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The Most Counterintuitive Way to Build a Brain [video]

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www.youtube.com 3mo ago

The physics behind Flow Matching models [video]

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old.reddit.com 4mo ago

LM Studio may possibly be infected with sophisticated malware

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www.cnn.com 4mo ago

How deep-sea mining is growing China's influence in the Pacific

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www.youtube.com 4mo ago

The MIT paper that showed space can be more powerful than time [video]

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www.youtube.com 5mo ago

Let's Build Recursive Language Models (Theory and Code) [video]

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www.youtube.com 6mo ago

Build Your Own AI Coding Agent (Full Guide) [video]

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www.youtube.com 6mo ago

The mongo db situation is crazy [video]

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hmijail.github.io 1y ago

Wealth Shown to Scale

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

There is an active war going between India and Pakistan

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code.visualstudio.com 1y ago

A Free GitHub Copilot for VS Code

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github.com 1y ago

Paisa – Personal Finance Manager

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Airlines' Secret Scheme to Keep Airfare Prices High [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Tell HN: ChatGPT supports input type other then text

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

I HATE A.I. Art [video]

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www.theregister.com 3y ago

Mysterious firm seeks to buy majority stake in Arm China

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old.reddit.com 4y ago

UN Human Rights Committee cut short its session for HK after Zoom glitch

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restofworld.org 4y ago

China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub (2019)

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auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com 4y ago

India achieves 2030 target of 40% non-fossil based electricity goal

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www.xda-developers.com 4y ago

Instagram’s new video selfie human verification can be tricked by a Barbie doll

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

COP26 ends in disappointment after India blocks coal phaseout – DW News

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Why Haven’t We Seen Hyperinflation? [video]

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Why Switzerland Has No Capital City [video]

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

How Do Linux Kernel Drivers Work? – Learning Resource [video]

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

Puffin OS: The most bizarre new Android competitor (2019) [video]

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np.reddit.com 6y ago

I wasn’t recording anything but TikTok was using the microphone

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

The inner workings of the Recycle Bin Folder[video]

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apple.stackexchange.com 6y ago

MacBook become unresponsive? Use the right port for charging

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hn.algolia.com 6y ago

Things every programmer should know

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github.com 6y ago

Scientist: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths

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Honestly, I initially thought rewriting an entire codebase with AI would be a huge mistake. After reading this, I'm starting to think I was wrong.

If projects like Bun can be substantially rewritten and shipped to millions of users, it suggests we're entering a very different phase of software development.

Today's AI-generated rewrites may not produce code that humans would consider high quality or maintainable. But I'm beginning to wonder whether that will even matter in a few months. If AI is the primary consumer, maintainer, and refactorer of code, human readability becomes far less important than correctness, performance, and the ability to iterate.

This feels like a shift where software may no longer exist as a long-lived artifact in its current form. Instead of writing and maintaining applications for years, we may generate, adapt, and discard them continuously for each use case.

If it stays at arm's length, and if it can "read only", then I am OK with it and actually somewhat pleased with it.

This isn't actually about AI. it's just classic human psychology.

You’ve had a rock-solid workflow for 25 years, so it makes total sense to be cautious and reject features you don't need.

Right now, keeping it at "arm's length" and "read-only" feels safe. But that's usually just phase one. Once that initial trust is established, those boundaries naturally start to melt away. Give it a couple of tax seasons, and you’ll probably find yourself wanting it to take on more of the heavy lifting.

GPT-5.5 3 months ago

What a time. I am back here genuinely wishing for OpenAI to release a great model, because without stiff competition, it feels like Anthropic has completely lost its mind.

Has anyone here used Kimi for actual work?

I tried it once, although it looks amazing on benchmarks, my experience was just okay-ish.

On the other hand, Qwen 3.6 is really good. It’s still not close to Opus, but it’s easily on par with Sonnet.

I’m struggling to understand the recent wave of backlash against MCP. As a standard, it elegantly solves a very real set of integration problems without forcing you to buy into a massive framework.

It provides a unified way to connect tools (whether local via stdio or remote via HTTP), handles bidirectional JSON-RPC communication natively, and forces tools to be explicit about their capabilities, which is exactly what you want for managing LLM context and agentic workflows.

This current anti-MCP hype train feels highly reminiscent of the recent phase where people started badmouthing JSON in favor of the latest niche markup language. It’s just hype driven contrarianism trying to reinvent the wheel.

The "Junior Trap" is real: if you offload your thinking to Claude or GPT-4, you’re hitting "Done" for the day, but you’re accruing massive Learning Debt. You aren't building the failure-pattern recognition that actually makes an engineer valuable.

In a world where "Code is no longer a skill," the only way to survive is to stop being a "Prompt Operator" and start being a "System Auditor." If you can’t explain the trade-offs of the architectural pattern the AI just gave you, you aren't an engineer, you're just the person holding the screwdriver while the machine builds the house.

Amazing work! I'd love to hear more details about your workflow with Claude Code.

As a side note and this isn't a knock on your project specifically. I think the community needs to normalize disclaimers for "vibe-coded" packages. Consumers really need to understand the potential risks of relying on agent-generated code upfront.

I don't get the whole idea of treating identity verification as a private enterprise problem. I realize it's easy to just blame LinkedIn or Microsoft here, but the core issue is architectural. We are trying to solve a public utility problem by building private honeypots.

The government should provide an API or interface to validate a user, essentially acting just like an SSO. Instead of forcing users to upload raw passport scans to a third-party data broker, LinkedIn should just hit a government endpoint that returns an anonymized token or a simple boolean confirming "yes, this is a real, unique person." It gives platforms the sybil resistance they need without leaking the underlying PII.

Thanks for answering! Regarding cardinality, I was actually thinking more about high-cardinality dimensions on the NLU side, e.g., if a user asks for "Sales for [Obscure Company Name]," and you have 10M distinct customers. Does the Knowledge Graph have to index all those values for the mapping to work?

On the adaptive plans, Is that execution logic handled entirely by your deterministic compiler, or does it loop back to the LLM to interpret the intermediate results?

Thanks for sharing the links, the architectural overview is very insightful.

I'm curious how this approach manages cardinality explosion? Also, how do you handle cases where a user asks for data that requires running multiple queries, specifically where each query depends on the results of the previous one?

If a foreign entity came into Florida and bought up 35% of the entire retail infrastructure, you bet the US government would regulate it and demand local value capture.

Case in point - US actively forced TSMC and Samsung to build $65B+ of factories in Arizona and Texas to secure domestic interests.

You are describing a colonial model, extract all the wealth while investing nothing in the local economy. That era is over.

If anything, Meta is the anomaly, not the role model. They should be required to invest more given their dominance, rather than being praised for extracting maximum value with minimum local footprint. Regulators will likely close that gap eventually.

I get the fear, but look at it from the investor's perspective. The US market is tapped out, Amazon is already everywhere it can be.

Amazon isn't expanding in India out of love for the country or a desire to see it grow. They are doing it because Wall Street demands infinite growth every single year. Amazon India went from zero to a market leader in a decade not because of charity, but because that is where the new money is.

To keep the valuation climbing (which sustains everyone's RSUs), they have to capture these emerging markets. If they don't, the stock stagnates, and the compensation model for US tech workers falls apart.

I realize it’s easy to pattern-match this news to 'hiring in India vs. firing in US' given the current climate, but having worked at Amazon India for 4 years, I can tell you the cuts happen there too.

Amazon has a history of annual restructuring that hits every region. It isn't necessarily a direct relocation strategy so much as their standard operational churn. The 'efficiency' cuts are happening globally, India included.

It’s the standard enshittification lifecycle: subsidize usage to get adoption, then lock down the API to force users into a controlled environment where you can squeeze them.

Like Reddit, they realized they can't show ads (or control the user journey) if everyone is using a third-party client. The $200 subscription isn't a pricing tier. It's a customer acquisition cost for their proprietary platform. Third-party clients defeat that purpose.

You can be a controversial figure politically and still build a generation defining product. The market rewards utility, not ideological purity.

The headline frames this as a paradox, as if these two things are incompatible. But they aren't mutually exclusive, he can be both.