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New comment by dcre in "Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust"

dcre — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:57:00 +0000

No it doesn't.

New comment by dcre in "Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas"

dcre — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:53:52 +0000

Agent harnesses I think will usually look at it. Chat is much less inclined to do tool calls. Though it seems like both OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to close this gap by merging an agentic product into chat.

New comment by dcre in "Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas"

dcre — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:21:23 +0000

The site doesn't make clear whether the models are looking at the image while they work on it, but the code includes a "look" tool they can call: "Every painter sees its looks at its provider's best image resolution."

https://github.com/aliceisjustplaying/claude-paint/blob/f038...

It would have freaked me out if they could do this well without that, especially the dumber models.

New comment by dcre in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

dcre — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:49:30 +0000

$200 a month is what people pay for morning coffee in the Bay Area.

New comment by dcre in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

dcre — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:04:59 +0000

What is stopping anyone from finding the value they would have found before?

New comment by dcre in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

dcre — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:42:53 +0000

Worth noting they claim they did not choose the line of attack. Of course we don’t know whether that is true.

New comment by dcre in "The revolt of the reader"

dcre — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:33:35 +0000

“Not every one of those 11,970 carries the same weight, and the paper is careful about that rather than rounding it up.”

AAUGH IT BURNS

New comment by dcre in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

dcre — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:18:20 +0000

Here's the post that made it click for me. It works through a practical example in both git and jj.

https://lottia.net/notes/0013-git-jujutsu-miniature.html

New comment by dcre in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

dcre — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:13:29 +0000

I also used to use a GUI (https://gitup.co/) for that reason, and jj has completely replaced it for me.

New comment by dcre in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

dcre — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:12:43 +0000

It's great to use what you prefer, but I don't think most people would see that and think "ooh, convenient!"

New comment by dcre in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

dcre — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:02:25 +0000

The CNBC report I linked, which appears to be the primary source, mentions growth in the second paragraph. It is the main characterization of what Friar said.

“In an internal meeting with employees on Wednesday, finance chief Sarah Friar and board chair Bret Taylor touted OpenAI’s revenue growth and addressed competition with Anthropic, CNBC has learned.”

New comment by dcre in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

dcre — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:28:37 +0000

A few advantages for me, even for the same 5 commands I use over and over:

- undo

- shuffling commits around with squash, split, and rebase is much better than git’s interactive rebase

- make commits without having to come up with a branch name (I might make three versions of the same change in parallel to see how they compare)

I see git is working on adding some of this under the history command. The revset language is really not esoteric: @ is head, @—- is two behind head. That’s about it.

Part of it is that the sorts of shuffling I used to avoid because they were a pain in git (so I didn’t feel I needed them improved) are so easy in jj that I do them all the time.

New comment by dcre in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

dcre — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:14:54 +0000

Completely agree there.

New comment by dcre in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

dcre — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:12:08 +0000

But you are using the misquote to do the thing Zitron does that you hate! I don't get it!

New comment by dcre in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

dcre — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:09:40 +0000

She, and we do not have the direct quote. It's a paraphrase, and the report can't seem to decide whether they're talking about revenue or growth. If she was talking about growth, "the ARR growth in July exceeded the ARR growth of Q2" is perfectly coherent.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/29/openai-cfo-sarah-friar-tells...

OP is way overinterpreting something we don't even have verbatim in a way that unfortunately resembles what they're rightly accusing Zitron of.

New comment by dcre in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

dcre — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:37:25 +0000

You're broadly right but I think you're dead wrong about the CFO statement — I think "July revenue alone exceeded all of Q2" is an extremely normal thing to say when revenue is going up at an insane rate. For example, if it was not true that June revenue exceeded March-May revenue, the point would be to show how their revenue growth has accelerated.

New comment by dcre in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

dcre — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:36:00 +0000

No, you can't. The numbers are genuinely confusing, and Zitron actively works to make them more confusing rather than explaining what they mean because he needs them to sound as bad as possible. He also buries the numbers in thousands of words of prose!

New comment by dcre in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

dcre — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:34:48 +0000

Yes, and his post about the exact same data was noticeably more confusing and less illuminating than theirs because he was primarily concerned to point to whatever the biggest number was and go "Ooh, big number!"

https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/

https://www.ft.com/content/e15b0d7e-ff6b-4f16-ba7a-4068feddb... (https://archive.ph/pAIEa)

New comment by dcre in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

dcre — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:32:03 +0000

Macrofinance expert Nathan Tankus has an excellent post on why the financing situation around the AI boom is just not big enough to mess up the financial system.

https://www.crisesnotes.com/sigh-no-ed-zitron-ai-bond-issuan...

New comment by dcre in "DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp"

dcre — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:42:42 +0000

Generating alt text for images in social media posts.