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New comment by bionhoward in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

bionhoward — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:33:17 +0000

gotta admit i groaned a bit at this because it would make rust more complicated, but on my 2nd read i realized:

- some things (compile time bounds checking tensor shapes) are hard / impossible to implement now; "pattern types" could be great for that

- however "no panic" is already handled by clippy, might not be much uplift for doing that at a type level.

my 2c: it's great to be excited and brainstorm, some of these ideas might be gold. conveying the benefit is key. it would be good to focus on stuff for which rust doesn't already have a workable solution. i like the pattern types, the rest would take convincing

New comment by bionhoward in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

bionhoward — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:55:04 +0000

Anthropic is not trustworthy for this because they force every Claude Code user to agree to a noncompete while also opting them in to model training.

That means, by default, every Claude Code user is actively getting royally screwed

New comment by bionhoward in "Marcus AI Claims Dataset"

bionhoward — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:46:56 +0000

surprisingly accurate! Is Gary the AI equivalent of the “nothing ever happens” guy?

New comment by bionhoward in "Async/Await on the GPU"

bionhoward — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:21:35 +0000

genius, great idea and follow through, please keep it up, this could improve the ML industry tremendously, maybe some einops inspired interface for this would be good?

New comment by bionhoward in "I’m joining OpenAI"

bionhoward — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:27:40 +0000

building this openclaw thing that competes with openai using codex is against the openai terms of service, which say you can't use it to make stuff that competes with them. but they compete with everyone. by giving zero fucks (or just not reading the fine print), bro was rewarded by the dumb rule people for breaking the dumb rules. this happens over and over. there is a lesson here

New comment by bionhoward in "OpenAI should build Slack"

bionhoward — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:11:06 +0000

signal should just add better API / bot stuff and then we could all use that. there's no way OpenAI would be trustworthy for this; slack certainly isn't

New comment by bionhoward in "Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market"

bionhoward — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:41:22 +0000

found a bug searching for "collagen":

  Failed to execute 'removeChild' on 'Node': The node to be removed is not a child of this node.
  Something broke. We're working on it, but in the meantime, try reloading the page. If that doesn't work, come back later.

  Error ID: b846e2e2ba3b483ab93f10e72ef76820

  NotFoundError: Failed to execute 'removeChild' on 'Node': The node to be removed is not a child of this node.
    at ds (https://pillser.com/assets/entry.client-DWgmqxdv.js:1:112074)
    at gs (https://pillser.com/assets/entry.client-DWgmqxdv.js:1:113602)
    at ys (https://pillser.com/assets/entry.client-DWgmqxdv.js:1:113850)
    at gs (https://pillser.com/assets/entry.client-DWgmqxdv.js:1:113728)

New comment by bionhoward in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

bionhoward — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:53:17 +0000

Yes! The paywalled SQL documents are a big annoyance

New comment by bionhoward in "Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned"

bionhoward — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:16:44 +0000

Yup, I’ve been crowing about these customer noncompetes for years now and it’s clear Anthropic has one of the worst ones. The real kicker is, since Claude Code can do anything, you’re technically not allowed to use it for anything, and everyone just depends on Anthropic not being evil

New comment by bionhoward in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

bionhoward — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:55:57 +0000

Why act like it’s a mystery when the Claude Code repo clearly explains:

> When you use Claude Code, we collect feedback, which includes usage data (such as code acceptance or rejections), associated conversation data, and user feedback submitted via the /bug command.

They subsidize Claude Code because it gives them your codebase and chat history

New comment by bionhoward in "Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole"

bionhoward — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:53:21 +0000

Would SRAM make weight updates prohibitive vs DRAM?

New comment by bionhoward in "Codex is a Slytherin, Claude is a Hufflepuff"

bionhoward — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:03:01 +0000

Gemini is absolutely not Gryffindor since it auto-opts users into training AI on their codebases without informed consent

New comment by bionhoward in "Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document"

bionhoward — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:00:04 +0000

Anthropic also has legal terms that say no one is allowed to use the service for anything work related, but nobody seems to care

New comment by bionhoward in "Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public"

bionhoward — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:55:15 +0000

Cursor still wins over Claude Code because Cursor has privacy mode

New comment by bionhoward in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

bionhoward — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:35:33 +0000

I think it’s more about deciding how much to think about stuff and not a model router per se. 5 and 5.1 get progressively better calibrated reasoning token budgets. Also o3 and “reasoning with tools” for a massive consumer audience was a major advance and fairly recent

New comment by bionhoward in "5 Things to Try with Gemini 3 Pro in Gemini CLI"

bionhoward — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:33:08 +0000

model provider CLIs are a trap, less freedom of choice, less privacy, way more prohibitions buried in the fine print

New comment by bionhoward in "Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app"

bionhoward — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:04:43 +0000

Good reason to use Cursor, you can insta-switch to whatever model you want and even run diverse models from different providers at the same time. If one of em isn’t working then you can try something else instead of being stuck on one model provider

New comment by bionhoward in "Monads are too powerful: The expressiveness spectrum"

bionhoward — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:53:05 +0000

And here I thought it was a pedantic word for “data box”

New comment by bionhoward in "Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering"

bionhoward — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:40:36 +0000

Is using these terminal agents with customer noncompete and no privacy questionable when cursor has the same models and privacy mode?

New comment by bionhoward in "Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year"

bionhoward — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:44:46 +0000

The point is it’s sucking your data into some amorphous big brother dataset without explicitly asking you if you want that to happen first. Opt out AI features are generally rude, trashy, low-class, money grubbing data grabs