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14u2c··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
> Right now, the settled law is that such an LLM reproduction is 100% legal.

How so? Interfaces are not copyrightable, but that it not the same as dissecting a js bundle and copying the implementations. Are we sure these LLM are keeping sanitary habits there?

14u2c··on City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2
Another reason SimCity 4 is still be best one of these to be made.
14u2c··on Effect 4.0
Not only that but the play tab is broken. The default example does not compile in their own playground. And I'm still not sure what this thing is.
14u2c··on Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi
They tried. Figma Make was at least useful for the free tokens.
14u2c··on Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
Well done, I was struggling with this exact problem last week.
14u2c··on Nvidia 5090 DLSS 5 power hits 647W, power connector runs hotter than the GPU die
We may finally be nearing the end of ATX. Dumb connections aside, 48v rails just make more sense at these power levels.
14u2c··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
The framing was slightly glib, and you're correct that current rates impacts the equation, but there has been real damage caused by how extremely attractive this strategy has been over the past decade. We sitting on an unprecedented peace time deficit due to a failure to properly tax an economy that has been massively prosperous during this same period. This strategy is small part of it, but it is a real part.
14u2c··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
In theory, maybe, but in practice that is not what happened over the past decade(s). Instead our retirement funds are paying it back.

When the market grows it makes the collateral worth more, which lets the borrower keep refinancing the debt instead of selling assets and realizing taxable gains. As long as the assets appreciate faster than the debt grows, the borrowing can effectively roll forward for decades. Eventually the estate pays the debt out of the assets themselves, but this is not necessarily out of taxable income earned during the person's lifetime. The US markets has seen exceptional genuine growth, but the trillions of 401(k), IRA, etc money flowing in to them over the last 40 years is no small consideration.

And even so, you could say it all settles out in the end, but that ignores the fact that there have constant constant efforts (and successes) in eroding away the e̶s̶t̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶t̶a̶x̶ "death tax" during this same period.

14u2c··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
> Just like anyone else, he has to pay back what he borrows, he immediately owes an equal debt. And that requires actual income, which gets taxed.

In theory, maybe, but in practice that is not what happened over the past decade(s). Instead our retirement funds are paying it back.

When the market grows it makes the collateral worth more, which lets the holder keep refinancing the debt instead of selling assets and realizing taxable gains. As long as the assets appreciate faster than the debt grows, the borrowing can effectively roll forward for decades. Eventually the estate pays the debt out of the assets themselves, but this is not necessarily out of taxable income earned during the person's lifetime. The US markets has seen exceptional genuine growth, but the trillions of 401(k), IRA, etc money flowing in to them over the last 40 years is no small consideration.

> Well, why does something have to be done about this, exactly?

The something here is what's required to have a functional tax system. Without addressing this situation I do see an argument that we have one. How important that is to one is another question.

14u2c··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
That may be a perfectly viable solution. Seems like an easier path to me, at least. But the point is that these assets are a lot more fungible than you imply.

> It is not a good measure of the money someone may be able to realise.

And as such, when you get into the higher ranges, net worth is quite a good indicator.

14u2c··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
The part where he has access to essentially unlimited untaxed cashflow by borrowing against that asset. Especially with how the market has been lately, the gains erase any burden of the loan. Something has be done about this, at least. Otherwise broken sounds about right.
14u2c··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
You are ignoring the most common approach, borrow against the asset. In that case the sufficient assets turn into essentially unlimited untaxed cashflow. Especially with how the market has been lately, the gains erase any burden of the loan. Sounds like a broken tax system to me.
14u2c··on Tokens too cheap to meter
> calling an LLM will soon be cheaper than a grep

From a computational standpoint this is obviously nonsense, but from an attentional one I'm not so sure. It may already be more attentionally expensive to use grep in some cases, such the moment you need to remember a non standard arg. And if this applies for performing a simple http operations, then it certainly applies going up the complexity chain.

14u2c··on Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
Runs on my 16GB M2 Air (firefox). ~7 tok/s
14u2c··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
> Libredirect

Just looked at it. Unfortunately it requests permissions for all domains, not only the relevant set.

14u2c··on Show HN: ResolveHQ – A Helpdesk Built on Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2 and Queues
It may be very nice, but with no screenshots and no demo site you're going to have trouble getting people to try it out.
14u2c··on Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
Why does it have to be a layman? The 2001 anthrax attacks are believe to have been carried out by an insider to the field (senior biodefense researcher). Such tools could potentially be accelerants for similar individuals?
14u2c··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
That’s like saying a carpenter doesn’t understand woodworking because they sometimes buy pre milled lumber. Or that landscaper a doesn’t understand mowing because they don’t trim each blade of grass individually.
14u2c··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
Indefensible, not impossible. As you say it is quite technically feasible.
14u2c··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
Mining the chats for "good ideas" would be untenable, but that's a different situation than data ending up in a training set for a problem that OpenAI also happens to be independently working on. Still, I opt out (business plan), and I don't know why you wouldn't.
14u2c··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
You can also pay for their business plan, which includes data controls and starts at $50/mo (2 seats). Not exactly a high bar.
14u2c··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
Appears to be the evals. Those are part of the process for developing the skill text, not something that is distributed with the skill.
14u2c··on The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
The cases are $60, the "original" price, not $300. Search ebay for BC-250, they're everywhere.
14u2c··on Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
This does seem to just be a subagents implementation.
14u2c··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
That's just not true. What do you think the culture of northern US states is like? We're not talking about the deep south here. It makes this needless destruction all the more terrible.
14u2c··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
>Europe is probably much closer in values.

85% of Canadians live within 100 miles/160 km of the border. These are very integrated communities.

14u2c··on Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs
Using git is another option, you'll get the actual commits/history to reference:

GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF

cd Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF

git lfs pull --include="Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q8_K_XL.gguf" --exclude=""

14u2c··on Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware
I had a similar thought, but I suppose they decided to prioritize price on the assumption that initial adopters are handy enough to fashion an enclosure if they’d like one. Not a terrible assumption.
14u2c··on Cursor is now a part of SpaceX
Maybe if you’re building something from scratch every time, but otherwise the difference becomes noticeable fast. Just today 5.6 Terra tried to silently import half my backend into the frontend bundle. After switching to Sol it quickly found and fixed that.
14u2c··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
I’d assume the opposite. People are much more conscious of that stuff nowadays.
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