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New comment by ninglor in "Small Models Have Arrived"

ninglor — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:35:31 +0000

Most people in the US don't drive a new car, and used cars can be had for far less than $40k. An $80k purchase would be just shy of the median annual household income -- anyone who thinks nothing of that has financial resources far above typical. You are in a bubble.

New comment by ninglor in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

ninglor — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:52:50 +0000

If I want a JDK, I'll ask my package manager to download and install one, and it will be working a minute later. Why would you want to wait another week for something that already exists?

New comment by ninglor in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

ninglor — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:48:51 +0000

Cool. The gadgets/blueprints paradigm reminds me of Smalltalk or Lisp environments in a way -- you're shipping a messy thing, a packaged version of your own personal, always-evolving environment.

Natural language wrapper around programming. Sandboxing and controlling external interactions to minimize the cost of mistakes. As I see it, the core idea here is facilitating habitability (in the Richard P Gabriel sense) via abstracting software development and distribution in a way that allows non-programmers to engage.

I'm not sure LLMs are quite there with results/$ to fully support a personal computing revolution here. I suspect useful blueprints will largely be wrappers or reimplementations of software that is still primarily created and distributed outside of this environment. But there's promise here, and it's cool.

The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)

ninglor — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:52:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928234

Points: 62

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