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Dylan came to mind after reading the Chapman answer, not least because of his 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"

Anyone know what that keyboard is?

It’s become somewhat of a HN “flex” to call something out as AI slop, and it almost always comes across as preachy and just plain wrong

Poor George

For the time being, it appears that all three servers are without power.

This strikes me as odd, only three servers?

This is one of my fav blog posts

Hardware (minimum): 1× H100 @ FP8

Cool to see this but seems like it would be pretty expensive to run

It baffles me that Hard Fork is so popular when they regularly have such uninformed takes

NIMBYism

It kind of ended up being a funny dance between 538, the NYT and The Athletic. The original sale to The Athletic probably would've made the most sense for 538 (in hindsight). Then the NYT obviously realised what they'd lost with 538 departing, and end up buying The Athletic a few years later.

NYT has a weekly version of this for those interested

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/upshot/flashb...

I had this in the back of my mind today https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly....

Glad they got home safe and sound!

It would be impossible for me to not sing along to ABBA

I really thought this was going to be an Apple acquires Tailscale post

Same in Australia and only recently (that is, in the last year) has there been any restrictions on showing gambling ads during live sports events.

It’s difficult to compare how normalised it is here versus what the US is currently going through.

As for sportspeople throwing games, well that’s been happening for as long as betting has been around as well, see countless examples from football (soccer) and cricket.

Apple's cloud software has been buggy as hell for a long time, at least for me.

I'm in a family iCloud group with my parents... one day I just woke up and had all my podcasts and music replaced with my Mum's :/

Would not want this anywhere near a "business" experience

Finally, I’d like to note that this sort of dev work goes beyond hubris. It’s dangerous. The more we assume we know without verifying, the greater the risk. In this case, the dev is risking someone else’s livelihood.

I think this is a bit of an overstatement. The dev states it’s her brother’s business, and one can assume he’s asked her to help him out.

Getting the service to be 100% perfect is of course a near impossible challenge, but that’s most likely not the business owner’s concern — they simply want a way to avoid totally losing business. If the service can convert even 10% of customers with a rough quote and timeline it’s most likely useful.

Curious if this has anything to do with Silicon Valley types getting into carnivore diets (though it's been happening for years so maybe not)

There are a few emotional trigger points that LLMs seem to cause in programmers and this is a common one -- the need for deep, first-principles understanding that LLMs make obsolete.

One thing that gets me in a lot of pieces like this is they kind of assume people have no agency, that now that these tools exist we won't be able to help ourselves but use them despite our better judgement.

The broader topic which I don't see discussed so much are values. If you value deep understanding, well you should continue programming and learning in such a way. In some cases you may just want to use a language model to spin up a quick tool or PoC. And there is an entire grey area in between. It's a value judgement to decide what you use LLMs for, as much as what you don't.

A torte is (according the Wikipedia):

a rich, usually multilayered, cake that is filled with whipped cream, buttercreams, mousses, jams, or fruit

So you could be excused

Hard to not delight in the schadenfreude

HN rage bait

Mia the hairstylist got to work, and casually asked what I do for a living. "I'm an Intel fellow, I work on datacenter performance." Silence.

How could she not know?

Finally some practical daily affirmations for computer

Spot the odd one out

I believe Bryan is a well known em dash addict

This is an insanely cool blog

Anecdotally one thing I’ve noticed is that older films had much fewer characters.

Take a movie like When Harry Met Sally — there are basically four on screen characters, giving more time to build chemistry and relationships

I'm getting back in to audio programming, starting off with Pd[1] and reading Miller Puckette's book[2]. I'm planning on writing some low-level C libraries afterwards, using The Audio Programming Book[3] as a guide

[1] https://puredata.info

[2] https://msp.ucsd.edu/techniques.htm

[3] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262014465/the-audio-programming...

What's your view on how these people actually impacted the adoption of SDN in general?

The investments NSF made in SDN over the past two decades have paid huge dividends.

In my view this seems a little overblown. The general idea of separation of control and data plane is just that - an idea. In practice, none of the early firms (like Nicira) have had any significant impact on what's happening in industry. Happy to be corrected if that's not accurate!