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from their site > Rendering them as individual pages would mean publishing an indexed, searchable copy of every private message in the corpus — including the many that concern ordinary members and people who wrote to the party, not public figures. which is suspicious

Imagine going back in time to tell Hitler that, in 80 years, the German far-right would be led by a publicly pro-Jewish lesbian. Hell… maybe someone did, and that’s why he shot himself.

And supporting Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch

The reverts will continue until morale improves (peter.eisentraut.org)

is it really necessary to keep using new version of postgres and to keep developing them? is it not done at this point?

Yes, not only is there always improvements to existing functionality possible due to changes in improvements in general software engineering and mathematical methods beyond it or supporting new hardware features. Generally, software engineering like other industries is evolving and there is need for different facilities. Consider graph and vector databases featuring, as well as json columns as examples of things you that are relatively recently in common use.

Yes. There's always room for improvement.

I don’t get the meaning of the article subject.

What, the title? "Until morale improves" is ineptly chosen, because it seems self-deprecating: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/15/morale/ Or if not the title, the general context is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119991

It's a play on "the beatings will continue until morale improves". You obviously can't just beat morale into people, and, knowing that, the audience should understand improvements to a bad situation will not be forthcoming. It's often used for dramatic effect as dark/silly humor when something bad happens.

It is a play on the old joke “The beatings will continue until morale approves.”

Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale (inceptionlabs.ai)

Having a chart with a linear scale on one axis and a log scale on the other axis is a really neat trick. The resulting charts have a high probability of looking fantastic :-D

love these guys. instead of spending time on something akin to those creepy "dots" or obnoxious @Claude in Slack, they ship actual improvements to speed. you can't imagine what kinds of UX a fast LLM can enable! and for coding I have always been a proponent of strong compile-time type systems and handing off only the actual boilerplate typing, all to maximize actual thinking and speed of high-precision prototyping. I actually built a small prototype that integrates with JetBrains IDEs - it tracks your in-IDE activity (kinda like JetBrains' own "file-scale tab-completion" feature) but you can invoke Codex with all that context at any moment to let back-then GPT-5.4-nano finish the miniature task. say, you wrote a new use case and your goal is to expose it through a new endpoint, but it's kinda boilerplate-y and DRY is not your style either. then you open a needed file, press a shortcut, tell what you want, and you get it. JetBrains Air kinda absorbed that functionality, Codex tokens are hella expensive (don't get me started on API costs), and JetBrains is ready to front that cost through "Junie Lite" (which is currently Qwen 3.6 27B), so I decided to abandon that prototype. but I do miss the combination of speed and control over resulting code. I may revisit this idea with Mercury 3, or ask JB to integrate it.

I will argue that part of the push for this kind of new and novel methods are because the "dots" style of applications demand new technologies to work better.

You should be able to skip the OCR step by grabbing the actual text from the windows via OS APIs, unless your PDFs are scanned and not encoding digital text.

Lots of them are scanned sadly! But I added an alt mode where a selection gets translated without the OCR step - though OCR is on the order of 100ms so I don’t mind it that much

I have trouble thinking of tasks that "require" this kind of speed. The usual trade-off is between price and quality/reliability.

The time isn’t too relevant for let’s say coding tasks. But if you’re doing user facing, or processing live-data (logs for example) the speed becomes important

@volodia (Inception co-founder) has a comment here which is flagged/dead. That's weird; it shouldn't be. Can someone fix that?

Send an email to the mods, it’s the best way to notify them of issues like that

Android apps running native on macOS (github.com/kksimp)

> Run Android apps natively on Apple Silicon Macs. No emulator, no virtual machine, no Linux underneath. God damnit Dario fix Claude already so that it stops using this sentence structure once and for all. Opus is so annoyingly recognisable that it has started to irk me badly lately

Is this significantly useful to anyone? It’s a neat accomplishment. And it was worth doing for that alone. Absolutely hacker worthy. But as someone with an Apple Silicon Mac, I can run iOS apps on my computer if the developer has allowed it and I don’t. I’ve never come up with an actual need. It turns out it’s never really a problem for me. The few things I use a lot on my phone already have desktop equivalents. The long tail stuff tends to be stuffed that I wouldn’t really use from my computer anyway. Like locking my car or using a banking app. One I don’t need, the other is already covered by the website. So I’m wondering if anyone has found a strong use for this kind of tools.

What about that chinese cat feeder whose app requires a suspicious number of permissions, and requires max version of android 2 versions behind the current one? Or maybe your security camera has a "free" plan without motion detection, and you just keep the app running with a screen grab on top to do your own AI motion detection. Or my eero router, which doesn't have a web interface... etc etc. There's a million cheap hardware gadgets that are going to lose sw support at some time, and stop being functional. This will help a lot with that.

As someone who develops iOS and Android apps, I run production, store-installed variants on my Mac all the time for iOS apps. It's pretty nice and would be cool if I could do the same for Android.

Meanwhile I ignore most of the posts here that are Apple-related, this one was able to draw my attention. Checked the 'how it works' page and was impressed how easily Claude made the 32-to-64 bit ARM translator for you. We need more effort of this kind for the x86 ecosystem, generated or not, but the mobile-app-everything culture becomes really annoying and needs to be fought this way.

Claude didn't make this, the author did.

you didnt read the page did you.

I read the page, but didn't clone the repository locally to run an AI agent over it.

Is this your experience or are you repeating something you heard somewhere?

I'm no expert on the matter, but I've developed and published multiple Android apps to the Play Store. Some of those apps have needed Google Play Services APIs. Google has also been actively making moves to lock down control and offering things like the Play Integrity API that some apps use. By your phrasing, it sounds like you're implying my understanding is wrong somehow. If so, what am I missing?

Optimist take: this will matter less over time as more developers start targeting Steam devices

Or matter more, as chromeOS is killed and Android comes to laptop form factor?

I guess, in practice this can also be likely be made to run google services, the same as they can run on custom ROMs. And it already lists Aurora store as a solution. So it's definitely something for more tinkerer people, but still quite cool.

time to RE play services

People are way ahead of you. https://github.com/microg/GmsCore

Pokémon Go had a good reason - it turned out to be foreign intelligence gathering operation and couldn't risk being corrupted with false data.

What? Niantic (Google) admitted they were training spatial AI models. I have not seen evidence that the data was a "foreign intelligence-gathering operation" and I would welcome a source.

MiniMax M3.1 Flash (minimax.io)

This model seems to be pretty benchmaxed. In actual use, it doesn't survive the comparison to models in the benchmark. This model was released as a "stealth model" in OpenCode Go for a while as "Space Bunny" (they mention this in the blog). So people have been using without knowing what the model was exactly, but it failed to impress anyone as far as I can tell. This is despite the model being served for free (with some asterisks). GLM 5.3 Flash and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, even before last week's update, seemed to be much preferred. Stealth releases happen often with OpenCode subscriptions, and GLM 5.3 Flash (stealth name "Ox Alpha") impressed a lot for example. The perverse incentives around benchmarks are now so bad that benchmark scores are effectively meaningless. Models can score highly and still be crap to use. It doesn't matter whether it's Minimax or Google, or anyone really.

> The perverse incentives around benchmarks I am not sure. The people who actually care enough to look at benchmarks will run evals, and find out quickly. If you post silly benchmark scores too often, you will simply be ignored. You are paying with your reputation.

This is my experience with all MiniMax models: They're good on paper but fail to live up to expectations in practice. IMO, at no point has any MiniMax model been the superior choice over others, all things considered.

I’m one of the unimpressed. I tested SpaceBunny intensely on a research project for a week. The model wasn’t horrible at coding, it just made a ton of initial mistakes—but then would catch most of them later on. It can get work done if coaxed, but its peers are just cheaper and/or easier to work with.

Same experience. For me was "OK", not "Now we are cooking!"

> For agentic tasks, the model’s overall usage cost is 70% lower than its predecessor. For this release, the cost is $0.15 input MToK/$0.60 output MTok/$0.015 cache read MTok, In this case the predecessor is MiniMax M3 (not Flash), which was $0.30 input MToK/$1.20 output MTok/$0.06 cache read MTok. So a 50% cut to input costs and a 50% proportional cut to cache read costs (20% of input -> 10% of input) makes the ~70% cost reduction plausible. A 70% cost reduction is very funny in light of reports saying LLMs are becoming too expensive. That is likely due to the need to compete with DeepSeek V4.1 ($0.15 input MToK/$0.60 output MTok/$0.003 cache read MTok), which this new model still does not beat because DeepSeek's cache costs are still confusingly low, but it's pretty close.

Not sure why ds cache costs are confusing? Their kv cache is absurdly compressed compared to almost everyone else.

It is confusing because they are the only ones doing so whereas everyone has an incentive to apply similar techniques.

That still isn't the whole story. Compare DS 4.1 Flash [1] to GLM 5.3 Flash [2], and consider the effective price . DS's price is lower than GLM on input tokens, but higher than GLM on output tokens. Output price is an order of magnitude higher than input price. So for output-heavy workloads and long reasoning, DS costs more than GLM.[1] https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash#pricing [2] https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.3-flash#pricing Yes the official DS provider has a low cache cost, for now (it's just distributed KV). But people are still concerned about ZDR, sovereign AI, getting more model choice in their subscription price, etc. They want more bang for their buck. So when a new model comes out, the bigger impact is really its performance across providers, not the price at a single provider. And in about 5 years (or less), API prices will stop being a thing. We all used to pay per-minute for phone calls, texts, data. Nobody does anymore. Virtually every mobile provider is now a flat prepaid or contract fee. Carriers improved their technology (going from analog to digital), and it turned out consumers will spend more money on a packaged subscription than on pay-per-use. That's why everything in the world is a subscription now. Your modern $70 big wireless plan isn't giving you $70 of value. Similarly, your $20 AI subscription that's a great deal right now, will be less valuable in 5 years, when hardware & models are more efficient. You'll still be able to buy a local AI rig, but it will still be very expensive, due to AI models continuing to be large, and NVidia keeping new hardware expensive, as these things together reinforce their dominance and profits, and our reliance on them. This also follows another pre-existing trend. Why do people keep having to buy a new iPhone or laptop every other year? Because each year companies make software & data less efficient/more bloated, so people need a more powerful machine to run it, which enables them to make even more bloated software. Almost everything people do with a computer today is what they did 15-20 years ago; it's just a higher bit-rate. Despite this, people keep re-buying the same machine, so companies can keep extracting more wealth. AI works the same way. Rather than cost to consumers going down over time, it will likely go up. Not because it can't get cheaper/more efficient - but because it increases companies' profit. This isn't just a theory, btw; the US economy's growth is now almost entirely reliant on this happening.

> Rather than cost to consumers going down over time, it will likely go up. Not because it can't get cheaper/more efficient - but because it increases companies' profit. As shown in the OpenRouter links you provided, there are over 30 distinct providers of these open-weights models. They can't raise prices because it's a near-perfect marketplace and if they do, someone will just lower them to compete as long as marginal revenue >= marginal cost. There's no moat or other economic factors to allow for price control.

The cost vs performance is insane for all these new models. I’ve been using Deepseek Flash 1017 and it does whole projects and asks for $0.10 on US provider with ZDR on Openrouter. I convinced a few friends to drop their Claude $20 subscription because DS Flash 1017 brings so much better value. They can still use Opus 5.5 for planning though each call will cost north of $2. Excited to try this model out too once there are US providers.

I suspect that we may soon be seeing a modern version of VHS vs Betamax. Betamax was better quality, but VHS beat it in virtually every other metric that mattered to most consumers. (yes, I'm aware the analogy isn't perfect for many reasons)

I am sorry, but if you're given $1200 in api for free I wouldn't consider that as working around flakey limits especially when you only need to max out the 5 hour limit 5 times a week.

I don't understand what you're saying. If I hit my 5-hour limit in 2 hours, I still need to get work done for the other 3. I'm not going to sit there and wait for my limit to reset.

Cool 'math' but that's not how imaginary numbers work.

if the numbers are imaginary, then they can work however one wants!

> [Space Bunny] was an early version of MiniMax M3.1 Flash. They mention that space bunny was an earlier checkpoints, so it may have improved (or may it could be benchmaxxed) I find it interesting that so many models seem to be at almost exactly 74% specifically which makes me suspicious of the benchmark. I want to say 5.6-sol, Astra, deepseek flash 4.1, opus 5 (and 5.5?), Gemini 3.8-flash and a few others all ended up there?

> so many models seem to be at almost exactly 74% There was talk of deepswe tests being flawed. I have yet to find a better gauge of useful work for my case though, so I still keep referencing it and sampling it. On the lookout for improved benchmarks. "We found issues in at least 23 out of 113 tasks (over 20.3%), leading us to designate the benchmark as Flawed." - https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/deepswe/review

I do agree that it’s generally matched my impressions of models for general SWE at least until we had Opus 5 and 5.6-Sol beating Fable 5. Which coincidentally is when they hit 74%. Models like Deepseek 4.1 flash, Muse 1.3, and MiniMax 3.1 flash are certainly capable and very cost effective, but I’m not sure anyone would say they’re better than Fable 5/5.1 in capability

I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories (po-ru.com)

I felt inspired by this, and removed all my Github projects (except a few that people may depend on, which I just archived).

One thing that strikes me about what is going on: we have been promised this renaissance in software, yet, it been 2-3y of accelerated agentic/LLM development and I haven't see anything great coming out of the LLM developed software world that is worth looking at. Let's take open source as an example: No new 3d/2d CAD packages that are more capable than Blender/FreeCad/KiCad, nor Blender/FreeCad all of the sudden became much more capable than they were just few years ago. I also want to point out,that I haven't seen any new LLMed software in Electronic/ElectroDynamic simulation, something I would LLM to excel at, beyond what already existed before. No new software that is equal to Adobe Creative Suite (that Vibed coded replacement is trash IMO), No new Operating Systems that are taking over. No new utilities that are super useful in day work. We are using the same software, we've used before LLM arrived. Reverse Engineering became much easier, it is plus. Finding vulnerabilities also became much easier, another plus. Models are getting better. But where is the new cool software ? Edit: I will go even beyond OSS. M$ & Goog, who are DEEPLY Vested into AI, have access to the best possible frontier models and large groups of highly proficient engineers. Yet, Windows and Android are as laggy & buggy, as they were 4-5 years ago.

> But where is the new cool software ? No matter what you think about it, it's impressive what the folk at Omarchy[1] have been doing with LLMs. 1: https://omarchy.org/

I think this comment is premature. It hasn't really been 2-3 years accelerated LLM development. Even 6 months ago, LLM development was much less refined than it is now. There's been a few years of figuring out how to use these tools (which are constantly changing) and maybe a year of using them effectively. You point all these new software but some of them are literally only a few months to a few weeks old and complaining that they aren't up to standard yet. Even if LLMs didn't get any better than they are right now, these projects have barely even begun, and there is plenty of time and resources to build them up. I've written a bunch of cool new software with LLMs in my spare time -- are you sure you even have a way to notice all the new cool software that exists?

I worked for mid size Insure tech company that has good footprint in the industry and two years ago, LLM were good enough for us to refactor & rewrite major tech debt. Even two years ago, models were already impressive & capable. For me, the timeline been two years and counting.

A year ago I was also doing major refactoring and it saved several months of time (probably wouldn't have even attempted it). But LLMs still weren't as capable as they are now for more interesting tasks than that. I struggled with an LLM assisted conversion project, eventually just shelved it, and started it again recently and the difference is quite noticeable.

>are you sure you even have a way to notice all the new cool software that exists? This might be a problem in itself. I find myself unable to have the time to even investigate new software because even newer software with even more features comes around a week later. I bookmark so many Show HNs that I'm impressed by and only ever go back to a rare few.

My projects are so niche that almost nobody would ever care... but think that might be the point. Maybe there aren't any decent MS Office or Photoshop clones but there's also a bunch of really interesting niche software being created nobody else would ever care about. I personally (no LLM) wrote some open source software a few years ago that maybe has a dozen to a hundred users and somebody used an LLM to port it to MacOS and Linux.

People say that, but it doesn't hold up. We spend more money than ever before on software development. Just not on quality. There is something else going on here.

You'll need to backup the statement that we spend more money than ever on the same quantity of software development.

"that Vibed coded replacement is trash IMO" is referencing ArtCraft.

I don't get it. Like obviously any in development software will have bugs and missing features, and when it's replacing something as complex as Photoshop you can expect more issues compared to a simple text editor. I would say Photocraft is around 75% of GIMP or Affinity level and already better than both in some ways, like speed and memory usage. This is less than a month after first release and if you remember than one you know it was rough . Of course the last 10 will be the hardest, but 90% of Photoshop for free with native PSD and lower system requirements is a win no matter how you put it.

Well, it might be a rational view for the author, but for me that's like saying "I no longer like cooking, because there are companies providing the recipes I like as ready-made meals", or "I no longer play my instruments and make music, because there are machines which can create the music I like"; both topic apply to me personally, and I wouldn't agree to the statements. I still like to design and implement systems, make clever architectures and solve tricky problems. Why should I care if other people use LLMs to do so?

>Why should I care if other people use LLMs to do so? No man is an island. I've been watching my love for programming die as I've seen so many of my peers and engineering heroes turn into vibe coders. Community is a powerful thing.

a LOT of these arguments against New Thing seem to always fall into the category of "I no longer receive social credit for being a productive member of a niche in-group, so I quit.", masked as "They peed in the pool!". The pool they're talking about isn't software or CS, it's the attached treadmill that provides social kudos and credit for a job well done. This whole thing has been a huge revelation for me in that I naively presumed at first that other 'computer people' were also in it for the passion and interest in the hobby, now I am realizing quicker and quicker that "it's just a job" for the majority of people I talk to, the rest of the people do it "for exposure" , which is a nice way of saying that they're playing the Facebook/MySpace social kudos game with their linkedins and github profiles and blog articles. very few Terry style "just passionate about the thing" people out there, and I had never realized how rare that was.

As a teacher of CS I'm very aware of this. Year after year, for the last 15 years the CS program has been the largest program where I work because the job prospects have been the best. But you can tell, in a class of 100 there are only 1-2 students who are in it for the love of material. The other 98-99% are in it for the job after college. Which is fine and expected. But as soon as the paycheck dried up, those 98% were out and don't even care about the field. The 1-2% stick around no matter what.

It's already started imo. Spotify's desktop app on MacOS is becoming unusable (up to ~30s delays after clicking a button before the action runs—used to be snappy). I just saw the Epic Games launcher thing. Anecdotally, countless websites just break at random (more so than even when it was 100% human).

Spotify doesn't care about how fast their app is because for a lot of their users there is no alternative. Everything else is paid only (Apple), has a bad quality library with duplicates and trash metadata (YT) or is a lot less convenient (physical media and most pirate options). Epic is completely different, their app was awful before LLMs and the rewrite made it a lot better . It loads 10x faster, takes half the memory, every action is instant and it finally has a clear UI. If OpenAI wanted a success story to promote Astra this would be a good candidate.

But the robots are mostly "fine", and "fine" is good enough for most things we get paid for: enterprise SaaS products, mobile apps, etc. I was where it sounds like you are a month or so ago (denial), so no downvotes here. It definitely sucks; it's like losing a huge part of my identity. I'm still grieving it. I'm trying to deal with it by separating my identity from my job. I can still write code or learn new languages in my free time (such as it is). It's mostly a hobby now. And I can choose to not use LLMs at all in my personal life. But I do have bills to pay and a family to support, so at work I'm trying to learn how to do my new job of LLM orchestrator/babysitter. It's way less fun, but the money's still decent, so I'm hoping I can swallow my pride enough to keep going.

> but the money's still decent Do you realize it won't last long at such rate?

That was the point of FOSS and copyleft: the abolition of copyright on code allowing anyone to take code from any place to use however they please.

The entire concept of copyleft and free software depended on copyright: it isn't "take my code and do what you will", it is "here is a very explicit contract that demands you credit my work and even requires you to contribute back in return for my efforts". And like, maybe a world with no copyright at all is better! But that isn't the world we are in: it is no more legal for you to have an AI read my code and then port it into your codebase (which could involve training as an intermediate step or could merely involve the AI searching for it and loading it into its context) than would be for you to directly read my code and port it into your codebase or even for you to utilize a deterministic tool to read my code and port it into your codebase; you only get to do those things if you retain my license on the result and abide by its terms. FWIW, many of us who do open source would also find that hypothetical world in which the idea of copyright is abolished rather enticing... but you pretending that is this current world whenever you want to steal our code whilst copyright still paints our interests in using and altering the code from companies that have always been in fear of our community and our licenses (Apple, Microsoft, etc.) as theft is not merely a bit shitty... it is kind of evil/cruel.

Indeed. This whole LLM has been a planetary scale theft of labor. They stole our labor and are now leasing it back to us as rent-seeking on the means of production. Those of us who refuse to use that stolen labor are loosing our jobs, fast.

If you mean publishing open source code, they didn’t steal it. We gave it away. Generosity has always been vulnerable to “exploitation,” but some of apparently understood that risk better than others.

My jumping off point was OSS, but I was actually talking about the entirety of human knowledge being used to make a few people insanely rich while sending everyone else who made the LLM training possible to the bread line.

It's not even limited to software engineering. I'm sure word is getting around of MBAs and etc getting access to GitLab and using AI to make python apps. Look, you don't need devs anymore? Okay, but wouldn't a software engineer be better at that? "No, because I'm an SME, I know finance!". Right, but the LLM knows finance? A year ago these tools were assistants, copilots, but know.. It's clear if the pace doesn't plateau or slow greatly we are headed towards replacement of massive swaths of knowledge workers. And it risks completely destroying our society due to the economic fallout from mass unemployment..

“If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what [Alan] Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.” -- Paul Krugman, 1997 Note this does not say "it will decrease if we suddenly invent new productivity technologies".

Everyone in SWE (who got into it for the love of writing code) is experiencing this. I've been direct with my team about it being a legitimate feeling of grief and the grieving process that comes along with it. It's been helpful for folks to hear that they aren't alone in that feeling. And also that on the other side of that grief is something new and potentially exciting, but very different than what we're all used to.

> Everyone in SWE (who got into it for the love of writing code) is experiencing this. I love writing code. But I also love solving problems. AI allows me to solve problems in different ways. And I am totally enjoying that as well. If someone got into this SWE only to code, yes, they may not love where things are today and appear to be going in the future.

It’s a point that isn’t made often. AI is mostly saying the quiet part out loud. The big money valley bros figured it out just before they embraced regressive conservatism for their politics. There’s a reason we went from massages and pet daycare to rentier agriculture executive style management of the peons.

> There’s a reason we went from massages and pet daycare to rentier agriculture executive style management of the peons. And that reason is "service businesses are too expensive in California because of high housing costs".

I am one of those weirdos that found joy in business software. The clear specifications, reasonable timelines, and enough technical freedom, let you focus on clean, secure, resilient architectures. I find that I struggle more with personal projects, as I tend to take things where I'm not even in the skirts of the learning curve, and consequently redo my work a few times.

> The clear specifications, reasonable timelines, and enough technical freedom, let you focus on clean, secure, resilient architectures. The nicest thing was when you nailed down the architecture and then you are mostly twiddling your thumbs while waiting for the PM guys to have the next feature idea. Maintenance and bug fixing is a breeze.

Yes. The people that didn't enjoy coding say that. AI is great enabler for stuff that you don't want to be good at, it cut a ton of chore type jobs out of my workflow, but for stuff you do want to get better and care for, it's both joy killer, and if you're not careful you will only learn how to prompt, not how the stuff works.

> and if you're not careful you will only learn how to prompt, not how the stuff works. I’ve been coding over four decades and it is clear to me that most programmers don’t know how the stuff works, and not just script kiddies but some PhDs I worked with. For those who want to know how it works, LLMs are massive enablers. I’ve written so many debugging and inspection tools with an LLM; had a model explain the assembly language produced; had rubber duck conversations with it. I’m having such fun tbh.

Yes, sadly there are many people who are not honest with themselves because of peer pressure, FOMO and livelihood at stake.

What condescending self-righteous delusion.

People say stuff like this all the time, but what does it actually mean? Like, isn’t the details of the code, at least at some level, part of the “architecture”? I’m so curious about what people who say this are actually making where they just sit around all day and dream up new lego structures without ever having to look at any of the bricks.

The bricks are pretty standardized? I mean, you're not reinventing singly-linked and doubly-linked lists from first principles no? When I program I think in terms of data structures, data hierarchy, and algorithms. I want to use a queue here, a lock here, a double linked list there, an array list over here, maybe a hash dictionary with linked-list chaining for collisions. It's only a few times in my career that I built a bespoke data structure from the ground up and they were all for very hot loops and one case involved working on a lock-free algorithm. I've done a lot of functional coding in the past (in academia, in Haskell as a hobby, and Scala for a unicorn where I was an early hire.) This probably affects how I think. But I find it quite natural to organize my code this way. After all the fundamental data structures and the hierarchies relating them are what often determine core properties of your programs such as being CPU, Memory, or IO bound.

I may have it wrong, but I think 'architecture' can include relatively low-level details: you could even design a program down to the level of what each function does, and still only be doing 'architecture', not coding, so long as you're not writing the code or specifying exactly how it should work.

> you could even design a program down to the level of what each function does, and still only be doing 'architecture', not coding, so long as you're not writing the code or specifying exactly how it should work. So it all wishes and prayers? no wonder software quality is down.

We can be curious about how others approach problems or we can try to find the faults. I feel like this comment is a great example of jumping to the negativity rather than trying to understand a different perspective.

People who hated coding, technology, problem solving and only were in it for the money love managing a bunch of agents. Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of them were in technology. I hope agents quickly become good enough to completely commoditize any supposed function they perform, and forces them to leave this industry.

I love all those things, started coding as a 10 year old(30 years ago). The stuff I’m building is things I could only dream of before. With LLMs, I can build things in a year that would have taken me a lifetime before.

All this supposed fun, is always something fairly simple that would take maybe a hundred or thousand hours of practice to build, it was never out of reach of them, they just felt they didn’t have the time or motivation to build that skill. (even a 1000 hour project can be done in 6 months outside of work time) Now they don’t need it. If there is any fun in this, it is an extremely shallow, garden variety sort of fun that comes from consuming content. They will never experience the deep fun that comes from being immersed creatively in a project, which I would trade anytime for something shallow.

Tell us more about your mastery of every creative domain.

> The biggest LLM sellouts in open source I'm pretty sure someone will soon call Linus a sell-out. The hate / denial / radicalisation is just sad at this point... Do, or don't, but at least don't hate the others. Be and let be. No need to call other people names just because you don't like their sand castle. There's plenty of sand on the beach.

> Be and let be That's not quite practiced by those who preach "the genie is out of the bottle, and we invested too much to allow him go back, so adapt or die".

> You want changes? Go ask your agent or something. I’m told that’s what you’re supposed to do now. I’m out. Totally fair. The source code is open. Thanks for all the fish.

The source is open, but the ownership of the "text" and 130 other gems still resides with the blog author... maybe he could add the projects to https://www.codeshelter.co/ or something.

The LLM can maintain it now.

If LLMs aren't an example of trickle down, I don't know what is

Paying for something that has been scraped, trained on hundreds of billions of lines of code (mixed up GPL and other licenses) and being resold back to you is trickle down?

I'm working two entry level jobs, and I have spent maybe upwards of 100B tokens in the last year? on a project which isn't more than 250,000 lines of code. I have done countless refactors and care a lot about the craft.

Managing a codebase that big is not an entry level job. Can you outline very roughly what those projects do please?

Self-hosted and/or open models are fast approaching (or have reached) the quality bar necessary to handle a great deal of software development work. The models needed to cause the OP's problem are becoming commoditized.

What do you run an open model on when Nvidia stops selling you compute?

Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier (nbcnews.com)

That’s an issue that can be debated at the appropriate time and place, but it’s not the topic of this article, so it’s a generic tangent and flamebait, which the guidelines specifically ask us to avoid.

It's not at all a tangent. It's directly relevant. Have the curiosity to be serious.

The article is about the use of a drone to evacuate an injured soldier from a battlefield. It’s not an article about geopolitics, and if it was, it would definitely not belong on the front page, because the guidelines clearly state that mainstream news is usually off topic here. > Have the curiosity to be serious. Excuse me. This site and its guidelines have existed in a largely constant form for almost two decades and your account is a couple of months old. Of course we welcome new participants here, but this is only a place where people want to come to discuss important topics because we have guidelines and uphold them daily. Please respect the guidelines and the community expectations if you want to participate here.

> This site and its guidelines have existed in a largely constant form for almost two decades and your account is a couple of months old. Have the curiosity to learn from me. Don't succumb to ossification.

Was it two years ago, or even longer, that Akhmat troops claimed Ukrainian drones tried to abduct their men in the field? Who knows, it might end up actually happen one day. Wild.

A net shooting drone that pops an expanding weather balloon would get anyone you need off the ground and then plenty of time to collect then while they are floating around

Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware (heymaxwell.ai)

Just compile for your specific hardware sort of like what Gentoo does. I don't want you continuously running a model - sort of defeats the purpose of performance gains.

I read the entire manifesto thinking the discourse about a code execution model would lead to a revelation that this is a model that can reduce bugs in code in realtime and make sure the code runs to the original spec or blueprint. Instead it turned out to be about a model that keeps on optimising code that can go faster and faster over time. That's very exciting in its own right, don't get me wrong, but I was really starting to hope this would be about creating code that breaks less etc. Maybe it means both but perhaps the emphasis is on speed.

For the first thing you're talking about check out bend. https://github.com/bendlang/bend

this is an israeli company, use at your own risk (to life, the planet and humanity). plus you dont want an israeli company in your stack swapping code with malware and trojans.

Sick racism, bro

This is slander and I hope you get sued.

Lol. https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/ Nobody is afraid of Israel anymore go scare some Americans instead

Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer (boredhackerblog.info)

I find plex unusable since the latest UI updates in any place but my PC browser. It's so slow that Jellyfin is really my only option now. Did the vibe-code the new changes or what?

The new UI version never made it to the Xbox client so that's what I switched to using about 6 months ago. As a bonus, I got to ditch my Roku altogether.

There seems to be widespread disdain for it. AFAIK they switched to a shared codebase to make it easy for the devs to deploy to multiple devices. But, it came at the expense of UX for pretty much all devices. They don’t use native video services on things like iPhone.

I got hit with a cryptominer on my mac mini the other day. I only noticed because I happened to sitting in the room with it and noticed the fans were working overtime. There was a process, "icloud-services", which was using 100% of the CPU. It's sort of an indictment of Apple that my first inclination was "they've got a bug that's got an infinite loop" instead of "this is malicious software". After a reboot, I traced it back to a folder in `Library/Application Support` which included a `config.json` that mentioned gulf[.]moneroocean[.]stream, so I knew I'd been popped. Cleanup was easy enough (the files themselves, plus the launch daemon), but it's annoying. I don't do dev work on that machine (it's really just for plex & stuff) so it must have been some sort of vulnerability in Plex (but not the one described in OP) or macOS itself. Interestingly, I was up to date on my Plex install, but my macOS version was behind what was apparently an important security update related to an RCE (Sequoia 15.8).

Well damn. Here I was thinking I’m okay because Plex is up to date even if my OS isn’t…

I wouldn't go that far. It's just Jellyfin is ugly as shit.

When was the last time you tried it? I used to agree, but at least as of last year, it must've undergone a UI overhaul as now it looks quite nice imo.

Did they start doing automatic updates? I have a lifetime subscription, I use plex to share the media with the wife and kids on all of our devices, it does the job. I won't bitch about their streaming ambitions, but doing automatic updates and taking security seriously would go far for them.

You can opt-in automatic updates. If you install the non-container package, you can set it to auto upgrade. With containers it's a questionable/clunky implementation but possible. It only works in one flavor of their official image. On startup it will check if there is an update and download it and replace the application in the container. It breaks the point of containers obviously. It also only runs on startup, so you need to restart the container to get it to run.

Wine ported to OpenBSD (marc.info)

I wish every post like this had an intro section that said: “what is {insert obscure tech thing}” “why do people typically use {insert obscure tech thing}”

You don't know what OpenBSD or WINE is? I'm afraid that is on you.

I find it amusing and appropriate that the surname of the author of that message is Frohwein. "Happy wine" in German.

It's ironic that it looks like "frown"

You could try Age of Empires, its menus have the same charm. (Its presentation is so stiff that I refused to play it - it's supposedly a very good game, but I just couldn't bear playing what felt like MS Office)

There was a whole era of mid '90s Microsoft games where they were still competing with "Exit to DOS to get the best game experience" so they went out of their way to make sure you were aware you were running in Windows while playing their games. Aside from the early Age of Empires games I also recall the "Madness" family of racing games had different takes on the same idea from a variety of different developers. I actually just reinstalled Monster Truck Madness 1 the other day and have been working my way through trying to bodge it in to being an acceptable experience for this exact reason. The game itself runs fine but the UI does a lot of weird things that may have worked on Windows 9x with a low-res CRT but are very annoying on a modern system.

I mean... You can open Office documents in the browser, but for anything beyond basic tasks it's not even close.

I honestly thought there wasn't even an offline installer anymore, and office.com was the only way to open documents in office these days.

How's the performance ?

Acceptable in my opinion.

> Apple doesn’t want to distribute them Apple can't distribute them - coreutils is GPLv3, which is incompatible with Apple's immutable system volume.

That's a brand new excuse, Apple refused to distribute GPLv3 when GPLv3 was first published, 20ish years ago. How is GPLv3 incompatible with their system volume, yet GPLv2 is still fine?

So it's not new, it's 20 years old. GPLv2 is somehow compatible. This is the entire reason Mac OS ships an old version of bash but recent git.