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urig··on How to spot AI science slop
TLDR - random person shares their gut feeling about how to spot slop. Not useful.
urig··on Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along?
No.
urig··on I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
Yeah. This fails to load both in Opera and in Chrome on Android. I'd tone the hyperbole down a bit.
urig··on AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules
Obvs
urig··on The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain
100% agree. It's as if you read the first sentence out of my mind. Thanks.
urig··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
It's only next generation? Anthropic has frontier models! lol
urig··on How to earn a billion dollars
He's right. You don't have to cheat to become a billionaire. Stepping on everybody else's throats is a legit part of the capitalist playbook. No cheating involved.
urig··on Why most product tours get skipped
Don't build a product tour. It is useless friction. Instead, build your UI to be good,simple, obvious. That's it. That's the tweet.
urig··on ML supports existence of unrecognized transient astronomical phenomena
+/- 1 day of nuclear testing because these are old records so dates and times reported might be inaccurate.
urig··on Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users
You don't have to use the most recent bleeding edge model to succeed. A local FOSS coding agent coupled with a reasonably priced LLM could yield the optimal ROI.
urig··on LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
The tracking described is extremely invasive. You say you are not endorsing it but you are certainly normalizing it. This is unacceptable.

The people behind this URL are trying to hold Microsoft accountable. The power to them.

urig··on Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
As an Israeli, this is an inexcusable crime by IDF soldiers. Appallingly, I expect them to receive no punishment. My country's government is criminally racist.
urig··on Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI
Lots and lots of CPUs pooled. Faster more efficient power RAM accessible to both GPU and CPU. IIUC.
urig··on Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI
What the heck is agentic inference and how is it supposed to be different from LLM inference? That's a rhetorical question. Screw marketing and screw hype.
urig··on Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)
No, we just outsourced car maintenance to professional shop services. Both because mechanical aspects have become reliable enough to last a year without maintenance and because electronic/computer aspects are mind-bogglingly complicated.
urig··on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
Lost me right about in the middle when he started chirping AI AI AI like a parrot. AI and trust do not go hand in hand. Focus on privacy, transparency and simplicity because instead. Good luck.
urig··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
That's just irresponsible advice. There is so little actual evidence of this technology being able to produce high quality maintainable code that asking us to trust it blindly is borderline snake-oil peddling.
urig··on How to Spot a Counterfeit Lithium-Ion Battery
Long, interesting, and doesn't actually give you a practical way to spot counterfeit. Click-bait.
urig··on Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing
Bottom line: impressive optics, zero impact for this technology on global warming, it's a distraction.
urig··on ShipGoo001: Scientists discover new life aboard Great Lakes research vessel
University of Minnesota Duluth: "Routine maintenance leads to unexpected microbial discovery in “ship goo” on the R/V Blue Heron's rudder shaft."
urig··on MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
Central to this article, the author asks: "What if you just... removed the AI part?" and suggests a world of possibilities if we do. I disagree.

MCP is a protocol based on meagre structure and a bulk of human language. Either you use a large-language model to "read" this language, or you get a human to do it. The first is "AI" and the latter is... not very impressive.

urig··on Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta
I appreciate the artistic and programming skills of the developer but not the "cleverness" and "quirkiness" of their announcement post. It took me too long to figure out that this is some sort of distraction-less writing app only for iOS and so of no value to me. Less snappy memes, more empathy for me as a visitor, please.
urig··on The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
My takeaway from this post is not to find better ways to do, but to find a way not to.
urig··on What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested
That's an "all or nothing" fallacy, easily countered.

One alternative is water. Plus alternative products might be less efficient but less contaminating. Finally, even with Phos-Check, success is far from guaranteed.

Bottom line: the lack of transparency must be remedied and officials need to be aware and factor in heavy metal contamination into their decisions.

urig··on A Supersolid Made Using Photons
I can't believe anyone can fall for this. It's so obviously a modern take on that Rockwell Retro Encabulator joke.
urig··on Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com
Rules are put in place to be followed, for a reason. Capital letters at the start of the sentence increase readability. People who don't bother with them are being incosiderate towards their readers.
urig··on If GPUs Are So Good, Why Do We Still Use CPUs at All?
You're not the target audience. This is a very well-written explainer for non-techies. I've already emailed it to a couple of friends. Lovely.
urig··on Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident
I dunno, techbro. Somehow Meta being the victim here is not the key takeaway that springs to my mind, you know?
urig··on Ask HN: My Cofounder was diagnosed with cancer, what should I do?
F--- the company. People come first.
urig··on Ask HN: My Cofounder was diagnosed with cancer, what should I do?
Most of what you wrote sounds fair and almost compassionate to me but hard disagree on "the fact it's cancer is actually largely irrelevant".

That person has just received some of the worst news of their lives, for no fault of their own. This is very relevant for approaching them with patience, kindness and care.

OP will need to reconcile their ambition and past expectations with being a decent human being and, possibly, a friend.

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