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Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Also will be interesting what happens when the SPR runs out.

For my AI Agent it sometimes detects if I manually modified the file contents or git state. And it always assumes it must have made a mistake. It's sort of annoying actually.

I recently made an AI Agent and surprisingly coding with DeepSeek V4 Flash is quite cheap. It probably has to do with the aggressive prompt caching. I'm using OpenRouter with Novita AI as the preferred provider.

Not to be that guy, but the correct term is Open Weight LLM. And I’d argue it already has. Many open models are already very competitive with closed models at a fraction of the cost.

No, the new method of inflation that Kevin Warsh likes is the trimmed mean which is 2.8%.

First of all the May jobs report was mostly in temporary workers possibly due to the World Cup. Second as already noted the jobs are mostly in healthcare. Third job openings does not equal employment. These numbers have been diverging for a while likely due to people holding multiple jobs. Also I believe the evidence suggests the job crisis is due to WFH and not AI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326721

They’d have to keep this up for 12 months which is not guaranteed as you have to factor in hardware depreciation and other costs. Also they’d have to issue more shares to get over the liquidity requirement. And looting may be too strong of a word. They are nudging your returns down a little bit. Although SpaceX could go up too, crazier things have happened.

Good thing they're not dropping the profitability requirements. Ed Zitron would be proud.

They have to be rebalanced every quarter regardless. And I'm not sure how many people would actually sell due to the inclusion of a single company. They're very loud about it, but no evidence that this is causing a significant amount of selling.

Steve Jobs famously said, "Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think." Not sure if it is true, but programming definitely has applicability to other things. Programming is just a list of instructions if you think about it.

AI coding tools are great but they are restricted in what they can do. They still result in incredibly hacky solutions. They still litter your code with security vulnerabilities. And they still fall into loops of trying to do things the hard way, possibly failing, and burning your API tokens. I've been hearing about these problems since people started coding with AI and nothing has improved. You will always need a programmer, especially if you plan on maintaining and updating your code.

Plus AI is a wonderful learning tool. You don't have to scour the internet for a solution to your problem only to find someone who asked the same question, resolved it, and never explained how. You can just ask your AI tool.

I am very skeptical about the AI replacing programmers hype. Sure, there are a lot of AI-coded apps but there were always a lot of apps. Discovery on the app store has been a problem for a while now and I don't really see AI changing things much. It might even result in more programmers as programmers need to come in and fix all this AI slop code.

Oh no, not Rsync. I guess that's one good thing about MacOS shipping with an ancient version of rsync. Oh, wait, they ship openrsync now, but the command is still called rsync.

I had an emoji cut in half problem in Dart. I was a bit surprised because I thought substring operations worked on characters. It only caused an invalid Unicode symbol though so not too bad.

People want to believe this war will end soon.

There are readers with a 'full text mode' which will fetch the website and display it in something like Mozilla's Readability view. It does not always work, especially if the page is paywalled but it works for most sites.

Apparently the debt is keeping the Fed from raising interest rates as much as they did in 1979 when a similar crisis happened. Raising interest rates would increase the debt servicing costs pushing the US into a debt crisis.

If Elon Musk hadn't sacked those government workers it would probably be less than 39 trillion as he had to pay termination packages and hire back people he accidentally fired.

32 a day!?! I guess I’m not that abnormal after all then.

This is the one I read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266656032... which says how older participants benefit more from restricting social media use.

I was reading up on some RCTs on social media and mental health recently and one of the surprising findings is that social media is actually worse for older people.

Gemini is also my favourite. It’s very smart and has a backbone. I don’t think the Gemini 3 Pro complaint is very fair as it was listed as ‘preview’. Although I should note Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is 2.5x the cost of the previous version and I’m quite annoyed by that.

This actually makes me more likely to think it’s AI generated and you used a script to try to hide it.

It’s always amusing when the all powerful agents need our help to work properly.

Them: Agents will write code 10x faster than a human.

Also them: You will have to dumb down your CLI for them to function properly.

Ah, file permissions. My old friend. Good thing this happened on a 'local' server and not a remote VPS.

Billing caps? Google? Ha ha ha ha... OK, I'm sad now.

I really hate it when people try to justify Go’s design decisions. Try would be very useful. The real reason why is because the Go team refuses to take any lesson from any other programming language except for C. That’s why there are so many questionable decision. Also I was a little disappointed there was no mention of panics which are one such questionable decision. Also the author stopped trying to cover up their AI written tracks at the conclusion because you already read it so who cares.

I have noticed some sites block cross origin requests to their feeds. It’s annoying but I just use a server now so I don’t care. I very much recommend RSS readers to use a server as it means you get background fetch and never miss a story on sites with a lot of stories like HN.

It has been speculated that over half of the breakfast in the universe is dark breakfast.

Like the web attestation API Google tried and got so much backlash for? Good luck, I guess.

Making the app is the easy part. The hard part is getting users. Also I have doubts if AI can make a sufficiently complex app.

I noticed the difficulty cleaning too. It's why I still consider a matte screen protector superior: you never have to clean it.