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It's frustrating that engineers, who should know better, design systems in such a way as to have single points of failure. We have the technology and knowledge to have reliable systems, but here we are.

Ok now the idea that models can alter weights is out there, does that mean there will be models in the future that are heavily trained to modify model weights?

The future is going to be wild.

My 11 year old was begging me to allow her to install snap chat as all her friends have it. She has a smart phone but we limit which apps she's allowed to install and the number of hours to 1.5 per day.

A quick look online and I could instantly see snap chat was definitely on the "no" list for me.

Looks like we made the right choice!

Please elaborate....

You are missing out on a lot. And I don't mean the social media apps, or any of that nonsense. Allow me to try and explain:

Maps: Knowing what's around me physically, up-to-date information, public transport routes, etc. I found some remote paths on CoMaps in the UK which I walked recently, without the aid of the app I would have not known about these.

AntennaPod: the wealth of information and interesting topics I've been exposed to via podcasts is hard to overstate.

Home Assistant: being able to control my home, optimise the energy usage, improve security.

AI: I can talk to an AI anywhere. Instantly upload a photo, for example I use this to identity plants.

None of these things try and draw my attention all the time - so they don't affect your focus. They are there when I need them, and then are in my pocket when I don't.

What a smart idea!

Just randomly found this video from CGP Grey:

"What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us"

https://hackertube.org/watch/7Pq-S557XQU

From...2014 It's surprisingly accurate. I wonder why he stopped making youtube videos.

I wonder it bitorrent will provide a solution here?

Either very, it this tax story is true, it is completely rediculous and signifies complete desparation by France.

I've recently learnt about sodium ion batteries, such as this uk company:

https://www.elevenenergy.co.uk/#sodium-ion

They are larger than lithium batteries, but potentially cheaper and better performing around temperature extremes.

The same reason we name storms and hurricanes... It's easier to raise awareness, and refer to these things after the fact. More memorable then CVE-whatever.

I find it helpful at least...

It'll never happen unfortunately.

The next president will get elected, and then we'll go back to being best buddies with the US, including using their tech.

> Not only this, a significant number of developers have stopped looking at code

This is what I find frustrating about the whole AI/slop debate. Developers stopped looking at code a long time ago... Well before LLMs. Take for example a typical nodejs project with its 100s of dependencies. Is a developer going to look through the layers upon layers of code running their app? Of course not, there's to much of it. We've seen supply chain attacks even this week.

Actually what I think will happen is that all those abstractions, dependencies will become irrelevant now that an LLM can just write custom code to solve the business problem. This will massively reduce the supply chain problem.

Then have LLMs dedicated to scanning codebases for security issues.

> because AI-generated code is kind of notoriously terrible at security.

This is simply not true, perhaps it was in the past but recent models are very capable... To the point that I trust them more than humans to write secure code. It's all about the prompting. Have a step in your development pipeline whereby an LLM scans, checks, audits your code. Make it a different model/session from the LLM that wrote the code in the first place. Acts like an independent auditor.

> But if you're on the side of the industry where your job is to prevent things from being broken, then it really sucks

Is it? In using it at an opportunity to improve our devops pipelines, software supply chains, etc. Perhaps I'm weird and enjoy strange things? Not to mention that all these security incidents will require plenty of people to fix things = more paid work for us humans going forward.

Absolutely.

Replaced with trams, which i used extensively when visiting amsterdam. It was such a joy to just hop on/off.

No I think they used the stolen API keys to perform distillation.

I've been telling people this for a couple of months now, I'm actually struggling to use up all my tokens.

I have to ask what's everyone's issue with the requests to China. We've had 25 years of American big tech basically capture all our data, and use that to make insane profits.

Yes, also see chess which as far as I'm aware is more popular than ever... Despite machines ruling in this cognitive challenge as far back as the 90s.

"Currently, anyone who uses a television to watch content must pay the licence fee even if they do not watch the BBC."

This is simply not true. Which puts me in doubt about the rest of this "article". The rules are:

1. Watch or record live TV on any channel or service

2. Use BBC iPlayer

Note the "live" part of this.

I'm not a fan of the BBC, and so I don't pay a license. Being forced to pay for something I wouldn't use would force me to break the law.

Yes this is why I'll never use the TUI.

The full gui app is decent though.

I did say the numbers where made up!

People skills, systems thinking, solutions architecture.

Basically my skill at a keyboard will be null and void in a few short years.

Mechanisation/Mechanization of farming basically put 99% of farm-workers out of a job.

Banking apps closed 99% of high street banks (here in the UK at least).

Amazon is basically destroying the shopping high streets.

Technology has a way of disrupting what we've been doing for generations. I think the whole AI thing isn't made up - we're going to see rapid change in a very short time frame. Personally I'm trying my hardest to adjust, as I don't want AI to "happen" to me, by learning the skills that I can only predict will be important.

* Some figures may have been pulled out of the air :)

> NATO is a hundred times stronger than Ukraine,

And the might of the US/UK/etc are a hundred times stronger than the Taliban in Afghanistan, however who ended up winning that war? Or how about Vietnam?

My point being: the size/capability of a military doesn't necessarily result in a win. I think NATO forces have a particular problem of being pretty unmotivated about Ukraine winning.

ICQ plus Winamp was peak PC

So if LLMs can write C really "well" - as in they can keep track of all the memory allocations, branches and conditions that would prevent the typical memory problems associated with C...then do we even need Rust anymore? The control of the memory allocations and layout in C does theoretically mean you can ultra-optimise the code. The LLMs can write 1000s of unit tests and they're really good at fuzzing.

I don't know Rust well enough to understand what else it would provide over the safe memory guarentees?

I'm still meeting software people who are still very anti-AI...this is despite the strong evidence that a frontier model is superior to 99% of software engineers at writing code, producing documentation, testing, generating threat models, etc. IF prompted correctly.

As Antirez is using a non-frontier model for his work (via locally-running), then I think that is further proof that AI is ready for widespread use in software engineering.

I know HN folk don't like these kinds of websites with fancy animations and 80's style retro fonts...but I think this website actually contains the information that I needed in 1 page. I immediately knew what it was, what it required, and it provided the download links right there.

Opencode Go, with the Deepseek 4.1 Flash model feels like a bottomless pit, which is great for grunt work.

This. I see LLMs building smaller bespoke models on-the-fly to achieve a desired goal.