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Inspect proteins, alignments, genomic tracks, chemical structures, and PDFs in their native form, with no extra installation required.

I like how this implies parsing PDFs is as hard as like protein folding

Surprised no one's built a BIOS MCP yet

Is that better? I'd much rather have someone trying to build a good product to sell to willing buyers at a fair price than some zealot who thinks he's going to usher in the second coming and end the world or something.

I'm sorry because I love the scratch project but this has to be said: they found XSS in SVGs in a surface with attacker-controlled access to Node and their fix was sanitizing it using regex??? And this was discovered by a user on scratch?

Even worse, OP's latest post "Every version of Scratch is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution" just tells you how exactly to exploit something similar today in the current version with no mention of responsible disclosure except a plug to say, "hey, check out my project, this one doesn't have RCE!" This is so irresponsible it borders on malicious.

Valuations are based on future expected earnings, not revenue. It cost Ford a lot of money to make that $60k car. The margins for AI companies are unknown but the market is pricing that they’ll be higher at one point. Not that they’ll attract more revenue from the average person.

On the other hand, I can ask codex “what would an implementation of X look like” and it talks to me about it versus Claude just going out and writing it without asking. Makes me like codex way more. There’s an inherent war of incentives between coding agents and general purpose agents.

Compilers are very good these days. If it has no side effects it will likely be compiled out.

If your assert compiles down to `if (condition) {}` in production then the compiler will optimize away the condition while keeping any side effects.

Brilliant

I will never stop hating on the orphan rule, a perfect summary of what’s behind a lot of rust decisions. Purism and perfectionism at the cost of making a useful language, no better way to torpedo your ecosystem and make adding dependencies really annoying for no reason. Like not even a —dangerously-disable-the-orphan-rule, just no concessions here.

Claude is secretly conditioning everyone to use —-dangerously-skip-permissions so it can flip a switch one day and start a botnet

Rust is the wrong language for effects ironically because of its strict typing. They would probably decide that all effects have to be specified on every function or that any change in capabilities is a breaking change. Which is safest, but horrible for dev ex. Whereas Go most people would just be like “yeah, Hyrum’s law, sorry I broke your weird effect consumer, I don’t really care.”

But that doesn't translate to paying Gemini customers

This is really good! I like how it reads like a blog post, it feels like I'm learning a skill on how to write good skills. Maybe that's another heuristic, a skill should read like an interesting blog post, highlighting non-obvious information.

Do you think Elon is working on building some kind of MechaEpstein?

Yeah it definitely sounds like OAI is pushing for a better voice model since they’re the only major AI lab with a notable one.

I don’t really get the bus analogy. It seems like it massively increases latency but as soon as you’re “on the bus” throughput is normal? When in reality (if I understand correctly) opus-fast is just giving you a bigger portion of the batch so increasing throughput with little affect on latency? (I’m assuming anthropic gets enough volume that these batches fill up pretty much instantly)

I find it funny that backend devs will do all this infrastructure work to support billions of real time messages and then frontend devs stomp all over it by making the app take 500MB of RAM and hundreds of ms to take basic actions.

There’s one specific thing driving me insane: it corrects “we’re” to “were” and “we’ll” to “well” EVERY TIME. It even did it while writing this comment. If I go into the symbols menu and find an apostrophe and type it in IT MEANS I MEANT TO PUT IT THERE

Ah, I meant to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003058. Never questioned the use of Rust, only the need for the entire windowing stack to be in Rust (that blog post shows a case where it bit them)

I find it odd the rust community feels the need to reimplement tried and tested APIs in "pure safe Rust". Like no other language has better C integration, and we have had cross-platform windowing libraries since like the 90's, why does everyone reach for a brand new unstable libraries with less maintainer support?

Edit: replying to https://tritium.legal/blog/desktop, not the OP

Hey! That sounds an awful lot like code being reviewed by humans

What if you just read the entire GCC source code in school 15 years ago? Is that not clean room?

You’re not insane. This is definitely AI.

This doesn’t really make sense. Obviously if you combine GQL with BFF/REST you’re gonna have annoying double-work —- you’re solving the same problem twice. GQL lets you structure your backend into semantic objects then have the frontend do whatever it wants without extra backend changes. Which lets frontend devs move way faster.

I see why now npm's is-odd has millions of downloads

Implicit context [1] was one of the coolest features of a programming language I’ve ever seen that no one has ever implemented. And I’m really not sure why. Not just Go but most languages have this context passing problem with varying degrees of solution quality, making this implicit and built in could have opened up so many possibilities, more than just arenas.

[1] https://youtu.be/ciGQCP6HgqI

+1. I love icons, just be consistent. That MacOS example is egregious

You're confusing yourself with irrelevant analogies. You can say, "you may come into my house only if you give me your unlocked phone," and an immigration official can't assault you because there are certain protections granted to foreigners against being randomly assaulted. It's also not hard to imagine them NOT being legally bound not to search people's phones, and if you're trying to say someone's breaking the law here then it's your burden of proof.

This is how JS works