skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI can read docs, Swagger, OpenAI and READMEs, so MCP adds nothing here. All you need is an HTTP client with authorization for endpoints.

E.g. in Datomic MCP[^1], I simply tell the model that the tool calls datomic.api/q, and it writes correct Datomic Datalog queries while encoding arguments as EDN strings without any additional READMEs about how EDN works, because AI knows EDN.

And AI knows HTTP requests, it just needs an HTTP client, i.e. we don't need MCP.

So IMO, MCP is an Embrace, Extend (Extinguish?) strategy by Anthropic. The arguments that "foundational model providers don't want to deal with integration at HTTP-level" are uncompelling to me.

All you need is an HTTP client + SSE support + endpoint authz in the client + reasonable timeouts. The API docs will do the rest.

Raw TCP/UDP sockets more dangerous, but people will expose those over MCP anyway.

[^1]: https://github.com/theronic/datomic-mcp/blob/main/src/modex/...
i didn't look into different tires. my hypothesis is that most of my flats can be attributed to all the weight being on the back tire.

favorite part was jumping into extended conversations with strangers. from a scenery perspective, coming down into Lake Tahoe from Eldorado was just absolutely stunning. same when I went past Bryce Canyon.
Some especially good ones

Sipser -- Theory of computation

Pinter -- Abstract algebra

Kleppner and Kolenkow -- Mechanics

Klein -- Organic Chemistry as a Second Language
U.S. and El Salvador Say They Won't Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported
Email is decent for intermural communication. If it's intramural and you control both the sender and receiver, MQTT or ntfy are likely better communication channels since they increase flexibility and lower complexity, IMO.
You can't count the amount of users by looking at app usage; it's not representative.
This version reminds me of Poetry for Neatherthals (board game).

You have to get others to guess a (typically multi-syllabic) word or phrase, but use only one syllable words to get them there.

"Tool suck dust, make not dirt for walk in home."
I don’t think it does. 55 is too late IMO
Prepare to have your mind blown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsluv5FXA
i was a little worried about bears for the night or two i was in bear country but my fear of cars and weather was far more top of mind
Ah, overlooked they actually acknowledge the "cap" directly in the preceding paragraph, and even put it into "coming decades" time frame. Makes much more sense now, thanks for the pointer!

Still a bit confused about the emphasis in wood deposits in "streams" – reportedly way more effective, but I'd guess with very limited capacity to really "lock" the mass – compared to regular hummus – not that effective, but for forest with couple of centuries of growth ahead I'd guess way more capacious. Good news either way, though!
The author previously wrote an article about dissecting this very question:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/

What's interesting is that they stopped reporting monthly active users and prefer weekly active users. The author argues that this is a bad thing, but I'm having trouble understanding why?
By similar, I mean that OpenAI API usage should also be disproportionately higher than Anthropic's.

But you're free to prove me wrong with some data!
You can use Consent-O-Matic to auto-reject the sliders. It's not perfect, but when it works it saves time and when it doesn't you're no worse off.
The title is an exaggeration.

OpenAI is a systemic risk only to current tech valuations and to the near-term availability of fresh capital for new AI infrastructure.

Whatever happens to OpenAI -- and to valuations, and to the availability of capital -- in the short run, technology will continue to progress, in fits and starts, as always.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43682020
GPT 4.1 Mini
I had a need for that, on TCP and UDP connections. The former behind a net.Conn.

Rather than fiddle with Close() calls, from memory what I found worked was setting a short (or in the past) deadline on the Conn (SetReadDeadline). This as it is documented as applying even to an existing blocked call, and makes that blocked call eventually return an error.

So when I wanted to tear down the TCP connection and clean up the various goroutines associated with using the connection, I'd unblock any blocking i/o, then eventually one had an easy Close() call on the connection.

UDP was simpler, as each i/o operation had a short timeout. I've not investigated what could be done for pipe and fifo i/o.
Building LLVM Plugins with Bazel
Jee sounds like a swell arrangement for 20% of the population ...
I've done a much shorter route, but still long with a similar amount of preparation - Port Angeles, WA to San Francisco, CA

I can not recommend it highly enough. It took us 2 weeks which is a much more reasonable amount of time to take off. I wasn't really prepped and not in great physical shape, which made it more difficult, but it was so rewarding. That route is very popular and there are hiker / biker camp sites every 30 miles or so. About half the people you see each night are going the same direction as you, so you probably saw them last night.

I would strongly recommend the paper maps from ACA. They are fantastic, and you can get a holder that goes between your handlebars. It's really hard to use your phone as a GPS when you're out of power.

I also broke a spoke on my wheel and it wasn't a very common wheel type. The person I went with had to go 20 miles back to a bike shop and ended up buying me a whole new wheel. So getting bog-standard equipment is very helpful.
They went from 0 to $5 billion when they were the only game in town. But now the crown of "best model" changes hands every few weeks, from OpenAI to Anthropic to DeepSeek to Google, and that looks likely to be the case for the foreseeable future. People "in the know" have already stopped treating OpenAI as automatically the best, and this knowledge will diffuse to everyone else over time. Without the best model as a moat anymore, there's no reason to expect OpenAI's growth to continue on the trajectory it used to have.
Show me the data. App usage is not reflective of API usage; that should be obvious.
I love this, and I bet the compile errors it produces on malformed protobuf are wild.
... What if you retrained it from scratch, on an e-less corpus?
Takadanobaba! Home of the Big Box, and that little underground jazz kissa/bar.
GPT 4.1 Nano
Yes. Friends in the sense I explained before. Someone who understands, is real, and do not want to use them for profit or disputes.

It's not hard to grasp. An AI bot is not a friend, it is insulting. If I'm right it will be rejected or misused.
One would hope any study comparing statistics between countries would normalize for differences in thresholds and time frames. But maybe not?
Any liberal democracy that wants to remain one needs to get rid of personalized engagement-driven algo feeds fast. A decade ago would have been great, but ASAP would be better than nothing.
I'm not sure what you are trying to argue. That it's impossible to translate between blind and sighted people because they don't "truley" experience color? That's clearly not the case. Even with emotions different languages independently came up with words for them and we can still translate between those languages.
VCs Are Dumb
I don't think that could be sufficient to solve the problem.

I'm using Gemini with AI Studio and the size of a 1 million token context window is becoming apparent to me. I have a large conversation, multiple paragraphs of text on each side of the conversation, with only 100k tokens or so. Just scrolling through that conversation is a chore where it becomes easier just to ask the LLM what we were talking about earlier rather than try to find it myself.

So if I have several tools, each of them adding 10k+ context to a query, and all of them reasonable tool requests - I still can't verify that it isn't something "you [I] didn't want to get executed" since that is a vague description of the failure states of tools. I'm not going to read the equivalent of a novel for each and every request.

I say this mostly because I think some level of inspectability would be useful for these larger requests. It just becomes impractical at larger and larger context sizes.
I don't have the data, and you know what else I don't have? The burden of proof.
HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say
Still waiting for proof; but yeah, so I've heard.
That's true. Which just prove the government of those countries were never marxist/communist.
Also extending the metaphor, you can make a road that controls where you go and makes sure you don't stray from it (whether by accident or on purpose): it's called rail, and its safety guarantees come with reduced versatility.

Don't blame roads for not being rail, when you came in a car because you need the flexibility that the train can't give you.
Bukele said today at the meeting with Trump El Salvador isn't returning him.

It's on the El Salvador people now to get him out. And hopefully the US judge will throw everyone on US soil involved in contempt until then, since they knowingly put the guy in a situation where it is out of their hands.
Lightning Adapter Audio Quality (2017)
Well, there you go. Many seem to have no idea how their country works. I don’t have to know. Quoting Lemmy Kilmister: “I don’t care, I’m not there.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What does this sort of wordplay ever add to any conversation? The topic is small towns in Japan, not a survey of Jewish complaints from 100 years ago.
Then feel free to short Anthropic or whatever based on the data you don't have...
Alright, please go ahead and define under what legal pretext this guy's behavior might be illegal.

There are other cases where interacting the blockchain is illegal in a very clear manner. Example: if I know an Iranian or North Korean entity has the keys to an Ethereum wallet, and if I send USDT to that wallet as a Western citizen, that is very illegal due to sanctions.
pretty wild versioning that GPT 4.1 is newer and better in many regards than GPT 4.5.
I agree with you. Just have a clear structure and onramp for building stuff. Go and Rust seem to have a lot of the attention, there is room for Ocaml also, especially if it was as clearly and simply defined. (I have a sneaky suspicion it fits in that 'cloud native' space quite well) I am sure that the maintainers and architects see that also, they have made great strides the past few years and I hope they bring it together.
People have fussed the same of the C preprocessor, around the same time I and maybe you were born. (There's a pretty good chance I'm your parents' age, and nearly no chance you're the age of mine.)
Not always, just in this case :-)

What's actually confusing in the analogy? Are you actually confused or just pretending? The point is that just because a sign says something under a literal reading, it doesn't mean that it's what was intended, or what's binding. If there's a piece of paper on my car saying "free to a good home", I probably didn't intend that you can take my car (or my house, or whatever). It's not very different to the fact that a 0-day exploit on your bank's web server does not entitle the thief to your money.
What else should it be? Do you believe that your company is like “your family”? Your coworkers or especially your manager are “your friends”?

Why else do you go to work?
Silly Walks isn't just funny because it's a grown man flopping his legs around like a kid, but also because there's apparently a department of the government to manage such activity. That's absurd.
For conversational AI, the most significant part is GPT-4.1 mini being 2x faster than GPT-4o at basically the same reasoning capabilities.
At least when I was there the options cost 40% of the strike price (whatever the current market price was at time of issue). The other difference is that you shift the income tax to time of exercise.
> We will also begin deprecating GPT‑4.5 Preview in the API, as GPT‑4.1 offers improved or similar performance on many key capabilities at much lower cost and latency. GPT‑4.5 Preview will be turned off in three months, on July 14, 2025, to allow time for developers to transition.

Well, that didn't last long.
I know what the conceptual passes are, but ZTC merged them, including the multiple conceptual passes the CPP does.
I think they're doing it deliberately at this point
To me it's a red flag when a company takes on Softbank funding. I worked at a portfolio company earlier in my career.

Their MO is to offer lots of money at inflated valuation vs domestic investors. This is compelling for founders - lots of money to grow, for less dilution.

That said, there's very little value Softbank adds other than the money. No connections, no advice, and it's generally not a helpful long term partnership. They also don't seem to conduct the level of scrutiny that other investors do, because they have so much cash and want to muscle into hot deals. And possibly also because founders wouldn't want to deal with their scrutiny vs domestic options.

Ultimately you take the money when you are greedy or don't have other good options. And neither is a good signal.

I think Sam is driving as aggressively as he can, given AI seems like a winner takes all type market. Domestic investors are balking at the exponential increase in needed investment amounts given economic uncertainty and lack of justified return. Meanwhile Softbank has been catching up and has been dying to get in on OpenAI. So here's the opportunity.

Maybe this works out and OpenAI is going to land this. But more likely, OpenAI is acting like the music is running out soon and they're throwing a hail mary. And Softbank's limited partners are going to be left holding the bag.
I did Advent of Code in Janet the year before last I think, and really loved the PEG support. Essentially every day started out with making a quick grammar to parse the problem into whatever data structures I was using. It's intuitive, pretty easy to pick up and adjust, and powerful.
Really? Where I live drivers have to be in vehicles that are inspected annually for safety and roadworthiness if they are more than three years old, the vehicle owners have to be pay a tax, the vehicles have to bear a unique identity number, you need a license to operate them, you need to pass a test to get the license, you can lose the license, be fined, or imprisoned if you operate them in a dangerous manner or break rule, you can be fined, imprisoned or lose the license if you operate a vehicle under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or otherwise unfit, you have a legal duty to notify the authorities if you have certain medical conditions (so they can decide whether you retain the license in the circumstances),.....

Pretty much all drivers agree that most or all of these requirements are reasonable (although they might disagree about details). That does not sound like being hostile to regulation.
Vector search needs pre-filtering
Gemini supposedly allows for conversational speech w/your data. Have you tried it? We have; it's laughably bad and can't get the most basic stuff right from a well-crafted datamart.

If it can't do the most basic stuff, please explain to be how in the fuck it is going to understand dolphin language and why would should believe its results anyway?
You can't short a private company, wtf.

But thanks for letting me know the level of discussion that's taking place here, lol.
It’s likely bad because it may show volatility quicker and people will trade on it. That’s bad for the company and the existing users generally.

Anyway active users doesn’t matter at all regardless of the period. It’s retention AND active users. The result of having the two figures gives you user base churn.

That number is missing.
The OP strikes me as being quite immature. Like a first breakup or something. I think it's less about Google selling themselves as being special and more that people like OP have been led to believe they are special. A lot of them have been treated like royalty: super privileged lives, only experiencing the nice bits of society, top education, then straight into a 6-figure job where you get to be part of a special club with a prestigious google.com email address etc. It's going to be a shock to anyone to have that taken away abruptly when you're a decade or more into this lifestyle.

Most people have to go through shit like this at some point in their life. Most don't get to reap in internet sympathy by the bucketload, though. For some people it really actually sucks. OP is likely a millionaire already, could just take time off to adjust and reflect, then accept one of the numerous job offers that will be on the table. They might even end up doing something useful with their lives instead of advertising.
Does someone have the benchmarks compared to other models?
You started the argument!
You're being needlessly pedantic.

But in the name of pedantry, you also have The Simulacra wrong. PKD's manuscript for The Simulacra was called "First Lady of Earth".
Yes, perfectly fine, and the fact that you can paste that string into this website without being put in prison is testament to that!
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I need an AI to understand the naming conventions that OpenAI is using.
Trump threatens new tariffs on smartphones days after exempting them
Maybe advocate for wrappers in the stdlib to implement typesafe. LL, typesafe extrusive LL, etc. Using this as a primitive?
Mind sharing your admin dashboard workflow?
i think the total reduction was about 2/3 if memory serves? so 1 in 3 is that number you'd be looking at for "actually useful". heavy air quotes on that.
that’s only what employee handbook says.
> somebody like Marissa Meyer

Marissa Mayer left Google like, 13 years ago...?
The real thing is can we (perhaps with new advances in statistics?) find places where doctors at the end of all known treatment try things at random and see if anything works. For rare symptoms it often isn't possible to run a proper controlled study (note that I said symptoms and not disease - often we are not really sure what is going on). So if we can give doctors a list "here is what someone else tried and or treatment Y seems to make things worse that is a clue. Eventually we can say that we don't know why, but X seems like your best shot even if it we can never get to real statistical significance.

Doctors already have case studies which they (at least should) publish anytime they get someone who for whatever reason doesn't respond to standard treatment, or has something unknown. However it is hard for the next doctor to find any that might be relevant.
Previous thoughts on MCP, which I won't rehash here:

- "MCP is a schema, not a protocol" – https://x.com/PetrusTheron/status/1897908595720688111

- "PDDL is way more interesting than MCP" – https://x.com/PetrusTheron/status/1897911660448252049

- "The more I learn about MCP, the less I like it" https://x.com/PetrusTheron/status/1900795806678233141

- "Upon further reflection, MCP should not exist" https://x.com/PetrusTheron/status/1897760788116652065

- "in every new language, framework or paradigm, there is a guaranteed way to become famous in that community" – https://x.com/PetrusTheron/status/1897147862716457175

I don't know if it's taboo to link to twitter, but I ain't gonna copypasta all that.
Nothing to be embarrassed about, different strokes for different folks.

However, Monty Python was far from lazy, they cleverly deconstructed a repressive British culture at the time, they mocked class and authority, uptight education institutions, pointless bureaucracies, religious hypocrisy, and violent glorification of British history.

Their humor can be pretty crass by today’s standards, but if you approach their work as an absurdist, subversive satire, they’re one of the best that have ever done it.

I’ve always found their underlying message to be “don’t take things too seriously and enjoy life.”

As for what’s funny, they’re just absurd. A flying bunny that rips knights head off, an accidental messiah who just points out basic common sense which is interpreted by the masses as direct edict from God, brilliant deconstruction of bullshit bureaucracy in form of ministry of silly walks. Things like that.

But if that doesn’t tickle your fancy, that’s okay too.
Oh, I have a clear conscience. Can you say the same?
It costs more time and money to set up these walls vs not bothering. And there was a time when they didn’t bother and hacking was easy. Not just in cars but any consumer facing product running software.

Blame management structure. They hire out security devs because its expected they have a security team like other companies or shareholders pillory them. These security devs trot off doing the expected work they are all trained to do from school or their work at other companies. You end up with the inevitable locked down shitware everyone was hired to make and will make. No one asked for this. They only asked for something one level deeper into the abstraction (shareholders want company to look like other companies to price it appropriately, managers want security team to appease shareholders, security team head wants to see certain things they saw at their last job, security dev wants to deliver and get a raise) but what they got was the chain reaction leading to the user hostile app.
outlier.
It would also see to penalize languages whose developers are more likely to be using AI.
Lal Katana
>The main reason we have them is because it's easier for the screen manufacturers to have just one aspect ratio to deal with.

Not just that, but it was an average of aspect ratios considered for the aesthetic of video data. Not text presentation.
SSD1306 display drivers and font rendering
I really like the VS Code extension for sqliteview.app - [0]. It also offers an edit feature for a reasonable price, in my opinion. I'm curious if there are any competing editor alternatives.

[0] - https://vscode.sqliteviewer.app/
You are right, in that people need real friends.

You are wrong, in that people will turn to these products.

I am telling you this after discussing such things at lengths with people, including the pros and cons of it, and why such things appeal to them. My conclusion is certainly not that they feel insulted by it. Feel free to dismiss that anecdote as, I don't know, 'market research' or something.
Not even close. For example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_paramilitarism_in...
Congrats to the author. I plan to do Oregon -> Virginia next year but I'll take more like 80 days than the author's 51.
No benchmark comparisons to other models, especially Gemini 2.5 Pro, is telling.
That would be a question of definitions :)

It's mostly addition by now, rare that something disappears or changes significantly.

No prod use by anyone afaik.