Recursing

See the classic Gwern post: https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity

Which quotes Tao on using deliberate disinformation to preserve anonymity.

…one additional way to gain more anonymity is through deliberate disinformation. For instance, suppose that one reveals 100 independent bits of information about oneself. Ordinarily, this would cost 100 bits of anonymity (assuming that each bit was a priori equally likely to be true or false), by cutting the number of possibilities down by a factor of 2100; but if 5 of these 100 bits (chosen randomly and not revealed in advance) are deliberately falsified, then the number of possibilities increases again by a factor of (100 choose 5) ~ 226, recovering about 26 bits of anonymity.

Intentionally adding writing "tics", scheduling posts to appear between 2am and 6am in your timezone, or pretending to have a different gender/location/age should help a lot in staying pseudonymous for a while longer.

Many deb packages are easily repackaged for arch by the community

This seems to have unblocked Claude Desktop for Linux ( https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-linux )

https://nitter.net/ClaudeDevs/status/2071988881717871065

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-linux

https://claude.com/download

This is clearly shown in the settings/config (or at least was last time I looked), if people are surprised by this I recommend asking claude code what settings you can tweak

Zope was strongly influenced by Smalltalk

The ZODB is an (almost) transparent python object persistence system, heavily influenced by Smalltalk.

https://zodb.org/en/latest/articles/ZODB-overview.html#compa...

I think Jim Fulton and other authors of Zope originally came from Smalltalk

What's the threshold at which you remove scores from the leaderboard? There were several valid >100 scores earlier today (some mentioned in other comments here)

That node release was to fix security issues...

node randomly broke production for us last week https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/63989 not sure it can be considered "stable and won't break things like this between minor releases"

I see a lot of knee-jerk comments to this, but I highly recommend running a scan ( https://openai.com/daybreak/codex-security-plugin/#codex-cli ) in your projects so you can evaluate it yourself. It found a real security issue in a project of mine, with very few false-positives.

Its built-in resume mechanism didn't work after it crashed when running out of my 5 hour session limit, but Claude Code was easily able to resume it 5 hours later reading the session logs and https://openai.com/codex/security/scan.sh

I also don't get it, looks like any other ad

Some good ideas here: https://posthog.com/blog/making-claude-cowork-actually-usefu...

1. Same experience as my non-Linux coworkers, so we can share learnings and processes

2. Scheduled tasks that run locally ( https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13854387-schedule-rec... ) importantly different from Claude Code routines

3. Multiple projects/isolated memories in the same folder

4. Better UI

At the time gwern alleged it was because of Brockman's wife https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/181o1q4/co...

express-zod-api works well for me https://github.com/RobinTail/express-zod-api I'd say about as well as anything Python

For more on this https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-online-sports-gambling-exp...

it is clear from studies and from what we see with our eyes that ubiquitous sports gambling [...] is mostly predation on people who suffer from addictive behaviors.

This is not a minor issue. This is so bad that you can pick up the impacts in overall economic distress data.

the financial consequences of legalized sports betting [...] include a 28% overall increase in bankruptcies (!). [...] a 28% increase in bankruptcies is far more than I would have predicted. The typical adult bankruptcy rate is about 0.16%, so this would mean about 4bps (0.04%)/year of additional bankruptcies, or an over 1% additional chance a typical person goes bankrupt during their lifetime. [...] A bankruptcy is extremely socially expensive, on the order of $200k. That alone is almost triple the profits, and clearly wipes out all the social gains. Legalized online sports betting is currently a deeply, deeply horrible deal.

[...] there might be a 3% overall increase in domestic violence as the result of legalized sports betting [...] This is a huge direct cost to bear. Domestic violence ruins lives. It also is a huge indicator that this is causing large amounts of distress in various forms, and that those gambling on sports are not making rational or wise consumption decisions.

The organization I work for does something similar and positively evaluated GiveWell in November 2025 (see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U9H34ui_hvnPOwvsvcZF3VCC... )

Personally, the more I look into GiveWell the more I think it's an amazing way to donate

sympy and similar packages can handle the vast majority of simple cases

From the preprint linked above:

We tested a total of 42 subjects, 17 of which were females.

You could look at his early guests and see what many of them have in common

I work on a website that doesn't have any mobile-specific features, new users ask me all the time why we don't have an app.

My sister and my parents basically ~only read newspapers from their apps, despite it being static text with some images.

I don't know how, but Google and Apple are really good at nudging people to use apps instead of websites.

My best guess is that a part of it is replacing US (or in this case Israeli) devs with much cheaper Italian/European ones, earning ~a quarter of their US counterparts and working longer hours, as Bending Spoons has an extremely competitive hiring process, and is probably the highest paying tech company in Italy

https://archive.is/bXjsr not much new compared to what has been posted on HN in the past few weeks.

What surprised me was scrolling through https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=claude+code , so many tweets every few seconds.

What probability would you give for Linux support for Claude Desktop in 2026?

The article is more about OpenAI hiding the evidence, which if true seems more clearly unethical.

imho https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1995-egan.pdf from 1995 is an even better exploration of the same theme

For more on why I'm skeptical it will end this way, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici...

I don't see why machines should keep biological life around, since they'll be much more efficient

Title should have (1989)

Yes it's "surprisingly readable" only for being so strong and so concise, definitely not production code.

The file is 500 lines because of the piece square tables (as you mentioned), comments, and the CLI interface logic

Previous HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20068651

For people interested in making their own, I highly recommend reading through https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish/blob/master/sunfish.py , a surprisingly readable and surprisingly strong chess engine in 111 lines of Python

https://www.chessprogramming.org/ is also really interesting, see e.g. https://www.chessprogramming.org/Sunfish and https://www.chessprogramming.org/Quiescence_Search

I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici... has much better arguments than the LessWrong sources in other comments, and they weren't written by Big Tech CEOs.

Also "my product will kill you and everyone you care about" is not as great a marketing strategy as you seem to imply, and Big Tech CEOs are not talking about risks anymore. They currently say things like "we'll all be so rich that we won't need to work and we will have to find meaning without jobs"