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by BeetleB | 2026-01-14 01:27:06+00:00
If it were terrible, you wouldn't use them, right? Isn't the fact that you continue to use AI coding tools a sign that you find them a net positive? Or is it being imposed on you?

> And to the parents point, I’m doing something wrong for noticing that?

There's nothing wrong pointing out your experience. What the OP was implying was he expects them to be able to copy/paste reliably almost 100% of the time, and not hallucinate. I was merely pointing out that he'll never get that with LLMs, and that their inability to do so isn't a barrier to getting productive use out of them.
by dzonga | 2026-01-14 01:27:13+00:00
if A.I maximalist gospel was true - we would see a company raising $10M Series A | Seed (these days)

spend 60% on A.I, 30% on Humans and 10% on operations but I can bet you my sole penny that's not happening - so we know someone is tryna sell us a polished turd as a diamond
by astrange | 2026-01-14 01:27:35+00:00
> "Training isn’t copying" is the cynical AI shill statement that doesn’t address the fact that systems trained on artists are then packaged and monetized to outsell them.

No, that's the whole problem. The systems are capable of outselling the artist whether or not they're trained on the artist. So you can't prevent it by complaining about the training data.
by thejud | 2026-01-14 01:27:46+00:00
Author here.

This piece grew out of noticing that humans can physically interact with trillion-scale quantities (grains of sand, dollars, data points) while being unable to intuit them. Mag World is an attempt to reason about systems by order of magnitude rather than precision—using scale as the primary organizing principle.

I’m exploring where this lens helps and where it breaks: wealth, governance, law, and technological lifetimes all behave very differently once you move past human-scale intuition. I’m particularly interested in whether others find this framing clarifying or misleading in domains they work in.
by krapp | 2026-01-14 01:28:42+00:00
The real answer is because it's a pulp sci-fi movie and Jabba is a gross evil slug monster and him having Leia chained up like that just shows how depraved and dangerous he is. Also Carrie Fisher looks really hot in that outfit and most of the audience is likely to be adolescent boys and men.

The funny answer is.and in a universe in which it's common for alien species to intermingle, and where humans (being the Imperial species) are particularly common, being a "humanophile" might be a kink, the galactic equivalent to being a furry or "monster fucker" in our world.
by protocolture | 2026-01-14 01:29:42+00:00
I actually think this is a great idea. Not even for "Open Source".

Can you imagine if UBNT had to open source its EOL boot chain, so that Cambium was legally entitled to roll its firmware for old Unifi kit? And Vice Versa?

The result might not be "Old hardware supported by the community" the result might be "Eternal product updates so we can legally prevent Cambium from taking our customers"
by FpUser | 2026-01-14 01:30:02+00:00
>You said 100,000 Russian ..."

I think you putting words in my mouth. Quote me please. This was somebody else's statement

>"But that analysis is flawed, because the population of Europe isn’t one monolithic block that is guaranteed to respond to Russia"

And my answer was that if they do not they were just hiding behind the US all that time. If the EU will not fight for the EU then, well no need for me to continue..

>"And your reply was Ukraine is not in the EU"

This was in response to: "Will Germans accept being drafted to go fight in Ukraine". They (Germans) will most likely not accept and exactly for the reason that the Ukraine is not in the EU.
by dataflow | 2026-01-14 01:31:05+00:00
Every 8 methods knock out at least 1 cache line for you (on x64, at least). You're probably not calling 8 adjacent methods on the same exact type either, you're probably doing something with a larger blast radius. Which means sacrificing even more of caches. And this doesn't show up in the microbenchmarks people normally write because they vtables are hot in the cache.

So you're really banking on this not affecting your program. Which it doesn't, if you keep it in mind and do it sparingly. But if you start making everything virtual it should hit you vs. merely making everything noinline.
by agwa | 2026-01-14 01:31:22+00:00
> GitHub's migration guide tells developers to treat the new IDs as opaque strings and treat them as references. However it was clear that there was some underlying structure to these IDs as we just saw with the bitmasking

Great, so now GitHub can't change the structure of their IDs without breaking this person's code. The lesson is that if you're designing an API and want an ID to be opaque you have to literally encrypt it. I find it really demoralizing as an API designer that I have to treat my API's consumers as adversaries who will knowingly and intentionally ignore guidance in the documentation like this.
by SanjayMehta | 2026-01-14 01:32:51+00:00
The US invaded Iraq because Saddam was planning to switch to the Euro for his oil trade. They invaded Libya as Gaddafi was working on a gold backed African dinar/Lira, again for the oil trade.

The only reason why the dollar has had any value since 1971 is due to Nixon's brilliant creation of the petro-dollar.

It's allowed them to export inflation to the rest of the world.

Trump gets it, and the only reason for kidnapping Maduro is again oil.

If a country has oil, and no nukes, in due course the US will invade.
by duxup | 2026-01-14 01:33:55+00:00
A while back here on HN and reddit I started noticing accounts in US / China threads with some amusingly similar or identical stories.

They would mention how at least while in China they could walk around without wearing their backpack backwards to protect themselves from thieves. It was almost like a musical refrain that would pop up in comments.

It's interesting how when we hear something about another country we assume it is incredibly pervasive / everywhere and how people of that country must be terribly preoccupied with with that problem at all times.
by kogepathic | 2026-01-14 01:33:56+00:00
> Forcing the release of signing keys would be a security disaster. The first person to grab the expired domain for the auto update server for a IoT device now gets a free botnet.

Have you seen the state of embedded device security? It is already an unmitigated disaster.

Since you bring up botnets, there are far more exploited security vulnerabilities because a vendor EOLed support (or went bankrupt) and their firmware contained bugs that cannot be fixed because a signed firmware is required, or the source code was not provided than because their signing keys were leaked and someone is distributing malicious updates.

> Forcing vendors to release their security mechanisms to the public and allow anyone to sign firmware as the company is not what you want, though.

Yes, it is what I want. I am perfectly aware of the potential downsides and what I am proposing is worth it. The product is already EOL. In our current era of enshittification, vendor pinky promises to implement a user-bypass in their signed boot chain is not good enough. Look at the Other OS controversy on the PS3 if you want an example of this in practice, or Samsung removing bootloader unlocking in their One UI 8.0 update.

> The only real way to make devices securely re-usable with custom firmware requires some explicit steps and action to signal that the user wants to run 3rd-party firmware: A specific button press sequence is enough. You need to require the user to do something explicit to acknowledge that 3rd-party software is being installed, though.

The vendor has implemented an internal pad on the laser-welded, weather sealed, IP-rated smart watch that must be shorted to disable secure boot. Opening the device to access this will essentially destroy it, but we preserved the vendor's secure boot signing keys so missioned accomplished!
by fidotron | 2026-01-14 01:34:34+00:00
> You really need to stop, because you are digging a deeper hole with every word. You just said that 3D printers and drone are easy consumer products to develop.

Basically you can't actually read then and are just imagining things to argue with while slinging insults.

I said the exact opposite of what you are claiming - you're the one dismissing the entire hobbyist field, while attempting to deflect otherwise.
by altairprime | 2026-01-14 01:34:46+00:00
Rumors aren’t news. Please repost when the rumor (“may be”) is formally stated as newsworthy fact by the U.S. government. Until then, this is (as noted below) vastly more likely to end in a banal realization of fabricated pretext — but, since there’s no news here yet either way, to be sure it’s too soon to post it to HN.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-14 01:35:10+00:00
My mom was like that. At our vacation house she decided to have a totally unnecessary garage built. Cars were totally fine outside and as we'd meet for vacation, there'd always be two or three cars anyway so what was the point of a garage for only one car?

So she had a garage built and the day it was finished, she started buying shelves, shitloads of shelves and then a... Ping-pong (aka tennis) table.

You couldn't even park a car anymore in the garage: an argument even ensued for I was outraged that after all that talk about a car garage, it wasn't even possible to park a freaking car in it.

Most of it was useless junk that I ended up recycling.

I can understand when it's related to a hobby: whatever the hobby, once you begin, it's like Pokemon... You want to catch them all.

But just buying random items for the sake of hoarding? Like fake, pluggable, electric candles: she'd buy 3 times the same and two would be stored should the other fail. Or that knife that'd take a battery and play a crappy lo-fi version of "happy birthday" when cutting a cake: darn did that thing traumatize me (for she bought it when I was already an adult).

There are actual compulsive hoarders (like my mom) but also those who do hoard but where it's less obvious: the Diderot effect you're talking about.

Buying empty space to then fill it. Arguably with more emptyness.
by femiagbabiaka | 2026-01-14 01:35:47+00:00
> Weird to read this assertion in a thread about Scott Adams, who literally had his whole career ended. That's literally the opposite of what you said.

Nah, he continued to grift off the right wing while saying more and more unhinged shit until he shuffled off this mortal coil.

> Also let's remember that he was cancelled for saying that if black people (poll respondents) say "it's not okay to be white" that's espousing hate and he wants nothing to do with them.

Could it perhaps have anything to do with the fact that that's a 4chan-originated dogwhistle that was hyper-viral at the time? Why do you think they were asking about it in the first place? It was in the context of the fact that the ADL had identified it as secret hate speech, in the same line of the 14 words.

> If white people said "it's not okay to be black," that's certainly white supremacy. But the rules are different.

The president of the most powerful country on earth and the richest man in the world say things like that all the time. Why the victim complex?
by t-3 | 2026-01-14 01:36:09+00:00
It's not sudden. The suffering of the proletariat crushed under the heel of the capitalist oppressor has always been a main theme of communist propaganda. It's not really any different from the capitalist propaganda of the victims of communism hopelessly enslaved to the government and starving to death in grey featureless surroundings.

> Those stories were not invented, but they lacked context and were presented as the dominant experiences in American society.
by lynndotpy | 2026-01-14 01:36:36+00:00
RFK Jr isn't part of this, nobody mentioned him, and nobody claimed he completely ditched conventional medicine either. I'm not saying this to take on a confrontational tone, but this is a sensitive issue and it's worth keeping these things in mind.

The ivermectin hysteria has been going on since 2020. There are still large political bubbles where people believe ivermectin is a cure-all, and he was in that bubble when he was diagnosed.

The evidence is in his public statements. He is on video on the matter, and he has publicly stated elsewhere he that he tried ivermectin and fenbendazole at first. (They didn't work.) Here is him describing how he rejected ADT at first, and how taking it worked a lot: https://x.com/jayplemons/status/1939769665527718024

(I can't view the above video myself, since I have X blocked on my network, and the transcript is too long to post here. In short, he notes that he rejected ADT, but then started it when he realized it would ease his symptoms even if not cure him. He found his symptoms did indeed ease.)

The problem isn't that he completely ditched conventional medicine, it's that he didn't start conventional medicine immediately. And his appeal for Pluvicto only came in November.

Cancer is more survivable the earlier treatment starts. He delayed it for no reason at all. If he didn't start treatment at all, he probably have died earlier. If he didn't reject treatment at all, he probably would still be alive today, possibly even cancer-free.
by tomhow | 2026-01-14 01:40:37+00:00
This is a horrible comment and is exactly what we're trying to avoid on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. HN is only a place where people want to participate because enough people take care to make their contributions far more substantive than this. Please do you part by reading the guidelines and making an effort to observe them in future.

These ones in particular are relevant:

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by closetkantian | 2026-01-14 01:41:14+00:00
It seems that you're not very familiar with what actually happened. The phrase "It's okay to be white" had become associated with white supremacists, And black people's responses to the pole had nothing to do with their opinions of white people as a whole. You, as well as Scott Adams, decided to misinterpret it. Scott Adams took things a step further and decided that he wanted nothing to do with black people on the simple basis of this poll, which is absolutely wild.
by robomartin | 2026-01-14 01:41:25+00:00
Nice concept, yet, this isn't realistic but for a few special cases.

In simple terms, if a company has a continuum of products of a certain category over time, the designs (hardware, software, manufacturing, testing, etc.) are typically evolutionary in nature.

This means that product B inherits from product A, C from B, etc. When product C goes to market, A and B might be EOL. Open sourcing anything related to product C means relinquishing their intellectual property.

Nobody in their right mind would do that unless a unique set of conditions are in place to have that make sense. In general terms, this does not happen.
by raddan | 2026-01-14 01:42:22+00:00
None of this is fresh in my mind, so my recollections might be a little hazy. I think the only issue I personally had when writing a decoder was keeping the alignment of various fields right. I wrote the decoder in C# and if I remember correctly I tried to get fancy with some modern-ish deserialization code. I think I eventually resorted to writing a rather ugly but simple low-level byte reader. Nevertheless I found it to be a relatively straightforward program to write and I got most of what I wanted done in under a day.

The vibe coded version was a different story. For simplicity, I wanted to stick to an early version of BMP. I don’t remember the version off the top of my head. This was a simplified implementation for students to use and modify in a class setting. Sticking to early version BMPs also made it harder for students to go off-piste since random BMPs found on the internet probably would not work.

The main problem was that the LLM struggled to stick to a specific version of BMP. Some of those newer features (compression, color table, etc, if I recall correctly) have to be used in a coordinated way. The LLM made a real mess here, mixing and matching newer features with older ones. But I did not understand that this was the problem until I gave up and started writing things myself.
by Zee2 | 2026-01-14 01:42:54+00:00
"Everything expanding at the same rate" sounds vaguely similar to the truth that what we feel as gravity (standing on earth) is us and everything around us accelerating upwards from the center of the gravity well - and what we feel as "pressure" on our feet is from the earth "holding us up" (in crude terms). So, it sounds crazy but it's not too distant from the truth.
by evil-olive | 2026-01-14 01:43:05+00:00
> change the "main function" of a device to somethings silly, like a thermostat being sold as an art decor

that seems like it can be addressed by making sure that the regulators who enforce these laws have more object permanence than a 6 month old baby.

like, if I try to sell a "metal sculpture" that by sheer coincidence is capable of firing 9mm ammunition, I'm going to have the ATF knocking on my door real quick, and they're not going to be fooled by me claiming "no that's art"
by moron4hire | 2026-01-14 01:43:20+00:00
If firing up old coal plants and skyrocketing RAM prices and $5000 consumer GPUs and violating millions of developers' copyrights and occasionally coaxing someone into killing themselves is the cost of Brian Who Got Peter Principled Into Middle Management getting to enjoy programming again instead of blaming his kids for why he watches football and drinks all weekend instead of cultivating a hobby, I guess we have no choice but to oblige him his little treat.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-14 01:43:34+00:00
> Theres zero consequences because this was completely unambiguously a justified shoot.

There's zero consequences (yet) because the federal government monopolized the evidence and refused to do either allow state authorities access or conduct a real investigation themselves despite clear indications that it was not a justified shoot, resulting in the resignation of several prosecutors in the division that would have handled such a misconduct case.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/federal-prosecutors-resign-min...
by krisoft | 2026-01-14 01:44:04+00:00
> Great, so now GitHub can't change the structure of their IDs without breaking this person's code.

And that is all the fault of the person who treated a documented opaque value as if it has some specific structure.

> The lesson is that if you're designing an API and want an ID to be opaque you have to literally encrypt it.

The lesson is that you should stop caring about breaking people’s code who go against the documentation this way. When it breaks you shrug. Their code was always buggy and it just happened to be working for them until then. You are not their dad. You are not responsible for their misfortune.

> I find it really demoralizing as an API designer that I have to treat my API's consumers as adversaries who will knowingly and intentionally ignore guidance in the documentation like this.

You don’t have to.
by foodhome | 2026-01-14 01:45:40+00:00
We all know the friction of sending a file from phone to laptop, or to someone on a different platform: the wrong cable, slow uploads, login prompts, expired links, or apps that want you to install a whole suite.
I’ve been working on a side project called QuickSend to remove that friction. It’s a lightweight tool focused purely on the “everyday transfer” — moving files, text, and links between any devices as quickly as possible, without forcing you into an ecosystem or a cloud folder hierarchy.
How it’s different:
Vs. Cloud Drives (Google Drive, etc.): Made for instant handoff, not storage. No upload delays or folder organization for a one-time send.
Vs. Messaging Apps: Keeps transfers separate from conversations. Perfect for “send-to-self” without cluttering chats.
Vs. Native Tools (AirDrop, etc.): Works cross-platform (Android, iOS, Windows, Mac) when native tools fail or aren’t available.
Vs. Link Services (WeTransfer, etc.): Optimized for speed and repeated small transfers, not just large one-off sends.
The goal is to make sharing as close to “send now” as possible, removing steps like hunting for cables, waiting on uploads, or digging through chat history later.
I’d love to hear your thoughts:
Does this match the file-transfer pains you run into daily?
What’s the one thing you wish existing tools (AirDrop, WhatsApp, Drive, etc.) did better?
(If you’re interested in trying it out or learning more, feel free to reply or DM me! I’m here primarily to get feedback on the concept.)
by chmod775 | 2026-01-14 01:46:32+00:00
You can't run most of what you would probably consider "code" on your computer either. C, Python, Rust, ... all have to be translated into something your computer can execute by compilers and interpreters.

On the other hand no current LLM can implement complex software from specification alone, especially not without iterating. Just today I realized how laughable far we are, after having fought GPT-5.1-Codex-Max for way longer than I should have over correctly implementing a 400 line python script for wrangling some git repositories. These things are infuriatingly bad as soon as you move away from things like web development.
by blibble | 2026-01-14 01:46:57+00:00
> And just so we're clear, are you suggesting they shouldn't have an endowment at all

did you read my comments in this chain?

> I would go so far as to say I think the VC fund is the single best idea Mozilla has ever had for long term financial independence.

do you look at Mozilla and see it as an example of an organisation that selected good investments over its existence?

would have it done better putting that money into treasuries? almost certainly

the point of an endowment for a foundation is to ensure the organisation continues to exist forever

not to gamble its future on 1 in 100 bets

and for a fund to have the possibility to have selected that 1 in 100: it has to be of significant size
by linolevan | 2026-01-14 01:47:01+00:00
The secret proxy trick is something I expect to become standard at some point in the near future. I first saw this trick being used in Deno Sandboxes (https://docs.deno.com/sandboxes/security/) but it's cheap/easy to implement so I'd be surprised if this doesn't become the standard for a lot of these BaaS platforms.