methylphenidate / Concerta XL in my case, I tried lisdexamfetamine / Elvanse first but it did nothing for my ADHD symptoms. Everyone responds differently to the various medications, you may have to try several until you find one that works for you).

The diagnosis/medication route isn’t for everyone but, in my case, it is a thousand times better than trying any systems/strategies unmedicated.

Medication alone isn’t a magical cure but it gets me to the point where various systems/strategies do start to work.

Also whilst medicated I don’t get as distracted anywhere near as easily. If I do think of something else I can write it down and go back to what I was working on.

Whilst medicated I don’t try and keep track of 4 different conversations going on around me whilst not giving enough attention to the actual person I’m supposed to be listening to and talking to.

Whilst medicated I don’t just endlessly write, rewrite or reorder TODO lists, I can actually start (and finish!) items on that list. This means I’m not just motivated by stress/deadlines, I can get things done way ahead of the last minute.

An ADHD diagnosis and medication has been utterly transformational in my life.

I tried a whole host of stuff in the years before I finally went for an official diagnosis. In hindsight I wish I’d spoken to my doctor years earlier but, guess what, people with ADHD procrastinate.

Lastly, I now no longer have to expend huge amounts of energy masking my ADHD symptoms. Prior to diagnosis I didn’t realise just how much of a toll this was taking on me and I just attributed it to 25 years of working in the IT industry and possible burnout.
by munificent | 2026-01-14 00:45:37+00:00
The fundamental scam is:

People want to feel a meaningful connection to others. One facet of that is wanting to own objects that were made by an actual person who put craft into creating the object and who cares about the owner being happy with it.

Virtually everyone, not just rich hipsters, wants this. People seek it out and are happy to pay a lot extra for it.

However, "made with care" (and not just "by hand possibly in a sweatshop") is a fairly intangible property and hard to distinguish from just looking at the object. Instead, you really need some amount of provenance tracking to tell the "made by someone who gives a shit" from the slop.

Maker fairs, Etsy, farmer's markets, and many other venues exist basically to offer up that claim of trusted provenance. But the very large price difference between what you can sell a made-with-care object for versus the very low price you can make an indistinguishable object using factories, sweatshop labor, or AI makes those venues a honeypot for scammers who want to sell, essentially, fake meaning.

I keep feeling like the ultimate answer to everything going on in the current zeitgiest is some kind of real trust tracking system so you know where a piece of media or object actually came from.
by amypetrik214 | 2026-01-14 00:45:38+00:00
>I've also had to deal with the IRB a lot as a professor. The retroactive application is extremely weird (although maybe better than nothing?).

I mean I feel like the IRB is mostly dealing with medical stuff. "I want to electrocute these students every week to see if it cures asthma". "No that's too much.. every other week at most". "Great I'll charge up the electrodes"

So if a security researcher rolls in after the fact and says "umm yea so this has to do with nerd stuff, computers and kernels, no humans, and I just want it all to be super secure and nobody gets hacked, sound good" "ok sure we don't care if no people are involved and don't really understand that nerd stuff, but hackers bad and you're fighting hackers"
by bryanhogan | 2026-01-14 00:45:46+00:00
I do have to say that all of the doc tools they mention in the beginning are worse than Astro Starlight[1] and Vitepress[2]. Can highly recommend Astro Starlight for documentation sites, used it for multiple projects myself.

[1]: https://starlight.astro.build/

[2]: https://vitepress.dev/
by kokanee | 2026-01-14 00:45:49+00:00
> These things are average text generation machines.

Funny... seems like about half of devs think AI writes good code, and half think it doesn't. When you consider that it is designed to replicate average output, that makes a lot of sense.

So, as insulting as OP's idea is, it would make sense that below-average devs are getting gains by using AI, and above-average devs aren't. In theory, this situation should raise the average output quality, but only if the training corpus isn't poisoned with AI output.

I have an anecdote that doesn't mean much on its own, but supports OP's thesis: there are two former coworkers in my linkedin feed who are heavy AI evangelists, and have drifted over the years from software engineering into senior business development roles at AI startups. Both of them are unquestionably in the top 5 worst coders I have ever worked with in 15 years, one of them having been fired for code quality and testing practices. Their coding ability, transition to less technical roles, and extremely vocal support for the power of vibe coding definitely would align with OP's uncharitable character evaluation.
by xp84 | 2026-01-14 00:45:52+00:00
Obama won, and he was just a one-term senator without any major achievements and no particularly unique platform. Just because we liked the guy and thought he sounded sincere. I don't agree with you. The vast majority of American voters aren't racist.

And I agree that reality TV fame is an idiotic reason to elect a candidate, btw. But most people (in all parties) are unserious idiots.
by zahlman | 2026-01-14 00:45:55+00:00
I kinda like Theo's take on it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9UxjmNF7b0): there's a sliding scale of how much slop should reasonably be considered acceptable and engineers are well advised to think about it more seriously. I'm less sold on the potential benefits (since some of the examples he's given are things that I would also find easy by hand), but I agree with the general principle that having the option to do things in a super-sloppy way, combined with spending time developing intuition around having that access (and what could be accomplished that way), can produce positive feedback loops.

In short: when you produce the PNG decoder, and are satisfied with it, it's because you don't have a good reason to care about the code quality.

> Maybe objectively it does, but can we convince them that it does?

I strongly doubt it, and that's why articles like TFA project quite a bit of concern for the future. If non-engineers end up accepting results from a low-quality, not-quite-correct system, that's on them. If those results compromise credentials, corrupt databases etc., not so much.
by beAbU | 2026-01-14 00:46:00+00:00
Without a shadow of a doubt. 10 mil is more than a 100 years at my current salary rate, and I live quite comfortably.

10 mil means I can take care of my family, and significantly upgrade our standard of living, and sustain this for the remainder of our lives. We can spend our time doing things we actually enjoy doing.

I love my job. Don't get me wrong. But the fact that my job means I can eat plays a very significant part in me loving it in the first place. When the need to survive is removed, I think that love will evaporate.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-14 00:46:01+00:00
> > I hope you are not claiming perception of intent is enough to claim a life
> > It is the actual intent that counts.

> As an objective legal matter, it is.

You are both wrong. The requirement for self-defense (which may or may not even be available here if it is ever charged, because it doesn't apply to all kinds of murder, notably generally not to felony murder, which given ICE's very narrow jurisdiction there is a very good case, IMO, applies here) is neither mere subjective perception nor actual intent, but objectively reasonable fear. Actual perception of a threat which is not objectively reasonable in the circumstances does not justify self-defense.
by sosodev | 2026-01-14 00:46:03+00:00
> The security hazards of artisanal hosting are more real than ever

How could this possibly be true? It's not at all rocket science to create a static blog and serve it via a production grade web server (nginx, etc).

> The UX of DNS hasn't improved (it's still impossible for normies)

The UX of DNS sucks but we're talking about a single A record. Is that not within reach of a normie in the age of AI?

> Custom domains are not just vain, they're ephemeral. Certainly more so than, say, the domain of a blogging platform that's managed by a non-profit.

I can't think of a single free blogging platform that has stood up to the test of time. Depending on centralized resources, particularly when you're not paying for them, is the recipe for ephemerality. If you're going to pay for it why can't you afford a domain?
by drdaeman | 2026-01-14 00:46:16+00:00
Not Apple, but iMazing switched to subscription model and they simply lost me as a customer.

JetBrains tried something similar a while ago too, and almost screwed it up - but managed to listen to their customers and nailed it with the perpetual fallback licensing. Making me not just pay the subscription but feel respect to the company.

YMMV, of course.