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by simonw 3mo ago
I think Bun/Anthropic should document which commit hash their "1.4" as shipped in Claude Code uses.
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by simonw 3mo ago
The Claude Code release notes. Not the Bun release notes: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.... > Upgraded the bundled Bun runtime to 1.4 (Though that doesn't clarify th
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by simonw 3mo ago
It's publicly available in the GitHub repository and if you run "bun upgrade --canary" - https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/tag/canary
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by simonw 3mo ago
The code is on GitHub in the "main" branch, it's only unreleased in that it hasn't been tagged with a version number yet.
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by simonw 3mo ago
That Ford story was really misleading. It wasn't about modern LLMs, and the way it was reported implied that Ford had fired and then hired people but if you read closer that wasn't necessarily the case at all - it sounded more lik
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by simonw 3mo ago
I think there's a big difference between individual employees using AI tools to boost their productivity - with things like Claude Code and Codex - and "AI projects" where companies build custom software on top of LLMs. The f
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by simonw 3mo ago
This is excellent. > Employees don’t use internal chatbots because companies tend to have low-quality documentation and an LLM is not psychic – it can only know things that have been written down and made accessible. Then later: > In
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by simonw 3mo ago
Awesome! I found the in-progress diarization PR here: https://github.com/handy-computer/transcribe.cpp/pull/85 Looks like it's using IBM's Granite-Speech-4.1-2B-Plus https://huggingface.c
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by simonw 3mo ago
> Maintainer supported bindings in 4 Languages Nice. Here's the Python one: https://github.com/handy-computer/transcribe.cpp/tree/main/b... - looks like it's not yet available as a binary wh
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by simonw 3mo ago
I think ~15,000 downloads a day is pretty good https://pypistats.org/packages/llm
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by simonw 3mo ago
The amount of people who vote them up appears to be significantly higher.
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by simonw 3mo ago
What's your criteria for a "real database"?
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by simonw 3mo ago
Julia Evans is an extremely knowledgeable person. She's also one of the best out there at demystifying technology and helping people understand what solving problems actually looks like. This article doesn't pretend to be a worl
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by simonw 3mo ago
That's the joke.
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by simonw 3mo ago
Good point, no it doesn't.
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by simonw 3mo ago
I'm not sure there's any level of iterations that could result in a credible decision that model A clearly draws a better pelican riding a bicycle than model B. What does "better" even mean there?
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by simonw 3mo ago
SQLite can happily handle thousands of reads and writes per second even on modest hardware.
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by simonw 3mo ago
For logging, in particular for an environment where you don't want a leaked credential to allow the deletion of any previously recorded files.
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by simonw 3mo ago
The pelican test has never pretended to be "rigorous". It's always openly been very much not that.
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by simonw 3mo ago
I didn't submit this story. If you look at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net you'll see that I submitted just one out of the last thirty articles from my site that were submitted to Hacker N
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by simonw 3mo ago
I revisit https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_... every few years. Also a big fan of https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
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by simonw 3mo ago
The dedicated text-to-image models all produce good illustrations of pelicans riding bicycles. Here's one I got from OpenAI's gpt-image-2 just the other day: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/14/ped
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by simonw 3mo ago
No, the prompt I always use is "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle".
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by simonw 3mo ago
There was a glorious moment when I thought that the Chinese models were more likely to produce right-to-left cycling pelicans, but sadly that trend didn't seem to hold up.
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by simonw 3mo ago
I've worked with large MySQL databases that used row-based replication and things like an UPDATE or DELETE that affected millions of rows had to be applied in batches there, because otherwise one SQL query might result in a million upd
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by simonw 3mo ago
If such a product existed I'm reasonably confident someone would have tipped me off by now, NDAs be damned.
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by simonw 3mo ago
> PS: have you physically seen a pelican in real life? (not a joke) We have several thousand living 15 minutes walk from our house. I recently started adding my wildlife photography (from iNaturalist) to my blog, so I'm posting seve
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by simonw 3mo ago
I'm a deep believer in commitment to the bit. https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/
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by simonw 3mo ago
> I’ve been backing up to AWS, which is always a pain because it’s annoying to navigate the AWS console to generate credentials. I got so annoyed with that a few years ago that I ended up building a whole tool just to solve that one pr
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by simonw 3mo ago
I'll note there's a difference between "pelicans on bikes aren't part of the training set" and "I’m still not convinced that labs are training for the benchmark". I'm sure all sorts of crap pelican ri

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