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lunarboy··on Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 are available now
lunarboy··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
This is the point the "just build more supply" folks never mention. Close to markets, water, aesthetically pleading single family houses on land. Like there's a reason housing crisis only happens in popular cities, because well, they're popular for a reason. Also people shit on zoning laws (yes they could be better), but I'm sure they dont want to live in hong kong style back to back concrete mega apartments with no parks
lunarboy··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
It's just a never ending balance problem. Also the "just build more housing" is such a numbers only view. Anecdotally, everyone I've talked to hate budget cookie cutter apartment complexes; they're ugly, neighbor problems, noise, pets, etc. What people really mean is they want a single family house sitting on land, but you just can't have both.
lunarboy··on Gemini 4 Argon
Claude used to be GDM only, but recently opened up Opus for all googlers
lunarboy··on MIT creates method to force AI to comply with safety rules
Is this not the exact gap that happened for OpenAI's accidental hack of huggingface? They tried to sandbox network access but the Antifactory or whatever package has holes that the collective of agents abused
lunarboy··on A History of IDEs at Google
iOS apps at google are developed via ciderv that had a connection to your local mac, and it's amazing. All code editing is "online" and builds are cached, but simulator runs on your local machine. I'm convinced the apple dev env at google is like 100x better than apple's
lunarboy··on A History of IDEs at Google
I feel like core dev team learned a lot about actually enabling a web based ide for line 100k engineers across the globe for a gazillion line mono repo. ciderv is really just a skin for the amazing infra. Which is also why I think there was less resistance to the change
lunarboy··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
I can't switch jobs rn, but this is absolutely fascinating
lunarboy··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
FaceID, AirPods, Apple Silicon, Vision Pro (though it was flop was a good try). Overall, I would actually place Tim above Steve in terms of business, although maybe not from a Human Computer Interaction design novelty perspective
lunarboy··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
oh the horror stories I've heard from friends at Apple. Don't think I've heard anyone who writes tests at Apple
lunarboy··on Claude Design
I still fondly remember playing cyberpunk 2077 on release date with no download time. What the future could have been . Probably would have become economically infeasible regardless with GPU prices due to AI though
lunarboy··on Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
ok this one got me LOL
lunarboy··on Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust
It's fascinating and lucky how well Korean fits into a keyboard designed for English. Japanese and Chinese are notoriously inefficient to type.
lunarboy··on Claude Code Remote Control
It types code, wallah!
lunarboy··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
It's so weird. I actually prefer the web version for generic questions like "how would I do X in git" or something, and it'll answer it well. Gemini CLI will immediately try to run git log on the entire graph, grep every single file in the repo, like just answer the question. I actually put in gemini.md to just answer first without running other commands unless explicitly requested and it's been a lot better
lunarboy··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
But the thing is your local gov & economic policies (tax codes, bonds, projects, trade) matter to your actual daily life and retirement far more than left v right. They just play that game to keep you enraged and baited. And people do actually care about gas, groceries, and inflation; they just don't vote in their own objective interest
lunarboy··on LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers
Are LLMs not already compilers? They translate human natural language to code pretty well now. But yeah, they probably don't fit the bill of English based code to machine code
lunarboy··on Proton spam and the AI consent problem
Agreed on both of these. Proton search is so dogshit.

Re: the custom domain catch all reply, this is a bit annoying but there js a workaround. I made a SendGrid account which allows me like 100 sends per month, and I can reply in Thunderbird via SendGrid as any email account. Annoying to boot up Thunderbird, and I haven't found a way to do this on my iPhone, but I don't need ti reply from a throwaway frequently so it's sufficient for now.

lunarboy··on Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
That's probably where things are headed and there are already products trying this (even photoshop already). Just like how code gen AI tools don't replace the entire file on every prompt iteration.
lunarboy··on A definition of AGI
Yup, I feel like the biggest limitation with current AI is that they don't have desire (nor actual agency to act upon it). They don't have to worry about hunger, death, feelings, and so they don't really have desires to further explore space, or make life more efficient because they're on limited time like humans. Their improvement isn't coming inside out like humans, it's just external driven (someone pressing a training epoch). This is why I don't think LLMs will reach AGI, if AGI somehow ties back to "human-ness." And maybe that's a good thing for Skynet reasons, but anyways
lunarboy··on The React Foundation
I come from mobile, and was surprised how nice svelte is. Felt so much more familiar patterns than react
lunarboy··on Apple Photos app corrupts images
Open radar is a just a landfill. Nothing ever gets picked up for fixing
lunarboy··on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
I know this is only a single data point, but I recently took one in Hollywood. Uber Lyft quoted $33 and Waymo was $20
lunarboy··on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
Do they need a "map" of a parking tower though, just like how humans don't exactly need Google Maps inside of one? I feel like this is something self driving + vision (exit signs and arrows) can handle
lunarboy··on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
I don't touch JFK with 10mi pole. I've always found EWR to be much more consistent and easier to get to
lunarboy··on Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose
SAME. It kills me inside when people wrap things like fruits and potatoes in plastic that have natural peel they'll remove before eating anyways
lunarboy··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
You're really trying to convince me people care about kids but we've been having school shooting for 30 years? And that the length or frequency of events makes them okay, or not worth mentioning? So 30 years of more frequent assassinations should be make similar types of events okay? To use "you're probably one of those" and "argue in good faith" in the same comment is pretty wild work.
lunarboy··on Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
Internet was better via what metric? Your rose tinted nostalgia bar? And what's stopping anyone from making a better non-gameable search index that's driven by purely charitable intentions?
lunarboy··on Code Is Debt
Of course, the one and only perfect repo: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
lunarboy··on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
I met Jobs as a high schooler at Westfield Valley Fair with a "Programming in Objective-C for iPhone" book in hand during like the iPhone 3G era, and he refused to sign the book lol
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