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New comment by hayd in "The Rape Gang Inquiry Report [pdf]"

hayd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:11:07 +0000

After public outcry, a national inquiry was promised to the British people last year by their [pro-immigration] Prime Minister... but, of course, this process has still not even begun.

The facts of the independent rape gang inquiry must be faced head on, not ignored because we find the person who instantiated it uncouth. The state has repeatedly refused to make good on its promises of an inquiry, it is a disgusting and inhumane injustice to the past (and future) vicitims.

The facts are horrific and shameful.

New comment by hayd in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

hayd — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:30:15 +0000

I suspect they've been planning this and experimenting for many months. Along with the large existing test suite, they have lots of tooling for parallelizing agents and an unlimited token budget. So don't feel too bad..

New comment by hayd in "Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs"

hayd — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:11:32 +0000

https://law.stackexchange.com/a/83552

I suppose the question is whether the author had ever entered into a contract limiting reverse engineering...

New comment by hayd in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

hayd — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:56:57 +0000

"$30B in sales and $1B in profit."

This margin seems terrible.

New comment by hayd in "Claude Opus 4.7"

hayd — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:34:30 +0000

Does it? I'm not sure I'd necessarily notice but I haven't found it noticeably worse.

New comment by hayd in "Claude Opus 4.7"

hayd — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:33:12 +0000

me feel that it needs some tweaking - it's a little annoyingly cute (and could be even terser).

New comment by hayd in "Claude Code Routines"

hayd — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:17:09 +0000

same. I use pi - and anthropic pricing change have made it usuable with Max. Codex works pretty much the same, not need to change development practice... apart from no 429s (so far).

New comment by hayd in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

hayd — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:51:58 +0000

had been using claude max/opus with pi and the results have been incredible. Having pi write an AGENTS.md and dip your feet into creating your own skills specific to the project.

With the anthropic billing change (not being able to use the max credits for pi) I think I have to cancel - as I'm whirring through credits now.

Going to move to the $250/mo OpenAI codex plan for now.

New comment by hayd in "xAI joins SpaceX"

hayd — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:01:02 +0000

I think people are more concerned about SpaceX getting the raw deal here.

New comment by hayd in "Vibe coding kills open source"

hayd — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:15:16 +0000

I think one of the things that will need to be embraced is carefully curating .md context files to give the prompts better/shared direction to contributors. Things like any new feature or fix should include a test case (in the right place), functions should re-use existing library code wherever possible, function signatures should never change in a backwards-incompatible way, any code changes should pass the linter, etc etc. And ideally ensure the agent writes code that's going to be to the maintainer's "taste".

I haven't worked out how to do this for my own projects.

Once you've set it up it's not too hard to imagine an AI giving an initial PR assessment... to discard the worst AI slop, offer some stylistic feedback, or suggest performance concerns.

New comment by hayd in "Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes""

hayd — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:25:42 +0000

> the European Union was seen to be a good thing in the eyes of the archetypal Brit

It wasn't, hence Brexit. We were dragged in via a Customs Union against the will of the British electorate at every turn.

New comment by hayd in "San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k"

hayd — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:48:08 +0000

The £100k threshold is such an economically illiterate policy for society. The GPs and lawyers I know are working ~3 days a week to avoid it, so much economic output and taxes missed out on.

New comment by hayd in "San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k"

hayd — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:41:16 +0000

and most don't live in the neighbourhood, city or even state (in tech anyways).

New comment by hayd in "Find a pub that needs you"

hayd — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:01:36 +0000

> This is great for HMRC because it collects 10 times more than what the publican does

WTF.

New comment by hayd in "High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it"

hayd — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:26:05 +0000

Is this something likely to ever change?

New comment by hayd in "String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof"

hayd — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:28:36 +0000

I'm reminded of a graduate course in Elliptical Curves where, late in the semester, we took a lecture to speedrun all the prerequisites and ideas of Perelman's [then new] proof of the Poincaré conjecture. It was wild but a lot of fun.

New comment by hayd in "UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16"

hayd — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:30:21 +0000

the process is the punishment

New comment by hayd in "Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses"

hayd — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:25:53 +0000

Or outcompete because it's state-funded, and can inject things like remote access (that the state might like the option to use one day).

It's really confusing that the EU don't consider this "dumping". I thought that was this big thing that they cared about.

New comment by hayd in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"

hayd — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 22:56:29 +0000

The being table open for the entire time with 100bb minimum and no maximum.. is going to lead to some wild swings at the top.

New comment by hayd in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"

hayd — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 22:52:06 +0000

and the board isn't dry (there are straight and flush draws).