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uk.reuters.com 9y ago

China's Ctrip.com to buy Skyscanner in $1.74 bn deal

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UK Open Rights Group campaign: Stop Sleepwalking Into Censorship

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petervandernoord.nl 15y ago

Moedular Synthesizer made in flash

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the-diplomat.com 15y ago

What's Wrong with Meritocracy

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fail0verflow lecture on recent PS3 jailbreaking - 27th CCC 2010

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Facebook censors links to lamebook.com

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The ars guide to trolling: Apple edition

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axisofeval.blogspot.com 15y ago

The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure

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Implementing a partial serial number verification system

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Newzbin shuts down after court defeat

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Geohot: hacked version of latest firmware re-adds OtherOS option for PS3

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What the Enterprise wants from Django

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www.michaelvandaniker.com 16y ago

Cool Visualisation: Browser share over the last decade

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datalossdb.org 16y ago

Analysis of Data Loss: Why are we seeing less media reports?

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Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos

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EU objects to Oracle's takeover of SUN

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Ask HN: the road to learning useful math

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www.theregister.co.uk 16y ago

Yahoo open sources Traffic web server

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QT4 ported to Haiku - developer preview available

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www.wikileaks.com 16y ago

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www.derkeiler.com 16y ago

Windows Security: will rate of new threats soon outpace computing power?

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www.theregister.co.uk 17y ago

IPhone 3GS Encryption "entirely useless"

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NASA's one-way human space missions

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DARPA program seeks to evolve intelligent life

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I think it's a bit different in this case. There are plenty of modern synthesisers, from Korg and others

This is intended to be a faithful recreation of a classic synth, for collectors / rich enthusiasts

Interesting - Claude immediately refuses

     API Error: Claude Code is unable to respond to this request, which appears
     to violate our Usage Policy (https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup). Please
     double press esc to edit your last message or start a new session for
     Claude Code to assist with a different task. If you are seeing this refusal
     epeatedly, try running /model claude-sonnet-4-20250514 to switch models.

Tbh I find self-documenting CLIs (e.g. with a `--help` flag, and printing correct usage examples when LLMs make things up) plus a skill that's auto invoked to be pretty reliable. CLIs can do OAuth dances too just fine.

MCP's remaining moats I think are:

- No-install product integrations (just paste in mcp config into app)

- Non-developer end users / no shell needed (no terminal)

- Multi-tenant auth (many users, dynamic OAuth)

- Security sandboxing (restrict what agents can do), credential sandboxing (agents never see secrets)

- Compliance/audit (structured logs, schema enforcement)?

If you're a developer building for developers though, CLI seems to be a clear winner right

I personally found playwright-cli, and agent-browser which wraps playwright, both more token-efficient than using the raw mcp.

Odd that this article from Dec 2025 has been posted to the top of HN though

Disney 100% has access to colorists and best in class colour grading software. It must have been a business (cost cutting) decision?

I've had good experience contacting canva support in the past who've checked things with engineering teams, you should be able to contact them about their new affinity sign-in

Is enshittification truly inevitable? Perhaps, but as an occasional affinity user this is good news and I don't see a reason to spell doom just yet

I imagine enough folks will pay for the Canva account subscription to upsell - and then it's also a funnel into Canva

Plus it directly attacks Adobe's moat if a solid desktop app competitor is free

Yeah as someone who uses Claude code daily this feels like hype and marketing

CLAUDE.md and working memory only goes so far — it never religiously follows them and does not truly 'learn' from past collaboration. In fact the more you put into a CLAUDE.md the more it seems to degrade

Great writeup. There are other scaling axes of course, around data (even synthetic data) and improving AI generation at the 'software' layer (smarter design / training efficiencies / inference speed ups) — progress in those might make the the currently-unthinkable orders of magnitude $500b and beyond not as necessary?

We are 100% going to get 'hey remember when LLMs were pure and not explicitly (or more dangerously: subtly) recommending things' nostalgia in years to come.

There are parallels to early web here I'm sure of it.

I think I'm a little more worried about AI being subtly influenced in its training data -- they can't explain why they give the tokens they do, and even chain of thought / explain your working thinking is similarly made up and hallucination-prone