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by account42 | 2026-01-12 13:35:22+00:00
Depends on the functions. One example is memcpy - the API specifies that the source and destination must not overlap but the original implementation in glibc didn't care. When they wanted to optimize the implementation they decided to introduce a new version of memcpy rather than breaking older binaries that inadvertently relied on on the existing behavior even if that was never guaranteed by the API. Old binaries keep getting the older but slower memcpy, new binaries get the optimized memcpy.

Other examples are keeping bug compatibility, when standards are revised to require incompatible behavior, or to introduce additional safety features that require additional (hidden) arguments automatically passed to functions which changes their ABI.
by dangus | 2026-01-12 13:35:22+00:00
To me, UI look and feel != philosophy. And having a similar looking UI != "very similar"

iPadOS didn't even have overlapping windows until very recently. It doesn't even really have a central file system or user directory. It's missing a laundry list of things that macOS has that Linux distributions with also Gnome have.

Let’s not forget that most Windows PCs on the market are available with touchscreens and a lot of people do use them. The Windows PC market is full of 2-in-1 convertibles that do not exist in Apple’s hardware lineup. Gnome isn’t losing their mind by making their desktop environment friendly to them. Apple is one of the only laptop manufacturers that has avoided touch panels on laptops entirely, because they want to sell you two devices with heavily overlapping functionality.
by throw0101d | 2026-01-12 13:35:40+00:00
> There's basically nothing the American people can do short term.

If there are ICE agents in your area follow and film them. Create evidence of their jackboot tactics.

Most folks do not like force/violence, and the more people see the jackboot policies and actions of one side, the more folks will lean towards the side(s) that are against those policies.
by actionfromafar | 2026-01-12 13:36:02+00:00
Edit: it just occurred to me that the book describes a kind of filter bubble, too. The Palantir stones are inherently incapable of showing false data. But they became tuned over time to show highly editorialized video clips which supported a specific (Evil) narrative. That (IIRC) included future projections of possible outcomes.

Denethor (?) tried to use a Palantir for good, but went mad after viewing its selections for years.
by sumtechguy | 2026-01-12 13:36:26+00:00
I personally do not use it, but know someone who does. She says it is more like a appetite suppressant. You just do not feel that hungry. Her doctor also said 'if you eat like crap this stuff will punish you'. Basically you will have some stomach cramps.

Now are you saving money? Not particularly. The food which is better for you is also a decent amount more expensive. On top of the 1k per month the meds cost. Now many people can get the meds covered by insurance but some cant.

Cost wise it is pretty much a wash. As you are eating less but you are spending more. So there could also be people are watching what they eat more closely in addition to the medication.

My wife also says it is a change of diet not a diet.
by deaux | 2026-01-12 13:36:42+00:00
You can't be comparing OpenAI API with Anthropic subscription. The comparison here is OpenAI Codex subscription with Anthropic subscription. And when you do that, it turns out that the Codex limits are a lot higher for the same price. So then if Anthropic is selling at a large loss, OpenAI is selling at an even much bigger one.
Most Companies Don't Fail at AI – They Fail Before It Even Starts
by kajolshah_bt | 2026-01-12 13:37:19+00:00
I’ve been seeing more teams talk about “adding AI” as a default next step, even when the underlying problem isn’t fully clear.

In practice, the failures I’ve seen rarely come from bad models or tools. They come from skipping basic questions:
– What decision or task is being improved?
– Are rules still working at their current scale?
– Is there real usage, or just expectations?

I put together a simple breakdown of how AI projects tend to succeed when they do, and where teams usually go wrong early on.

Curious how others here decide when AI is worth the added complexity and when it’s better to wait.
by dunhuang_nomad | 2026-01-12 13:37:29+00:00
I appreciate the pushback. I’m reading your argument that every product can be used to cause harm, I agree with that take. The question is did the manufacturer do everything reasonable to limit the harm caused?

You can’t go after a company that makes kitchen knives if those are used to harm bc there’s nothing reasonable they could have done to prevent that harm, and there’s a legitimate use case for knives for cooking.

In this case, my understanding is other companies (OpenAI and Anthropic) have done more to limit harm, whereas XAI hasn’t.
by dns_snek | 2026-01-12 13:37:30+00:00
AI-generated implementation with AI-generated tests left me with some of the worst code I've witnessed in my life. Many of the passing tests it generated were tautologies (i.e. they would never fail even if behavior was incorrect).

When the tests failed the agent tended to change the (previously correct) test making it pass but functionally incorrect, or it "wisely" concluded that both the implementation and the test are correct but that there are external factors making the test fail (there weren't).

It behaved much like a really naive junior.
by notdang | 2026-01-12 13:37:37+00:00
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

Here are some first steps:

Earlier this year, Conagra started labeling some of its Healthy Choice frozen meals with high protein and fiber as "GLP-1 friendly." A spokesperson said those meals are selling faster than rival products making similar claims on their packaging. The company plans to introduce new Healthy Choice recipes with the same labeling in May and work with grocers like Walmart (WMT.O), and Kroger (KR.N), to market them, the spokesperson said.

Nestle, the world's biggest food company, has also introduced new frozen meals that cater specifically to GLP-1 users, called Vital Pursuit.

Fast-casual Mexican chain Chipotle (CMG.N),on Tuesday added a "High Protein Menu" that features, among other items, a single cup of chicken or steak.
by barnabee | 2026-01-12 13:37:50+00:00
Depends on the project and team

There are plenty of situation in which all that matters is that the people actually building are happy with it and a tool that literally nobody else uses would be fine.

Indeed, for many engineering jobs (software and other) in some industries, it's entirely necessary to create new tools and use extremely specialiased. Good people will learn how to use (and build/improve them).

I'd possibly go as far as arguing that a sign of a good team is willingness to aggressively use the right tool for the job even if it is obscure or something they have to build themselves.

Sure, if you're hoping to get traction with an open source JavaScript library… git and github maybe be pre-requisites, but for projects of a certain sort "reach" and "adoption" by other developers are the most important metric. (Though, SQLite has done just fine with Fossil, so there's probably a degree of overstatement in the idea that it anything has to use git / be on Github.)
by throw0101d | 2026-01-12 13:38:04+00:00
See perhaps:

> At the turn of the 20th century, a crucial debate emerged between Walter Lippmann and John Dewey over the viability of democracy in an increasingly complex world. Lippmann critiqued democracy’s reliance on public opinion, arguing that citizens construct simplified “pseudo-environments” shaped by media and stereotypes, rendering them ill-equipped to make informed decisions on vast global issues. He warned that modern democracies are driven more by emotionally charged reactions than by accurate understanding, and that media, language, and time constraints further distort reality. Dewey responded not by dismissing Lippmann’s concerns, but by reframing democracy as more than a political system—it was, to him, an ethical ideal and a form of social cooperation. Viewing society as an interconnected organism, Dewey believed individuals flourish only through participation and education. He saw democracy as a continuous process of mutual growth, where every person contributes uniquely, and where the antidote to authoritarianism lies in cultivating thoughtful, empowered citizens—not in retreating from democratic ideals, but in deepening them.

* https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/dewey-lippman

Also maybe from The Atlantic (from 1919), "The Basic Problem of Democracy" by Walter Lippman:

https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arch...
by dguest | 2026-01-12 13:38:17+00:00
Or you visit and then read the Wikipeida article. I mean even better as a double-decker wikipedia sandwich, but good as long as you read it.

I spent my last 3 hours in Hungary reading about the 1957 revolution [1]. The whole city was out celebrating the anniversary with funny-looking flags. I felt like an ass for not knowing about it before, but I learned.

The author is right that you don't magically become cultured by traveling. But you also don't become a Shakespeare expert by reading all his plays. That doesn't mean you should read the Shakespeare Wikipedia article instead.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
by taklaxbr | 2026-01-12 13:38:20+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm a 15-year-old high school student from Turkey. I've been working on Zai Shell, an intent-based P2P system administration tool that uses local LLMs (Phi-2) for autonomous command execution.

I recently wrote a Whitepaper explaining the architecture (Intent Translation -> Execution -> Transport layers).

Full disclosure: My parents took my computer away for a while :) so I can't push code updates right now, but I'm here on mobile to answer any questions about the architecture, the protocol design, or the AGPL v3 licensing.

I truly believe this 'Intent-Based P2P' approach is the future of sysadmin, replacing the need for centralized tools like TeamViewer or manual SSH. Feedback is very welcome!
by jibal | 2026-01-12 13:38:33+00:00
> What nonsense.

What rudeness.

> That’s rarely the opinion of those who hold that view.

I've tracked climate science deniers for decades and that simply isn't true.

> If climate change has any non-human causes, then to what extent are we humans able to have an affect on those non-human causes?

Of course climate change has some non-human causes, but most of them aren't the ones that we humans are able to have an effect on, so the question is off base. It's the human causes that we humans are able to have an extensive effect on, obviously.

Your question can possibly be read as implying that the causes are either non-human or they are human, rather than there being both types of factors ... if that's the case then it reflects an extraordinary lack of knowledge about the subject.
by dizlexic | 2026-01-12 13:39:06+00:00
The piece I think people are missing is for years the biggest bottle neck for development has been time. These services have just ripped apart the time barrier, and the industry is still trying to wrap their head around that.

To me the next obvious barrier will be size (context) barrier, and I can easily see a place for a human in that process. Sure, anyone can prompt an agent build a codebase, but as those code bases grow / evolve It's hard for me to believe a non-specialized person will be able to manage those projects.

edit:
I had another thought after posting this. To all the smaller company devs just building and maintaining internal tools. Users always want more features. The difference is now you'll be able to deliver them.

The biggest disruption I'm seeing is in estimation. It's a skill developed with experience, and it just went poof
by vladvasiliu | 2026-01-12 13:39:31+00:00
These drugs are expensive and, at least in France, they're discussing offering them. I think this is the main reason explaining the difference in prevalence between the US and the EU.

Despite access to "superior food quality", weight issues are absolutely a problem in the EU, too. Maybe it's not at the same point as in the US, but 51% of the population of the EU (outside Ireland and Germany for some reason) are "overweight or obese" [0].

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[0] https://drees.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/publications-communi... In French, from the ministry of health, but there's a chart which should be clear enough for everybody.
by geoduck14 | 2026-01-12 13:39:56+00:00
Interestingly enough, I've been to Turkey twice. I know the taste of the food, the gentleness of the people, their hospitality. I got a haircut both times - I lived their style. I had lunch with some of them. I sat and listened to them talk. I toured their houses and walked their streets.

I know a couple of interesting facts about Turkey, but I know things that I can't describe in a Wikipedia article, too.

10/10 would recommend a trip to Turkey
by jonhohle | 2026-01-12 13:40:14+00:00
The sugar sweetened Coke’s are unique, but I think McDonald’s consistently has the best Coke you can get. Unlike most restaurants, they store syrup in stainless steal containers instead of plastic bags and they use a higher syrup to soda ratio than most places.

I’m not sure if the flavor has changed much in the past 30 years, but I do know that a McDonald’s Coke is almost always good.
by dangus | 2026-01-12 13:40:25+00:00
Okay, I understand now.

And that's just a wildly nitpicky criticism by the person that brought this up.

To me, as long as the OS includes the functionality, the way it's presented to the user, how customizable it is, and what keys they use is generally irrelevant. Each user of each OS will be used to whatever that OS chooses to set up.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2026-01-12 13:40:41+00:00
> Fla3 min profitability limit is 9ct and expected limit is about 12-14ct.

When assuming extremely subsidised interest rates. You can do the same for the competition to get an apples to apples comparison, but I know you don't want to do that.

> And that's for a totally f-up project... EPR2 isn't built yet so we don't know how it'll go per kwh, if EDF doesn't delay it for 20y it'll be in 6-10ct range, similar to Barakah built by Korea

The EPR2 subsidy proposal, yet to be accepted by the european commission, is 11 cents/kWh and interest free loans. Sum freely. Stop making stuff up.

> Most of the cost in ren nowadays is transmission cost and firming cost, both don't have a big margin to shave, unlike nuclear

How will you force anyone to buy that horrifyingly expensive new built nuclear electricity?

Here's an article for you:

The Quiet Unraveling of the Power Grid Monopoly

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Quiet-Unravel...
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-12 13:40:55+00:00
> X referred the BBC to a statement posted by its Safety account, external at the start of January: "Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.".

That's a weak reply as what consequences would be suffered when users upload illegal content and have these latest users faced those consequences? I don't ever visit X/Twitter, so I can't speak as to whether infringing content has been removed or not.

Musk trying to blame this on censorship is laughable - if anything people are using deep-fakes to stifle opposing views by trying to hurt the people posting them.
by yostrovs | 2026-01-12 13:41:02+00:00
Some time ago, about 25 years ago, I realized that travel had become a status symbol. Wearing gold bracelets and flashy clothes, driving a fancy car, and doing other showy things was no longer cool. Telling someone that you went to Budapest last month was now the thing. And those that didn't go to Budapest were very sad that they didn't. Maybe that's why you're also sad for those that didn't travel?
by lelanthran | 2026-01-12 13:41:39+00:00
> I've had friends - they really felt like friends at one point - tell me that they don't want to know me anymore when they learned I'm an atheist. One told me that "without God there's no morality", so they can't trust in anything I say. Just like that. One told me that atheists should be branded or marked somehow, so that they can't pose as "good people".

That doesn't actually lead to a quarrel any more than having a friend saying they want to stop being friends for any other reason.

IOW, if a friend wants to stop being your friend, does the reason matter? I don't argue with people who don't want to be friends anymore (regardless of the reason)

> If a father "100% believes" homosexuals are worse than dirt, and a son firmly believes he loves his boyfriend, that's how a "quarrel" will arise.

I can certainly see a quarrel arising from that because ... well ... what are you going to do? Stop showing up at family events because your boyfriend is not accepted? Cut off all ties with your family because your boyfriend is not accepted?

This "quarrel", though, is not like a normal quarrel about differing beliefs; this actually has an impact on the ability to remain part of the family.[1]

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[1] TBH, though, if it's only the father in this case who objects, simply not showing up at any event he is part of will usually be sufficient to get the rest of the family to pressure him into at least keeping quiet if you do show up, boyfriend in tow.

If the father is willing to keep from having outbursts, that more than sufficient to not quarrel. You don't need to man to believe that it isn't immoral. You don't need him to accept it. You just need him to shut up about it.

> You're really fortunate to have only met people who hold beliefs that are not in direct opposition to your continued existence in this world or in their presence.

What makes you think that?

I'm non-white, grew up in apartheid South Africa; in 2026, even transgenders in first world countries are treated better than my race was in 1986.

If you think systemic discrimination is bad, try living under legislated discrimination.

> However, you need to be aware that there are beliefs that are more incompatible with yours, and that there are people who hold them - and that you will quarrel (or worse - much worse) when you happen to meet.

No, I will not. If they are morally against my existence, let them go vote for laws to that end. I'm not gonna stand there arguing with them about it.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-12 13:41:56+00:00
>I think part of the problem a lot of senior devs are having is that they see what they do as an artisanal craft. The rest of the world just sees the code as a means to an end.

Then you haven't been a senior dev long enough.

We want code that will be good enough because we will have to maintain it for years (or inherit maintaining from someone else), we want it to be clean enough that adding new features isn't a pain and architected well enough that it doesn't need major rewrite to do so.

Of course if code is throwaway that doesn't matter but if you're making long term product, making shit code now is taking on the debt you will have to pay off.

That is not to say "don't use AI for that", that is to say "actually go thru AI code and review whether it is done well enough". But many AI-first developers just ship first thing that compiles or passes tests, without looking.

> I don't care how elegantly my toaster was crafted as long as it toasts the bread and doesn't break.

...well if you want it to not break (and still be cheap) you have to put quite a bit of engineering into it.
by arghwhat | 2026-01-12 13:42:05+00:00
I think it's a bit more popular outside the US than you make it out to be. As an anecdote, I know a handful of people on it in Denmark - and that's despite the local Danish price being higher than the German one and Denmark having notably lower obesity and diabetes rates than Germany.

I imagine you'll find that people of certain lifestyles tend to cluster together a bit, with those with more active lifestyles and healthy diets likely to have their friends and family be of active lifestyles and healthy diets, and in turn less likely to be in need of such drugs. Lifestyle changes are difficult to implement by nature.

Although, the term "processed food" is awful as it covers so many unrelated things. The problem is ultra-addictive, ultra-high glycemic index foods consumed in large amounts partly due to their addictive qualities - a quality some processed foods have.

For reference, Danish sausage sandwich toppings are highly processed foods, but it won't drive anyone to obesity or diabetes. Elevated blood pressure, perhaps. Junk takeaway, candy and sugary cereals on the other hand...
by whywhywhywhy | 2026-01-12 13:42:29+00:00
I know most wont care but to me the biggest red flag was when they changed the cursor stem to be like the windows cursor stem, it's angled geometrically correct but when you actually stare at it then it looks wonky and wrong. It's one of those things an amateur designer would assume is correct because theoretically it is but a talented designer knows the angle has to be off to feel correct.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-12 13:42:50+00:00
I've been to the Sistine Chapel, and yes it has a lovely ceiling, but it's also jammed full of other tourists who are also craning their necks and not looking where they're going.

While the Vatican has a lot more loot and bling to look at, I'd say looking at the pictures on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_the_Sistine_Chapel_... is the superior experience.

The same goes for the Mona Lisa, which is the least interesting painting in the Louvre. Either see it in a crowded room full of tourists, behind a glass case, or see every last brushstroke at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa (7k x 11k pixels in uniform lighting)

Personally I liked seeing the brickwork of St. Peter's dome more, but each to their own.
by blell | 2026-01-12 13:43:02+00:00
I read this online, I don't know where it was, so I can't give a source, it probably was on twitter:

"People really want these things - exercise, weight - to be important moral objectives for others, when they're not that important in the grand scheme of things. Now you'll just have to find another easy visual marker for ranking people by moral superiority."
by rufo | 2026-01-12 13:43:03+00:00
I replied to the parent post, but in short, I used it through a subscription service that specifically didn’t update until the ownership issues were clarified to their (and ultimately my) satisfaction.

The screen recording permissions are needed for it to be aware of when menu bar icons update so it can move them in and out of the menu bar; I believe later versions allow you to skip screen recording permissions if you’re willing to forgo that feature.
by dmje | 2026-01-12 13:43:41+00:00
We visited Florence over the summer. It was a total shitshow. I’ve never seen anything like it: hoards and hoards of people just looking at their phones / taking selfies / not engaging at all with the actual art or majesty around them. The queue for the Duomo was maybe 4 hours. Everyone in the queue was on their phone. We didn’t wait. The Uffizi was appalling - rammed busy, everyone running into a room to snap a pic of Venus or do some utterly bizarre selfie thing which required weird poses, those involved totally unaware at the disruption they were causing. No moments of engaging with the art, no reading the labels or soaking it up, just a completely bizarre “check the box, I was there” thing going on with - I presume - Insta or whatever the equivalent is. Outside the centre things were a little better but not much. We escaped to Bologna as soon as we could and that was a whole world apart.

My point: I’m not sure “travel” as I understand it (educational, beautiful, soaking up of local culture, taking time to stand and understand as much as possible) is the same as the “travel” that others understand it.