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by zzzeek 1y ago
in fact that is exactly the argument made by the interview here, so there you go I agree it's weird nobody is talking about this. Post to a bunch of techs that they're going to spy on their chats you'll get thousands of out
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Peter Thiel and the Antichrist: Silicon Valley Apocalypse Hype(thenerdreich.com)
25 points by zzzeek 1y ago|7 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I've never heard of a "dynamic programming algorithm". Read wikipedia and it seems to mean....use a recursive function? The coin problem is an easy recursive problem (I just wrote the code for it to make sure my old brain c
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by zzzeek 1y ago
exactly. there's just an attitude of hubris in a lot of tech nerds that remains unmoved even when they've "swapped out a whole new operating system" for themselves
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by zzzeek 1y ago
maybe just a few months, AI scale is much faster than web scale of course
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by zzzeek 1y ago
This links to a super long winded blog post that sounds more like a toast at a wedding, so I went to the main page to try to see what their product is, and you just get a blitz of fancy animations of table diagrams and things and lots of ve
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Huh ? Ask Sam Bankman-Fried, ask Enron, people go to jail for corporate crime all the time, are you meaning just for copyright infringement?
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by zzzeek 1y ago
> [paraphrased] What's with this trend on HN ...painting US law enforcement as Nazis who get off on going after innocent people trying to get by? it's in the newspaper. A lot of us read it
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by zzzeek 1y ago
> CarlinKit 5.0 Wireless CarPlay/Android Auto adapter because the Leaf only supports wired CarPlay by default OMG this may have just saved my life that this is a thing though it looks like there are ones with much better reviews
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by zzzeek 1y ago
can someone explain to me if this is real? I run many high profile OSS projects that are all hosted on Github. I've yet to see any issues or PRs generated by AI, when PRs come in, I've never seen an AI code review pop in. I&#
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by zzzeek 1y ago
"Type checking is an antipattern" because it admits that our software has more than seven dependencies, which is cognitively unacceptable "Type checking is an antipattern" because electrical engineers designing CPUs have
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Nice site but we're at the point in "Show an In Depth Thing on Hacker News" where circles like these need to be presented with a live GUI that includes sound and colors as you spin the circles around to play different chords.
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by zzzeek 1y ago
NYT had a much more engaging headline on the front page for this, "The Fever Dream of Imminent 'Superintelligence' is Finally Breaking". "How to Rethink AI" is a terrible headline and as we see here a high p
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Claude writes out plans and all that, it's good about that. Sure would be great if ai agents could learn from conversations. That would really makes things better. I tell Claude to capture things in the Claude.md file, but I have to
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OTC nasal spray seemed to cut Covid infections by 67% in mid-sized trial(arstechnica.com)
12 points by zzzeek 1y ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I use Claude every day. When I give it a program that does something straightforward in one file and it writes it from scratch, it does great. When I have it fix issues or add functionality to small to medium sized apps that have a mostly
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by zzzeek 1y ago
See that is a very good detail that I hope Mr Thiel can address in his lecture series. Since he's apparently an expert in latent evil demons.
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Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel to lead 4-part series on the Antichrist(christianpost.com)
18 points by zzzeek 1y ago|11 comments
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Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump's Attacks on Science(nytimes.com)
27 points by zzzeek 1y ago|4 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I was intrigued at this post's emphasis on militarization as the source of pretty much all the digital technology we use today (not technically incorrect for the internet, not so sure about computers in general), combined with a real
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by zzzeek 1y ago
so deeply controversial when a guy doing nazi salutes in front of crowds and illegally dismantling key pillars of US foreign policy finds himself unfavored by the media
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by zzzeek 1y ago
im there, I use Claude every day, am not a far leftist. come on over and there will be two of us.
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I really couldn't follow the use case. it looked like, they have a chain of method calls with some kind of `mark_circle().encode().properties()`, OK, so, if you want to make those methods do something different, you reach into OOP wi
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by zzzeek 1y ago
It's an open source project. It's public .
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I don't even have the captchas turned on. When I get an email that cpu is churning for three hours , cloudflare gives me a quick way to see where the traffic is coming from and I can just block it. Because it's always crawlers,
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by zzzeek 1y ago
open to people who contribute PRs so they can see why their tests failed, also htdigest / htpasswd access is complicated / impossible (depending on use case) to configure with the way jenkins / gerrit authentication itself wo
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I just had to purchase a cloudflare account to protect two of my sites used for CI that run Jenkins and Gerrit servers. These are resource-hungry java VMs which I have running on a minimally powered server as they are intended to be acces
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by zzzeek 1y ago
it's still the case today, in 2025, that when I bought a Focusrite 18i20 mixer from Sweetwater that turned out to be defective, I had to spend a week with a lengthy and super-long-delayed conversation with their support department conv
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Go is the kind of language you use at your job, and you necessarily need to have dozens of linters and automated code quality checks set up to catch all the gotchas, like the stuff with "err" here, and nobody is ever going to get
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by zzzeek 1y ago
ffmpeg is a treasure to the open source and audio technology communities. The tool cuts right through all kinds of proprietary and arcane roadblocks presented by various codecs and formats and it's clear a tremendous amount of work go

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