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hlynurd··on I wish tech companies knew more about me
Nothing says 'solving a pre-existing problem' quite like convincing someone that their evening would be better with a gambling problem.
hlynurd··on Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap
I both think this is allowed to exist in addition to finding this tasteless.
hlynurd··on The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
If you want to get that narrow, then why not dismiss my comment by saying that they are not literal locksmiths? The locksmith paradox is about underestimating the expertise behind a quick result, and that expertise can include extensive preparation.
hlynurd··on The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
Literally the locksmith paradox
hlynurd··on Patrick Stewart has died
> And the average life expectancy was what? 40 years?

The answer to this riddle lies in the previous paragraph

hlynurd··on Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful
Are you talking about self-organising maps or the sci-fi level capability we've seen in the last year?
hlynurd··on Patrick Stewart has died
So no mistakes is the mistake?
hlynurd··on The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take
>So why are freshmen lining up to get into Humanities 10?

So, why are they? Paywalled for me.

hlynurd··on Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale
You guys must not have a lot of years of experience? My friends groups have a few hundred million dollars each (the junior developers are in the lower hundreds)
hlynurd··on Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
>who will never touch the life sciences again

I'll bite: why not?

hlynurd··on Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World
How do you know it's human-written?
hlynurd··on Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
Believe it or not if you can work at meta you can easily choose to not do that
hlynurd··on Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline
Did they adjust for demographics?
hlynurd··on I Did This Without Your Knowledge
Pluribus features an ai? We must have watched different shows
hlynurd··on The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]
I mean, yeah, from an economic standpoint.
hlynurd··on The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]
For some people the "love of the game" trumps economics
hlynurd··on Anthropic logged net loss of over $80B in first half of 2026
His counterfactual?
hlynurd··on DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
"640K ought to be enough for anybody"
hlynurd··on 800k involved in nationwide protests in France over rising cost of living
This is wonderfully naive
hlynurd··on Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
Supplying people with autonomous weapons is not exactly just a butterfly flapping its wings
hlynurd··on AI agents in a stand-up call
Do you think the technology will vanish if and when a financially bubble pops?
hlynurd··on Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand
> It's not fun to always have to couch your language

It depends, some think it's fun :)

hlynurd··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
I've recently had a hard time reading black text on a white background due to eye floaters so global dark mode is amazing for me.
hlynurd··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Weren't there headlines just yesterday that they weren't releasing this due to safety concerns?
hlynurd··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Then there's the question if it would have gotten to 4 billion today if he hadn't used it back then...
hlynurd··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
It still baffles me that some have children to have someone around them when they're old
hlynurd··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
> are not meant to

Because it hasn't happened?

hlynurd··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
A lot of parents are literally trying to live forever in some way by leaving a legacy.
hlynurd··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Yeah we gotta put me on that list too. This is a weirdly specific prejudice.
hlynurd··on The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly
Well, someone. But not necessarily anyone else.
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