Very interesting. I would like something like this, but not with LEDs.

Hydrargyrum medium-src iodide lamps are an alternative (artificial sun lights for movie sets), but you'll want a good AC unit in your office

I thought hydragyrum was a made-up word, but it's the Latin word for mercury, which explains the Hg chemical symbol. (Just in case anyone finds this interesting.)

Now I see why he was on twitter saying that the era of coding is over and hyping up LLMs, to sell more shovels...

We already have a pretty good sandbox in our platform: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/main/platform/plugins/...

It uses web workers on a web browser. So is this Deno Sandbox like that, but for server? I think Node has worker threads.

"Most people" didn't figure this out either, the top 0.01% did.

I also wouldn't be surprised if they used AI to assist themselves in small ways

You're just moving the goal post & not addressing the question I asked. Why isn't AI optimizing the kernels in its own code the way people have been optimizing it like in the posted paper?

Goodbye CoPilot plugin, yet another platform Microsoft loses on.

https://github.com/github/CopilotForXcode

In almost no situation is laughing at what someone says appropriate, also not here.

the commits history looks a bit weird, 2 commits in 2022, 1 in 2024 and 2025, and 5 in 2026 (one is "First commit, Support DuckDB Engine")

Just guessing, but it probably wasn't planned as open source.

The real version control history might be full of useless internal Jira ticket references, confidential information about products, in Mandarin, not even in git... there's a thousand reasons to surface only a minimal fake git version history, hand-crafted from major releases.

It now seems to be best practice to simultaneously keep things updated (to avoid newly discovered vulnerabilities), but also not update them too much (to avoid supply chain attacks). Honestly not sure how I'm meant to action those at the same time.

The article starts out by saying that Notepad++ "is a text editor popular among developers". Really?

I feel like supply chain attacks are the much rarer situation than real world exploits but I don’t have numbers.

What’s there not to like? Superconductors. Free electricity. No cooling necessary.

Put those three together and maybe it’s possible to push physics to its limits. Faster networking, maybe 4x-5x capacity per unit compared to earth. Servicing is a pain, might be cheaper to just replace the hardware when a node goes bad.

But it mainly makes sense to those who have the capability and can do it cheaply (compared to the rest). There’s only one company that I can think of and that is SpaceX. They are closing in on (or passed) 8,000 satellites. Vertical integration means their cost-base will always be less than any competitor.

Why is there no cooling necessary?

Your exuberance for this topic is only matched by your lack of understanding about it.

The Zapotec civilization pre-dates the Aztecs and Maya and were the first to develop a writing system in Mexico.

Benito Juarez, President of Mexico during their revolution, was Zapotec.

The Zapotec people are still around today and a large number still speak their ancient language. A large number moved to LA and another group in New Jersey, but they're all over the US.

I wish this article shared more about how this tomb was discovered. Was it buried under mountain of dirt? Under a jungle canopy no one explored? Has it been there all along at an existing ruins site but was hidden in some way? Give us details man!

This has been such a breath of fresh air. It was seamless to drop into my projects.

"...in Rust"

Is enough to don't even open the link! Everything right now seems to have an urgent need to be developed into Rust, like why???

Just like kubernetes, many companies followed the kubernetes hype even when it was not needed and added unnecessary complexity to a simple environment.

Now it is Rust time!!

The agent orchestration point from vessenes is interesting - using faster, smaller models for routine tasks while reserving frontier models for complex reasoning.

In practice, I've found the economics work like this:

1. Code generation (boilerplate, tests, migrations) - smaller models are fine, and latency matters more than peak capability 2. Architecture decisions, debugging subtle issues - worth the cost of frontier models 3. Refactoring existing code - the model needs to "understand" before changing, so context and reasoning matter more

The 3B active parameters claim is the key unlock here. If this actually runs well on consumer hardware with reasonable context windows, it becomes the obvious choice for category 1 tasks. The question is whether the SWE-Bench numbers hold up for real-world "agent turn" scenarios where you're doing hundreds of small operations.

I find it really surprising that you’re fine with low end models for coding - I went through a lot of open-weights models, local and "local", and I consistently found the results underwhelming. The glm-4.7 was the smallest model I found to be somewhat reliable, but that’s a sizable 350b and stretches the definition of local-as-in-at-home.

You're replying to a bot, fyi :)

Periodic reminder that "identity theft" is the financial system gaslighting you into thinking their poor decisions are your fault.

This is a Mad Libs autopilot reply which has nothing to do with the article.

    Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life.

Much less on a property deal where identity and ownership are heavily scrutinized.

Could be worsened by inaccurate optical character recognition in some cases.

Back in those days optical scanners were still used.

Rock dots? You mean diacritics? Yeah someone invented them: the ancient Greeks, idiöt.

It's not the character, its the way / context in which it's used

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut

If only they'd taken the same approach with Russian natural gas in 2008.

As an American, I will echo Trump's speech at Davos. We want strong allies, not vassals. Be capable of building your own EVs, your own rockets, your own fighter jets, your own subway systems, your own zoom alternatives, your own search engines, your own operating systems, etc etc.

Make Europe great again. Bring back creativity. Bring back jobs. Build a talented workforce that stays local instead of migrating to the US. Be independent. Stand tall. Do all of these things and preferrably do them now.

America and China's rise shouldnt be zero sum. It should lift the world. Europe forged the path we all follow. Come back to it.

Patronizing rubbish. The EU builds plenty of EVs, rockets and fighter jets and has far more subway systems and public transport than the US.

Europe is already great. It's why hundreds of thousands of Americans moved here in 2025.

As for being a vassal: Trump was warned of the consequences of invading Greenland and he backed down immediately. Some vassal.

Why not in gold while we're at it?

Both are equally stupid, and you have to exchange them to buy most of the things you might need.

Guess they want cryptobros, not gold bugs.

Why? Because the US stable coins are an abstraction on top of US treasuries. It's effectively trading in the US debt market, not trading in crypto-hype.

The Fed is interested in converting the debt to another medium, for obvious reasons. Stablecoin looks to be the leader, since a number of the new administration have talked about it in the last decade (re: Scott Besset stablecoin speech).

I can understand why some companies want their runway in a currency that may go up during a transition (a more favorable exchange rate). There's little lossage in the exchange of USDT/USDC in the short term. Seems like a hedge strategy.

Puget is a specialist seller of high-end workstation, so their component choices are certainly a cut above what the average PC seller uses.

Yeah, very well respected system builders based in the PNW. They've had some motion for a long time, but it's nice to see someone local mentioned.

I am not surprised at all to see the W series Xeons with very high reliability. I know they tend to be pricier than AMD, and maybe not as fast, but I can't recall the last time I managed to kill an E3/E5/W series Xeon in the last 15 years, no matter how hard they're worked. Intel pooched it with the i-series core parts, but the workstation xeons have always been really reliable and more thrifty with power especially at idle than AMD.

I can more or less understand where the legislator might be coming from: laser printers and copiers are already mandated to include fingerprinting in the output and disrupt any attempt of copying money.

That's more so another example of a law that shouldn't exist.

I really dislike this whole debate because I never wanted to be lumped in with 3D gun printing weirdos.

When I first told my very non-technical somewhat new friend about my 3D printer, they looked really concerned and told me they weren’t comfortable with it because of how people make weapons with them.

I’ve had to spend a lot of time building trust and showing that I’m not one of those weirdos.

Ultimately I don’t think any kind of printed gun banning law has a tangible impact (it’s not like guns with serial numbers aren’t regularly getting away with murder), but what I don’t like is that the law and discussion around it validates this stupidity and continues to lump me in with gun weirdos.

It’s weird to own a gun. It’s weird to print a gun. I don’t even think the 2nd amendment is very necessary and is clearly not capable of stopping tyranny (and the amendment itself says that’s not its purpose anyway).

At this point we could probably get a coalition of Trump cult members who have no consistent ideology (Trump doesn’t like guns) and “liberal pansies” to just repeal the 2nd amendment and become a normal country.

It is interesting to see who will get there first. China seems to be right on target with their schedule, but the US is being more ambitious, this also looks a bit more fragile on execution.

I long suspect Blue Origin will be the first US based to touch down as Starship is just too complicated to get it done in the next 2-3 years, but that doesnt mean even the 2028 landing is assured.

Space exploration had been fairly low key for decades but the last decade has been something to see.

Maybe my date calculations are off, but I think the people that landed on the moon on July 20, 1969 got there first. According to my calculations, if China lands people on the moon in 2030, that will be approximately 61 years later. The people that got there 61 years earlier can be reasonably said to have gotten there first.

Oddly enough, the same country also accomplished the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth landing on the moon by humans. So if all goes well, China can be extremely triumphant with their highly anticipated seventh place trophy.

And as we all know, successful enterprises are always the ones which do something once and then never again for 61 years. /S

This sounds a lot like https://turso.tech/ ? Unless I misunderstand, they're both pitching SQLite-for-the-cloud.

Yes, they mention they use libsql. Don't know why I should use them and not the product by the actual libsql authors.

An advantage is the integration with other Bunny services like containers etc.

Also, not sure about now, but historically Turso didn't have to best uptime.

Not keen on your data store choice. Mongodb introduces a lot of other problems. The problem with schemas is an easier one to solve imo

Fair point, although we didn't choose MongoDB just because of schema handling. We've been using MongoDB in production since 2013, so it was a natural choice since we already know a lot more about it than any other database.

For the problems you're mentioning, what we've seen is that many people use it incorrectly, and we're building the framework in a way that prevents that in the app layer. But still curious about your experience - what are the biggest problems you've had in production MongoDB?

What do you mean with "it introduces a lot of other problems"?

Project to Circumnavigate using an Autonomous Airship Drone

PTCUAAAD. As acronyms go: too Lovecraftian I fear.

PCAAD: Too Microsoftie.

PiCArD?

- Piloted Intelligent Circumnavigation Airship for Research and Development

- Prototype Integrated Control Autonomous Route Drone

- Programmable Intelligent Circumnavigation Aeronautical Remote Device

- Piloted Intelligent Craft: Autonomous Route, Data-driven

- Primary Intelligence Control And Route Determination

- Precision Integrated Circumnavigation And Remote Deployment

One thing that annoys me is:

Why don’t kilobyte continue to mean 1024 and introduce kilodebyte to mean 1000. Byte, to me implies a binary number system, and if you want to introduce a new nomenclature to reduce confusion, give the new one a new name and let the older of more prevalent one in its domain keep the old one…

Because kilo- already has a meaning. And both usages of kilobyte were (and are) in use. If we are going to fix the problem, we might as well fix it right.

Sure outside of computing in other science it has a meaning but in binary computing traditionally prefix + byte implied binary number quantities.

Many things acquire domain specific nuanced meaning ..

tangentially, readers may be interested in this paper: https://stateofutopia.com/papers/1/evolving-brains-cull-long...

(you can reproduce its results yourself in a few minutes).

Shorter lifespans drive faster evolution. That was taught in basic biology and we, as a society, know it all too well (infectious diseases).

It’s difficult to square obsession with a long life with a healthy humanity.

There's also some wisdom in that if you make kids later in life, you pass them the genes to survive (with 50% probability it seems) up to that age.

So if you're in the kind of family that dies of cancer at 30, and make kids at 25, perspectives don't look great.

Now, not to these people shouldn't make kids but perhaps, choose a spouse whose family dies on average at 60+?

Marry "up", not "down" :)

Interesting. This is basically the second enforcement on speech / images that France has done - first was Pavel Durov @ Telegram. He eventually made changes in Telegram's moderation infrastructure and I think was allowed to leave France sometime last year.

I don't love heavy-handed enforcement on speech issues, but I do really like a heterogenous cultural situation, so I think it's interesting and probably to the overall good to have a country pushing on these matters very hard, just as a matter of keeping a diverse set of global standards, something that adds cultural resilience for humanity.

linkedin is not a replacement for twitter, though. I'm curious if they'll come back post-settlement.

I wouldn't equate the two.

There's someone who was being held responsible for what was in encrypted chats.

Then there's someone who published depictions of sexual abuse and minors.

Worlds apart.

I suppose those are the offices from SpaceX now that they merged.

this feels like excellent foundations for a board game. fascinating!

This looks complicated! The only card games I know are patience and Uno. Oh and top trumps, but not sure if that counts...

> The Everdeck is designed with a ruthless combinatorial efficiency. Beneath its minimalist pen-and-ink design lies layers of mathematical and linguistic patterns. This isn’t just a deck with haphazardly placed extra glyphs; rather, it aims to be both beautiful and practical.

This paragraph was designed as ruthless LLM slop.

Integrate them peer review process and you’ve got a disrupter

Right? This is kind of the dream.

Peer review should be disrupted, but doing peer review via social media is not the way to go.

repo: https://github.com/rbbydotdev/refined-github-with-ai-pr

Why not just look at the code and see if it's good or not?

Because AI is really good at generating code that looks good on its own, on both first and second glance. It's only when you notice the cumulative effects of layers if such PRs that the cracks really show.

Humans are pretty terrible at reliable high quality choice review. The only thing worse is all the other things we've tried.

This to me is the most important point in the whole text:

"We already have a system for this: fiduciaries. There are areas in society where trustworthiness is of paramount importance, even more than usual. Doctors, lawyers, accountants…these are all trusted agents. They need extraordinary access to our information and ourselves to do their jobs, and so they have additional legal responsibilities to act in our best interests. They have fiduciary responsibility to their clients.

We need the same sort of thing for our data. The idea of a data fiduciary is not new. But it’s even more vital in a world of generative AI assistants."

I've not think about it like that, but I think it's a great way to legislate.

We've needed that in software (not just AI) for a long time.

Not a popular take; especially within the HN crowd.

That said, it needs to be scaled. As he indicated, only certain professions need fiduciaries.

Anyone that remembers working in an ISO9001 environment, can understand how incredibly bad it can get.

A computer guy on a policy wonk reading diet makes for boring reading.

Policy wonks are often systemizers who think of society as a machine. That’s why they take the intuitive concept—scarcely even needs explaining—of informal everyday rituals like queueing and repackage it as yesteryear’s buzzword “trust”. We don’t need extrinsic rewards to queue politely. Amazing?

A computer guy is gonna take that and explain to us, of course, that society is like a machine. Running on trust. That’s the oil or whatever. Because there aren’t enough formal transactions to explain all the minute well-behavedeness.

Then condescend about how we think of (especially) corporations as friends. Sigh.

What policy wonks are intentionally blind to are all the people who “trust” by not making a fuzz. By just going along with it. Apathy and being resigned to your fate looks the same as trust from an affluent picket-fence distance. Or like being a naive friend to corporations.

The conclusion is as exciting as the thesis. Status quo with bad bad corporations. But the government must regulate the bad corporations.

I’m sure I’ve commented on this before. But anyway. Another round.