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Better title would be "Discord drops Electron, uses 93% less RAM"

"I have seen no substantiated claims that people die without access to food and medicine."

I guess someone should look into that

The LLMs don't have the moat that Apple has. Apple has carefully built their walled garden to keep people in. Their messaging, their cloud services, their media store, it all keeps users in.

LLMs don't have that. For at least 90% of users, the model in the back end is completely irrelevant to them. Switching to Kimi won't lose them their iTunes music.

I'm not sure what counts anymore. You've got OpenAI and Anthropic; then Meta, Google, and X; then over to Alibaba/Qwen, Z/GLM, Moonshot/Kimi, Deepseek; and Mistral in Europe. How many people out there in the real world can actually come up with tasks that differentiate those 10?

It means their reputation management efforts are taking priority over their technical work

you're drawing a line between "showing" vs "surrendering" by physical possession. Well, there's a big difference between showing an ID at a bank and providing a copy to Google which they keep forever.

Is anyone surprised by the profit motive?

At my company it is "post-mortem"

"I need the answer in an email, thanks."

It's a very good font for me because I care very much about density. Iosevka is by far the highest horizontal density I've ever used. However I have usually fallen back to Consolas, which IMHO the greatest monospace font ever made. The density is very high and it is very readable. There is no doubt that Iosevka is more attractive, but for some reason Consolas "feels" better at similar density.

Are the limits restricted on launch day because of all the interest?

Imagine such a complex machine working without fail for 60 years. It's just not plausible in my view.

Perhaps I'm just an old dog that doesn't want to learn new tricks, but I still can't think of Python as typed and I never use type hints. I started with Python during the 2.3 era. I still view Python types as merely docs. So it's nice that someone tracks mypy quirks but I can't imagine relying on the results for anything serious.

Those are the aspects most relevant to HN, though.

I dropped my Pixel 8 and replaced it with a Pixel 10a. I'm perfectly happy and the lack of a camera bump is awesome. I don't intend to upgrade for quite some time.

just make SHA1 the default in all cases unless the user specifies otherwise

changing repos to the new IDs would break any existing links to content on the pre-migration repos.

My pet theory is that this is also the reason for the plunge in murder rates.

Same here. Perhaps this is something that doesn't happen to people with a robust tolerance, but I'll never test that theory. Maybe before cell phones and Netflix, people just slept a lot more to compensate.

Wine grapes are really only good for making wine.

This is often used as an explanation in pop-sci materials, but it isn't particularly accurate, IIRC.

For example, Hawking radiation is always photons, with the wavelength corresponding to the size of the black hole. That isn't explained purely by virtual particles.

Also, for that explanation to work, it would always have to be an anti-matter particle that is selected to cross the event horizon, and I don't see how that would be the case.

People who trusted Grok because other people told them Grok was trustworthy.

Please correct my understanding as I am not a scientist, but why do you assert that Hawking radiation "escapes" or "comes out of" a black hole? Nothing crosses the event horizon. Isn't it more correct to say that Hawking radiation is produced by the extreme warping of the spacetime very near the event horizon, and the black hole shrinks to conserve the energy? Black holes can also shrink as gravitational waves are produced, but we don't say that the waves "escape" the black hole.

I do the same thing with streams and other wetlands in my area. Another interesting Google Maps curiosity is the 'overpass to nowhere'[1] over I-84 in Farmington, CT.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/QUgug3fwmPeAC2Wu8

I recently returned to a favorite cafe after a long time away. The amazing food I had many years ago seemed now to be just fine but not memorable.

I think the difference was the context. It was a date with a relationship that was going well. There was a lot of excitement. Now that relationship deteriorated and there is no excitement, and the food isn't as good. Maybe our memories are conflating the two things.

Who is the "they" that are turning profits?

It would be funny if this was vibe coded.

Per the linked article, "A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents"

this is the kind of abusive comment that usually earns a flag

Yes I do and perhaps instead of making that presumption you could simply understand conservatives to be those who perceive themselves to be part of that higher social class (or at least want to).