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Long-time pseudonymous HN commenter, now posting under my real name.
You misunderstand. They are going to force everybody to pay $5, then force everybody to use chatgpt. 8 billion times 5 isn't much money, but the advertisers will surely pay a lot for that many captive eyeballs!
(I have no MBA either)
I never liked xargs either. My replacement is kind of like "xargs -n 1 -d '\n' -J '{}'", which experience has taught me is almost always what I want. It consumes all of its input before starting, so it knows how many files it has to process, and it can print progress to stderr and/or the terminal title as it goes. It can run each command via the shell if you want. It has --dry-run and --keep-going. It can read the file names from a file rather than stdin. I have a few more ideas for things it could do, but I haven't needed to add them yet.
(For enumerating files, I use find or dir/b/s, possibly combined with grep, then pipe the result in.)
People moaning about avoiding non-basic use of xargs and bash (and inadvertently demonstrating in many cases why some of us think that xargs sucks) miss a large part of the point, which is that it's nice to have a tool that does exactly what you want, and works in a way that's convenient for you, and isn't so widely used that you have to worry about modifying it. If you find the tool doesn't work the way you like, you can just change it. You don't have to be answerable to anybody else. I think tptacek's quite good essay could be relevant: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/
(You don't have to use LLMs for this! I wrote my program by hand, it's only like 250 lines of Python, and you could write one too. But, whichever barriers to entry prevent you from creating your own tools for yourself, using an LLM would probably lower at least some of them.)
Not unrelated: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/content-creator/
The link is to the BingeEatingDisorder subreddit. From the link,
I know that at least for me, the actual process of ordering food delivery is part of the addiction
Visual Studio Code asks you if you trust the files in the folder you open, or at least it always has done for me. Presumably this stuff stops working if you don't?
Nuance quietly surfaced.
The new editorialised title is an improvement, given that most of HN's readership is probably not in the UK, especially not at time of writing: 0130 BST on a Tuesday.
So need to think about it now. Our future selves will be much better placed to deal with it.
The article is on the BBC site, so Asia means India/Pakistan/Bangladesh/etc.
Japan is Japan.
A problem for us to deal with when we encounter it.
Running is harder work than walking. Try it!
Centiseconds was one of the ways time was measured on the BBC Micro. Your convenient options for accurately measuring the passage of time were vsyncs (50/sec), centiseconds (100/sec), microseconds (1,000,000/sec), or cycles (2,000,000/sec).
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}It's just less effort all round to have everybody using the same supported set of tools. I don't know if I've ever worked on a project that's gone so far as to actually mandate this, but a "should" (possibly in the RFC sense) is fair enough I think. Every project I've worked on has ended up with everybody eventually settling on using the same tools, because it's just overall less hassle that way.
(Regarding Emacs, I'm typically using it anyway for org-mode, so if I need to do some one-off edit or other - probably some keyboard macro thing - then I can just load the problem file into Emacs and save it back out again afterwards. I've only once been in the situation of neither being allowed to install it nor remotely connect to another machine to use it.)
Add -1.f, or pick another handedness.
The iPhone is normal phone size width and depth, but it's meaningfully shorter than just about everything else. It doesn't sound like much on paper but I've always found it adds up once in a pocket. (All dimensions height x width x depth, in mm, rounded up to the nearest mm)
* iPhone Mini: 132 x 72 x 8 (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/111877)
These two alternatives are noticeably larger:
* Vivo X300: 151 × 72 × 8 (https://www.vivo.com/in/products/param/x300)
* Oppo X9S: 157 x 74 x 8 (https://www.oppo.com/en/smartphones/series-find-x/find-x9s/s...)
In fact, they're more like the size of the full size iPhone, which, if you're sticking with your iPhone Mini because the iPhone is annoyingly large, means they're too large.
* iPhone 17: 150 x 72 x 8 (https://www.apple.com/uk/iphone-17/specs/)
My current theory to explain this phenomenon: a lot of the posts I read on HN, possibly even the majority of them, are made by different people, and those different people sometimes have different opinions.
XBOX here presumably refers to the entire division, so it's not limited to just people playing on the games console.
One of the HN readership submitted it.
I expect the post is written for readers who care about or know the author.
Slightly struck by the term "builders" here. What is this trying to say, that, say, "developers" wouldn't?
("build" does seem to have been settled on as the word for the thing you do when you have the LLM write your code for you, but I'd have thought that "developer" is vague enough to cover both that and also doing it the old-fashioned way?)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612943
Not unrelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470248
I'm inclined to believe them too, so when he said he used LLMs to tweak the wording, I'll accept that was the case.
Perhaps the opening post was ill-phrased, but I think the second post clarifies it a bit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677597 - and I was certainly getting some vague LLM vibes from the writing, so I was curious about this too.
So, whatever it is in the LLM output that is detectable, it's clearly detectable, even with the latest LLMs, and even when it's present possibly only in trace quantities.
We shall see.
People clearly can, though, because they did.
And maybe reword the submission title while they're there, though the current one is well chosen for maximizing engagement I'm sure.
Amusingly, Chen's article refers to the Wikipedia page as evidence that Tony Krueger did the port. The article's evidence for that in its latest version? A link back to Chen's article...!
OP doesn't say they wrote it. They say they built it. This seems to be the word that people have settled on to describe having the llm put something together according to your requirements.