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Why weren't the young a kind of apprentices to the old?

this question could explain almost everything about american life right now

updating apps is optional is my point

the benefit of apps is they don't break. websites update out from under you and the web expects browsers to always be evergreen

we let companies in space way too soon. only NASA should have satellites in the US

that you don't see this as inevitable worries me dearly

i wonder if residential ISPs can play a bigger role here

100%

thanks! i have seen the sqlite quirks page before but just added this to my queries thanks to you

url should be https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/changelog/2026-07-base-ui-default

saw this title on the front page and thought it meant the element, not a company

one of the most ethically barren products to come out of this era

thank you!

the public only wins once we shut it down globally through treaties like other tech that's too dangerous for anyone to have

haven't written up a show hn post yet but i launched this weekend a server app for git i built all in Zig[1]

[1] https://astheno.software/shale/

demo site https://git.mirrors.nektro.net/

but do people realize that code is just a means to an end?

yes and an end has to be worth the means. people disagree about whether it is worth it. some people see a benefit using LLMs and agents to such a degree they're willing to look past the noise and water and air pollution produced by the unprecedented data center buildout that we've seen over the past few years, or the unprecedented increase in things like spam and deepfakes, or the way that it is decimating the job market + funnel, or the way that it reinforces existing antisocial incentives in society. some don't/aren't.

sota models cannot remotely fit in 128gb

anthropic rumored to be having a profitable quarter is a ruse to ready them up for IPO or otherwise. they could've had a profitable quarter at any point in their history but they only do so if they stop making models; this has been established. they make a model, they sell inference and make a ton of money, they train the next model at 10x the cost, they sell inference and make a ton of money, they train the next model at 10x the cost, repeat

I would still recommend not putting all your eggs in one basket just yet because [..] there will still be some value in knowing how systems work, both to differentiate yourself from other developers career-wise, and as part of effective LLM steering.

the thesis is that investing in your skills outside of LLMs pays dividends whether you decide to apply those skills to LLMs or not, plus spending time bonding with your fellow engineers is good for you too. so I'm sure Zig will be doing great in a few years

not one mention of Zig on the whole page?

Alphafold isn't generative and using this as a rebuttal to OP is bad faith

so disgusting

woah, the web map viewer even has parallax when zoomed in

because open source is a means not an end. folks want good, fast software that respects them. open source isn't the only way there.

easy, CTFs should ban it. then it'd be more like the chess community

TIL <menu>, I wonder why more frameworks don't make use of it.

really enjoyed this talk. really interesting how the different constraints change how they think about their system

going after systems that affect students is beyond bad taste

dystopian :( i hope schools put more pressure on keeping that off their devices. or switch to neos.

when i saw this headline i expected it to be the other way around

lots of really great pieces of advice in this