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drewbitt··on Alphabet heads for a $500B drop in market value, biggest in its history
This is drastically different from how I live and work. I may do over 100 (Kagi) searches a day. I use Claude too but I am just faster searching after decades of experience.
drewbitt··on Patrick Stewart has died
What an incredible actor. He will be missed.
drewbitt··on Reddit shares drop and it plans login requirement as search traffic sinks
I got the "login to access old reddit" block the other day.

I'm not logging into my personal reddit on my work computer, so you've lost me.

drewbitt··on Proton CEO Andy Yen: "This will be the last year that we hire engineers."
Proton Pass, not their email service. Although I suspect things like the Cloudflare Email Service will expand by next year too.
drewbitt··on Proton CEO Andy Yen: "This will be the last year that we hire engineers."
> Anyone have a suggestion as to where to re-home our email?

Fastmail Family should be a good fit for you.

drewbitt··on Proton CEO Andy Yen: "This will be the last year that we hire engineers."
If they can vibe code the project without engineering then surely their users can too, right? I currently pay for Proton Pass but when mine renews next year I'd rather just give the money to Opus 6.5.
drewbitt··on DoorDash to acquire Instacart
Even if an employee has the authority to make a decision, executive leadership should still have the legal right to terminate someone if they disagree with that choice. Let's not make running a business illegal.
drewbitt··on Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages
Voxtral 3 is probably the better product, but this is cheap!
drewbitt··on Nim Version 2.4.0 Released
Huge release. Congrats!
drewbitt··on United Starlink Tracker
According to tech Twitter, millions of people are going to choose United because they will do productive work on the plane if they had Starlink. Meanwhile on my flights with Starlink, everyone is just watching movies as normal. I'm sure the 1% with laptops could really use this, but as a capitalist I'm still just sorting flights by lowest price and best departure time. The hype over this has been a bit crazy.
drewbitt··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
Well put (although it reads like AI) with the data to back it up. I feel this, too.
drewbitt··on Lost Apple Project
But are they tasty?
drewbitt··on Show HN: Proc-CLI – An agent-friendly CLI tool for process and port management
Compared to the popular killport https://proc-cli.com/posts/proc-vs-lsof-fuser-killport-fkill...
drewbitt··on GPT-6.1 Terra
12 seconds for a pelican on low. Pretty good.
drewbitt··on Proton hosts Flock map revealing over 300k cameras, defying cease-and-desist
The snapshot here is 10 months old. Most everything near me is incorrect.
drewbitt··on Soft Serve
Mobile screen size only
drewbitt··on Kimi K3.1 Pro puts open-source AI a month behind the best
It's at least 4 months away on https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience and many other benches. Anyone stating that its just a few weeks back is just cherry picking a single benchmark.
drewbitt··on CanI.RootMy.TV?
The site says:

> RootMyTV (v1/v2) has been patched for years, and your TV is almost certainly not vulnerable.

drewbitt··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
I really like pi, though it does require some time in setting it up. But it has greatly reduced my token spend. The relevant Deepseek Harness https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/ I hear is also good and popular.
drewbitt··on Tsc-ts: TypeScript written in TypeScript
I don't know whats a meme or not anymore..
drewbitt··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
This is a great model. I know we are all looking for the next best thing, but I'd be pretty happy running this for awhile.
drewbitt··on AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security basics
You've got to wonder what prevented a single human from ever even looking at the agents they are running.
drewbitt··on I changed my view on traditional code review
> Review stops being a conversation about code and becomes evidence that certain properties hold.

> At that point it is hard to see what value there would be in saying that you would have preferred a for instead of a reduce(), or that a particular abstraction feels more elegant.

I'm sorry, I am still going to leave comments on bad code even if it "works". If it's not me, then its agents reviewing the diff for minimization opportunities along with best practices skills and checks.

drewbitt··on OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
Because it generated at least 400 comments on Hackernews
drewbitt··on Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
2 years in, the founders and 30 researchers took Google's $2.7b and left. Then they had to ban kids which was probably most of their userbase. Yet they were still putting $1m/mo on the corporate cards with 86 full time bay area employees on ~$278k average base, and almost $100k owed to DoorDash. lol
drewbitt··on GPT-6 Astra helped me jailbreak my Kindle
I can't get GPT-6 models to do any work with compilers or anything deemed hacky, so I'm surprised it completed this without any refusals. I guess since it was just off-the-shelf stuff, it went through.
drewbitt··on Show HN: Opus 5.5 made a fully featured Figma clone in 3 hours / 8 prompts
Work smarter, not harder. Mine even preserved the commit history.
drewbitt··on Show HN: Opus 5.5 made a fully featured Figma clone in 3 hours / 8 prompts
My agent did it in one prompt: it git cloned https://github.com/open-pencil/open-pencil
drewbitt··on Ask HN: Does anyone here still contribute to open source projects? Why?
Yes, I use open-source projects, and as part of that, I either find bugs or want features. I don't think an agent should be recreating or forking React, for example, just for me - that's not realistic.
drewbitt··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
This is sad. I was a heavy user of Deno, though I recognized its likely downfall when they laid off a large part of their team in the last year.
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