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deflator··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
Ironic that the website that has this article also features similar bloat and ads that the article complains about.
deflator··on Anthropic is preparing to release new models – Mythos and Capybara
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
deflator··on Laws Suppressing Boycotts of Israel Violate Civil Liberties
The darkness is always where the light is again found. The people who caused this situation are burning all their bridges on this. There will be a turnaround.
deflator··on UC Irvine researchers bring down AI powered drones with painted umbrellas
"Adversarial umbrella" is my band's new name
deflator··on Grace Hopper's Revenge
Seems plausible. I used to refer to StackOverflow before LLMs and a good amount of the examples there were flawed code presented as working. If the LLM had less junk in its training then it might benefit even though the volume of training on that language is lower.
deflator··on Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?
What is a coder? Someone who is handed the full specs and sits down and just types code? I have never met such a person. The most annoying part of SWE is everyone who isn't an SWE has inane ideas about what we do.
deflator··on The Billionaires' War
This is true. But there's also an overwhelming instinct for people to think the problems they face today are completely new and have no historical precedents
deflator··on Show HN: Run 500B+ Parameter LLMs Locally on a Mac Mini
Fascinating. I don't understand the technical terms, but running a big coding agent locally is a dream of mine, so I thank you for your efforts!
deflator··on CIA offering Iranians instructions for using Tor
Yes, trust the CIA, Iranians. They've never led you wrong before.
deflator··on Hacker used Anthropic's Claude chatbot to attack government agencies in Mexico
Articles like this seem to be just a way to have something to write about that mentions LLMs. You could just as well say "Hacker used internet to attack government agencies in Mexico" and make the article about how their use of the internet greatly enhanced their ability to do so. Of course they used LLM tooling in 2025 to carry out an attack.
deflator··on 'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 HR
Does this really work? Seems likely to be more hype.

Codex makes all kind of terrible blunders that it presents as "correct". What's to stop it from just doing that in the loop? The LLM is still driving, same as when a human is in the loop.

deflator··on Ask HN: Best practice securing secrets on local machines working with agents?
I've been having success using Doppler for secret storage. Takes it off the filesystem.
deflator··on 2026: This is AGI
Yeah. They're real geniuses there at Sequoia. IIRC, Valeant was little more than a confidence scheme at its heart.
deflator··on Scott Adams has died
I think that a lot of us on here can give credit to Scott Adams for helping develop their cynicism, for better or worse.

He was a role model to me for helping me to make sense of the corporate world and its denizens. This might not sound like a compliment, but it is. He was my Mr. Miyagi for mental resilience by providing good arguments for most people not being evil, despite how it might seem.

deflator··on SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
I agree. It can demonstrate the knee-jerk affect in real time for the reader. Someone who reacts strongly to the title of this thread would have experienced a similar reaction if they had received the SendGrid phish email. Never seen clickbait wording actually be appropriate before.
deflator··on Eat Real Food
I think it says that industries have a lot of power over governments in the US, especially when they are critical to people's survival. The food industry has enormous power, maybe more than any other industry in the US. Few other industries mint their own laws that fly in the face of the constitution as well as the food industry. Ag Gag laws are crazy. People talk about people being labelled terrorists for activities that are obviously not terrorism. Animal Rights activists who go to extremes have been familiar with that for a while now.
deflator··on Ubisoft Shuts Assassin's Creed Developer Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized
People in the game industry must be passionate about what they do. When I was in school 20 years ago, I remember being discouraged from the game industry by advice that you'll be flogged your entire career. I loved games and had a lot of experience making mods, but that was enough to scare me away back then!
deflator··on Eat Real Food
It was a low bar. The previous nutrition guidelines were garbage for generations
deflator··on Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density
Very cool even if its 25% sizzle on top of the true numbers This is why I lease EVs, not buy. My 2024 Mustang Mach E's pack is less than half that in density.
deflator··on BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal
Once they can reset their range quickly like an ICE vehicle can then this becomes a non-issue. EV torque would be great for towing. But it's not quite there yet, outside of some BYD fast-chargers AFAIK. But losing (even theoretical) tow range is something I think would bother the typical F150 buyer. Even changing from a V8 to a V6 in the F150 was a problem for such folks. They don't like change, and they don't like their truck's "stats" to reduce, even if it gives better overall performance.
deflator··on Paris court finds 10 guilty of cyberbullying France's first lady Brigitte Macron
Interesting. I did not know France had so many laws limiting freedom of speech in regard to defamation. I am not a lawyer, but I think that in the US this would be allowable if you actually believed what you were posting about Mrs. Macron was true.
deflator··on BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal
It's the towing issue that compromised the Lightning too. Attach something to an EV to tow and you kill the range. A lot of people in this country buy a pickup to tow something with it occasionally.
deflator··on How AI labs are solving the power problem
Cool article. It's pretty weird that the writer seems to attribute all decisions by xAI to Mr. Musk personally. I doubt he is closely involved in such technical projects.
deflator··on Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US
A politician that says he wants to restore the country's economic power but has only harmed it further with his actions is worse than one who isn't even pretending to be on the side of the non-rich. President Trump is the product of the greed, big money, and self interest that enabled all of these policy and wealth shifts. This seems to be obvious to everyone except right-leaning people in the US.
deflator··on Pa Supreme Ct allows non-warranted access to your Google searches
This should be appended to the article title
deflator··on More than 100 rally against data centers at Michigan Capitol
The NIMBYs would find a way to
deflator··on What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
When I was about 3 years old, a man in a car tried to abduct me right in my front yard by offering me candy to lure me closer. An old woman we did not know witnessed this from down the street, recognized what was off about the situation, and rushed over yelling, scaring off the man. Not sure if I would be here today if not for her. My parents never were able to find out who she was.
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