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New comment by philipwhiuk in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

philipwhiuk — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:51:07 +0000

> Seems like there are many ways to get toward the best of both worlds -- don't allow people to upload pictures of kids who are clearly under 15 to social media would get us a lot of the way there.

How do you prevent kids uploading photos of themselves?

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Anthropic: Introducing The Conceptual Reasoning Index"

philipwhiuk — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:38:33 +0000

Is a new benchmark that useful if existing model improvements are being reflected linearly? Don't we want a benchmark that we aren't seeing much progress in.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "US Authorizes Private Cyber Operations"

philipwhiuk — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:36:13 +0000

Here's the underlying Presidential Memoranda: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/expa...

New comment by philipwhiuk in "YC startups are abandoning .com"

philipwhiuk — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:52:19 +0000

Counter-counter point: It's not really used in branding either by any of the child companies. So they don't need it.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "What sort of maths are LLMs good at?"

philipwhiuk — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:46:08 +0000

> the human brain unconsciously does calculus and linear algebra

We're not unconciously doing calculus and linear algebra. If you're arguing you 'do calculus' to predict how to catch a ball, I'm sorry but it's not supported by the data.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

philipwhiuk — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:49:43 +0000

> What they are trying to do is find a programming language that LLMs work well with.

But this isn't a user story. The user story is what you should be picking the tool for.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states"

philipwhiuk — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:28:36 +0000

You can change the jump-amount in the top right. (500 was an odd default).

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy"

philipwhiuk — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:00:02 +0000

> the invention of containerized shipping plus the internet led to globalization

Did it? Or did the globalisation invent the need for containerisation?

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

philipwhiuk — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:11:27 +0000

> Emergency backups for everybody are stored in our Philadelphia location. As well as the live replicas of your data, we also keep a separate set of encrypted backups taken every few hours for every account. These are in Philadelphia for all users at the moment.

So all of this is pointless.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?"

philipwhiuk — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:29:36 +0000

It's bizarre to me that this is all couched in "expect". This is a financial problem - they have the actual numbers to know whether the responses are rational.

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

philipwhiuk — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:28:16 +0000

They still use the term in the “definitions” so they aren’t actually defining anything

New comment by philipwhiuk in "I build it a domain security scanner"

philipwhiuk — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:12:08 +0000

How intrusive are the checks if you're assessing email authentication?

New comment by philipwhiuk in "MPs demand answers on Fujitsu's inclusion in lucrative frameworks"

philipwhiuk — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:03:00 +0000

And all the rest.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "MPs demand answers on Fujitsu's inclusion in lucrative frameworks"

philipwhiuk — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:02:45 +0000

I find hard to agree they are worse than Fujitsu even with that 'deep pain'.

The Post Office scandal is really really really bad.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

philipwhiuk — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:59:31 +0000

Similar attempts include Scalajs.

The general challenge becomes integrating the fractional front-end code written in your backend-language that compiles to JS with the rest of the JS ecosystem.

JaneStreet have a love of writing their own stuff from scratch so it doesn't apply to them but it might to you.

Hence most people end up with frontend-as-backend rather than backend-as-frontend.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Cyberscript"

philipwhiuk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:15:11 +0000

Great you came up with a compiler and some syntax.

What libraries exist.

What's package management system.

How does it interop with existing code?

Is there a JSON parser, an XML parser? Crypto algorithms? Database drivers?

People who invent languages from scratch inherit the technical debt of recreating the entire software ecosystem.

It looks like they are just pulling from the internet at the top of source files:

`use rl 'https://mycdn.com/raylib'`

Good luck with securing that. At least JavaScript has the sense to put it all in a single config file.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

philipwhiuk — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:21:14 +0000

The GoldSrc engine is fairly open and people have LLMs which are almost designed for translation?

Also I guess it's a bit more interesting the DOOM ports which have been done to death.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough"

philipwhiuk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:27:55 +0000

The share price is based on them eliminating entire sectors yes.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

philipwhiuk — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:44:48 +0000

In no world does "New iOS released" mean "there's a developer preview" which is what you're proposing.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Modern email can be built from borrowed parts"

philipwhiuk — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:40:20 +0000

Yeah the 'Requests' folder just becomes the new Inbox folder.

Email clients already highlight/filter people in your contacts