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hughw··on The AI Bubble Monitor
Not a problem if the govt takes back the minting of money from the Fed.
hughw··on Pray for Chaos
We need a government program to retrain knowledge workers to flip burgers and make beds.
hughw··on UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power
Yeah you drank it baby!
hughw··on UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power
You say "degrowthers who literally want people to just live with less" like it's a bad thing
hughw··on Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
Idea: why don't all the various app stores and plugin repos use LLMs to review all submissions for security? Certainly in the human powered age that was too big a task to take on, but now it seems doable.
hughw··on Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)

  The only plausible way of processing that amount of traffic is a massive Orwellian application of automated voice recognition technology to sift through it all, searching for interesting keywords or searching for a particular speaker's voice.
Welp.
hughw··on Neural networks are clean
JShelter alerts me of active fingerprinting on the website. Why, Nick.
hughw··on Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
In fairness, they spent 5 cents generating it with Claude.
hughw··on Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
Productivity!
hughw··on Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe
a) USB sticks are a vector for infection too you know b) Inserting a clumsy sneakernet step into a time critical life or death decision might be a bad idea.
hughw··on A Modern Web App in C
It's beautiful
hughw··on A Modern Web App in C
I disagree with the first sentence. In 199x the first people I knew making web pages dropped perl scripts, not C programs, into cgi-bin.
hughw··on Christa Pike's lawyers hold press conference after she regains consciousness

  The court hearing of Christa Pike is now under way.
  Pike’s lawyers are addressing the court at the moment.
  The hearing had originally been billed as a press conference.
A press conference turned into a court hearing?
hughw··on Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis
came here to say this!
hughw··on Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason
I take BND less seriously since I learned they're eager to sell you merch:

https://www.bnd.shop/en

hughw··on Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI
Not saying you're wrong. But right now I'm trying to craft some skill prose to instruct an agent how to optimize a certain process based on my own heuristics, and it's failing. Maybe I can let a super agent divine the right skill prose, iterating to see what works. It's worth a try.
hughw··on Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
Chat Here YC26
hughw··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
When I read "But holography really starts to bite only after..." my LLM-dar goes off. Everything I read up to that point was comprehensible, but man, I have developed a shudder reaction to any language suggesting AI was involved ibn its creation.
hughw··on Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
I took a cue from this link and created an explainer for a complex new feature I've been building with heavy Claude assistance.

The one shot video was brilliant and polished. It would need minor refinement before presenting to a customer, because it used some of that internal vocabulary Claude makes up to describe parts of a system it's working on.

However: I found the explainer astoundingly useful to me. Now, finally, I understand some of that internal vocabulary Claude's been burying me with. The visuals really helped round out my understanding of what it's been talking about.

hughw··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
If you didn't want it before, you probably never will. It comes with a convenience cost and the risk you may permanently lose access to your iCloud stuff if you lose your password. With the normal level of privacy, Apple is there to help you or your loved ones get access to your stuff. Most people need that much more than they need inviolable privacy.
hughw··on RSA-896
I don't get your argument. The GPU effectiveness derives from massive parallelism. Has nothing to do with integer vs floating point. You just can't cram 20,000 CPU cores in the same space a GPU puts the same number of SIMTs. You'll never crack it on CPUs.
hughw··on Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU
Yes, we need both.
hughw··on Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
Seriously a trillion dollar company with zero product management expertise.
hughw··on Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
Just yesterday I experienced this product weirdness -- oh you're in a chat in this project and I can't do that, you need to open a task.

The product management at Anthropic is pretty... nonexistent?

hughw··on AI Doomlord Jacob Coxon's Media Tour Has Begun
Deepseek, Kimi, Qwen.
hughw··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Also highlights that it ought to be opt-in
hughw··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Looking forward to my fourteen cents from the future class action lawsuit.
hughw··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
You selected "do not train on my prompts" in your settings, the answer from OpenAI cannot be "While unlikely, we cannot rule out..." ???? What am I missing?
hughw··on This Month in Ladybird – August 2026
As of a week ago their pre-alpha version was capable of running my extremely heavy JS+ SVG + worker thread + SSE app, a bit slowly I admit but correctly in all major exercises I tried. So, I'm optimistic. They're doing great.

Separately I wonder if the compatibility job is easier now that you can just give the HTML5 spec to Fable and Bob's your uncle.

hughw··on Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)
Now do Austin?
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