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by mccoyb | 2026-01-23 20:00:52+00:00
Claude Code gets functionally worse every update. They need to get their shit together, hilarious to see Amodei at Davos talking big game about AGI and the latest update for a TUI application fucking changes observable behavior (like history scrolling with arrow keys), rendering random characters on the "newest" native version rendered in iTerm2, broken status line ... the list goes on and on.

This is the new status quo for software ... changing and breaking beneath your feet like sand.
by itsrobreally | 2026-01-23 20:00:52+00:00
My experience with Zotero was similar - I tried adding my ebook library to it as an alternative to Calibre because I really want to sort of categorize and easily reference my books and/or get like library call number groupings which is not trivial with Calibre.

I deleted it after it only found about half of my books, which incidentially is my chief problem with Calibre.

Someday I will write an indexer with either a web search tool or an LLM interface to better find info on my books but for now I just spend too much time browsing through the files which makes me sad (but not sad enough yet to overcome the laziness)
by cbsks | 2026-01-23 20:00:57+00:00
Tesla’s “autosteer” is significantly more advanced than the “lane keeping” feature I’ve seen in rental cars, or my own 2023 Jeep. My understanding is that autosteer will actively keep the car centered in the middle of the lane, while the “lane keeping” I’ve experienced will only adjust the steering when you approach the lane edge, which pin balls you back and forth like a drunk driver.
by lmf4lol | 2026-01-23 20:00:59+00:00
True. But the systems are more and more breaking down. Its unsustainable. At least what I can tell from Germany and the Netherlands.
to see a healthcare specialist, you wait 3-6months in some cases.
Not talking about the trains. Germany DB runs on time in only 50% of the cases.
So thats a big problem
by marc_litchfield | 2026-01-23 20:02:16+00:00
Here are a couple of (nasally) narrated demonstrations of the dark patterns I am having Angi dismantle:

‣ RECORDING N - The Deceptive Registration Funnel at homeadvisor.com: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xV-vfiv0mqe7iKpqY2EdTHeDlw0...

‣ RECORDING O - Forced Data Retention at angi.com: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qJL5Bc8b5hQDacc-WdbPiRXsiST...
by alberto-m | 2026-01-23 20:02:17+00:00
I'd say if you get a job in the same company, Zurich is competitive. The problem is that if you lose your job at Google in Seattle there are several hundreds of FAANG positions and probably thousands of other 200k$+ SWE jobs you can reapply to. In Zurich you will maybe see a dozen of openings in the small subsidiaries of Apple, Microsoft & Co., and maybe some individual job offers from small AI companies, and applying to any of these positions basically means competing against the whole rest of the continent.
by rekabis | 2026-01-23 20:02:36+00:00
I wonder if this is also affecting the responsiveness of O365 mobile apps as well. Like, not their ability to interact with cloud services, but their ability to respond to the user’s actions in the first place.

My wife has had a work iPad with Outlook (Classic) on it, and the entire app locked up pretty much in-line with the reported outages. No ability to scroll, no ability to open previously-downloaded eMail, no ability to access on-device settings, nothing. It’s like the app itself had encountered an internal error that turned it into a glorified wallpaper screenshot.

Such lack of responsiveness doesn’t line up very well with what I know as a software dev, nor with my own experiences with apps that are no longer connecting with services. Although TBH I have never developed for mobile before. Maybe I’m missing something?
by atonse | 2026-01-23 20:03:41+00:00
I love Postgres and use it for _everything_. I've also used SQL Server for a couple of years.

I've lost count the number of times I'll read about some new postgres or MySQL thing where you find out that Oracle or SQL server implemented it 20 years ago. Yes they always have it behind expensive SKUs. But they're hardly slouches in the technical competence departments.

I found Oracle to just be a lot more unwieldy from a tooling perspective than SQL Server (which IMO had excellent tools like SSMS and the query planner/profiler to do all your DB management).

But overall, these paid databases have been very technically sound and have been solving some of these problems many, many years ago. It's still nice to see the rest of us benefit from these features in free databases nowadays.

As others have said, the query planners I used 25 years ago with Oracle (cost based, rule based, etc) were amazing. The oracle one wasn't visual but the MSSQL one was totally visual that actually gave you a whole graph of how the query was assembled. And I last used the MSSQL one 15 years ago.

Maybe pgAdmin does that now (I haven't used pgAdmin), but I miss the polished tools that came with SQL Server.
by mmooss | 2026-01-23 20:03:44+00:00
Finding some precedents doesn't address the major changes. Do you really dispute there have been major changes in executive branch behavior?

> Wait till you hear about a kid named Elian Gonzalez

Elian's mother died at sea, trying to reach the US from Cuba with Elian. Elian's father sought to bring the child back to Cuba, but an uncle in Miami refused to surrender custody. Obviously, barring something unusual, a father has custody of their child and the INS, courts, and Department of Justice agreed. There was an extensive legal process and also mediation.

It became a partisan political issue and after all that the uncle still refused to surrender Elian. Law enforcement forcibly removed the child and gave custody to the father.

I don't see how that is related to the current warrantless home invasion policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez
by verdverm | 2026-01-23 20:04:14+00:00
I'm leaving Chase because of the Dark Patterns they employ.

1. halving the interest every time my CD renews, "it's the market...", no -2% is not market fluctuation

2. they force you to go to an office to cancel renewal

3. I did this and told them if they did it again, I was leaving them. Guess what they did the first opportunity they got...

4. Their tech is trash too
by MarkusWandel | 2026-01-23 20:04:27+00:00
Wait a minute. My recent-ish car has LKAS. It recognizes white lines (or possibly curbs too) and if both boundaries of the lane are recongized, will steer for you - for 10 seconds maybe, before it nags you provide some steering input. But in those 10 seconds it's perfectly capable of smoothly steering around bends in the road on its own. And it is a useful safety feature even if only nudging the steering wheel while you're holding it.

So you don't get even that in a Tesla without (now) ponying up $$? Something that's a standard feature in my non cloud connected (or connectable!) "so last century" fossil fuel vehicle?
by andai | 2026-01-23 20:04:32+00:00
I don't use KDE either, but it does seem to be the most Windows adjacent choice. Unless you like very old versions of Windows in which case you may prefer XFCE like me (Xubuntu or the xfce variant of Linux mint).

I heard Kubuntu is not a great distro for KDE, but I can't comment on that personally.
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-23 20:04:40+00:00
> Journalists love the "Microsoft gave" framing because it makes Microsoft sound like they're handing these out because they like the cops, but that's not how it works. If your company has data that the police want and they can get a warrant, you have no choice but to give it to them.

These two statements are in no way mutually exclusive. Microsoft is gobbling up your supposedly private encryption keys because they love cops and want an excuse to give your supposedly private data to cops.

Microsoft could simply not collect your keys and then would have no reason or excuse to hand them to cops.

Microsoft chose to do this.

Do not be charitable to fascists.
by theLiminator | 2026-01-23 20:04:59+00:00
Yes, they push the MS account stuff very hard. I've found Windows so actively hostile to the user that I basically only use Linux now.

I used to be a windows user, it has really devolved to the point where it's easier for me to use Linux (though I'm technical). I really feel for the people who aren't technical and are forced to endure the crap that windows pushes on users now.
by eterm | 2026-01-23 20:05:08+00:00
When I once had that happen in a really bad way, I discovered I had written something wildly incorrect into the readme.

It has a habit of trusting documentation over the actual code itself, causing no end of trouble.

Check your claude.md files (both local and ~user ) too, there could be something lurking there.

Or maybe it has horribly regressed, but that hasn't been my experience, certainly not back to Sonnet levels of needing constant babysitting.
by mschae23 | 2026-01-23 20:05:16+00:00
The EUPL is a fine license, especially if your goal is wide compatibility with other copyleft licenses. However, that compatibility also weakens its own copyleft, which could be surprising if you just read the main text.

Also, the GPL is not as short and has more explicit wording for how it behaves in common situations (like the P2P copying stuff, for example), and it allows certain additional restrictions and exceptions (like what the LGPL is). It's just more well thought-out in my opinion.

Edit: Reading it again, I also just remembered that the EUPL's warranty disclaimer is a lot weaker than usual licenses, and weirdly also asserts the program is a “work in progress”.
by johnneville | 2026-01-23 20:05:53+00:00
I don't see this mentioned in the configurator for a new model 3 on the tesla site right now. Under "Driver Assistance" it describes "Traffic-aware cruise control" only. Under "Active Safety" it includes "Lane Departure Avoidance" which is separate from the "Autosteer" feature described under the "Autopilot" section. It's possible they will choose to fold autosteer into the lane departure avoidance but there's been no announcement of that.
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_il/GUID-ADA05DF...
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-23 20:06:37+00:00
> The arbitration is only possible because the battery storage providers can ever so slightly undercut the gas peakers.

I think you underestimate the cost of running a grid battery, you need to be able to undercut significantly to make profit.

Its not like you can practically keep the battery at 98% for 7 days waiting for the right time to discharge, its not that simple.

The aim is to make as much money, but the markets you can join are regulated (in the UK)

You can be a grid stabilisation service (paid to be at % percent battery and turn on/off in milliseconds to keep the frequency from going too high or low)

You can be intra day, or day ahead. but you're not likley to be dayahead because you're rated at x Mw for n hours. The stuff that I know about in iberia is ~100-300Mw for 3 hours. Again spain is a special case because the market is peer to peer through PPA.

I digress.

The point is sure last year there wasn't really enough battery to affect peak price(in the UK), but now there is 19 gwhr. assuming its all rated for 3 hours, that around 18 % of total generating capacity for 5-8pm.

Now as there is a mix of cfd and other financial things that actually affect price, it doesn't quite work like that in the UK.
by stefan_ | 2026-01-23 20:06:59+00:00
The answer (as usual) is reinforcement learning. They gave ten idiots some code snippets, and all of them went for the "belt and braces" approach. So now thats all we get, ever. It's like the previous versions that spammed emojis everywhere despite that not being a thing whatsoever in their training data. I don't think they ever fixed that, just put a "spare us the emojis" instruction in the system prompt bandaid.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-01-23 20:07:23+00:00
It does

Under the new 2026 pricing structure, Autosteer has been removed. *New vehicles will now only ship with Traffic-Aware Cruise Control*. Buyers who want the vehicle to steer itself on highways must now pay for the software that was once standard.

https://electrek.co/2026/01/23/tesla-cuts-standard-autopilot...
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-23 20:07:28+00:00
This is my problem with software now. It doesn't work well enough, and a product's incarnation doesn't have a long enough lifecycle, for it to be worth incorporating into my life.

Heck, my big complaint on here for a while was Google managed to break the timer voice functionality on my Pixel, my second most used function after playing music. They broke it long enough and I had enough meals ruined/issues that I moved to something else. My phone is less used for useful things than it was 10 years ago purely because companies have made it not worth using.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-23 20:08:12+00:00
> If that's true, when a startup is making you an offer for ISOs of common shares, and explaining it... how likely are they to know that, in event of a successful exit for the startup, your shares would be diluted and preferenced to 0 value?

If they have any experience, or even just browse a forum like this, they should be 100% likely to know. The person on the opposite side of the negotiating table has a goal of giving you as little as possible in exchange for your work (and vice versa).
by patmcc | 2026-01-23 20:08:13+00:00
That still doesn't seem autonomous in any real way though.

There are people that I could hire in the real world, give $10k (I dunno if that's enough, but you understand what I mean) and say "Do everything necessary to grow 500 bushels of corn by October", and I would have corn in October. There are no AI agents where that's even close to true. When will that be possible?
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-23 20:08:26+00:00
Imagine if professional medical equipment designed to save lives had no liability clauses?

Except they do.

Which is why there's FDA certification and regulation and the Lifepak 15s I used as a paramedic cost around $40,000.

Mercedes was also willing to put their money where their mouth was and accept liability for vehicle software issues. (Cue here the Tesla stans talking about "how limited" that was. Almost perhaps as if it was for a good reason and not "if it compiles, ship it").
by tavavex | 2026-01-23 20:08:31+00:00
I'm pretty sure that while no one knows the cause definitively, many people agreed that the far more likely explanation for the bit change was a hardware fault (memory error, bad cartridge connection or something similar) or other, more powerful sources of interference. The player that recorded the upwarp had stated that they often needed to tilt the cartridge to get the game to run, showing that the connection had already degraded. The odds of it being caused by a cosmic ray single-event upset seem to be vanishingly low, especially since similar (but not identical) errors have already been recorded on the N64.
Show HN: Hexpiece – a daily chess coverage puzzle
by tothemoon | 2026-01-23 20:09:22+00:00
Hi HN,

I made a chess-themed puzzle game called Hexpiece! You place 6 chess pieces on the board to "light up" as many squares as possible. Some squares are blocked, and there's a new puzzle every day.

There are two modes: Classic, where you try to get the highest possible score, and Perfect, where there is a guaranteed perfect solution.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! I tried to make a game that even someone with a cursory knowledge of chess could enjoy.
by gruez | 2026-01-23 20:09:25+00:00
>Except the steps to to that are disable bitlocker, create a local user account (assuming you initially signed in with a Microsoft account because Ms now forces it on you for home editions of windows), delete your existing keys from OneDrive, then re-encrypt using your local account and make sure not to sign into your Microsoft account or link it to Windows again.

1. Is there any indication it forcibly uploads your recovery keys to microsoft if you're signed into a microsoft account? Looking at random screenshots, it looks like it presents you an option https://helpdeskgeek.com/wp-content/pictures/2022/12/how-to-...

2. I'm pretty sure you don't have to decrypt and rencrypt the entire drive. The actual key used for encrypting data is never revealed, even if you print or save a recovery key. Instead, it generates a "protectors", which encrypts the actual key using the recovery key, then stores the encrypted version on the drive. If you remove a recovery method (ie. protector), the associated recovery key becomes immediately useless. Therefore if your recovery keys were backed up to microsoft and you want to opt out, all you have to do is remove the protector.
by scottyah | 2026-01-23 20:09:37+00:00
1. There's a CA lawsuit against the FSD name, Tesla has to fix it by Feb 14th (the last day FSD is being sold). I wonder if it'll just be a rebrand for the new service. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/news-and-media/news-releases/d...

2. Elon's Trillion Dollar Payout is tied to a certain number of FSD Subscriptions.

3. Some consumers were sold that they would get hardware upgrades for FSD. I'm pretty sure Tesla would like to minimize that, and I expect incentives for those people to purchase new vehicle without FSD.

4. Subscriptions drive our economy, I don't know the details but it seems like every company wants subscriptions over one time purchases.

I honestly don't think they want a lot of people with lifetime FSD, it's disappearing without a lot of news.
by mrweasel | 2026-01-23 20:10:00+00:00
I don't think that's motivated by money. The US companies simply solved more interesting problems. Working for a start up in the Bay area trying to invent a new industry, or scale systems to global is generally more interesting than working on a CRM system for mid-size lumberyards in Sweden. The CRM system pays well enough to have a comfortable lifestyle and provide for your family, but it's a little boring if you're 25 with a shiny new CS degree.
by ModernMech | 2026-01-23 20:10:02+00:00
This is part of the long con. They promised FSD almost a decade ago and as their competitors eclipse them, it's clear Tesla is a) behind and b) will never catch up.

So instead of admitting they were wrong all along and doing what's necessary to catch up (add LiDAR to their sensor stack), they are going to quietly "pivot" Tesla to a "ai and robotics" company, with the monthly fee they'll continue to bilk anyone who is still enthralled enough to believe them on their FSD grift, but they will run the same scam as they did with FSD (Musk will say "humanoid robots for the home in in 3 years", yet we will still be waiting for them to be useful in the year 2035)
by linuxftw | 2026-01-23 20:10:50+00:00
I don't see what the issue is. No one is forced to buy a tesla, no pay for the subscription. It seems likely that self-driving features will require ongoing maintenance and updates for the next several years, it's not like it's 0 cost to them to develop and distribute the software.

I'm not a Tesla fan, I will never own a fully self driving car, but I don't have a problem with a company charging money for features that consumers want. There are about a dozen other car manufacturers in the US alone that can sell self driving cars without a subscription if they want to.
by aprilthird2021 | 2026-01-23 20:11:16+00:00
Also what's the delta b/w Claude Code doing it and you doing it?

I would have to look up farm services. Look up farmhand hiring services. Write a couple emails. Make a few payments. Collect my corn after the growing season. That's not an insurmountable amount of effort. And if we don't care about optimizing cost, it's very easy.

Also, how will Claude monitor the corn growing, I'm curious. It can't receive and respond to the emails autonomously so you still have to be in the loop
by quantumfissure | 2026-01-23 20:11:35+00:00
> Do you really dispute there have been major changes in executive branch behavior?

No, but recent actions in the last 20 years, and certainly the last year have absolutely proven to me the Executive Branch, as I've been saying since the Reagan administration, has always had too much power.

> I don't see how that is related to the current warrantless home invasion policy.

While I agree, the point is the methods are the same as they were back then. INS and Border Patrol is exempt from (some) warrants. Border Patrol handled that raid. Badly.

I mean, we can talk about other Executive branches abusing their power all day (Waco; Homeland Security/TSA searches; DEA Searches; Iran-Contra; CIA Operations in the 60s-80's) etc... the point is, nothing ever changes.
by tra3 | 2026-01-23 20:11:36+00:00
I would gladly pay $99/month if this was honest FSD. I started tracking my time consistently since end of December and in the past 2 weeks I spend 23 hours driving. That's already only $4/hour.

I haven't been keeping up with the progress in this space. Last I heard, Benz introduced some sort of self driving feature AND accepted full liability for it (whereas Tesla does not). How does Benz's self driving compare to Teslas?
by joshka | 2026-01-23 20:11:52+00:00
If you haven't already seen it, see if you can find some screenshots of the UX for what Splice.com looked like before it pivoted to just being a sample / instrument selling site. It was kind of a git + dropbox type interface for actual DAW projects (Ableton and Fruity were supported IIRC). This was really cool and something that someone should bring back.
by ofalkaed | 2026-01-23 20:11:58+00:00
Years ago I used to make things like this, I discovered sites like 120 years of Electronic Music[0] and the Experimental Musical Instruments Journal[1] which my local library bizarrely had and went to town. Spent a lot of time digging through the local surplus shop that was a goldmine for cheap stuff for such things. The last project I started in on was a tuning fork organ, made my own tuning forks and coils and pickups to drive them, had big dreams with it but only ended up making about an octave worth, which I had great fun with. Most of these random instruments I controlled with my old Arp Odyssey which I even added CV outs for the LFO/Envelopes so I could modulate them and ran the output into the filter input, fun times.

I might buy this, not really my interest these days but it really looks like great fun.

[0] https://120years.net

[1] https://barthopkin.com/experimental-musical-instruments-back...
by OptionOfT | 2026-01-23 20:12:01+00:00
You don't. These seems to be this idea that LLMs can do it all, but the reality is that it itself has limited amounts of memory, and thus context.

And this is not tied to the LLMs. It's that to EVERYTHING we do. There are limits everywhere.

And for humans the context window might be smaller, but at least we have developed methods of abstracting different context windows, by making libraries.

Now, as a trade-off of trying to go super-fast, changes need to be made in response to your current prompts, and there is no time validate behavior in cases you haven't considered.

And regardless of whether you have abstractions in libraries, or whether you have inlined code everywhere, you're gonna have issues.

With libraries changes in behavior are going to impact code in places you don't want, but also, you don't necessarily know, as you haven't tested all paths.

With inlined code everywhere you're probably going to miss instances, or code goes on to live its own life and you lose track of it.

They built a skyscraper while shifting out foundational pieces. And now a part of the skyscraper is on the foundation of your backyard shed.
by pstuart | 2026-01-23 20:12:02+00:00
AI is such a fun topic -- the hype makes it easy to loath, but as a coder working with Claude I think it's an awesome tool.

Gastown looks like a viable avenue for some app development. One of the most interesting things I've noticed about AI development is that it forces one to articulate desired and prohibited behaviors -- a spec becomes a true driving force.

Yegge's posts are always hyperbolic and he consistently presents interesting takes on the industry so I'm willing to cut him a buttload of slack.