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luketaylor··on Claude Haiku 5.5
Sorry for the misleading wording on this page; we’ve updated it to clarify that the Claude Agent SDK can still be used with subscriptions.
luketaylor··on Claude Haiku 5.5
Sorry that that help center article was misleading; we’ve updated it to clarify that `claude -p` has not been removed from subscriptions as part of this change!
luketaylor··on Claude Haiku 5.5
Nothing is being removed as part of this!
luketaylor··on Anthropic acquires Stainless
in what sense did Anthropic “kill” Bun?
luketaylor··on Anthropic acquires Stainless
No, the generator itself is being made source-available for previous customers
luketaylor··on The MacBook Neo
The indicators are controlled along with sensor access at a very low level within a secure “exclave” from the main kernel; this is how the on-screen indicators have worked on iPhones for a few years. The indicator is rendered within the display controller at the firmware level, so can’t be affected by anything in _either_ user mode or kernel mode. [1][2]

1: https://randomaugustine.medium.com/on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c...

2: https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/#...

luketaylor··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
WSJ published a video yesterday with the first pictures of those servers: https://twitter.com/yiningkarlli/status/2026176857541075274
luketaylor··on WiFi DensePose: WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system through walls
This whole repository is a bunch of vibe-coded boilerplate that doesn’t include almost any of the core thing it claims to do. The README is generic slop and the “performance metrics” (“Pose Detection Accuracy”; “Person Tracking Accuracy”) appear to be completely invented / hallucinated. In other words, it isn’t real.
luketaylor··on Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread
The current plan was announced here a few weeks ago: https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/...
luketaylor··on AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work
Referring to this type of optimization program just as “AI” in an age where nearly everyone will misinterpret that to mean “transformer-based language model” seems really sloppy
luketaylor··on Optimizing a WebGPU Matmul Kernel for 1 TFLOP
Source?

Edit: I just pressed “Reset All to Defaults” under “WebKit Feature Flags” on my device running 18.2 beta, and the switch for WebGPU is on!! <3

luketaylor··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.

I do not believe that “Jews as a collective” are “bribing and blackmailing the whole Western world.”

I do believe that American lobbying groups—including but not limited to those that support Israel—use money as a tool to influence American politics in a manner akin to bribery, including in the few examples I linked about AIPAC.

Your casual conflation “Israel (Jews)”—as if the two were a single group with congruent interests—is misleading, dangerous, and antisemitic. Not all Jews are Israeli, and not all Jews are pro-Israel.

luketaylor··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
This article falls under “reported pieces,” not “op-eds and critical essays”
luketaylor··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
The IDF uses Palantir’s technology, and Palantir is outspoken about its support for the state of Israel:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-10/palantir-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/13/palantir-ceo-says-outspoken-...

luketaylor··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
On AIPAC in the US:

1. “How the Israel lobby moved to quash rising dissent in Congress against Israel’s apartheid regime”

2. “Top Pro-Israel Group Offered Ocasio-Cortez $100,000 Campaign Cash”

3. “Senate Candidate in Michigan Says He Was Offered $20 Million to Challenge Tlaib”

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2023/11/27/israel-democrats-aipac-b...

[2]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ocasio-cortez-aipac-offer-con...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/us/politics/hill-harper-r...

luketaylor··on [dead]
The original thread has now been restored by mods

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245

luketaylor··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
Now removed from the front page even without being labeled as flagged.
luketaylor··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/972-magazine/
luketaylor··on Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs
Not an exaggeration—Apple’s primary “location services” API, used on iOS/macOS, is just a lookup table for wireless APs’ MAC addresses. [1]

WiFi scanning is much less power intensive than GPS, much more reliable indoors, and often (in dense areas) more accurate even outdoors. iirc the iPhone only connects to “real” GPS in specific situations, such as when visible wifi signals are insufficient (e.g. highway driving).

[1]: https://www.appelsiini.net/2017/reverse-engineering-location...

luketaylor··on Desmos 3D graphing calculator
It’s WebGL, not WebGPU
luketaylor··on QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed
Looks like they have Github sponsors set up too: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS
luketaylor··on Ask HN: Why haven't bookmarks been re-invented?
I’ve been loving https://mymind.com/, which brings a lot of new innovations to a product that’s more or less bookmarking.

It tries to do a lot of curation and organization automatically, and it does a very good job at resurfacing what I’m looking for, given that I just throw things in there with minimal hand-categorization effort.