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Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890 (archives.gov)
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> The act was designed to restore competition, but it was loosely worded and failed to define such critical terms as "trust," "combination," "conspiracy," and "monopoly." Five years later, the Supreme Court dismantled the act in United States v. E. C. Knight Company (1895). The Court ruled that the American Sugar Refining Company, one of the defendants in the case, had not violated the law even though the company controlled about 98% of all sugar refining in the United States. The Supreme Court reasoned that the company’s control of manufacture did not constitute a control of trade. The reality is that the law itself was not very well written, and takes an extremely litigious executive branch to do anything with. Even if you agreed with the premise (the idea that Standard Oil arose purely through conspiracy is clearly wrong), it's ultimately a very ticky tacky set of definitions and has failed to achieve anything meaningfully as policy (do we actually feel strongly that breaking Microsoft's productivity suite from their OS division was really worth all the effort?) The only practical way that countries have tackled monopolies has been to write legislation that specifically puts oversight on that industry.
> The model that underlies Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 is a step forward in general capabilities. However, during the model’s training, we took steps to limit advances in the specific research capabilities that could most directly accelerate AI development. Thus, in relevant areas, including accelerator kernel optimization and improving large language model architectures, Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 perform at about the level of Opus 5.5. Importantly, we ensured that the training changes did not affect related capabilities like agentic coding, hardware development, and traditional AI or machine learning research (including interpretability research). We do not alter these capabilities as the model is being served to users (that is, at inference time). As described in Section 1.5 of the System Card and similarly to previous models, Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 also include transparent fallbacks to Opus 5 for a small set of topics in this domain, including kernel development on certain nonstandard accelerators. ----- > Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, > Sec. 1. Every contract, combination in the form of trust or other- wise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any such contract or engage in any such combination or conspiracy, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, at the discretion of the court. > Sec. 2. Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof; shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.
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1. Anthropic is not coordinating with competitors so there's no "conspiracy" 2. Anthropic doesn't have much market power. The competition is intense. 3. Anthropic doesn't have a legal requirement to provide it's strongest internal model to competitors.
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The Anti-Trust act makes it illegal for business to conspire to restrict markets. Anthropic is engaging in some product engineering to level set their offerings against each other. I'm not sure I am understanding the connection you are trying to make.
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The implication of the comment is that Anthropic is limiting the capabilities of their external models to prevent other companies from building models that can compete with Claude, and that this constitutes anticompetitive behavior under the law.
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> Anthropic is limiting the capabilities of their external models to prevent other companies from building models that can compete with Claude. Uhhhh... that seems like quite a logical leap. "The only reason Apple doesn't release a faster phone is so other companies can't copy it." Antitrust generally does not compel companies to make product lineup decisions, especially if the industry itself is acting quite competitively.
>...shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court. Wow, I believe violating Section 1201 of the DMCA carries a stiffer penalty these days.
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That quote is from the original 1890 text. The statute has been amended and criminal violations are now felonies with bigger penalties including $100 million fines and 10 years in jail.
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In 2026 dollars, $5,000 1890 would be around $185,131.87. I guess they didn't foresee inflation working against the fine.
That was for a different, less civilized time full of very rich people, so called "robber barons".
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An oligarch by any other name, something something...
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Didn't they have the cool mustaches that you can twirl around and look cool?
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I guess we are going back to that era with a different flavour.
Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei truck in America (theautopian.com)
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Can’t wait for Floridians to jailbreak the ECU and set it the top speed for max 35 MPH in order to treat it like a long bed golf cart.
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So many people here have never driven a kei truck or a wigo/daihatsu agya. They are not fun cars, they should be cheap and disposable. The MSRP for this in japan is less than $10,000,$6000 for the base model: https://toyota.jp/pixistruck/ It's going to go here for what, $15,000? $25,000? Better than buying a 25 yr old one for $10,000 from a used dealer lot that has no parts or real mechanic trained on them but at that price point.. a Mavrick is better. The amazon truck is better.
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tl;dr: it's for the neighborhood golf cart market
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In 1963 Lyndon Johnson added "light trucks" to the Chicken Tax as a quid pro quo to prevent the auto workers union from striking before the election. As a result we don't get "right sized" trucks like the kei or more efficient farm vehicles like the hilux.
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660cc engine at ~40 horsepower is about the same as a mid-70s VW Beetle - not in cc size, but HP potential. This little truck could do a lot more than 25 mph if it were allowed to do so. Not saying that would be safe, and I'd not want to ever put one on a busy freeway, but for getting around most urban cities in the US it's fine as-is but would be even better if the limit was ~40 mph.
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This is pretty cool. It's too bad it's just for fleets. Must be they realized how much money was going to imported Kei trucks, and that they could just... do the importing themselves, and pick up some cash. (edit: looks like they sacrificed payload for the AC/heat? only 600lbs?) The SXS looks cool, but gearheads want a tiny Jeep replacement (which there are none of in the US), not another UTV/buggy we already have
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With a built in 25mph limiter, that eliminates "city" driving too unfortunately. Most roads around me are 35 mph. There's sizeable demand for people who want to be able to do runs to the bigbox stores for garden and DIY renovation supplies and store it the rest of the time.
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You need to complain to your congressman, not to Toyota. The 25mph limit is set by the Low Speed Vehicle standards.
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Speed limits are an upper bound.
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American here, in practice no. They are generally only the upper bound for dense neighborhood streets, throughout most other roadways you will be considered a poor driver if you go lower than the speed limit.
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Where I live the major strode has a 45 mph speed limit and during most times of the day we only get to 35 mph but people make up for it by running the red light
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I see folks going 25mph in 35mph every time I drive!
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It’s a huge mistake to limit the speed to 25mph. When this is released in 2027, Kei trucks will be street legal in Colorado. I would have pre-ordered this without question but that speed makes it useless for basic commuting or running errands.
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Toyota doesn't seem to be aiming for your business just yet. From their press release: > As an intentionally low-volume, niche vehicle, the KEI-01 will initially be offered through a fleet-focused pilot program to help the company learn how it can best serve U.S. customers and use cases. https://pressroom.toyota.com/toyota-says-okei-to-america-introducing-the-scion-by-toyota-brand-and-kei-01/ I do hope they're able to build on this, and maybe offer left-hand-drive and a more reasonable top speed eventually.
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I doubt Toyota will ever produce a small, inexpensive pickup that you would actually feel comfortable driving on a freeway. It would cut into its Tacoma and Tundra sales, which have a good profit margin. At least, not without some other manufacturer taking market share with such a vehicle.
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AFAICT, This truck will not be able to pass either the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) or the EPA/CARB emissions standards for high speed vehicles. The new Colorado rules for Kei vehicles does not remove those requirements because it relies on the existing exemptions available for 25+ year old vehicles. IOW, it needs to keep the 25mph speed limiter to qualify as a low speed vehicle, even in Colorado.
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Good point.
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EPA/CARB effectively sets a minimum size for trucks. Rather than having a small light truck that can do the job, you get a Ford F250 hauling a single bale of hay. But rolling back or adding exemptions for small trucks is political suicide despite the clear environmental benefits.
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Where I live the Ford F-250 is not used for falling a single bit of anything other than air. They are in pristine shape and look like they've never been outside the city limits nor off City roads
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The fact that this tiny engine couldn't meet emissions standards is bonkers. But that's the law as written right now.
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I think the strategy is specifically not going for customers who want it for those things. It's meant for farms and work sites not commuting or running errands
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I like the concept, I just find myself wondering if the Big 3 will pull another Chicken Tax move to protect the full-size pickup golden geese. Toyota - and Japan in general - has a helluva trade relationship with the US, but that's effectively all Detroit knows how to beat the world at anymore and they love the margins on their truck portfolios, to the point that they considered sedans and most coupes to be too thin to warrant continued production.
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600 LB weight limit including passengers, top speed of 25 mph, and right hand drive this feels specifically design to be toothless against American pickups. This is a novelty product, I saw an image of one loaded with half a dozen hay bails and I'm wondering who even needs that? This is a novelty car for vineyard owners and show pony stables. Like you'd get just as much use out of a JD Gator and they probably have worse weight distribution.
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The nice thing about a minitruck over something like a Gator is you get an interior. I worked golf course landscaping during some summers in college and drove Gators, which did their job well. But they certainly weren't any relief from being out in the sun all day. This Scion minitruck has heat and air conditioning. And locking doors. So it'll be a respite from the outdoors, as well as a secure (well, as secure as any car) place to leave your personal items.
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It wasn't "designed" for or against anything American. This is a purely Japanese design designed to Japanese tastes that has historically seen enough success in American markets that Toyota's market research has deemed the juice worth the squeeze to begin manufacturing them in the US to get around the Chicken Tax that previously made them prohibitively expensive and sell them to fleet purchasers. My local university had 20 or so Daihatsu Hijets running around until (I assume) parts supply dried up and they were replaced with far-more-expensive Ford Bronco Sports and similar compact crossovers.
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I recently saw an old kei truck on the road with a CHKNTAX license plate.
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Toyota will build this truck in Indiana.
I didn't know Scion had left...
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bruh
Who is the target market for this? It’s an ICE vehicle, 4wd and limited to a maximum speed of 25mph. Farmers?
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Fleets, as evidenced by Toyota/Scion saying they will exclusively sell to fleet purchasers. My local university, for an example, had 20 or so Daihatsu Hijets when I went to school there, which have given way to far more expensive Ford Bronco Sports and similar. I assume the lack of parts supply and repairability of the Hijets attrited them away. Domestically producing them to keep the chicken tax/tariffs at bay and having dealer service at the local Toyota dealership will make these appealing again in those markets.
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A friend with a WFH tech job, who lives on his own land (with family and various critters), bought one a few years ago for hauling materials and supplies around his property.
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In rural Iowa I saw a ton of those little "UTV", gators, or whatever various brands call them which are effectively beefed up golf carts being driven around town. Trucks have become so enormous and expensive that these somewhat street legal vehicles are taking over for people who just need to go here and there.
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I have a few friends who've purchased older kei trucks. One for use on his property, the other got his tagged in NC (IIRC, it was NC). The local bicycle shop also has a kei van as their "shop truck" (another used one imported from Japan). The imports will go faster than 25mph, but they are terrible on the highway. The 25mph is an artificial limit to meet LSV regulations. All that said, $25k isn't cheap when you can get a basic Polaris SXS for $15k. It might not be street legal in many states, but much of the usage is going to be on private property.
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I'm in Western North Carolina(Asheville) and there are an actual number of kei trucks here. Not every other vehicle common but enough to see maybe 5-10 every day. There are even a few businesses that specialize in these vehicles: https://www.marsminitrucks.com
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I think a kei truck might be a better choice than a sxs if noise ordinances are a concern. e.g. utility vehicles for groundskeeping staff
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The utility SXS aren't particuarlly loud; it's the "racing" SXS that have minimal off-road exhausts that are as bad a pipe-less crotch rockets.
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Farmers and universities have been picking up kei trucks for the last few years for things like groundskeeping work. Being able to sell a brand-new vehicle with parts availability to these customers is what Toyota is trying to capitalize on
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It also seems like it'd be a really good city pickup truck.
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Farmers or land owners. Great for hauling around your property. Like a 4 wheeler with a trailer but road legal.
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“This makes it not really usable as a daily driver, but keeps it in this beautiful sweet spot where it has a shocking number of commercial and agricultural uses.”
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Doh thank you. No excuses I can give for my poor reading comprehension.
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You do see people taking tractors on roads between farms pretty often, and they usually have the speed limit stuff on.
What objective is reasoning solving? (alexwang.ai)
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Lot of Alex Wangs out there
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Mostly, it seems to be solving the problem of people thinking about things themselves.
It solves for the same thing a "train of thought" (internal vocalization) solves for in the human brain: there's a lot of stuff you "know" as episodic memories of words you've heard/read, but haven't yet internalized via practice into reflex reactions. It's a lot faster and cheaper to acquire a memory of some words, than it is to acquire an entire new skill, so you end up picking up far more memories-of-words than concrete skills from a given training corpus. Reasoning (i.e. bubbling those remembered words up into your mental context, and then using a special "trigger effectively arbitrary synaptic activations dependent on the content of the attention-masked context and an ongoing state" bridging reflex on them, a.k.a. "system-2 thinking") is how you leverage memories-of-words into useful behavior. Rather than executing native skills embedded into your synaptic weights, you're running a single very fancy native skill that acts as an interpreter for word-memory data, slowly and strenuously turning words you're holding in mind into more words (synthesis), or into associations to other memories (word-memories or otherwise), or into actions/outputs, etc. (An especially useful "trick" of this system is planning , i.e. chaining the interpreter through "mere words" that conjure more "mere words" to mind until you end up at words that form a declaration of what you're about to do. You can then rely on a special part of the bridging reflex, namely the "instruction-following" reflex, to react in a way where your actions are constrained by the plan you've generated.)
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I get that this is the goal, but having looked at reasoning traces they kinda read like baby babble. The model is just kinda sitting there restating the question and itself over and over. It'll sometimes kinda state/clarify assumptions but it feels nothing like actual train of thought
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Can you explain why your view, which is the opposite of the OP's, is correct? "RL training directly raises the success probability , by spending a lot of compute on searching for successful paths and then training the model to reproduce them. The gains we credit to “thinking longer” come from the search we paid for during training, rather than at inference."
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Not mutually exclusive. LLMs are kind of like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Once some technique is discovered, it'd be part of the training process and becomes more efficient.
does that lead to much inside the box thinking by models? Do they try to follow the clearest path?
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It depends on what you mean by “inside the box thinking”. In one sense, you are always mostly sampling high probability completions and they are going to be close to things that have been observed during training. Low probability completions will likely be low quality too. But, in a case where the context is forcing the model to generalize, I.e. interpolate in the latent space, the most probable completion may appear novel.
I'm pretty sure that the current approach of baking in chain-of-thought reasoning into weights is not the end of the line. It just seems to accidental and ad-hoc. P. S. The animated bird is truly magical!
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I just realized the bird turns it's head to follow the mouse pointer.
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Yes, and the animation is made using an interesting technique that I can't immediately figure out. For example, what is this [0] or this [1]. The code is not obfuscated and seems well documented [2]. Maybe, I'll read it later or have an agent explain it to me. [0] https://alexwang.ai/images/kea/head-fill.webp [1] https://alexwang.ai/images/kea/body-feathers.png [2] https://alexwang.ai/js/kea3d.js
What is the library, if any, used for the equation/formula rendering? Looks tastefully done.
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Misrenders on my browser. The bottom half of the characters in the equations are partly chopped off.
Saltline: First-person shooter built by Fable 5.2 (claude.ai)
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Couldn't play it. It captured my mouse without centering it, so it was not possible to look around; viewport just kept spinning up or down.
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I really don't get the religious fervor here. Artists can now focus on what is the actual ( and claimed by, sometimes, the same artists ) important thing: gameplay. Isn't that a great thing that we can get some of the crud out of the way? And if you want to do handcrafted engine where snow is generated as proper fractals, it is still an option. But that is not the real objection is there? The bar has simply been raised. Edit: FWIW, stories in games were getting away with murder so it is about time that changed. Edit2: Geez man. Talk about apt game title too given the response.
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Anyone can asset flip an FPS in unreal engine. I guess my question is whether it actually modeled the assets, or simply pulled a bunch of cc0 assets off the internet. This has actually be a challenge for my agentic gamedev efforts. Getting to a particular visual style outside of PBR assets pulled off of packs online is more challenging right now.
I've been building an FPS since I realized Opus 4.8 claude had some essence of taste and modeling capability. I have 0 experience in game development. Along the way I learned how hard video game development really is and have a new respect for indie studios. AI will never replace original story telling and artwork - having a firm foundation and building the first models and level myself was key. Since then, each model advancement has made it easier and easier to delegate and form workflows around each aspect of making my game - to the point that I login once and awhile to sculpt, get visual feedback for textures lighting and level design... I get a level done a week - test it myself, and ship it to beta testers who auto update and can send me anonymous feedback - all thanks to Opus. I'm one dude - and I think this is a crippling vision to some of what's to come. AAA studios certainly know and will serve you AI generated games instead of paying talented people. I hope those talented people getting displaced can get enabled cause what I've done is pretty amazing.
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What are you talking about? Even charitable read of the current FPS scene shows biggest names rehashing the same stories and worrying more about presentation that anything halfway interesting. AAA is over? Good riddance. It is not over but AAA studios will just send slop? Dude. They are already doing it. The only difference now is that you can too. Hopefuly, I gave you an idea of what you need to do.
Maybe with another year of research we can train an AI model to design UI without adding 500 words of explanatory prose to every screen.
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The more examples there are available for something, the less words you need to describe it as it can just infer the gaps and come up with something that seems OK.
Like all these "games" it's using three.js
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The other day I had Claude Opus 5.5 rewrite a three.js prototype - https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/Hidden-Reef-Egg-threejs.html - in vanilla JavaScript and it did it just fine: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/Hidden-Reef-Egg-Vanilla-WebGL.html
It's really not, you're just incapable of being honest with yourself on this. $550 spent and what value was gained? No one was entertained, no one would buy it, no one will remember it by next week.
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$550 wasn't spent. That was the "API pricing" value, but the author was on a monthly subscription plan so the tokens were already covered.
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The guy who posted this is literally a manager at Anthropic, so for him this was free of charge.
Starlink Mini 2 (starlink.com)
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I wanted to get one so bad because I’m a very frequent travelled and the idea of Starlink sounded so interesting I just checked a few weeks ago and “Roam” does no longer include international coverage at all. Only “Roam unlimited” does, and only for 30 days at a time which entirely defeats the purpose for me. Also no way to replenish this quota or buy additional, you have to go back to your country for it to reset. My SIM card already gives me 14 days of roaming included, so Starlink is just marginally better for my use case. I’m sure it’s regulations related but still a bummer :(
I'm deeply disappointed in this company's leadership and refusal to continue launching commercial payloads
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This is false. SpaceX still plans to launch commercial payloads, but it is shifting these missions from Falcon 9 to Starship. Customers have already booked missions on Starship.
Because this is so useful to several industries, governments absolutely cannot let Elon maintain a monopoly on what may become fundamental infrastructure. We've already seen what happened in Ukraine.
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He has created something that didn't exist a few years ago, and now governments "absolutely cannot let Elon maintain a monopoly" are you saying they need to subsidize competitors or they need to ban Starlink or they need to nationalize Starlink? Those are the three options for your mandate. the non-government intervention option is just for Starlink to prove the market, and others can move in. SpaceX is willing to sell them the ride for a decent price, in relative terms.
Oh good, a Jeff Bezos backed version, that solves the failure case.
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It does for me.
Maybe it's just me, but the heart of going camping, adventuring, out into the wild, going to the beach, etc (essentially, getting away from it all), seems in nearly direct opposition to having internet at every single one of these places.
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I've taken an Iridium phone when I've been truly off grid (e.g., hundreds of miles from a road, hundreds of miles from cellular service), for me I just liked having a lifeline in an actual emergency. You don't need to use it. But nice to have.
I always dislike the European vs American commentary. There are tradeoffs and we could easily go back and forth on those.
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There are approximately ~250 weekdays in a year (so excluding weekends). 250/30 = ~8.3% of the days. So if you had 30 days PTO a year, that's be an 8.3% difference vs. having 0 days PTO. I find it hard to believe that an 8.3% difference in working days would make a huge difference to overall productivity.
I would argue that it is still a different feeling if you actually away from society and out there vs. just around the corner in the big garden.
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It's not having connectivity and more about being able to if it was needed period. It's a similar to if we take a work laptop home and whether it can stay in the bag or not.
Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers (lwn.net)
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Seriously, use OCuLink. It costs $15 for the pcie card, $10 for a cable, and $100 for a GFX card dock, and a PSU. OCuLink doesn't even use drivers. It's literally just a PCIE passthrough. All usual tools apply, whereas DisplayLink encrypts all data, so a big fuckyou for getting logs. Quit giving trash companies pounds of money for abuse at scale.
On my computer around 500 MB for two additional 4K monitors but I've heard up to 1 GB. With the RAM crunch, running DL + Docker + browser (esp Chrome), it gets pretty laggy sometimes.
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What percentage does one gigabyte of RAM represent across the average amount of RAM in a laptop or computer? People who run multiple screens might spend more on RAM and storage, no?
no, a patent is exclusive right to implement, you can't get around it by reverse engineering the tradeoff is that it becomes free eventually, unlike trade secrets
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To be clear, a patent is an exclusive right to the specific functional invention, and if that invention happens to cover the one and only way to talk to the device, then it'll be hard to make a driver. In many cases you'll be able to make one for yourself due to some funny-business around patent exhaustion. However, there is no universe where they can hold a valid patent that would encumber a driver for a regular USB display device. What they then might try to do is invoke DMCA, due to the device having DRM responsibilities (HDCP). If they get trusted HDCP treatment from media players on some platforms, they might fight tooth and nail to not be broken open in public as that might end up with them losing trust from content providers... Or maybe they're just assholes with no real rhyme or reason, who knows.
Yeah, that statement clearly is making IP claims beyond patent infringement, they just didn't elaborate. They didn't say it's patent infringement because of that.
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Merely reverse engineering for interoperability is not a violation of any type of IP in the US.
Open source community "Look what you made us do": DisplayLink on the driver side just compresses frames to send them over USB. It would be interesting to analyse if Synaptics haven't stolen code from open source ffmpeg or VLC to do the compression.
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I own two of their devices and some of the decomp fairies flittering through the gaming industry might just take a visit to their stack for some internal prodding…
Per the article, even if they weren't trying to play semantic games about subsidiaries (which OIN really shouldn't allow), OIN excludes "codec" patents and considers the DisplayLink patents to be "codec" patents.
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By some definition, anything is a codec :clownface:
Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives (github.com/GoogleChrome)
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I recommend saying "contemporary" or "suggested" for transient proposals like this. Having modern change every few years is ambiguous and cliche . These concepts are new, so no one knows if they are any good. They're not modern -- who knows if they will even be put to use? "contemporary", "proposed", "suggested", "compatible" are better fit. I wouldn't dare use "advanced" because many APIs and proposals actually regress earlier behavior.
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More Chromish on web? No thanks.
Here's a list of browser features the skills will tell your agent to use that are stable in Chrome but not supported by both Firefox and Safari: CSS @function CSS calc-size() CSS interpolate-size CSS corner-shape CSS border-shape CSS flex-wrap: balance CSS text-fit CSS text-decoration-skip-spaces CSS scroll-axis-lock CSS scroll-target-group CSS :target-current CSS scroll-initial-target CSS container scroll-state queries scrollsnapchange event scrollsnapchanging event HTML focusgroup Element.startViewTransition() CSS view-transition-scope Interest Invokers (interestfor) LanguageModel (Prompt API) LanguageDetector Translator Summarizer API Window.fetchLater() Speculation Rules API Long Animation Frames API VisibilityStateEntry PerformanceSoftNavigation InteractionContentfulPaint Connection-Allowlist CSS url() integrity() modifier HTML meta name="text-scale" HTML template for HTML processing instructions PasswordCredential Promise-returning scroll methods Web App Origin Migration Local Network Access permissions Request.targetAddressSpace beforeinstallprompt event To be fair, the skills also recommend ~11 features not supported by Chrome itself. And the project does seem concerned with compatibility: "Guiding models to use sensible, lightweight fallbacks."
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How about details/summary?
The line between documenting and instructing is blurry in many cases. For example, these statements are meant to document best practices to the agent, but they sound like instructions: "DO use fetchLater()..." "Your own code MUST call fetchLater() directly..." https://github.com/GoogleChrome/modern-web-guidance/blob/main/skills/modern-web-guidance/guides/performance/full-session-analytics.md#L52-L65 But yes, the skills do document compatibility and fallbacks well.
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Agreed the line can be blurry, but I want to stress that the goal of this project is NOT to push Chrome-only APIs on users. The mental model we've been using on the team is: If you hired an expert web development consultant to build X, what would they recommend as a best practice? When does it make sense to use the new API (because it provides real benefits) vs. when does it make sense to wait until it's available everywhere? To use your `fetchLater()` example, this is a case where the `fetchLater()` API legitimately solves a very real problem for people trying to build accurate analytics or telemetry features, see: https://nicj.net/beaconing-in-practice/ And lots of companies actually are already using `fetchLater()` in production now because of its increased reliability.
why would you ever use gemini for coding at all
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Argon is not available in agy for Pro users.
IMO maintainability is the next frontier. If we just allow coding agents to accrete 1k-LOC solutions to problems, the codebases run quick away from our ability to maintain _some_ level of understanding. So I'll take a 1-line CSS solution over 60 lines of ResizeObserver/setTimeout business. But.. best practices for frontend isn't just the code.. it's ensuring quality UX, that keyboard navigability works, that layout doesn't shift on users.
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You just regenerate the code base, like how you do a recompile in C. Writing code is 2026 is worth as much as writing machine code was in 1996.
Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data (claude.com)
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Ironically, I am using Claude to help write https://omasheet.org This project comes from a pure love of grids of numbers - and a deep sense that Excel has failed to keep pace with stuff like columnar data (Apache Arrow), fast queries (Rust Polars), proper number types, etc. so tbh don’t feel very threatened. Feedback - good and bad very welcome.
I really don't get why you would launch this instead of doubling down on your strengths, which are coding and cybersecurity models. Possibly at a better price point than your competitors.
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Lock in: make the product have enough features and user only network effects that companies have to get everyone a Claude seat and sign up for enterprise.
This is kind of weird. Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense if they’d just let Claude connect to your Excel/Google Sheets/whatever? Doesn’t even need an MCP or official integration at this point, if there’s computer access there’s access to everything.
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Less context switching for current workers. For new ones, they might not need those other accounts in the future. And why share data when you can own it?
> Working with Claude on a project often meant moving the output over to another tool or program, where Claude didn’t have live access to follow progress and changes. Now, your documents, boards, sheets, and dashboards can stay in Claude, with access for your team to continue editing together. I read this as: We'll build anything and everything into Claude eventually. How does this work long-term? Is the new reality going to be picking an AI provider for all of your SaSS tooling, similar to Cloud providers for infra? Hopefully competition thrives.
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> I read this as: We'll build anything and everything into Claude eventually. Well, isn't that the natural end result of an AGI? No more software, no more deciding what apps you need. It's all just Claude. Except now you're pulling 10kW to add up a column of numbers.
Unless Microsoft and Google get their butts into gear, Claude is going to become the basis for running a business and disrupt Office and Workspace.
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Claude? no. Omarchy? yep.
They run on excel today. They will run on code in the future. Excel was a way for normies to write code with all the limitations that came with it. Now normies can just write the code. I used to work as a trader for a major investment bank. Everything was excel. I can’t see it staying that way.
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> Now normies can just write the code. Normies know enough Excel to debug their "code". Will they be able to debug code AI produces? > I used to work as a trader for a major investment bank. Everything was excel. I can’t see it staying that way. How much of that Excel usage is part of the regular flow? As in several different teams using and sharing Excel files with a common template, so they can have macros that depend on the shape of data in the spreadsheet? If the traders are mostly just using it for their own individual analyses, I can believe you. If they're sharing the Excel files across disparate departments ... it will be tougher. A much simpler solution that a full blown replacement is simply having AI read, understand and edit Excel files. Why go with a completely different solution if the AI can solve all your problems within Excel?
Life on Claude Nine (babuschk.in)
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so is the "art/social commentary" component of this that it was entirely AI-written and people are arguing about it online?
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pangram reports the text as 100% AI generated. I was about to analyze the short story and think about the intentions of the author, it's social commentary. And you have wasted my time... This needs to stop. No I'm not talking about the AI. I'm talking about the insanity that is presenting me this text and putting your name on it, exploiting my trust.
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> I was about to analyze the short story and think about the intentions of the author, it's social commentary. I mean, I doubt that the author just said "write me a short story" and that's it. So, there are still some intentions behind the text that the author put into the prompt. Although, I agree that I'd rather read the prompt [0]. [0] https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/
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There is no way to tell if something is AI-generated or not. These classifiers produce a lot of false positives. I read the story and enjoyed it, even if I don't agree with the social commentary.
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idk man, I'm having Claude automate things people were doing manually (usually entering data in a years old spreadsheet). I can get a good PowerShell script worked out in a few hours and it's on to the next ticket. Nobody seems upset they're not spending hours a month in a spreadsheet, I still text my wife and our mortgage is paid.
I read a lot of this before giving up. What’s the point of it?
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Summarily: "RSI bad because we'll eventually lose control and Claude will nuke the Earth". Told as a fictional story, so that doesn't mean the author strictly believes that, but that's the core point here.
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yup, there's no way the safeguards would allow that... surely.
Val Town is winding down (blog.val.town)
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This is a bummer. Val.town was an inspiration for my own open source work on personal apps platforms.
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I actually created one simple agent back then on Val Town that checks any new sign ups to my app and then posts to Slack. It was free but I've never created anything else on their platform. I kind of liked their story and wanted to support them. Their UX wasn't great for one. But I think the bigger problem is that the big opportunity for them was that they started early before it was crowded, and if they didn't capture a big market share then, now it's too late and impossible to compete. For agents to be useful you need to integrate them with all your services and data, and if you're already using a trusted provider Like Claude or ClaudeFlare etc. then it's easy just to stick with their offerings.
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I've spoken to Steve a few times and he gave great advice. I'm sorry to hear this didn't work out for him, but there's no doubt that he'll get the next one (or maybe the one after that).
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So bummed to hear! Really appreciate y'all opening your doors to us every Saturday for https://sideprojectsaturday.com/ , it's consistently been one of my favorite parts of the week. (Shout out to Justin!)
AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast (chipsandcheese.com)
> AMD has reduced the number of integer multiply units from three to two, with PDEP and PEXT throughput also falling from three instructions per cycle to two. Are PDEP and PEXT using the same (parts of) circuits as multiply (they are very different operations...), or are this just two independent drops of circuitry and the wording is just a bit unclear?
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IIRC, PDEP/PEXT are generalizations of shifter networks.
The "compute" part of the CPU is almost negligible, most of it is SRAM, reordering and branch prediction
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SIMD stuff is also generally pretty big part of the chip, tho of course dwarfed by cache
One thing I wonder about is that these CPUs are just so much faster than their memory controllers. So why not add more? Why don't they have a memory controller per core, for example?
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Memory controllers are pretty much limited by external pinout. Zen 4 and newer consumer chips have 4 memory controllers (for legacy reasons shown as 2) which handle 32bit wide LPDDR5 or DDR5 interfaces (2x per dimm for DDR5) The AM5 (desktop) socket has in addition to the 4x 32bit memory lanes, 28 PCI-E lanes (generally 16x for GPU, two 4x general purpose, one 4x to chipset), 4x combined DP/HDMI outputs, USB 2.0 port, 4 USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports. And that's just the major buses, there's ton of other components exposed (simpler IO, sound, power) All of that counts to staggering 1718 pins - anyone remember when moving dual-channel K8 from 940 pin to 939 allowed removal of whole layer from motherboard PCB, making them way cheaper? The high-end performance server socket from AMD has 6096 pins, significant chunk of it being the 24x 32bit DDR5 interfaces. So unfortunately it's very much not easy to add more memory, and that's before considering issues with routing it on motherboard even if you accept changing shapes
.name Grandfathered (neil.fraser.name)
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Congrats!!
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Kind of off-topic, but I wonder what will happen to .io in the end.
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Most likely nothing. .su was kept around and it was million times smaller than .io is now.
I suspect for most of the second level domains, there's only one registrant of a third level domain. However, I also suspect that for most of the third level domains, they're on a second level domain with multiple registrants. And several of those shared second level domains will have a lot of registrants. If the registrants are in different jurisdictions, it becomes a pretty nasty process to develop international consensus, vs just keeping the status quo going (which IMHO, can't be that hard). Still, it makes sense to have a process to normalize the single registrant second level domains, because less work.
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22,000 third levels total, spread across about 12,000 second levels, about 10,000 of which have only one third level. Of the approximately 2,000 with multiples, many have all of the third level registrants being apparently close relatives. That leaves quite a few with lots of unrelated registrants, mostly in Japan (tanaka and suzuki being the biggest).
It is best to stick to the main top level domains. I bought into multiple 'new' domains and most of them caused me issues. A few of them jacked up their prices like crazy compared to when I first bought them. They can also be difficult to move between providers. Unfortunately I am stuck in commitments on a few of these domains and just had to eat the cost increases, the rest I moved to .com/.net. .consulting was the worst offender.
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> It is best to stick to the main top level domains. Yes, I view most 'new' TLDs as scams. They lure you in with a low price, a rather pricey renewal and then price hike after price hike down the line. They also charge a premium for most dictionary words right from the start.
I think they did. I tried to register one just now and couldn't
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This is a registrar issue not a registry issue. There are registrars still allowing registration of .name domains as well as transfers in.
I don't think it has much of a chance being widespread I first heard of it back when Usenet was still the hotness. Apparently it's been around for close to a century, so if it hasn't caught on widely by now, you're probably right.
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> I first heard of it back when Usenet was still the hotness. This is the first (and probably last) time that I will ever see the words "Usenet" and "hotness" in the same sentence. Well done, sir.
Is there an overlaid ?? and !! mark? (For Chess.)
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There's DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK[0] and also DOUBLE QUESTION MARK[1] if those will do. [0] https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/203c/index.htm [1] https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2047/index.htm
The real problem is that we'd have to add a wildcard to the public suffix list. That's it. The public suffix list is the big list of all the URL suffixes that should not imply shared ownership of all their subdomains. For example the line com says "XYZ.com" and "ABC.com" should not be assumed to be controlled by the same entity. Problem is, all 1st level domains registered to the .name TLD should be added to the list, and that's a lot of domains. The correct answer, IMO, would be to add a wildcard *.name but that would involve updating all the code that relies on the public suffix list to support said wildcard.
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*.name isn't a good solution either, because the vast majority of registrations are at the second level. If you want to do it properly, you really do need to include all of the second level domains that have more than one third level registrant. And update that periodically as domains expire... there might be three registrants under .example.name today, but if they all (or all but one) stop paying, example.name is no longer a public suffix and it should be removed.
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Having "no cookies shared between subdomains" as a restriction on the entire TLD isn't completely beyond the pale. There are other TLDs that have restrictions, like HTTPS being required for .dev
yes, but other locality domains are fairly static and well-known .co.uk wouldn't have the same problem because everyone knows that combo is a TLD in and of itself. with a seemingly infinite possible combinations of blah.name that could be a TLD itself, or, might just be a subdomain of .name, it gets really weird
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> with a seemingly infinite possible combinations Verisign claimed approximately 22,000 third level domains [1] in July 2026. I don't see an estimate of the number of shared second level domains, but it's finite. The current public suffix list includes 10414 names [2]; so at maximum, the list would approximately triple in size --- not ideal, but feasible. [1] https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/consensus-policies/fessenden-to-kane-2-voided-28-07-2026-en.pdf [2] including some with wildcards, re: your other post
Agreed, but I just wanted to say that essentially every single thing anyone owns is, and has been from the invention of tally marks on clay tablets, an entry in someone's ledger.
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Of all the thousands of things I own, as far as I know, only my car and my house exist in anyone else's ledger as belonging to me. Am I missing something?
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The money in your bank account?
Tailscale's DNS IPv6 spells out "Tailscale" (reddit.com)
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I do the same thing for my homelab's ULA. My domain is `bitcicle.com`, so I use the internal ULA prefix: `fddf:b17c:1c1e::`. Makes it easier to remember.
Are we counting the long hair as a "tail" or something?
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Pretty sure it's because of her iconic twin 'tails'
Hmm, did they always have this? Mine is `tail<a few random letters + numbers>`.ts.net.
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That's a default gibberish Tailnet name if you dont ever change it to a named one. You have to go to the DNS pane in the console dashboard[0] and click "Rename tailnet..." to get presented with 4 randomly-selected combos you can choose from, or re-roll for 4 more (infinitely). Potentially not worth it if you already have an established tailnet with many nodes, its better to do it when first creating it. I think they make named tailnets opt-in rather than the default to reduce wordspace exhaustion from users that create an account and poke around the dashboard for a few minutes and never visit again. [0] https://console.tailscale.com/admin/dns
I added "wyrm" into both lists a while back to make wyrm-wyrm possible for some lucky individual.
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A little upsetting you can't get moon-moon.
Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support (blender.org)
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Even works in XR, tried on Frame just yesterday https://video.benetou.fr/w/1z3RE28EGWB7ZeeAgdCaEY and don't trust the low FPS capture, was quite smooth.
You show something to your boss, he pats you on the shoulder and says "Perfect! Just move chairs 2 feet left and ship it". How does one do it with gaussian splats?
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You select the points involved in the chair and move them and then you fix the holes in the floor. Gaussian splats are just 3D point clouds with a bunch of extra values per point.
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With about the same amount of ease as if you'd used photogrammetry - which is very widely used in game pipelines
Every time I hear about Gaussian splatting, I think about triangle splatting[0] - GPUs were built to render triangles, so I wonder what games would be like if we supported generating and rendering them as much as we do Gaussian splats. [0] https://trianglesplatting.github.io/
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Has anyone doing this but with shared vertices
Palantir hires a former Democratic senator as it faces scrutiny in new Congress (text.npr.org)
Crazy take.
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What part of giving the government more power do you think would make it behave in a more open and just way?
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The part where the private sector is five times larger than the public sector and completely out of control in exactly the ways it wants to be, so giving it even more power is a deeply unserious strategy for addressing any of the problems it has created.
They are a analysis and presentation layer that is used to plug in data sources gathered by brokers (or other parties) and present it for other uses. Yes, they themselves don’t gather this data, but they do make it seamless to use the data. I’ll admit they are much less culpable than companies like LexisNexis or CLEAR (or even shadier outfits), and those companies should receive the lion’s share of the scrutiny, but Palantir is not blameless.
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Then what do you blame them for?
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Knowingly building an apparatus that evil people can use to more easily do evil things, and which seems to have that as its primary purpose. And then naming it after a similar device used by a Tolkein villain. All accidental, I’m sure.
That's not entirely true. They just have to fail at stopping the forever wars, so they can play the victim card and say "I tried! If only you'd given me more money, I could have done it."
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> If only you'd given me more money Only one party seems to have a spending problem, and it's not the Democratic one.
>At first glance this came off as a bit absurd to me but the government puts restrictions on what it can do all the time. Now it is probably too far to say officials not currently in government have speech restrictions but restrictions on those in office is no more outlandish than any other regulation or rights legislation. Elected officials _are_ the government. That's not a great idea. In fact, that's why it's explicitly disallowed[0] by the US Constitution. If you think that should be changed, you just need to convince 2/3 of each house of Congress and 3/4 of the legislatures of the several states to officially agree with you[1]. Good luck with that. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_or_Debate_Clause [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Ratification_of_amendments
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Huh that’s super interesting. Genuinely did not know that was expressly defined. Thank you!
Smart home devices should work without the internet (docodethatmatters.com)
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I had a chuckle when I saw “ AI;DR “ nice will use it.
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100% agree. Home Assistant is the brain of my smart house and my rule has been, for over a decade now, that all smart devices should fail back to being dumb and anyone in my house should be able to use the house without an instruction manual. In practice this looks like Z-wave smart switches everywhere for lights so that you can control the light via automation, app, the switch on the wall, or Alexa. They all feed into the same system. LLMs have made this even easier and removed some of the annoying fiddling I used to do in the past. Now I can open up Claude Code and tell it to build a new automation and it's done in minutes. Yesterday I realized I left the floodlight on in the backyard by accident, not problem "Claude, create an automation in home assistant to turn off backyard light 5 minutes after I turn it on", done. Could I have created that automation? Yes, I've written countless of them in that past but now I can speak it into existence and, almost more importantly, tweak it with barely any effort at all. If tomorrow I buy a motion sensor I can just ask the LLM to incorporate that, if I want the lights to stay on if X other device is turned on, it's a prompt away. In the past I would spend a good bit of time writing an automation but when it broke down or my needs changed it was enough friction that I would just give up and turn off the automation rather than take the time to debug and change it. I setup all the motion-activated lights in my house when I first moved in and over the course of a few weeks I tweaked each one as needed with just a short prompt here or there, it felt like living in the future.
I recently had a similar issue. But instead I decided to go with industrial controls. I bought a Contactor with a NC and NO connections. I put a float switch in series with the activator coil circuit. So when the float triggers: NC->O and NO-C, which turns off the water and turns on the pump. Contactors are built to run giant industrial motors for years, nevermind my little 1/4hp pump. The way I built it lets my mother bypass it by unplugging the pump from the control box and plugging it right into the wall outlet. So, hopefully it lasts years. If it doesnt, anyone can bypass it
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Every sump pump I've seen has a built-in float switch that works. I need an alarm because I've had a few pumps wear out, and also because I've had the power go out long enough to flood. Your solution automates something that shouldn't have a computer involved in automating.
amazing how HN still hasn't internalized that RE is cheap now just like net new code, perhaps cheaper since the oracle is right there. there are tricky bits if firmwares are signed and encrypted, but devices are so full of bugs you can expect to find some just by having agents poke for long enough
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HN isn’t a person. Knowledge like this takes awhile to saturate through a community. It’s ok that some people aren’t tracking llm capabilities. I think it’s probably healthy.
I wonder how long it will be until Claude starts refusing to do this kind of thing?
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I pity those who've yet to experience running uncensored LLMs locally. Sure, they're not as fast as Claude, but they're still quite capable if you're patient.
Static IP addressing at this level is a curse. On a home network with dynamic addresses: No need to worry about IP addresses; no overlaps happen, no mistakes, no spreadsheet table to manage. Use names (as long as DHCP works, then so does DNS). Renumbering the network is simple when that's useful. It still works when the internet is down. And when the router itself breaks, we fix it or replace it and things work again. It's good to have a functional spare. --- On a home network with static addresses: Micromanage IP addresses, keep a spreadsheet table, potentially make mistakes. Avoid using names (DHCP may be eliminated but DNS is still a failure point), making things harder to remember six months from now. Renumbering is arduous. It still works when the router is down, but: When the router breaks, we still fix or replace it anyway. It's good to have a functional spare. --- In terms of SRE: I don't need 5 9's of reliability for my smart light bulbs' IoT controls at home. They all still have some manner of physical switch, and they all can still be toggled on and off the old-fashioned way. Parallel controls work well-enough. Everyone will get by almost-normally while I fix the router, which is a task that I'll set forth to be doing anyway for all of the reasons that household internet access provides.
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I've recently come up with what I think is an even better solution. If someone's already done it, I have no idea. I just went ahead and implemented it because I thought it'd be interesting. The concept is that, instead of assuming that IP and MAC addresses are at all reliable, to "fingerprint" devices on the LAN based on things such as SSH public keys, TLS SPKI fingerprints, UPnP device UUIDs, mDNS, common TCP port profiles, and IEEE OUI manufacturer in order to form mostly-stable identities. The IP and full MAC are only fallen back to when there's absolutely no other data to work off of. My software uses a daemon that scans the network in order find devices and update existing device identities if IPs change. It serves hostnames for these devices on the `.home.arpa` TLD and creates synthetic IPv6 addresses for each device in case one would rather use their own DNS server or hosts file. I recently "finished" this project, and it's kind of awesome because I was able to swap to a new router and everything just kept working as-is without having to think about it. Of course mDNS solves a lot of these problems already, but not every device has mDNS. What's really cool is I recently realized that this is also very useful for accessing your local network with a VPN like Wireguard. Even though I only planned on this being something you run on individual clients, I put it on my OpenWrt router and configured it with dnsmasq so that, when I connect to my network with Netbird, all of my local hostnames just work on my phone by virtue of connecting to the network and using its DNS server. That said, my project doesn't require router admin access at all. It can even run as rootless if TUN access (for synthetic addresses) is turned off. Maybe I'll release it publicly at some point, but if anyone wants to steal this idea and do their own implementation, I am not territorial over it. It's made getting my LAN devices working together a joy.
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