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Alan Kay has promulgated many famous truths about computer science - one of them being that among all fields of study, it has the least regard for the people and discoveries that brought it to where it is today. Maybe it's just my own sense of history as I move into my 4th and likely last decade of working with computers, but I find this to be both true and lamentable.

This was a great article - thanks for sharing!
I prefer to frame it as “help the younger generations” rather than “screw old people”.

I saw my parents, especially my mom, waste their youth taking care of two people who lived to near 100 years old, and I don’t want to see my kids waste their time and resources on me.
I think we can safely assume that Tesla, in it's current state, is done for.

Used car dealers won't take them as trade-ins, and neither will Tesla (which basically just auctions them off). Sales have dropped around 50%, and is still dropping, and with tariffs on steel, aluminium, and just about everything not made in the US, they're about to get a whole lot more expensive.

I'm not even sure that removing the CEO will fix the problem. People associate Elon Musk with Tesla, and even a very public outing of him will not change people associating hime with it.
Was it George Carlin that joked something like “maybe the earth conjured up humans in order to put all this plastic in its crust for some purpose we don’t understand”?
I wasn't trying to claim that only capitalists dehumanize people. But that's what we mostly see today because that's the majority of our society.

When it comes to the types of disabilities that are being discussed in this thread and that I was referring to - to say varied types of autism - I doubt any type of organisation that treats employees as "resources" will work in a decent way.
It was in the news in the past week that the shingles vaccine may reduce dementia risk by 20%. The results also point to it being a causative effect rather than simply correlative, which, if true, is huge.

https://www.business-standard.com/health/shingles-vaccine-ma...
I know the feeling. The way it works is that Tailwind parses your HTML, finds `mb-4` and thus knows that it needs to emit the `.mb-4 { margin-bottom: some-var-calc-thing-in-4-increments-of-your-layout }.

So it is not as much of a compiler - it is a preprocessor, with the idea being to output just the utility classes that you use. With "all" the utility classes being this multi-MB CDN version... only if it worked.
Htmx is “frontend tech”.
The solution to this is just build competitors and prey on their market.

It's basically impossible for companies to get managers who can perform at the level required to not end up becoming a blunt instrument "more features now" shitshow.

Just find companies that have reached this stagnant state with deep backlogs, subscribe to their product and study it, rebuild it from scratch the right way, and stick ads on that company name as keyword.

Then when you eventually start strangling them and the MBA simpletons at the top knee jerk with cuts, poach their best staff they didn't cut, and ask them "of those they cut, who would you have kept", and reach out to them.

Basically the only way this situation gets "fixed".
Exactly the same way as using an IDE, their genesis trace back to the various workstation environments at Xerox PARC, Smalltalk, Interlisp-D, Tajo/Xerox Development Environment (XDE) with Mesa, Mesa/Cedar, and their influence in other programming language ecosystems.

The way Java IDEs work on their virtual project filesystem mimics a Smalltalk image for example.
Well done in getting this up immediately. Pieces like this BBC piece are either implicit or explicit propaganda to define “nature” as a world without humans. Even the word “freakosystem”, as novel as it is, sets up an implicit good/bad dichotomy.

Edit: If you on-board the assumption that all change is bad, you potentially open yourself up to a great deal of anxiety associated with that change.
The irony is that these days, with nested selectors supported natively, there is zero need to use this heavy of a tool for this isolation.
What if we taxed advertising?
Assume their recommendation is not aimed at you, but at the 99% who like the idea of running their own mail server...but lack the skills and commitment to do that securely, over time.

DigitalOcean might not be the target of the resulting spam tsunamis, but they still bear a fair hunk of the "support & consequences" costs.
> “You didn’t solve anything! Doing validation is complex and you just magic wanded it away by designing a perfect interface for it.” Yes. Exactly. That is what interfaces are supposed to do. Better semantics make it possible for the programmer to describe what the element does, and for someone else to take care of the details for them.

Gosh I couldn't agree more, what a wonderfully succinct way to communicate what I spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to explain to my colleagues when designing programs!

[EDIT]: I just realized I had read this on one of the linked articles https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/behavior-belongs-in-h...
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I will check that out.

In between you doing that and me thinking on it overnight, I ended up writing up my thoughts as a blog post [0], which I have submitted here to HN as well [1].

[0]: https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0177-what-if-we-taxed-adver...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43620407
If someone prescribed you stimulants based solely on ASRS-5, that's malpractice(at least in most the west, I obviously can't speak for every country), and I'm sorry that happened to you. You could have a strong malpractice case if "almost ruined my life" can be well documented. In that case I suggest talking to a lawyer. If what you mean is you did the self-screening and picked ip some adderall on the black market then, then I guess you're outta luck.

And I'm not sure why this is downvoted. Your advice is good. Get properly diagnosed by a professional. Amphetamine or any other adhd medication is not something you wanna take every day unless you have adhd. And even then, only if it's severe enough to seriously worsen your quality of life.

My ADHD is extremely severe. Without meds I tend to end up smoking large amounts of hash and turning my apartment into a garbage dump as I gain weight and my muscles atrophy from inactivity. I've been back on meds for about 6 months now; my place is spotless, I smoke one spliff every 4 weeks(mostly to learn moderation), I'm losing weight, doing cardio every morning, quit smoking cigarettes, and just recently started coding a bit again. For me it's a total lifesaver.
Absolutely with you on "no build". Sometimes it doesn't work (for me - where I need NPM modules with annoying math I don't want to do myself), but the basic premise of "nobuild" is absolutely and completely how it all should have always worked.

It's the JSX+webpack perversion that ruined it for us all.
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i mean, it's genius. they're keeping all the cybertrucks, are breaking them down and when importing steel is too expensive to buy because of the tariffs, they'll make a killing! Every cybertruck is basically a rolling depot of valuable resources!
It really is 5D Jenga they are playing, you simply have to be very intelligent to understand.
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TIL that not only the software side was chaotic (served as the backdrop of Fred Brook's "Mythical Man Month"), but also the hardware side almost failed.

the article here ends around 1971 --- the mainframe would later save IBM again, twice, once when they replaced aluminum with copper in interconnects, and then when some crazy IBM Fellow had a team port Linux to s390. Which marked the birth of "enterprise Linux", i.e. Linux running the data centre, for real.
That one I try to avoid at all costs, but I hear what you are saying.

The owner of the company selling Next.js and adjacent services is firmly in that list of influencers I have muted going forward.
If you set up (or more likely inherit) a story that change = loss, you will also onboard a needless eco-anxiety.
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This post came from this HN discussion earlier this week:

What if we made advertising illegal?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595269#43599667
Thailand's lese majeste law applies to people outside Thailand because it concerns data about people from Thailand, just like the EU's GDPR.
I said "normal frontend tech" in my comment. It's also easy to tell from context what I mean. I'd appreciate not trying to be pedantic and instead responding to the substance of my comment :)
Very likely. I remember reading a while back about developers who thought of rendering things on the server side as novel, which was absolutely wild to someone who was writing web pages before JS was a thing! It's such a shame because HTTP + HTML is actually a very, very simple system to learn with literally decades of hard-won knowledge baked in (particularly HTTP and surrounding standards). People end up inventing incredibly complex solutions to problems that could have been alleviated by reading a few RFCs.
@dang Surely this is mistakenly flagged? This is interesting and hardly seems controversial or inflammatory.
I don't understand how the virtual machine would preclude you from in-lining ahead of time...? That's done when you're compiling.

What is WASM doing to facilitate recompiling native code that isn't practical to do on the JVM
> it's unfair for artists to have their works sucked up

I never thought it was unfair to artists for others to look at their work and imitate it. That seems to me to be what artists have been doing since the second caveman looked at a hand painting on a cave wall and thought, ‘huh, that’s pretty neat! I’d like to try my hand at that!’
It is like how I am not impressed by the models when it comes to progress with chemistry knowledge.

Why? Because I know so little about chemistry myself that I wouldn't even know what to start asking the model as to be impressed by the answer.

For the model to be useful at all, I would have to learn basic chemistry myself.

Many though I suspect are in this same situation with all subjects. They really don't know much of anything and are therefore unimpressed by the models response in the same way I am not impressed with chemistry responses.
The 1366x768 resolution is small, there are websites which are hard to use at that resolution.
So do I, but we were told that "open source is a gift", and I can only have opinions about choices made by others, not command them "do it this way instead". I am not the inventor, owner or maintainer of Tailwind nor do I aspire to be.

And as much as I prefer things be done well instead of.... like that... there are only that many hills to die on - and only that many people interested in my opinion :-)
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The location on openstreetmap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5694806014
I don't really care where the videos are hosted, though. I watch on YouTube because that's where my beloved creators choose host their vids. If they started to host their videos on Vimeo or even archive.org, I would watch them there since I only care about the content.

> Hosting videos isn’t cheap, who should cover that cost?

The ad revenue is in the billions and is steadily increasing each year. I would bet that the costs are more than covered.
Bug crowd for small startups and vibe coders?
Hey HN,

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Recently, I’ve noticed more indie founders — especially non-technical ones — are shipping entire products with AI assistance. But often, the code written by LLMs isn’t vetted for security. This leads to a scary trend: products getting hacked shortly after launch, damaging trust and burning early users.

Picklock is my attempt to fix that. Think of it like a Bugcrowd or HackerOne, but purpose-built for early-stage startups and AI-coded products. The idea is to connect hackers looking to earn bounties with founders who want to secure their products early, before things break.

What makes Picklock different?

Built for early-stage, vibe-coded products.

Focus on AI-generated code and solo/indie builders.

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4o still exhibits the "pink elephant effect", it's just... subtler, and tends to reveal itself on a complex or confusing prompt. Negations are also still not handled properly, they tend to slightly confuse the model and decrease the accuracy of the answer or the generated picture. The same is true for any other LLM. Moreover, the author is asking the model to rationalize the decision he already made ("tell me why there can't be any elephants"), which could work as an equivalent to a CoT step.

It's "just" a much bigger and much better trained model. Which is a quality on its own, absolutely no doubt about that. Fundamentally the issue is still there though, just less prominent. Which kind of makes sense - imagine the prompt "not green", what even is that? It's likely slightly out of distribution and requires representing a more complex abstraction, so the accuracy will necessarily be worse than stating the range of colors directly. The result might be accurate, until the model is confused/misdirected by something else, and suddenly it's not.

I think in the end none of the architectural differences will matter beyond the scaling. What will matter a lot more is data diversity and training quality.
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Actually, almost everything changes slightly - the number, shape and pattern of the chairs, the number and pattern of the pillows, the pattern of the curtains, the scene outside the window, the wooden part of the table, the pattern of the carpet... The blue couch stays largely the same, it just loses some detail...
Yeah, this is in my opinion the biggest limitation of the current gen GPT 4o image generation: it is incapable of editing only parts of an image. I assume what it does every time is tokenizing the source image, then transforming it according to the prompt and then giving you the final result. For some use cases that’s fine but if you really just want a small edit while keeping the rest of the image intact you’re out of luck.
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I used an AI tool for the first time this weekend to get a military CAC to authenticate to websites through Firefox on Arch. It took more than half a dozen uses of the AI tool to get what I was looking for though. Super edge case and even the AI struggled like a human.

Yes, I still use search engines and almost always find what I need in long form if I can’t figure it out on my own.
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That would be nice. There was also duktape, which was very compact and very embeddable - it could have been a decent carrier for Tailwind too.
The easiest alternative is using a where clause and filtering by an ID range. Eg: "WHERE id between 1000 and 1200". But this introduces a ton of limitations with how you can sort and filter, so the general advice of not using LIMIT and OFFSET has a ton of caveats.
1. Yes they won’t interact with the misbehaving person but they will loudly declare their feelings around it.

2. Police boxes are great when drunk people are causing ruckus. What are the details in your case?

3. Never said it was. You need to stop seeing things as being good or bad. What I said was strong incentives.

4. L-theanine has a calming effect, it is quite well known. Just as lead has the opposite effect.

To be productive, what actionable insights do you glean from countries such as Japan?
I agree with the author of the article in that it's often best to do as much as possible in plain-old HTML.

When an interactive "widget" is needed, I try to simply embed that in one HTML page, and avoid to make the whole app an single page application (SPA).

SPAs are problematic because you need to manage state twice: in the BE and FE. You also may want a spec'ed API (with client library generation would be AWESOME: GraphQL and OpenAPIv3 have that and it helps a lot).

> so you use normal frontend technologies

This is the problem. "Normal" means React/Vue/Angular these days and they are all shit IMHO. This is partly because JS is a rampification and TS fix only what could be fixed by _adding_ to the language (since it's a superset). So TS is not a fix.

I had great success with Elm on the frontend. It's not normal by any norm. Probably less popular than HTMX. But it helps to build really solid web apps and all devs that use it become FP-superstars in a month.

Tools like ReasonML/ReScript and PureScript may also have these benefits.
I’d say this is organic, because most of the time grok either does not respond or the response is extremely underwhelming, so it’s not really a good PR for it.
The only programmers I've ever seen wearing a suit to work were the ones working in a bank. Not sure if that was a requirement or just a local tradition. Just saying that it happens, but seems very rare.
Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks
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It goes beyond that. Depending on ecosystem and size of settlements human leaving may actually decrease bio diversity. Think it was Bulgaria or Romania, but with rural places that had their populations die out, also saw decrease in bio diversity.
> I'm not aware of any meaningful differences between using the browser's password vault vs. using a local password manager's vault.

Both are better than using the same password, or overly simple passwords, on multiple accounts, and other human flaws. Beyond that there are some subtleties in the threat models, so the two options have a couple of slightly different risks.

If your browser is hacked, passwords stored in it could be unsafe. While the browser makers take great efforts to properly segregate the functions to reduce the risk, there have been cases where malicious code has been able to circumvent those efforts through bugs to gain access. There is also the issue of local attacks: if someone manages to unlock your workstation (or you accidentally leave it unlocked) your browser may helpfully fill in passwords where an external vault would not (or course if you left that unlocked too, this difference is moot).

Likewise the external password manager often means credentials being carried over the clipboard, and if not that then the OS message queue. Both of these can potentially be intercepted by any malicious running code that has managed to get into your current session, or you could simply cock-up and paste them into the wrong place (or perhaps have the password manager send them to the wrong place due to confusion over which window will get input focus when the password manager starts sending messages).

Personally I go with the external app and refuse to store passwords in the browser, in part because I like having to actively switch to it, unlock it, etc, because the possibility of more automated features (even if they are optional) makes me feel less safe. But there are safety arguments both ways, and for most people the distinction is not important: in both cases if malicious persons or code are that close to your credentials, in either storage location, you are probably rather screwed anyway!
I second this. I haven't had to do the typical recruiter channel since 1998. I have plenty of people I've worked with in previous jobs whose companies were looking for good people. This only works if you work hard enough to make a good impression.

I would suggest for your first job, take whatever you can get, as long as it is in your field, and deal with it for the first two years to get your foot in the industry. My first job was notoriously horrible, but after two years, I got a really good job with a company you've heard of through a recommendation.

Also, I would suggest looking outside the typical mega tech companies. There are plenty of other industries that need good people.
In almost 40 years, I have never seen a vending machine in the US selling anything hot.

It is always cold, usually carbonated, sweet drinks, water, or junk food like candy, chips, and pastries.
> They've effectively destroyed the most progressive party from the inside, by having it push ludicrous and unpopular policy

I generally agree with this (as a mostly democratic leaning citizen)

> that privileges males and actively harms women and girls.

But was surprised to see it followed by this. Can you explain your logic here? Not disagreeing. But at a glance it seems to me that it's the rolling back of DEI policies that is privileging males and harming women and girls.
> Escape from yaml as quickly as possible, put basic logic in bash, and then escape from bash as quickly as possible too into a real language.

This should be your #1 rule. Don’t compile logic to YAML, just write it in a real language and call it as quickly as possible.

This way a developer can run it from his workstation.
I may be failing to understand the protocol here, but the thing it returns for a weather request is intented to be ingested by an LLM, which then uses that information to reply to a user, right?
Whats the benefit of adding CSS styling, or even HTML formatting to the output over just a plaintext response? I'd image that adds a lot of unecessary tokens the LM has to grasp?
Diagrams are still a big unsolved problem. Making diagrams for a talk or paper is an extremely tedious process and I am still waiting for a good multimodal LLM solution for this. It should take a sketch and/or text description of what you want and in a few iterations you should get what you want. GPT4o tries hard but results are still bad.
I use it to get some interactivity without reloading that would have to be Ajax anyways. If you have a form inline, you can’t do a lot client side if the server doesn’t work, so using htmx is fine.
You are assuming that criminals are not lazy like the rest of us.

And maybe they are even more lazy than average people because that's why they became criminals in the first place.
Excellent example of why your stuff (be it messages or valuables) are not safe if anyone else has the key.
And somehow it's still valuated at more than the entire german auto industry + toyota + byd.

But it's easily explainable because I read tesla will have fully autonomous cars by 2014, and uber will buy every single autonomous tesla by 2020
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A lot of people judge by the lack of their desired outcome. Calling that fear and denial is disingenuous and unfair.
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The Ghibli trend completely missed the real breakthrough — and it’s this. The ability to closely follow text, understand the input image, and maintain context of what’s already there is a massive leap in image generation. While Midjourney delivered visually stunning results, I constantly struggled to get anything specific out of it, making it pretty much useless for actual workflows.

4o is the first image generation model that feels genuinely useful not just for pretty things. It can produce comics, app designs, UI mockups, storyboards, marketing assets, and so on. I saw someone make a multi-panel comic with it with consistent characters. Obviously, it's not perfect. But just getting there 90% is a game changer.