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Very well said. Slow code for me. I fully understand what I build. The AI magic bus will come crashing down at some point.

Quattro pro was the bomb

Around the world in soundscapes.. great idea.

Wonderful 404 page. Wonder if Kai Lentit optimized it.

Oops, someone forgot to delete or redact it.

Not a word about sustainable sources of energy or the long-term viability of this massive energy suck.

Intellectual surrender is exactly the risk I fear with coding agents. Will the next generation of software ‘developers’ still know how to code? Seems coding agents are in a way taking us further from understanding the machine, just like frameworks have in the past.

Looks better than any Python GUI framework I’ve seen..

Love it and the fact it’s lean. No back-end slop.

Ask a seasoned quant investor. The most successful strategies and sustainable strategies are usually the simplest. ML and AI solutions are short-lived.

Living in Italy at the time, I recall early Olivetti portable computers back in the ‘80’s. They were out of reach for a teenager though, so had to stick to my BBC Micro. Olivetti was the reference when it came to well-designed machines.

UI’s also reduce human comprehension times. Give me a well-crafted UI and I can quickly scan it and comprehend the logic. Reading a long blob of text is less efficient and probably more error-prone. I like this approach.

It’s quite amusing. Hopefully, you all can do without your Pi or Flipper for a day. You can leave home without it.

Agree. Just like writing with pen and paper facilitates the thought process, so does coding. Typing out code facilitates logical thought and forces you to mind the details. Not to mention the inherent learning process.

Hand-holding an LLM cheats me of all these things, along with the uneasy feeling there is unexplored ordnance in there somewhere which will eventually go boom.

To each his or her own.

Thanks for sharing. This is the best HN post of 2025 as far as my humble self is concerned.

For someone wanting to learn Ruby in 2025/26, what are some good up-to-date references, outside of the official documentation? Are there any recently-published books which stand-out?

Isn’t this the ultimate black box? If a forecasting system is a black box, then you have no chance of understanding why its performance might deteriorate. Once that happens it essentially becomes a digital paper-weight.

This administration is entirely founded on lies. Irrespective of any merits, of any, of its actions it has zero credibility.

Seriously, with all the shit going on in the world, these guys spend time thinking about the wokeness of computer fonts?! What a clown show. Strike-through this administration.

AI enshitification. Literally.

Perhaps this reflects your experience, in your part of the world. In some parts of the world, principles and ethics do count, and don’t change on a dime (as they do in the US).

Pretty much every other Apple product has appeal to every demographic: young, older, professional, student, all walks of life - as long as you can afford it.

This product has a very narrow and limited target customer base.

I’m not going to walk into the office with my fuchsia Apple sock around my shoulders.

Unfortunately, these have disappeared from trading floors. Mine is under lock and key.. I sometimes take it or an HP 41 out and place it on my desk just to see the horrified looks on twentysomething’s faces.

fair enough.

Back when you could focus on the code you wrote and not worry about the overly cluttered distractions of the likes of VSCode.

La Frenchtech at its peak.

I trade this risk for a living. I price for risk and that risk is real. It really doesn’t matter what you call it. It’s in the loss data and it is trending up.

Ma Che Cazzo?! The end of an era.

How could you even define that as a ‘cloud’? Sounds like good old client-server on a single premise, and no backup whatsoever. Can’t have had very secure systems either.. perhaps they can buy back some of the data off the dark web.. or their next-door neighbor.

I just want to know how I get rid of Copilot. It’s just annoying.