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This is marketing.

1. Release fable, highly nerfed and limited 2. See the compute capacity limiter pegged day after day 3. Lobby to the government, claiming ai is super unsafe and not aligned and they must do something 4. Government "forces" anth to turn off 5. Anth takes the pressure off of compute capacity, and gets to blame it on the govt

Like you're telling me fable is somehow an order of magnitude better than GPT 5.5 to the point where it compromises national security, despite evals and anecdotes saying otherwise? Nah.

The DPC would disagree. All you need to show is that you took "reasonable steps to protect users," which is trivial to do, and not even a single fine will be levied.

Don't think of Teenage Engineering as a device product company. Think of them as a device art company. Suddenly it makes sense.

You don't have to have a fb account for meta to fingerprint every little page you visit, perfectly legally.

This. In reality, GDPR isn't preventative, nor punitive enough for any meaningful user protection. We get cookie banners everywhere and user data harvesting companies happily pay the negligible fines

Incidents like this show how unenforceable GDPR is, and how it's been a net negative for users since its inception. It's idealogical back-patting, toothless when it matters.

One of the most frustrating parts about Google's approach to AI in general is their project manager-y directive from on-high, that any Google product needs to adopt all Google's AI tools, wherever possible, and will be ranked on how deeply the integration goes.

In the margins: the user.

Sounds like the netbooks of 2008: bad in every way, but hey, it's small?

Or just use your phone, remoted into any machine anywhere

Codex's computer use came from OpenAI's acquisition of the Apple Shortcuts team, whose institutional knowledge allowed them to exploit all sorts of undocumented macOS APIs, not some virtuous accessibility* stack. With 99% of work happening on the web anyway, it IS fair to say that it's not the year of the Linux desktop, or any desktop, because the desktop doesn't need to exist at all.

*macos26 introduced a multitude of accessibility regressions that have real-world impact on humans with disabilities, let alone AI

It seems like the issue wasn't the pressure so much, but the temperature. The contents were supposed to be stored at 50 degrees. The thermometer for the tank was reading 100 degrees, but nobody knew what the actual temperature was, because the thermometer's maximum reading was 100. So the challenge was to figure out how to cool things down (which would relieve the pressure in turn)

Invested capital rises with the S&P (for example). A house's value rises with the rate of inflation (on average)

Can you point to any evidence in the last 12 months of Porsche being "very strong"?

I'm working on a parenting tech device and the enclosure for it is completely AI generated. I hadn't a clue where to even start with 3D modeling, and an LLM taught me that it's code like anything else.

Weirdly, Opus 4.5 one-shotted it perfectly, but this was right before the nerfing controversy, and it's been very difficult to make even minor tweaks to the enclosure ever since.

It's like Opus went from an expert shape rotator to not having any idea what it's working on.

That's one of the things he said. He also said the exact opposite.

He repeatedly says: if we’re off by a year, we go bankrupt.

In nearly the same breath, he said AGI is 2 years away.

He's operating like AGI is imminent but not saying it. And he's operating like AGI is a decade away, yet buying tons of compute at gouged prices.

Someone expecting imminent AGI would fear being outscaled, because if they don't win on energy/compute, they lose.

So his revealed beliefs are more like: ~10% chance AGI in 1–3 years ~40 chance 4–8 years

If this doesn't completely destroy any benefit of doubt that people have in Dario, I don't know what to say. The guy has been speaking out of both sides of his mouth since the foundation of Anth. Over and over he repeated that Anth's investment in compute would not be reckless; it would represent sanity and be proportional to growth. Over and over Anth told users that the models weren't nerfed overnight, we were just prompting wrong. As expected, Anth simply failed to make the early compute deals when everyone else did, and are now forced to be on the wrong end of price gouging just to keep pace. Actions speak louder than words.

So... you just have to not build your web app in the most popular web app language? Somehow i think there will be big time debt from that decision

Start any greenfield project, hand-coded auth takes up 50% of the development time of the entire MVP

Ironically, if they adopted a Wall St boiler room culture instead of masquerading as an innovative tech company they'd probably be doing a lot better.

> that they're now doing the job of 5(!) people with the same salary.

The Marxist view of everything valuable being a product of a person's labor is tired and debunked.

The Dell XPS and Framework laptops already far exceed MacBook Pro battery life.

That report speaks nothing about the infotainment system. It's also a pay-to-play service. I'm talking about actual customers. For example, look at the Tesla subreddit as a closer proxy than CR. It is a source of frustration where Tesla is frustrating; the lack of buttons is rarely complained about.

The argument of buttons vs no buttons is missing the forest for the trees.

Teslas have a mere two buttons and are generally a joy to use. Why? Because the UI/UX was taken seriously, and the cpu hardware wasn't sourced from the dolllar store. This combination resulted in a screen-only experience that is responsive and easy to use (if you disagree with this, I will point you to Tesla's consumer satisfaction ratings, which say otherwise).

Every other car manufacturer followed suit, but made a critical mistake in that they only saw the cost savings in not needing to manufacture and build a bunch of switches. They forgot to do the necessary UI/UX work, and fitted their vehicles with a cpu out of a TI-83.

The reason why consumers are complaining about every other car manufacturer isn't because they have no buttons; it's because the screen-only experience isn't intuitive. Make it intuitive and the complaints go away.

The infrastructure requirements to get a train into operation, let alone travel to a destination twenty minutes away, takes decades of development and billions.

This needs a 20x20ft approximately flat surface.

> I'll share more details about where the Ghostty project will be moving to in the coming months

So in response to GitHub Issues, PRs, etc. being occasionally inaccessible each day, you're going to make them inaccessible for months?

Feels like a knee-jerk emotional decision, one that doesn't serve you, Ghostty, or the community.

At least have your backup ready to go

> GitHub is being managed the way other services get managed once they're bought by big companies. Initially fine, then starts to decline, then eventually craters

Can you explain what you mean by this? Like what does "fine" mean? What, specifically in the management, is the "decline"? What does "craters" mean?

RE: Gell Mann.

I know what music I like. I said I wanted "dystopian, ambient, droning music with ear-filling, warm bass. No drums or beat."

What came out was some pretty generic dubstep that one might hear on a Verizon commercial circa 2018. Subjective, sure, but a big miss given the instructions I gave it.

Now let's say I ask it to generate code to scrape all real estate listings that were recently taken off the market. The output looks good enough to me, and I'm happy. But is the underlying architecture just as bad as the music?

The output is pretty terrible. Multiple attempts to get it to generate ambient music, and every time it pumps out a terrible dubstep beat.

Like a strange form of Gell Mann amnesia, where all AI output is probably this bad, but if we don't know any better, we don't know just how bad it is.

Probably the best reply I've ever received on HN. Thank you. I learned a lot from this comment, particularly around the realities of old planes in practice... and EV tractors(!) That's actually such a brilliant application for electric; why don't they already exist?!

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

Before buying new, aren't there enough tractors from the 60s, 70s, 80s that are still salvageable?

The general aviation world has Cessna 172s from the 50s still going strong; why buy new?