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Nostalgia is an addictive drug.

nickhodgeon OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

Microeconomics may give us a clue

Lack of demand and/or commodity product.

Either doesn't bode well for a multi-trillion dollar valuation for either company.

nickhodgeon LGTM: A parody of modern AI adoption in the tech industry [video]

Is the song AI generated? If so, I am extra sad now.

nickhodgeon Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack

It is just a resource! Hello ResEdit.

nickhodgeon Analyzing student votes across AI models for college essay help

Did they assess if any wanted to use their own brain?

nickhodgeon Shinjuku Station in 3D

NO WONDER I've become lost in Shinjuku Station on at least 3 occasions!

nickhodgeon Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s

80Mb Drives were _expensive_

nickhodgeon Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s

Installed via QIC tape to Rodime 120Mb drive. Had fun formatting the Rodime; but got it working.

Learnt TCP/IP with this setup. Good Times(tm)

nickhodgeon Underarm bowling incident of 1981

I remember hearing this live while in a car on a hot summer’s days in the Adelaide hills.

Not a cricket fan now, but was subjected to it as a kid.

NZ are generationally enraged. Australians have wilfully forgotten.

nickhodgeon Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Well, kids, it looks like we're back to closing those tickets the old fashioned way.

By thinking for ourselves and writing the code with the keyboard.

nickhodgeon Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

Asked AI to generate some code.

It looked absolutely unmaintainable and horrible.

"oh shit" there are serious developers using this crap? As an industry, we are so fsck'd

nickhodgeon The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History

Reflect on this in the context of the US right now. Makuthink.

nickhodgeon 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

Rust would fix this. Oh wait.

nickhodgeon A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease

FND == neurologist gaslighting the patient. Formerly known as hysteria.

nickhodgeon Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

When you are an Apple Developer, as the poster states - it goes deeper and more destructive.

nickhodgeon Claude was down

hypothesis: claude pushed vibe coded api router to prod

nickhodgeon U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel

Here comes the nationalization phase of fascism. Well done, freedom lovers. You voted in exactly what you fear most.

nickhodgeon Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?

Why disengage your brain and trust AI when searching?

nickhodgeon Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster

I bet this guy would still fail a first round FAANG developer interview requiring a Hash Table solution to move on in the process.

"Yeah, sorry. You didn't use the right Hash Table"

nickhodgeon Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

Severe ME/CFS. I am a carer for my wife who has this forgotten & hidden disease.

I am so glad Physics Girl is getting better with rest!

nickhodgeon NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective

what fresh hell are we creating?

nickhodgeon Open Source Farming Robot

But why?

nickhodgeon Stuff that is backwards in Australia

yeah nah

nickhodgeon Unveiling the big leap in Ruby 3.3's IRB

... and JavaScript

nickhodgeon Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive

Do People pay actual money for these crap products?

nickhodgeon Previous: A NeXT Computer Emulator

I think the western world is sending all its spare munitions as we speak.

nickhodgeon How to Run a Ponzi Scheme for Tech People

Easier.

Step 1. Invent Bitcoin.

nickhodgeon Jupiter Moon Europa's Giant Geysers Are Missing

"Aliens"