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abeyer··on Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”
Visual Studio has never been open source, though some of the underlying build tools and compilers are.

Visual Studio Code is a different thing... and claims to be open source, but by intent and approach really is closer to source available.

abeyer··on Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early '90s (2024)
So much of pharmaceutical development is educated guess work. For every promising compound even brought to human trials there were likely 10s-100s of others that were abandoned or neglected for lack of resources to pursue them all. Without the benefit of hindsight there are bound to be mistakes made.
abeyer··on What makes you senior
> I wish I'd known that when I was younger...

While I wouldn't say more people shouldn't do this more of the time, there is also a lot of social capital you have as a staff level person that makes it "easy" to do this. (and is part of why it's important to)

abeyer··on NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut
rubidium + gps
abeyer··on NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut
Telling people at the bar that I have an atomic clock at home.
abeyer··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
There's already some work in that direction, too: https://github.com/theacodes/kicanvas
abeyer··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
Only rich ones. Lowbrow pedophiles who hang out in pizza parlors are a whole different thing.
abeyer··on The Computer Church – Pennsylvania Computer and Technology Museum
Looks fun, but dunno if they can call themselves _the_ computer church, tho. https://www.google.com/search?q=Voorhees+Computing+Center
abeyer··on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
To my knowledge the deciding factor between which state ids were considered compliant and which were not was whether the state required disclosing and documenting immigration status to get a drivers license. In theory there are other rules, but the rest of them were pretty universally followed already anyway.

In addition, the source you linked explicitly points out that the id standards were just one part of a bill that "would repeal the provisions regarding identification documents in IRTPA, replace them with a version that would set the federal standards directly rather than in negotiation with the states, and would make various changes to US immigration law regarding asylum, border security and deportation."

abeyer··on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
> why did TSA recently start requiring REAL ID

Immigration politics

abeyer··on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14836653
abeyer··on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
Perhaps because their repeated bad behavior as a company outweighed anything good they put out.
abeyer··on Linux for Nintendo 64 (1997)
Immediately answered with a "what if you made a beowulf cluster of those!?" comment
abeyer··on Show HN: Semantic grep with local embeddings
> UX which requires more thought and skill, but is way more powerful. Human devs are mostly too lazy to use

Really? My thinking is more that human devs are way too likely to sink time into powerful but complex tools that may end up being a yak shave with minimal/no benefit in the end. "too lazy to use" doesn't seem like a common problem from what I've seen.

Not that the speed of an agent being able to experiment with this kind of thing isn't a benefit... but not how I would have thought to pose it.

abeyer··on Kenvue stock drops on report RFK Jr will link autism to Tylenol during pregnancy
Most of the blue collar coworkers I've had knew full well that you just needed to add some hydrocodone into the mix and you'd be fine w/ a few hundred mg on the acetaminophen for a full shift.
abeyer··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
You can quibble over degree and the path taken, but wealthy insiders using money to control politics and ideological insiders using political control to amass wealth feel like two sides of the same coin, both leading the same way.

Your definition of class also seems to be very different from a traditional Marxist take -- hereditary systems were mostly seen as a symptom and not the problem itself, and were mostly orthogonal to any understanding of class.

I _hope_ there is hope, but I don't have much confidence that it lies in century old tropes of "rise up and throw off your chains."

abeyer··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
History has seemed to show the only likely outcome is the violent redistribution of riches from one set of oligarchs to another.
abeyer··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
and your salary
abeyer··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
That's where the "prohibitively difficult" part comes in... surely they don't expect every developer on every open source app in the world to have their own app registration/package name for the same app, do they? Feels like an N * M problem, if so.
abeyer··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
Even aside from the privacy implications (which aren't trivial themselves,)

Doesn't this make it prohibitively difficult to do local builds of open source projects? It's been a long time since I've done this, but my recollection was that the process to do this was essentially you would build someone else's (the project's) package/namespace up through signing, but sign it locally with your own dev keys. A glance at the docs they've shared makes it sound like the package name essentially gets bound to an identity and you then can't sign it with another key. Am a I misremembering and/or has something changed in this process? Am I missing something?

abeyer··on IBM's Power11 Processor Architecture
I was hoping TFA might have news to indicate if any of that was addressed in POWER11... but doesn't seem to.
abeyer··on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
you put linefeeds in your perl?
abeyer··on Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
Or early provisioning for massively expanded electric transit and EV charging infrastructure, perhaps.
abeyer··on I built a tool to help people remove their info from the Tea App
Does it issue `DeleteObjects` directly to their S3 buckets?
abeyer··on Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3
The blog post is right that the double x-wings were the worst. I _never_ got the hang of 9 the whole time I sat there.
abeyer··on Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3
Not to mention that some people always used the golf course code names for clusters of buildings, too... which were never "official" so there wasn't even any signage or anything to refer to for those. I remember being pointed to a pile of "stuff new people ought to know but HR won't tell you" on some random share in NTDEV when I started and it had a map with those marked on it.
abeyer··on Erythritol linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk
I could be off, my molar math is pretty rusty, but a back of the envelope stab seems like 6mM concentration would be _way_ below the 30g "serving" in a drink so assume their "equivalent of" is taking into account the concentrations estimated in the body after consumption or some such.
abeyer··on Erythritol linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk
and specifically in that high risk group, those chemicals are correlated with an even higher rate of cardiovascular issues than baseline

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-023-01504-6

abeyer··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Would like to hear more when they are... do you plan to announce them somewhere?
abeyer··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
anything available yet or a place to watch?
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