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www.theguardian.com 10mo ago

Google DeepMind claims 'historic' AI breakthrough in problem solving

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www.theguardian.com 2y ago

OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff

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www.theguardian.com 2y ago

Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban

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www.washingtonpost.com 2y ago

Ukrainian fighters take to electric bikes in the war against Russia

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www.theguardian.com 2y ago

The Russian minister who fled the draft to drive trucks in the US

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www.bloomberg.com 2y ago

You can sell the BitCoins you don't mine

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www.theguardian.com 3y ago

Is the bird freed? A look back at six months of Musk’s Twitter reign

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www.businesspost.ie 3y ago

Companies to publish salary ranges in job adverts under new EU rules

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batteryfreephone.cs.washington.edu 3y ago

Battery Free Phone (2017)

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aviation.stackexchange.com 3y ago

Why would a 21st century warplane shoot a balloon with a missile?

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www.theguardian.com 3y ago

Lessons from my dying therapist: care less, have fun – and accept the inevitable

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order-order.com 3y ago

Who’s Backing Who

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www.vox.com 3y ago

Companies are being forced to reveal what a job pays. It’s a start

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www.theverge.com 4y ago

New York City passes new protections for delivery workers

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Why are so many cops blasting music while being filmed?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

[Ask HN] 20 hour solo road trip: What podcasts should I listen to?

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medium.com 5y ago

You Might Not Need TypeScript (Or Static Types) (2016)

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www.iflscience.com 5y ago

AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game for Fans After Mistaking Referees Bald Head for Ball

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www.newyorker.com 5y ago

I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35

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eu.usatoday.com 6y ago

New iPhone? No thanks. These older-model 5S owners don't need or want one

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stackoverflow.com 7y ago

Why is C++ template use not recommended in a space/radiated environment?

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

WeWork- the Most Overvalued Startup in the World?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Are you pretending to work today?

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medium.com 8y ago

What Medieval England Can Teach Us about Software Development

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Linux laptop with MacBook-like build quality

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medium.com 9y ago

Guilds, Ethics, and Software Engineering as one of The Professions

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Honouring the Sabbath

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medium.com 10y ago

How Good Are the Office 365 APIs for Node.js?

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github.com 10y ago

Show HN: Search-index- portable search with JavaScript and LevelDB

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www.foragejs.net 12y ago

Show HN: Forage - A search engine for node.js

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I was a diehard spaces-over-tabs person until I saw this scene in Silicon Valley. I had rather naively assumed that the tab-indent default in emacs was an oversight rather than a considered decision. This scene actually educated me.

It raises an interesting moral question:

If an un-guardrailed version of a model is capable of detecting security flaws, should it be kept secret? Should everybody be able to use these models to find (and fix) security flaws? Are we ok with the fact that those with access to that model have, in effect, the ability to hack lots of stuff?

I think the idea is that you can launder your team or product AI spend through your AWS account.

Can confirm that this is the one and only reason that we use Claude through AWS

Agreed- node/npm are exceptionally well run and designed. Personally I also prefer the non-TypeScriptiness.

Started a volunteer run, drop-in, bicycle workshop a few years ago. Its still going strong- something about the vibe, the practicality, and bike maintenance being just the right level of hard. I don't run it any more, but I drop in from time to time, and it always makes me feel better.

As somebody who has spent a bit of time in academia, I have often been slightly alarmed by some of the research (and opinon) that comes out of business schools. One thing is that it is often unsubstantiated and just plain wrong, another is that it often seems like the authors kind of know it, almost as if they are intentionally pandering to a lowbrow/midwit audience, and they expect everybody else to be in on the game. Its mystifying.

it's nobody else's business

Human origin certification is coming. It might be hard to enforce, but you should probably respect the intent if a project tries to enforce it.

A court still might rule that all AI-generated code is in the public domain, because there was not enough human input in it. That’s quite possible, though probably not very likely.

Its not only likely, it is in fact the current position, at least in the US.

Right, but surely swagger/openapi has been providing robust API discovery for years? I just don't get what LLMs don't like about it (apart from it possibly using slightly more tokens than MCP)

gws doesn't ship a static list of commands. It reads Google's own Discovery Service at runtime and builds its entire command surface dynamically.

What is the practical difference between a "discovery service"+API and an MCP server? Surely humans and LLMs are better off using discovery service"+API in all cases? What would be the benefit of MCP?