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New comment by muglug in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"

muglug — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:05:09 +0000

What exactly? From what I’ve heard, most of what was released in the months after the acquisition were features that were already in development/behind feature flags.

New comment by muglug in "You Can Run"

muglug — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:54:31 +0000

Yeah — but includes a fun cameo from a famous 90s TV dad.

New comment by muglug in "Agentic Mfw"

muglug — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:27:21 +0000

> get hired at a comp number that requires a comma you've never used before

Gotta hand it to Claude, that's almost a pretty decent line.

New comment by muglug in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

muglug — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:23:36 +0000

Seems like the most plausible explanation. OTOH it feels like this is the sort of thing that might have been discovered/mitigated more quickly had there been a human in the loop.

New comment by muglug in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

muglug — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:30:37 +0000

And Michael was based on some of the most expensive & beloved IP in the world (extremely popular with Gen X despite everything)

New comment by muglug in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

muglug — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:32:02 +0000

I’m also an immigrant.

When I heard the crowd roar every time Trump said “we’re going to kick them out” I knew exactly what the crowd was cheering. Trump never used those moments to say “but America is a nation of immigrants and we celebrate their contributions”. He wanted to rile up a crowd while maintaining a fig-leaf of “oh it’s only illegals who are evil”

You don’t have to have a PhD to understand the appeal and consequences of nativist populism — just the slightest understanding of history.

New comment by muglug in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

muglug — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:50:22 +0000

This like if BitTorrent cut off Windows support over objections to Microsoft embrace/extend/extinguish. It’s a slightly incoherent position.

New comment by muglug in "Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?"

muglug — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:09:46 +0000

To be fair, that's the authentic London telephone box experience of old.

New comment by muglug in "Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches"

muglug — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:30:09 +0000

I’m reasonably certain that Schmidt anticipated that reaction after the first speaker was booed.

It had the vibe of “These people need to hear the Truth”.

New comment by muglug in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

muglug — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:38:12 +0000

> output from LLMs, once published, is essentially in the Public Domain, since there isn't any human who owns it

That’s not what the court case in question was about: https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2026/03/us-supreme-court-de...

If I ask an LLM to come up with an entirely new story on its own, the output is not copyrightable.

But if I feed an LLM a Tom Clancy novel and ask it to regurgitate that same novel, I cannot legally then put the output on a website for anyone to download.

New comment by muglug in "Uncle Bob: It's Over"

muglug — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:18:08 +0000

For select tasks the latest LLMs can speed things up by an order of magnitude.

Best example I’ve found: translating code from one language to another where there’s a large corpus of existing acceptance tests.

New comment by muglug in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

muglug — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:24:29 +0000

Not sure if Spotify got that same memo.

New comment by muglug in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

muglug — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:16:47 +0000

> Banning people is way easier on small servers

Big “citation needed” here. My bet is that Meta have far better moderation systems than any other social media company on the planet.

New comment by muglug in "AISLE Discovers 38 CVEs in OpenEMR Healthcare Software"

muglug — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:25:13 +0000

It's Psalm — see the section on security analysis here: https://psalm.dev/docs/security_analysis/

New comment by muglug in "AISLE Discovers 38 CVEs in OpenEMR Healthcare Software"

muglug — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:13:58 +0000

Most of these vulnerabilities could have been discovered much earlier had the same security researchers pointed a SAST tool at the codebase.

I wrote an OSS PHP SAST tool 6 years ago, but it's suffered from industry neglect — most people only care about security after an incident, and PHP has enough magical behaviour that any tool needs to be tuned to how specific repositories behave.

I agree there's a big opportunity for LLMs to take this work forward, filling in for a lack of human expertise.

New comment by muglug in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

muglug — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:47:31 +0000

The author is deeply AI-pilled — to the point the whole article is written with AI. Slop begets slop.

A similar cohort are discovering, in myriad painful ways, that advances in agentic coding — the focus of a lot of pre and post training — does not translate into other domains.

New comment by muglug in "Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit"

muglug — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:26:26 +0000

All gossip I hear about the extremely powerful leads me to believe that they’d be utterly unable to organise any sort of conspiracy themselves.

Most haven’t touched Google Calendar in a decade. They can’t call anyone without their assistant typing in the number first.

New comment by muglug in "Shooting down ideas is not a skill"

muglug — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:53:50 +0000

Sure, but it's sort of dumb for me to bring an idea I value to the table until I have answers to all the obvious questions.

I owe it to my colleagues to not make them the bad guys by shooting down an idea.

New comment by muglug in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

muglug — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:20:53 +0000

Their worth is tied to what people are prepared to pay for them. And right now most people aren’t prepared to pay for Teslas.

New comment by muglug in "Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers"

muglug — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:30:19 +0000

No, he's saying this specific moral objection is to be pitied.

When I say "I feel bad for people who feel a need to own guns", I'm not saying I feel bad for people who feel a need to lock their doors at night.