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by chmod775 | 2026-03-14 06:29:08+00:00
You're anthropomorphizing.

LLMs can't lie nor can they tell the truth. These concepts just don't apply to them.

They cannot tell you what they were "thinking" when they wrote a piece of code. If you "ask" them what they were thinking, you just get a plausible response, not the "intention" that may or may not have existed in some abstract form in some layer when the system selected tokens*. That information is gone at that point and the LLM has no means to turn that information into something a human could understand anyways. They simply do not have what in a human might be called metacognition. For now. There's lots of ongoing experimental research in this direction though.

Chances are that when you ask an LLM about their output, you'll get the response of either someone who now recognized an issue with their work, or the likeness of someone who believes they did great work and is now defending it. Obviously this is based on the work itself being fed back through the context window, which will inform the response, and thus it may not be entirely useless, but... this is all very far removed from what a conscious being might explain about their thoughts.

The closest you can currently get to this is reading the "reasoning" tokens, though even those are just some selected system output that is then fed back to inform later output. There's nothing stopping the system from "reasoning" that it should say A, but then outputting B. Example: https://i.imgur.com/e8PX84Z.png

* One might say that the LLM itself always considers every possible token and assigns weights to them, so there wouldn't even be a single chain of thought in the first place. More like... every possible "thought" at the same time.
by imiric | 2026-03-14 06:31:22+00:00
> Part of the case for Emacs and Vim has always been that they make you faster at writing and editing code.

That was a side-effect of using software that is deeply customizable, but not the main goal. It comes from being comfortable with your tools to the point of relying on muscle memory to use them. The main benefit to me has always been comfort. My favorite commands are a keystroke away, I know how the tool will react and what it's doing at any moment, I know all of its quirks, etc.

None of that changes in the age of "AI". This new technology won't replace computing for me. My hurdle to adopting "agentic" workflows has nothing to do with my choice of tools, and everything with not trusting the companies and ecosystems around this new tech, especially during this insane hype cycle. I've been slowly adopting parts of the stack I'm comfortable with, because, again, my comfort trumps anything else.

Besides, if anything, a deeply customizable platform like Emacs is ideal for building any type of workflow. There are already great packages for LLM integration, and I don't think Emacs users are missing out on anything. The fact "AI" companies decide to build their moats with custom tooling is not a problem I care about. Apple has been pushing their idea of what computing should look like for decades, and it has never appealed to me. I don't miss something I don't want.

Anyway, confusing article. The author acknowledges all of these points, but also the alternative scenarios. Both cannot be true for the same person. There will always be people who enjoy using Emacs and Vim because of their customizability, not necessarily their features. And there will always be people who just want to use a supported and official product, without any tinkering. Emacs and Vim will outlast this hype cycle just fine.

Thanks for all your work, batsov! I do hope you stick around these communities. :)
by yallpendantools | 2026-03-14 06:31:37+00:00
Is BLE the only way for Bluetooth to have multiple connections? I'm no audiophile but in my experience, the audio quality noticeably drops when multiple devices are connected (I've only ever had at most two at a time). I reasoned out that the bits were being divided so `quality /= 2` as well. I've only ever done this accidentally so I can't be certain the connection was really over BLE.

Granted, I've only ever done multiple connections on Linux so maybe it's a Linux problem.
Claude AI Gets Weirdly Slow After 9 PM (I Noticed It While Reviewing Code)
by Jeffrin-dev | 2026-03-14 06:31:43+00:00
I ran into something interesting recently while using Claude AI to review some of my code.

During the day the responses were *fast*. I could paste a file, ask for suggestions, iterate quickly, and the workflow felt smooth.

But when I tried doing the same thing later in the evening — around *9 PM and after* — the experience changed a lot.

Responses suddenly took *much longer*.
Sometimes it would sit there “thinking” for quite a while before returning the review.

At first I assumed it was something on my side:

- maybe my internet
- maybe the browser tab
- maybe I pasted too much code

But after trying a few times on different days, I noticed the same pattern.

### It’s Probably Peak Usage

My guess is pretty simple.

Evenings are when a lot of developers start working on:

- side projects
- open source
- debugging issues from the day
- experimenting with AI tools

So tools like *Claude*, *ChatGPT*, and *Gemini* probably get a *huge spike in requests* around that time.

And when millions of prompts hit the system at once, response times naturally slow down.

### Why Developers Notice It More

The funny part is that developers probably notice this more than anyone else.

When you're using AI for *code review or debugging*, you're usually sending multiple prompts in a row:

- ask for review
- ask for improvements
- clarify something
- test another idea

That workflow depends on *fast feedback*.

Even a small delay starts to feel frustrating when you're in that loop.

### Not Really a Complaint

To be fair, these systems are doing a massive amount of work behind the scenes. Running models at this scale is insanely expensive.

But it was interesting to notice how *time of day actually affects the experience*.

Now I’m curious if other developers have noticed the same thing when using AI tools for code reviews at night.

Is it just me, or does AI also have a *“rush hour”*?
by KingMob | 2026-03-14 06:31:53+00:00
Definitely sounds like the US.

When I worked a Radboud University in the Netherlands for a summer, they were definitely more direct than I was used to, and kept work more work-focused. But they also combined that with a culture of quitting on time, and going out to socialize a bit before dinner, which I think was vital to sustain interpersonal connections.

I liked that style a lot, but Americans are very bad about quitting on time, which necessitates more socialization at work itself.
by ActorNightly | 2026-03-14 06:33:34+00:00
I have a newer model work issued MBP.

My personal laptop is my phone which is a Samsung S25 ultra with Dex that I use with a lapdock.

When I travel and need to do work (i.e coding), I don't even bring my mac because I can do everything on my phone with a VPN. VSCode runs as a local web app, python works. The only thing that doesn't work is pytorch with pip install, but I don't need it for work and I could get it to work easily if I compiled it myself.

The UI is fast, I have twice the ram of the Neo, all my apps in one place, my phone lasts longer because lapdock charges it, and I can easily multitask between work and personal all on one device.

And thats with the "limitation" of android. Before I got that setup, I had a $300 ebay refurbished Thinkpad (don't even remember the model, just one where I could get a ram stick to get it to 32gb), and I ran with #!++ linx and i3wm. It booted up faster than my work macbook, was way more responsive, and I didn't have to jump through MacOS bullshit like permissions and all the other crap when trying to do stuff.

The simple truth is that Macs never were, are not, and never will be worth it for anything. Anytime you try to argue this, you out yourself as an obvious fanboy thats wants his shiny new metal laptop to feel like he as some sort of better tool.
by fixxation92 | 2026-03-14 06:34:23+00:00
100% agree with this, as much as I hate the term "game-changer"... it truly is, I'm working on projects that I've always wanted to do but never had the capacity (or money to pay a small team of devs to build something)-- all these things that you thought you'd never have a chance to do, are suddenly now real and completely possible. I know there's a lot of AI haters out there but I'm pretty sure in time, all devs will embrance it and truly enjoy working with it
by bitwize | 2026-03-14 06:35:11+00:00
This was literally part of the premise of The Jetsons. George's job was to press a single button while the computer RUDI did all the work.

The difference is, Jetsons wasn't a dystopia (unlike the current timeline), so when Mr. Spacely fired George, RUDI would take his side and refuse to work until George was re-hired.
by retsibsi | 2026-03-14 06:35:38+00:00
I'm not going to pretend I'm great at reading social situations, but I think your approach in this story would have annoyed 99% of interviewers, even if they genuinely valued directness. If they'd asked for feedback on the interview process, then sure, they'd be a hypocrite if they claimed to value directness but got mad when you told them honestly that you were bothered by their lateness. But when they ask for questions, they're not inviting criticism, and framing the criticism as a question is always going to come across as passive aggressive. (edit: Or maybe 'snarky' is a better word here, as you did follow it up with a direct criticism, so 'passive aggressive' might not be quite right.)
by throwup238 | 2026-03-14 06:35:46+00:00
It’s one and the same. The sodium and other atoms from the molten cryolite intercalate into the carbon cathode structure and swell it by a few percent. Once in use, a cathode is held together by the steel shell and thermal equilibrium of the running pot. Once it cools the cracking is inevitable.

You also can’t fully drain a pot. You can siphon most of the aluminum and cryolite off but at those temperatures they behave like a proper liquid with surface tension and the metal wicks into the pot like solder instead of flowing with gravity.
by igor47 | 2026-03-14 06:35:48+00:00
I'm not normally a fan of the NYT but this wasn't too bad. It passed the Gel-Mann test, and is clearly written by someone who knows the field well, even though the selection of quotes skews to towards outliers -- I think Yeggie for instance is pretty far out of the mainstream in his views on LLMs, whether ahead or sideways.

As a result a lot of the responses here are either quibbles or cope disguised as personal anecdotes. I'm pretty worried about the impact of the LLMs too, but if you're not getting use out of them while coding, I really do think the problem is you.

Since people always want examples, I'll link to a PR in my current hobby project, which Claude code helped me complete in days instead of weeks. https://github.com/igor47/csheet/pull/68 Though this PR creates a bunch of tables, routes, services -- it's not just greenfield CRUD work. We're figuring out how to model a complicated domain (the rules to DnD 5e, including the 2014 and the 2024 revisions of those rules), integrating with existing code, thinking through complex integrations including with LLMs at run time. Claude is writing almost all the code, I'm just steering
by yallpendantools | 2026-03-14 06:36:12+00:00
> That's why I had kept my pixel 4a for years until is finally kicked the bucket 2 years ago.

RIP I'm sure it was a noble device. My Pixel 3a is currently my wireless router for very German reasons. I worry this will kill off the still-decent battery life, as has happened with my OG Pixel.

I have since allied myself with what I personally consider the devil of consumer electronics just to stay on this boat.
by ActorNightly | 2026-03-14 06:36:20+00:00
>. I have an M3 Ultra with 256GB of memory,

Im sorry but spending this kind of money when you could have just built yourself a dual 3090 workstation that would have been better for pretty much everything including local models is just plain stupid.

Hell, even one 3090 can now run Gemma 3 27b qat very fast.
by unsungNovelty | 2026-03-14 06:37:29+00:00
I have two wireless sony headphones for handling the battery issue. So yesterday before 5mins to my meeting, I plugged in one and it was out of juice. I plugged in the second one and it was also out of juice. Mind you, I was travelling and hence didn't follow the usual charging cadence I follow.

I charged my wireless headphone for 5 mins and took the call and it went out of juice mid way through the call. I had to run to find a free conference room in the office which was present since it was friday.

I also often connect my wireless headphone through the weekend and not know that it is still connected since friday with my work mac. Wired solves all of this.

Thanks to this article, I just ordered a Apple Earpods USB-C 5 mins ago in Blinkit. It is going to be delivered in another 5-10mins. Good bye wireless. I will use it for work with my Mac and my personal Samsung phone.

Edit after 4 mins: Earpods Delivered!
by kansface | 2026-03-14 06:37:54+00:00
I've generated 250KLoC this week, absolutely no changes in deps or any other shenanigans. I'm not even really trying to optimize my output. I work on plans/proposals with 2 or 3 agents simultaneously in Cursor while one does work, sometimes parallelized. I can't do that in less code and cleaner. I can't do it at all. Don't wait too long.
by dsQTbR7Y5mRHnZv | 2026-03-14 06:38:57+00:00
> in coding, L.L.M.s take away the drudgery and leave the human, soulful parts to you.

I've always hated solving puzzles with my deterministic toolbox, learning along the way and producing something of value at the end.

Glad that's finally over so I can focus on the soulful art of micromanaging chatbots with markdown instead.
by hirvi74 | 2026-03-14 06:39:54+00:00
Hmm, I don't have teams installed on my Mac, so I cannot be of much help, but I do have a potential solution for you.

Is completely muting your mic sufficient? If so, I have an Applescript solution that seems to work if you want it. I tested it in VoiceMemos and it worked even if I was in a different app in a different space. You can bind the script to a global hotkey very easily via many different apps like Alfred, Karabiner, etc..

AppleScript: https://pastebin.com/xHE1uQym
by athrowaway3z | 2026-03-14 06:40:08+00:00
I have been an emacs user for almost a decade now.

My laptop taskbar is: terminal, filebrowser, emacs, firefox.

With emacsd running to make startup instance.

This week I removed emacsd service and Emacs from my taskbar because I had more miss-clicks - accidentally opening it - than I had need for it in the past few months.
by p1anecrazy | 2026-03-14 06:40:53+00:00
So law enforcement was able to intercept/obtain logs of all the perpetrator’s Google Translate queries. How does that work? Assume he was not logged in. Did they just continuously obtain his IP when his device announced itself in a cell phone network and then monitored all the traffic and ordered Google to provide all the activity for that IP?

Edit: apparently his accomplice living in the U.S. was under FBI surveillance. “The use of Google Translate was not Durovic's only operational failure. He made two trips to Russia, in July and October 2024, attempting to disguise his destination by booking ostensible vacations to Turkey while continuing to Moscow on connecting flights under his real name. Each time he returned to the United States, he was questioned by FBI special agents who had access to his airline records. He flatly denied having visited Russia. The lies were transparent, and they compounded his legal exposure. The FBI, however, was content to wait — continuing to surveil him and read his virtual diary on Google Translate — before finally arresting him in March 2025.”
by baokaola | 2026-03-14 06:41:21+00:00
I find Emacs better than ever in the age of AI. Install agent-shell to run Claude Code inside Emacs and give it a skill to run Emacs Lisp using emacsclient. Voila - now you have all the integration you could ever need if you are a little resourceful.

Claude Code can now introspect the entire editor and it can manipulate everything. You can have it build whatever features are missing - it will even debug those features for you, live in the editor.

I recently came back to Emacs from VSCode and ended up just letting Claude build me the features I was missing, mainly related to tabs and project management.

I think Emacs has unique advantages in the age of LLMs, you can just mold it like clay.
by kstrauser | 2026-03-14 06:41:28+00:00
> This is the first time I hear someone equate furries and trans with “results-oriented personalities.”

Technically, it's the zeroth time because I never even implied that. I said that the field itself is results-oriented. You usually can't get very far in the career without demonstrating competency at it. Where plenty of other fields had strong unspoken rules of "...as long as you fit in", this one's traditionally been comparatively open to talented people even when they don't look and act like everyone else.
by hysan | 2026-03-14 06:41:56+00:00
Fi’s customer service has long since turned to shit, but the things keeping me on it are the data sims, simple international roaming, and international calling. That trifecta is pretty hard to find a match for. Especially the data sims. But if you don’t need that, I probably wouldn’t recommend Fi. My wife had endless trouble with multiple bad sim cards and the customer service experience was just as dreadful as every other carrier.
by Razengan | 2026-03-14 06:42:16+00:00
Yet again more moves which take away the liberty of all citizens and users instead of restricting predatory companies and products..

How much access to money parents want to give their kids is up to the parents.

What people do with their own money, including kids, is up to the people.

WHY are countries not enacting laws that punish companies for scamming people? Say something like:

• "After 3-4 purchases of the same item with random contents the buyer should get what they specifically want."

• "No item with random contents should cost more than N $\€"

• "Buyers should have at least N hours to get a refund for an item with random contents"
by URS_Adherent | 2026-03-14 06:43:00+00:00
My name is RJ Lopez. Six weeks ago I knew nothing about smart contracts, security research, or software development.

I've spent those six weeks building VERITAS Ω — an 8-gate verification engine for smart contract security analysis — and deploying it as EasyStreet, a self-service audit platform at aegisaudits.com. Last week I ran the real pipeline against Euler Finance's EToken.sol, the contract at the center of a $197M exploit in March 2023.

I'm publishing the exact machine output. Not a marketing teardown. Not a curated demo. The real result, the real gaps, and the honest explanation of why those gaps exist.

This is what intellectual honesty looks like in security tooling. I think the space needs more of it.
by safety1st | 2026-03-14 06:43:26+00:00
This cultural shift exists and it will intensify as long as consumer prices and cost of living continue to rise at the same time corporate profit margins do. This is a simple, easy link to make, pretty much everyone's now aware and has stopped buying the excuses. Consolidation and an increase in straight up, unpunished criminal monopoly and cartel activity within corporate America have given rise to this new culture. Luigi Mangione will not be the last of his kind.
by beemboy | 2026-03-14 06:44:09+00:00
I'm not convinced that terminal orientedness of AI tooling itself will last. My hypothesis is that it was chosen by developers of the current generation building for developers of the current generation. I hypothesize that there is a future where command lines and terminals don't matter, and hence I feel the focus will shift to, as the author points out, to planning, reviewing and ideation tools none of which demands a command line. In fact I expect an entirely new class of tool to emerge that does these things well that is neither an IDE nor terminal based. I think Claude Code's core will live but it's interface will morph in the coming years to adapt to the builders of the next generation. The analogy I use is my kids and manual transmission cars -- they grow up with EVs and single gear drives with linear torque curves, and will have no nostalgia for a manual transmission, engine noises, or supercharger whines. If you never used a terminal, will you pine for it?
by Manheim | 2026-03-14 06:45:01+00:00
It is interesting to note that the majority of respondents in this survey want 'the system' to challenge existing views and inaccurate information, while the survey clearly concludes that chatbots have the potential to be 'bubble builders'. It suggests that as AI becomes a companion and 'emotional infrastructure', the likelihood of it acting as a neutral or challenging arbiter of truth decreases, as intimacy relies on validation rather than correction. Maybe that's the next step for the companies behind the broadly used models, to set the interface up in a way that helps the users to get what they actually want from interacting with them. You can easily instruct i.e. Gemini yourself to behave as a 'wise mentor' that guides you to see broader perspectives and correct false data, however, I suspect most people will not configure their bots at all,
by kdheiwns | 2026-03-14 06:45:22+00:00
With AI running rampant, it seems security through obscurity is basically the best thing we have. Everyone knows reddit, facebook, xitter, etc so any clown can and does have bots running loose. HN is "obscure" in that most normies don't know about this place, and so it's relatively safe from the floods of spam. But I think it's just a matter of time until non-tech people start looking for those few bastions of human comments online, come across this place, and a great flood begins and it'll never be undone. After that, I guess it'll be a rise of invite-only forums like we had in the early 2000s all over again.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-03-14 06:45:29+00:00
> Is BLE the only way for Bluetooth to have multiple connections?

I think (?) that it's possible with Classic Bluetooth too, but like everything else with Classic Bluetooth, it's kinda buggy and unreliable.

> I'm no audiophile but in my experience, the audio quality noticeably drops when multiple devices are connected (I've only ever had at most two at a time).

I haven't personally noticed any audio quality difference with two devices connected over BLE, but I've never tried to play audio simultaneously from two sources. My phone and my laptop both auto-connect to my headphones, so I usually have two devices connected simultaneously, but I only ever play audio from one at a time.
by crjohns648 | 2026-03-14 06:45:55+00:00
I stopped using Digg a long long time ago. It just felt too slow to get the news I care about.

I was an avid Slashdot user way back in the day, but the site was basically the same throughout the day, and I wanted faster updates. Digg did this perfectly for a time, but eventually I migrated entirely to Reddit (even before whatever that drama was that caused a big exodus from Digg).

I think Reddit right now is the sweet spot: up to date information, longer-term articles to read, and easy to catch up on things I missed. I was recently pressured to sign up for X (or Twitter or whatever), and I had to turn off all of the notifications since I was constantly spammed with "BREAKING: X RESPONDS TO Y ABOUT Z!!!!"

Right now having Reddit for scrolling and Hackernews for articles+discussion feels like it works for me.