starkparker

even for advertising it's not even a problem to aspire toward having

some models and harnesses are good at some things and bad at others. some HN users are good at using some models and harnesses and bad at using others. some engineers at your company understand what tools to use for their work and others don't. some programming languages are better resourced to support agents than others.

most generative tools are good at tasks and bad at architecture. effective QA of generated code is still at an infant stage no matter what anyone claims, much less automated effective QA; teams that care deeply about getting things right the first time will have a worse time with it on the median than teams that don't.

don't trust the code it generates, but "don't trust" doesn't mean discard it. don't trust the architecture it invents for a problem, it can't reason at that level, it's literally aping the background noise of the entire internet and building things that are dead-center mediocre.

there's not enough specifics in your wall of text to help me point out what's going on in any useful detail, though.

i will say that HN users are more likely to be ecstatic at building an MVP that they never have to support; the scale of a company where you have 6 years experience but are still new on your team is bigger than where most of HN lives and works. the dissonance would be the same if it was 10 years ago, LLMs didn't meaningfully exist, and you'd be on here asking HN why some of these so-called lean teams everyone's posting about all of a sudden seem to be so much more productive than when your boss at BiggerCorp tried to streamline processes and then got yelled at by CS, sales enablement, and marketing.

That graph has bugged me since it went viral. The methodology is horseshit: https://github.com/DaMrNelson/github-historical-uptime

Just dumping HARs from devtools from a status site that hallucinates 100% uptime when it has no data. For example, all GitHub services had 100% uptime in June 1996: https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=200

The graph gives GitHub Actions 100% uptime before it launched to GA in November 2019. That factors into the average uptime for every month on the graph before that. It's fully horseshit.

I don't know what the A1S is (did you mean the A1 or the P1S?) but the Snapmaker U1 is on my wishlist. More expensive than either but eliminates the AMS waste by using multiple toolheads. Open firmware, most of Bambu's convenience features.

Favoring emotion over facts while advocating for a cause is still a sugar high of advocacy, regardless of the cause's righteousness. A short burst quickly forgotten, with a chance of discrediting what you're trying to advocate if the facts aren't right.

Even amongst YouTubers, you can favor facts over emotions (without discarding emotion!) and be a more effective advocate who arms others with both motivation and useful, effective knowledge.[1]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

The first flagged link came out Wednesday and specifically references Natanson's Pulitzer win on Monday.

No idea how to separate the context of Natanson winning the Pulitzer and two days later a leak revealing another FBI investigation into another journalist.

Previously:

FBI investigating leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Patel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037332 (flagged)

Kash Patel's Personalized Bourbon Stash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043378 (flagged)

A Dangerous New Attack on Press Freedom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057315

An author who lives in Portland but gets a mail-order coffee subscription from California, no less. A half-dozen indie microroasters within 2 miles of him? _Not good enough_

At least your workplace doesn't frame raw usage as a leaderboard, with awards given out for topping it

> A scheduled increase to Oregon’s transportation taxes, including those that help fund TriMet, is on hold after an effort to repeal the hike secured enough signatures to send the issue to the ballot next month.

from the Oregonian article I linked

The service changes take affect in August, in large part because they can no longer expect the funding for them to exist by then.

> “The agency’s current position is that they have to cut service now to avoid worse cuts later, although worse cuts may be coming later anyway,” Walker wrote.

from the Mercury article I linked

And in August, the bus line that serves my neighborhood completely goes away, and the next closest bus line with stops 2 miles away will end weekday service after 6:30 p.m. and weekend service altogether.

I don't give a fuck if it's free, if it's inaccessible. I'm not crossing SE Foster on a rainy evening to catch a bus that won't take me home afterward.

For context, this is coming in as TriMet is laying off staff, reducing service frequency, eliminating bus lines, and cutting parts of light rail routes due to a $300M budget shortfall. The cuts were exacerbated by state Republicans getting a proposed payroll tax repeal onto the ballot next month; TriMet relies heavily on payroll taxes that are deeply unpopular among the self-employed and small business owners, so the budget is going to get worse before it gets better.

https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2026/04/trimet-official...

https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/trimets-present-crisis-...

At the same time, Portland's city council is debating whether to cap the cut of driver pay that rideshare companies take: https://www.opb.org/article/2026/04/13/uber-lyft-driver-pay-...

So at the same time that public transit is retreating and rideshare company labor overhead is threatening to increase, Waymo shows up with a convenient solution to both problems.

If it's the latter then Portland makes little sense. There are no regulations allowing it and the bill to enable it is still in motion at the state level (and not a slam dunk).

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2026/04/self-driving-car...

> Hannah Schafer, communications director for the Portland Bureau of Transportation, said Waymo is welcome to map out the city streets.

> “All they’re doing right now is basically taking pictures. Taking pictures in the right of way, anyone is allowed to do that. That’s not something that we regulate,” Schafer said.

> However, she said the city would regulate the testing and driving of autonomous cars.

> “No one can drive driverless vehicles in Portland without a permit,” Schafer said. “That is not allowed.”

...

> Portland fought vigorously with Uber over the terms of its local arrival a decade ago and a battle is already brewing over Waymo. Portland council member Mitch Green staked out his opposition in January, telling constituents on Bluesky, “You should know I don’t support that.”

...

> Oregon legislators considered a bill earlier this year that would have set statewide rules for self-driving cars, and would have prohibited local governments from imposing blanket prohibitions on autonomous vehicles. The bill died in committee following opposition from local governments.

Would be nice to get context from the mailing list. GKH explains his Clanker fuzzers, but this (presumably generated) summary seems unaware of it.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clanker-T1000-AMD-Ryzen-AI-Max for some context

Both of Darius Kazemi's, in 2014 on generative art and more broadly about how success is effectively random and how shipping things, anything, no matter how small, fuels creativity: https://xoxofest.com/2014/videos/darius-kazemi/

and 2024, about his Hometown fork of Mastodon for small, more insular groups that still wanted some, but not all, features of federation, and more broadly about what responsibilities social media should have and fulfill in society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy6l92bFxtQ

Did you see the section of the article that responds to that exact non-hypothetical question posed to them while using it?

> The maker people I know have been migrating away from Tindie

To what? The only alternative I know of is Lectronz.

(2024), via https://www.npr.org/2024/05/13/1250855166/big-news-for-garde...

Further context from 2023: https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213600629/-it-feels-like-im-...

This is a genuinely useful tool with a shitty self-sabotaging name.

The change was made on the WikiData entry (and has already been reverted). Visible on the history there: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q123502863&action...

Warhammer IP is a fucking nightmare. They will bring all kinds of hammers down on anyone trying to make money on anything Warhammer-compatible or resembling Warhammer.

Examples of what they pull when someone tries to do that:

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2024/01/24/printed-minis-and...

https://freelancerpress.com/arts/2025/06/04/games-workshop-i...

SFML historically was a little more accessible if you were an OOP programmer but a total beginner to working with audio/graphics/networking programming from a game perspective. You had to be OK with or devoted to OOP/classes, want a higher-level library with a few more batteries included (especially cross-platform input and networking) but less flexibility, don't need to target game consoles, don't want or need to work in C, and are primarily or only working in 2D.

That said, even for those uses SDL2 (much less SDL3) caught up to SFML about 6-7 years ago in usability issues for people without experience coding at that level. Circa 2015, SFML was the easier route to both performance and a working cross-platform binary. That hasn't been true for a long time now, even when SFML started to get refurbished around 2021/2022. The only times I've come across SFML since 2017/2018 have been projects migrating off of it and onto SDL 2 or 3.

It's good to have both SFML and SDL, among other C++ options and other-language frameworks. Even looking at 3.1, I don't think I'd recommend SFML now, especially not for the same reasons I might've done it 10 years ago. But it's good to see them modernizing anyway, and changes like this might make it easier to update and maintain old or abandoned projects that still use SFML.

https://lawand.io/taskbar/ as well

and https://noteifyapp.com/activedock/, which is less extreme but has a start menu-like launcher option

Both have one-time/lifetime purchase options. Taskbar is $25 one-time with a free but expiring older version. ActiveDock's one-time prices are $15 (1 year of updates, but usable forever) and $60 (lifetime updates).

> ChillyWillMD ran a quick comparison between the two versions, and the cracked one delivers roughly 5% better FPS, a shocking 1.5 to 2 GB drop in VRAM, and sometimes close to 1 GB drop in system memory usage

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/denuvo-pr...

Having an M1 and an M2, no it isn't. Takes at least 5 minutes on the 65W charger to get bootable from a full drain. Maybe something changed with the newer models but it isn't a benefit across all Apple Silicon.

(2022)

Headline needs its how-dectomy reverted to make sense

LotrProject[1] has several interactive maps and visualizations, including a family tree, time/distance chart of the fellowship's journey, maps of Beleriand and Middle-Earth, historical timeline maps, and demographic posts on Middle-Earth's inhabitants. Sadly doesn't seem to have been maintained recently, the cracks in WordPress are starting to show, and AFAICT the source content isn't open.

http://lotrproject.com

> Thinking summaries will now appear in the transcript view (Ctrl+O).

Also: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/30958

> You can also use the ULTRATHINK keyword to use high effort for a single turn

First I've heard that ultrathink was back. Much quieter walkback of https://decodeclaude.com/ultrathink-deprecated/