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by css_apologist | 2026-01-05 17:13:03+00:00
CSS is hard to love, but its worth it

there’s a deeply elegant language hidden in there with unbelievable support for generic programming, however it is practically impossible to do that in a component system and the current state of CSS editors

i find it hysterical we design component libraries where the only acceptable way to extend the design of a component is add a prop when CSS has a perfectly elegant way to do this without muddying up the component source

not to mention the dark arts of encoding show/hide/position/more logic that is often done in js

it is the saving grace of the web, but never has been realized
by kridsdale1 | 2026-01-05 17:13:21+00:00
I was in the room for a few design reviews for my part of iOS 7 (I was an engineer writing the new screens). Everything was done on a 90+ inch HDTV that we AirPlayed from our Macs or iPhones to for the room to view. Not printed, though the design studio walls were covered in printed explorations of variations of concepts, that is true.

Dye was the senior rep of the Design org present and commenting on all our software progress. I never once encountered Ive.
by andyfilms1 | 2026-01-05 17:13:27+00:00
While I appreciate your positive experience, if you were unable to write, storyboard, and communicate your idea before AI--than AI is not going to be "the thing" that suddenly turns you into a filmmaker.

You're writing anyway, you just call it prompting. If you feel that the AI is giving you back more than what you're putting in with that writing, you have to ask yourself who's vision the result really is.
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-05 17:13:38+00:00
I think even more important than the difference in taxation is the difference in freedom of movement. There are heavy restrictions on labor moving between countries, capital has no restrictions at all (except kinda in China) and can move instantly to wherever it is most useful, i.e. wherever has the most human rights violations and lowest wages. We need to eliminate this asymmetry: either get rid of all restrictions on freedom of personal movement and selling ones labor, or lock down the flow of capital with serious capital controls.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-05 17:14:10+00:00
Disagree. There was never any component of "body positivity" that tried to normalize men being bald, or short, or any of the other physical characteristics people have no control over but are nonetheless shamed by the mainstream for. It was about grotesquely obese terminally online tumblrites trying to shame society into not noticing how much they eat.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-05 17:14:16+00:00
In this case, Trump won both the popular vote and the Electoral vote... that said, I believe in the idea of the Electoral College in that it's important to balance population and each State's rights. The one thing I would like to see are a larger congressional body as there are too few congressional representatives for the size of the electorate. We should probably have at least 3x the members of the House to at least be closer to the founding norms. Just my own take.

I'd also like to see a better runoff system than what we have in place, which could give a chance to more parties coming out. Right now, there are alignments into the two major parties and a lot of infighting because they are at least closer to what each group wants, but not really aligned and these create hard splits where there shouldn't be on a lot of issues.
by komodo99 | 2026-01-05 17:14:20+00:00
I can attest to this one, 6 months ago I had a vintage pc I needed to rehab due to the curse of the proprietary ISA card. Imaged the failing drive to an ssd, sata->IDE adapter. P3 733MHz, 128 mb ram, W98SE, its astonishingly fast and responsive. Boots nearer to my memories of MSDOS 6.22 firing up than anything else.

Acrobat reader still performs like a lead balloon though, even a miracle can't fix that one.
by JazCE | 2026-01-05 17:14:25+00:00
It's something i've also vaguely thought about building myself, because god damn uber, how many times do you need to send me an advert for uber one? just tell me when my car is here.

so congrats to the author of this. I do agree that I'd prefer it open sourced too, it feels a bit risky it having access to all your notifications.
by SatvikBeri | 2026-01-05 17:14:26+00:00
I usually use one instance, sometimes two. But this is a reasonable account of Chris Rackaukas using 32 instances at a time to do boilerplate maintenance across a bunch of open source repositories: https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/claude-code-in-scientifi...

> I have had to spend like 4am-10am every morning Sunday through Saturday for the last 10 years on this stuff before the day gets started just to keep up on the “simple stuff” for the hundreds of repos I maintain. And this neverending chunk of “meh” stuff is exactly what it seems fit to do. So now I just let the 32 bots run wild on it and get straight to the real work, and it’s a gamechanger.
by b450 | 2026-01-05 17:14:30+00:00
Web frontends have trended towards various forms of isolation (CSS scopes, shadow DOM), namespacing (CSS modules, BEM), or composition (tailwind etc.) because CSS cascading and inheritance cause more trouble than they're worth. So while you're correct, there are lots of available frameworks and patterns that provide a better dev experience, though of course there are tradeoffs involved in all of them.
by acoustics | 2026-01-05 17:14:31+00:00
> I am a firm believer that the very notion of IP ownership needs to die a horrible death, something that AI may very well make happen in short order, yay.

The leading AI labs are not killing IP. They are taking IP and reshaping/combining it to produce their own highly lucrative proprietary IP package which they sell to you.

The mirror image of IP defenders are AI boosters who argue against IP when it comes to slurping up media but squirm when you say "ok, then publish all of the inputs that go into making your frontier models, and publish the model weights too."
by Theaetetus | 2026-01-05 17:14:32+00:00
This is a really good question!

1. As others have said, the idea is to study something before you forget.

2. It's hard to predict when you're going to forget something, so you do wind up studying a bunch of stuff before you really have to. It's a limitation of prediction (and also of the technology as developed so far).

3. It really is pleasant to work to recall things even when you succeed at it. It does "freshen them up" in your memory. And sometimes just the experience of seeing a fact can be pleasant. (A lot of us review familiar things for the joy of it in other domains--movies, etc.)
by anthonypasq | 2026-01-05 17:14:41+00:00
a response like this is confusing to me. what you are saying makes sense, but seems irrelevant. something like gas town is clearly not attempting to be a production grade tool. its an opinionated glimpse into the future. i think the astethic was fitting and intentional.

this is the equivalent of some crazy inventor in the 19th century strapping a steam engine onto a unicycle and telling you that some day youll be able to go 100mph on a bike. He was right in the end, but no one is actually going to build something usable with current technology.

Opus 4.5 isnt there. But will there be a model in 3-5 years thats smart enough, fast enough, and cheap enough for a refined vision of this to be possible? Im going to bet on yes to that question.
by craigtp | 2026-01-05 17:14:47+00:00
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by bakies | 2026-01-05 17:15:05+00:00
> we don't owe foreigners anything

This isn't true, it's a pillar of the USA to harbor refugees and welcome immigrants. It's our entire history. It's our entire identity.

> Proportionately far fewer, obviously

I dont think so. There's a lot of people in this country, far more citizens than illegal immigrants.

> Not wanting to finance unskilled lawbreakers

capital punishment for every crime if you dont have a degree? what are you arguing?

yes, the argument is immigrants and citizens aren't different. we're all people
by ddrdrck_ | 2026-01-05 17:15:16+00:00
And what do you suggest EU does if Trump decides to invade Greenland ? Going to war against Putin could be considered, but trying to fight both Trump and Putin would be suicidal.

Unfortunately it seems the only option at the moment is to wait for American people to wake up and replace Trump in two years from now ... If they ever have the opportunity to vote again of course.
by stuartjohnson12 | 2026-01-05 17:15:50+00:00
I looked into founding a company in this space and steered straight back out of it because yes, by far and away the VAST majority of demand in the market of study tools for high/middle schoolers is cheating. Below that, parents are involved and there's a market there (but a bad one, because of double sales where you have to sell through the parent to the child even though those two actors have misaligned incentives).

https://www.gauthmath.com/

This AI cheating app is currently #8 for "education" in the iOS app store.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-05 17:16:00+00:00
> Illegal immigrants are absolutely a net-negative financial, quality-of-life drain on society at large.

I mean - source? Or are we just talking out of our asses?

Just intuitively, most immigrants pay taxes because they work regular jobs. And they're exempt from most social safety nets, too. How are they a net negative? Aren't we, basically, exploiting them, and not the other way around?

I live in Texas, and looking around, I'm gonna tell you right now it's not fatass white people pouring pavement or building homes. It's laborers who, I'm assuming, may or may not have immigrated illegally from Latin America and may or may not be paid a fair wage.
by cpursley | 2026-01-05 17:16:04+00:00
Where was this? Because that's not true in the US, land of the personal injury attorney. My brother used to be a machine salesperson. He got a call from a law firm couple years after his company sold a machine asking about a particular one that was sold (not even by him) because their client lost a body part. Those payouts often end up in the millions.
by throw310822 | 2026-01-05 17:16:04+00:00
> the scene that has kept replaying in my head as I’ve been following the news today is a fictional one—a conversation between White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry and President Jed Bartlet [in] the third season of The West Wing [...] McGarry is trying to persuade a reluctant Barlet to green-light an (arguably unlawful) special forces operation to kill the Defense Minister of the Sultanate of Qumar [...] McGarry asks Bartlet what his true objection is, and Bartlet responds “Doesn't this mean we join the league of ordinary nations?”

LOL. I hope this was meant as a joke (it doesn't seem so from the rest of the article). There have been all sort of thuggish, unlawful, criminal US interventions around the world in the past century. Coups against democratic governments replaced by ferocious dictatorships, illegal wars, bombings of civilians, kidnaps and torture, diplomatic and military support genocidal countries... the list is well known and almost endless. The US have recently put under sanctions ICC judges investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity. To try to imply that somehow the US have been behaving better than "ordinary nations" is already shameless propaganda.
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-05 17:16:06+00:00
What will actually happen if and when AI output is indistinguishable from human writing is that I will curate a whitelist of people I know personally whom I trust don't use it, only read from them, and everyone else can piss off. I've already stopped using several websites where the SNR has dropped too low because AI usage is rampant, I'd have no problem extending that to the entire internet.
by jajuuka | 2026-01-05 17:16:08+00:00
The author has a myopic view on Gen AI videos. They only focus on the most extreme examples and then hand wave cat videos as some crisis about reality. We had these exact same alarmists with previous technologies. Human's have an uncanny ability to adapt as their environment changes. Photoshop and 3D didn't destroy our brains and neither will this. Misinformation and the such have never needed AI to be effective. Those prey upon people's already existing biases and thoughts.

The time where this becomes normal and these alarmists become the fringe crazies ranting about the end of civilization cannot come fast enough.
by Theaetetus | 2026-01-05 17:16:36+00:00
See my other comments here for some of my motivations, but also:

Even in the Internet age, getting the latency from "fast" to "effectively zero" has a lot of value for staying in flow, synethesizing information, etc. Your memory is the ultra-low-latency fact retrieval system you always have. No, you definitely don't want to use it for everything, but it definitely does complement modern tools in important ways.
by domjames | 2026-01-05 17:16:38+00:00
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by tasty_freeze | 2026-01-05 17:16:50+00:00
I'm a liberal and I've lived in Texas (Austin) for 20 years. It is infuriating when I am on some liberal-oriented forum, someone says we should force Texas out of the union or whatever, and everyone cheers. ~40% of Texans didn't vote for Trump, and in absolute numbers are a greater number of liberals than most other states in their entirety ... yet my supposed fellows want to write us off. Ugly indeed.
by mxuribe | 2026-01-05 17:17:00+00:00
This is a really cool tool! And, not to diminish the work put into this tool...but at a glance at the code, it appears to be a specific RSS reader for the BBC (see: https://github.com/hako/bbcli/blob/709c6417c8dc4ffd4f7d5f5b4...)...so if i'm correct, why not simply use a cli-based RSS reader....so can review other sources beyond BBC? Again, not trying to diminsh the goodness here...But that, a more general tool might be just as good, and a bit more flexible, eh? :-)
by rupurt | 2026-01-05 17:17:08+00:00
Howdy folks,

I built an agent observability & orchestration toolkit over the holidays https://github.com/run-vibes/vibes. It uses Iggy as the message streaming layer and currently supports PTY streaming for Claude Code to the browser, Cloudflare tunnel, automatic Claude Code hook instrumentation into Iggy and I'm using that to build a cross harness continual learning system that I'm hoping will act as error correction for the model environment. It's using Iggy server v0.6 (io_uring on Linux) and compiles to native platform binaries for Linux & Mac (Windows support is on the list...)
by LeifCarrotson | 2026-01-05 17:17:29+00:00
> The key to higher living standards for average people is to produce lots more output, which requires more automation.

Building and deploying that automation requires capital. As a result, it's largely the people who control that capital who benefit from it, not the individual workers whose productivity is increased by it.

There were people who added value to a manufacturing process by being highly skilled welders (earning $30/hr) who can push MIG wire at 30 inches per minute. On a good day, they actually average 20 inches per minute OEE because they also need to load and unload the fixture, take lunch breaks, and so on. Those welders become (or are replaced by) weld-jig-operators, who can load a buffer of incoming parts, unload a buffer of completed parts, and replace emptied spools of wire, clean up the work area, and so on, while the $400k weld cell with a trio of ArcMate robots pushes 80 inches of wire per minute.

Yes, that's a 4x productivity gain, but does the welder now earn $120 hour? No, the new operator now gets a pay cut back to $20/hr because you can train a replacement in a week (unlike a welder, who needs years of practice to manipulate a torch that skillfully). Meanwhile, the owner of the company profits at ~$100/hr, recoups their big capital investment after a year, and rakes in the profits after that to buy another yacht, or maybe a newspaper.
by pessimizer | 2026-01-05 17:17:29+00:00
> Professonal quizzers can absorb huge amounts of information but typically don't use flashcards.

Professional quizzers almost all use flashcards. Jeopardy! people definitely do. The range of questions that you can ask in a general knowledge quiz are surprisingly limited. You're not going beyond a surface-level overview on anything. Do a ton of general knowledge flashcards for a year and you'll annihilate people at pub quizzes.

I suppose you could just read encyclopedias over and over again, and books of lists.
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2026-01-05 17:17:34+00:00
Huh I didn't know Alexa+ existed because it apparently launched with zero fanfare. But I did notice that all my echos seemed gimped for a while now and basically gave up on using them.

> Alexa+ will stay free for Prime members or cost $19.99/month as a stand-alone subscription.

They are offering a standalone subscription for more than the cost of prime. So basically they are saying that customers who aren't on prime aren't welcome to use Alexa at all.

Well thanks for showing me the door Scamazon, I'm for sure going to throw away my echos now it's just a matter of time.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-05 17:17:34+00:00
Maybe Bond, he's a casual day drinker which aligns with alcoholism. The frat thing is more about binge drinking than alcoholism, which is not exactly the same thing. Binge drinking can cause alcoholism in the long run, but is inherently problematic even if it doesn't reach the point of developing a physical dependence.

To some extent American culture does glorify binge drinking, but I don't think the same is true of alcoholism. People brag about how much they drank at the party last night, but they feel shame about starting the morning with a few drinks.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-05 17:17:59+00:00
While there may be some truth to that (bots)... there are definitely a lot of quasi communists that are participating in these groups. They are active, involved and have an outsized influence in terms of being a squeaky wheel.

You just have to look at the protests in NYC over Venezuela to see it... they aren't actually for what the people of Venezuela seem to want (they're celebrating), the protestors are clearly pushing for and protecting at what represents communist values, even if Maduro isn't really much of a Communist.
by dmpcreates | 2026-01-05 17:18:10+00:00
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