- If he deflates their revenues, who is going to rent the compute from Meta?
- [delayed]
- You also have to ponder how it looks when you remove the Chinese supply chain for all those commodity parts. Which will almost certainly be the case if we decide to punch that dance card.
Having a boundless cornucopia of servos and radios will affect the shape of your logistics/maintenance/fabrication complex.
That's not just a "Ukraine Problem" either.
- I agree that this would be a more ideal world to live in (at least as a consumer, dunno about as the kind of smaller-time developer the article is talking about), but I don't see it as something I can practically choose in 2026 given my mix of computing devices, my priorities, and the computing ecosystem writ large.
I have a couple of apps that I bought in the early days of the App Store that I can no longer use because I didn't think it worthwhile to keep an old iPod Touch running iOS 6 or whatever. I think my Adobe CS license stopped being viable...can't remember actually, if it was the switch to 64-bit or the switch off of Intel that killed it for good.
- >EU Parliament supports the globalists' agenda
word. thats the entire point of the existence of the EU
- Thats a very weak argument I would say.
The internet is a technology, Tesla is the car company which makes Elon Musk rich. Elon Musk is the richest person on the whole planet who has no character / integrity.
if elon Musk decides to do something, he does it until someone else says no.
Grok and Child pornography? No issue. EU says no, now Musk does something against it.
elon Musk has no motivation at all to be critical about what he does, we as a society apparently have to play the bad cop.
- Information density of the prompt is the most important factor in my experience.
And interestingly, LLMs seem particularly bad at writing prompts for other LLMs for this reason (you can guide them to be more dense, just speaking by default).
Conciseness is usually a byproduct of information density though.
- i'm not happy with how openai is trying to pit 5.6 sol as a cheaper equivalent to fable here
for one thing, they said that on AA, sol is "within one point of fable" at 58.9 vs 59.9 but don't clarify that the latter is with safeguards where ~8% of the tasks got routed to opus
i'm not rooting for either and genuinely think that the token efficiency and cheaper price are important but this sort of thing just feels disingenuous :-/
- Are you really saying that in 2026, a year when only the nuts are still trying to claim climate change isn’t a thing, the most intelligent approach to the problem of powering data centres that are mostly being built for the purpose of juicing share prices is gas turbines at an industrial scale? The most intelligent approach is to not build the things. The next most intelligent approach is solar and batteries nearby. Way down the bottom of the list is burning gas to power them.
- > Disclaimer: An earlier version of this post claimed the structure is wait-free, this is incorrect. Being wait-free requires that failure or suspension of any thread can’t cause failure or suspension of another thread. This queue in fact does not fulfill that requirement. The main section which discusses the wait bounds of queue operations has been amended to reflect this, but other parts of this article have not been. As such there may parts of the text which refer to this as a wait-free queue, which it is not. I chose to keep those sections to avoid rewriting chunks of this post after it was already posted. Thanks for the correction Reddit user matthieum!
Classy disclaimer! matthieum's (long) reddit comment is also an informative read: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1up0uhg/girls_just_wa...
- > What's the goal of the US/Iran war?
To make certain people money by shorting the oil market. There is a reason why these "peace" deals are always announced on Fridays.
- On election, Binface promises to build one affordable house and cap the price of a 99 ice-cream to 99p. I'm convinced.
- I didn't mention profit.
- I think that's a little naive. This sort of legislation is much more useful in terms of managing the local population and what they are allowed to talk about than it is in terms of profit—except, I suppose, in the sense that holding companies liable for what is said with their software is unprofitable.
- DeepSWE seems to strongly, strongly prefer ChatGPT models. There were also major flaws in its methodology pointed out recently, that overlap strongly with the flaws OpenAI pointed out in its SWE Verified report.
I use both ChatGPT and Claude for engineering work on a daily basis, touching performance critical code to application backends to frontend work, and I've found that DeepSWE scores don't reflect my reality when I assess high quality output from the models/harnesses.
Not that Opus always beats GPT 5.5., but that 5.5 is ahead of Opus on a general benchmark smells off to me.
- I find that I have to tell GPT and Claude to keep asking me questions, or they will just fill in the gaps themselves (wrongly).
- The fact that Bun is the face of Zig owes only to its popularity in terms of developer mindshare. But this fact means that Bun leaving and rewriting to Rust, no matter how its phrased by any of the major parties, was always going to be alternatively reframed as a major proponent of Zig leaving for Rust.
That is why this is a PR moment for Zig. It's not because Jarred was a bad manager, one who overworks his team, one who doesn't develop intimacy with the internal core team at Zig, an amateur coder, or a liar about whether or not they've been fuzzing.
- I would never use any product that can't explain on its own front page what it is and why I should use it.
- Is calling someone a "stinky manager" a personal attack?
yes!
- This is one for https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights!
(I mention this so more people can know the list exists. All are welcome to let us know at hn@ycombinator.com when you see comments we should add!)
- That’s exactly why it could continue indefinitely. A war with no goal can’t be won. Nor can it be abandoned without bruising powerful egos.
- Decades ago, long enough that NDAs are long expired, I analyzed ad network traffic at Google, handling big entities with involved contracts like IAC, Mozilla, AOL, Yahoo, and so on. We looked for weird traffic that might be signs of an attack, organized crime, misconfiguration, and so on.
Lots of these entities were arbitraging ad traffic, which they were mostly explicitly allowed to do. They'd buy ads on Google search engine results pages, and after a click dump the user on their own SERP, often for a different but (nominally related) keyword. The game is, change the keyword just enough that ads on your own SERP are much higher cost per click, and make your SERP's organic results shitty enough that users are highly likely to click an ad instead of a real link.
We kept finding that several of these guys had SERP ad revenue increasing by double, triple digit percentages year over year—with almost no organic traffic, and offset by commensurate lockstep increases in Google ad spend. They mostly consistently lost money, with spend, ahem, traffic acquisition costs, a few percentage points higher than revenue. There were lawyers, finance people, and analysts trying to figure out what the fuck was going on.
With Google taking a cut at every corner, actually coming out ahead at scale was a tough game to play. They couldn't make a profit, but they sure could show sustained growth... offset by TAC.
Literal billions were spent this way. Most of the ad purchases, SERP results, and SERP ads came from Google. Almost all the rest came from Microsoft.
Check out the SEC filings from AOL and IAC in 2013-2015 if you're curious. Grep fro traffic acquisition costs.
- Try discipline
- My Codex app got upgraded to the new unified ChatGPT app. I don't see Sol available though. Only Terra and Luna. I'm on the Pro plan. Anyone else see it?
- “Bring back Ceefax” is a more fully-formed policy than anything Farage’s various parties and offshoots have ever suggested.
- Maybe Zuck should double down on his "spoiler" role with models rather than compete head-to-head.
He doesn't have to match Anthropic or OpenAI model revenue if he can deflate theirs by 99%.
All he has to do is keep spending a few billion dollars developing frontier models, release them as open weights, and turn coding models into a commodity. He also needs a good OSS reference harness to match. Very few people are in a position to do this and for it to make business sense.
That's quite likely where things are headed regardless, and he could speed it up significantly.
We should all hope models move from proprietary products to commodities the way compilers did.
This may be one of the best things Zuck could do for the world.
- Codex has arguably been better than Claude Code for months now, but it's flown under the radar because it just didn't capture the same viral marketing effect and OpenAI in general has had more optics / PR issues than Anthropic amongst the online developer crowd. I use the word "better" not in the sense that the underlying GPT models are fundamentally smarter or more intelligent, but rather that as a product Codex is just simpler, cheaper, and abundantly reliable and low-drama.
- Two things can be true.
And clearly, you think billion-dollar companies making dark patterns, ignoring web standards and choosing to track people left and right are less to blame the inconvenience of a banner (that warns you they do) than the people trying to protect your privacy and did it imperfectly.
I have made enought web sites and app that don't have a banner to know it's perfectly possible, even today.
I have implemented DNT support and know it was a great solution before it was taken away.
I have worked with enough clients to know why they chose the banner anyway.
So I have to conclude you are not an honest actor in this debate, and you are clearly angry as well.
So I'll leave you at that.
- Don’t change the topic.
The general council (lawyers) at companies are making the decisions around cookies banners and the like, not the folks trying to make money. Regardless of how you might interpret the law and requirements around GDPR, the legal profession as a whole seems to think the crap we live with today is necessary. If it isn’t, it’s on the EU technocrats to clarify in communications, written rules, and on their own damn website what it is supposed to look like.
- > I actually don't have any personal criticisms of Jarred
The whole post felt like a personal criticism of Jarred.
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