binarymax

I agree with everything you say, but we are a small minority in society and shifting the public off of the centralized hubs onto decentralized private secure mesh is an insurmountable task. The public simply won't budge. If I can't get my immediate family to switch, that is a good indicator of the likelihood of everyone else switching.

“The math is easy!” …proceeds to provide no examples of implementation.

This is very interesting to me, but it would help your argument if you provided how the original Gogot example would be rewritten.

I started watching the Snowden (2016) movie the other day, and got to the point about explanation of XKEYSCORE. The whole time I was thinking “how quaint, that this was such a shockingly abusive system at the time”. We’ve crossed the threshold long ago. We’re so far gone that it’s just taken for granted that we’re always being watched, everywhere. I stopped watching the film because it was really bumming me out. There’s nothing we can do about it and it’s so very sad.

Yeah and their comment history is full of it.

That’s the Cretaceous web. I miss it fondly.

And while writing this, the top story on HN is "Deepseek Harness" :)

> "But owning a game on a disc today isn't really the same thing. It's still just a license..."

Here's the crux of the problem in their own sentence and they don't even realize it.

Owning and Licensing are not the same thing. If I own something, I own it outright. If I license something, I am leasing it.

It does get fuzzy with media, I will admit. But we need the same protections as physical books and game cartidges. If I buy it, it is mine to use as I please and even resell or transfer. If that's not what the transaction is, then don't call it buying or purchasing, call it leasing or licensing.

Require stores and publishers to use language that reflects the nature of the transaction.

No mention of training/test/holdout dataset splits anywhere in this article - so how am I to know whether or not this is some overfit result?

I haven't used it but they were silly about their programmatic search api in the same way. Can't use the results for anything other than showing them as-is on a results page.

I'd be more OK with this if Google had a good API for their search results. But they've deprecated it, and now there is no alternative. So I'll continue to use 3rd parties that scrape Google results, until they change their mind.

Our city recently went on a crusade on replacing all of the high pressure sodium bulbs with LEDs, with the justifications of driving safety and energy savings. I agree that these are important, but the LED bulbs they chose are actively hostile to homes and pedestrians. They are blinding. You can't look at them. I have one outside our house in the main viewing angle and we need to close our shades as soon as they are turned on.

It's not a whatchamacallit, it's a spicy doodad

It’s not that hard. I’ve done this. The list of URLs for a crawl is several hundred gigs. Easily fits in a lookup index on a single instance.

I escaped! Just grind until you hit 80% burnout then touch grass to bring it back down. Rinse repeat.

Who’s “this person”…me? I don’t make a living selling AI programming products. I make a living building knowledge systems, mostly around search engines and data wrangling.

I am absolutely seeing an explosion in apps. The reason you might not see them is because the app explosion is entirely custom and in house.

I talked with a friend last week, who has never coded before in his life, who built an absolutely incredible fit-for-purpose app for his own job. He gave me a demo and it blew my mind. It will never go beyond his walls, and he will never buy SaaS that only kinda fits what he needs.

I see things like this happening. The proliferation isn't public because why sell it? Just build the thing to make your domain job easier and save thousands per month cancelling SaaS subs.

The ROI of AI is starting to show, but it isn't in terms of growth or selling new things - it's reducing spend across the board on software and tools.

This is really cool, but the best part is the response in the twitter post demo had an em-dash.

Thats really cool. He did a fine job sewing. I tried something similar with green-screen fabric and followed the same procedure: make a pattern from existing clothing, cut out the material, and sew it up. It's very hard.

Yeah, I’ve had Opus (and Fable) perform full security audits on my codebases that would run for 30mins. That’s what I think would have tripped it but went just fine.

What kinds of tasks does Opus refuse? I’m a light daily user for the past 3 months and Opus has never refused a task for me.

If it’s a “next generation model” then why isnt it GPT-6 and not just a minor version bump over 5.5?

Looks great. But will 3hCloud be able to sustain those prices?

This is just the reality of hardware costs now. RAM and Disk are scarce, prices have skyrocketed.

I wonder how much leverage the hyperscalers like AWS/GCP/Azure have on their own supply chain to keep costs level in their clouds.

Same for me. $20/mo is just fine and I use it to code daily.

I suspect the people that burn through tokens have several subagents and 50 skills loaded and 40 MCP tools. All those load up the context on every single turn.

This was over 10 years ago, and the original price was something like £35.

It was tiny, and the assumption was correct - most families had an HDMI capable TV and could afford the device and a usb keyboard.

A used PC still needs a desk and a monitor. This was far more accessible.

The 80s kid in me still thinks dropping someone into a linux shell with a bunch of tools and no internet access is the best learning environment. Kids these days with their fancy tiktoks and such need to summon the old ways.

The original vision IIRC was to provide a cheap computer for students in low-income families. You could plug into your TV at home and start learning.

Then the hobby community got wind of it and proceeded to buy out all the stock on every release (myself included, I still have one of every first 3 versions sitting in my cabinet)

NIMBY = Not In Mars Back Yard

HN hug of death :)

@dang can we change the URL to the bill link please?

I submitted this link, which is clearly written by an LLM but has a good overview. Here's the actual bill: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S10642