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New comment by pitched in "Alan Kay on the meaning of "object-oriented programming" (2003)"

pitched — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:38:14 +0000

That upfront convenience here leads to a long tail of job security when it inevitably goes spaghetti. Win-win!

New comment by pitched in "Free the Icons"

pitched — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:23:48 +0000

Or squirgle jail on a transparent background instead of a grey one? Why would cursor collision with an image stop working because a new input method?

New comment by pitched in "Free the Icons"

pitched — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:18:58 +0000

The only reason to run MacOS over Linux is the hardware. Arm MacBooks are unreasonably good but don’t support Linux (Asahi is still a bit WIP).

They sell hardware, not software, so the state of things makes sense. It is so disappointing though.

New comment by pitched in "Let's Decode the Mystery Bytes [video]"

pitched — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:33:02 +0000

No restricted for me, either on or off VPN. This might actually be an account issue on your side? Maybe a work account?

New comment by pitched in "The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model"

pitched — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:07:19 +0000

Oh wow, I really mixed that up! Thanks! That really changes this lol

New comment by pitched in "AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design"

pitched — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:04:37 +0000

The difference now is that the learning is optional (more often but not always) to getting the task done.

When gaining mastery is not a requirement to doing novice-level work, many fewer people will get there. It takes more dedication than it did before.

New comment by pitched in "AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design"

pitched — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:53:10 +0000

Math is a language to explain systems. Teaching someone that force varies linearly to mass is a helpful first pass. It isn’t exactly linear but is not exponential at all.

Gaining expertise is always the hard part and our new LLM overlords are making that much harder. So the simple “pure” functions as a teaching aid have never been more important.

End users have never cared about how the sausage is made though.

New comment by pitched in "What If a Man Practised Shooting a Million Times? Shot 90172, Football Progress [video]"

pitched — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:02:17 +0000

There are a set of these “false beliefs” people can hold that are clearly untrue but are beneficial to them in other ways. This one about “hard work leads to success” is a very powerful one. Lean the hell into it if you ever come across an opportunity to!

New comment by pitched in "The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model"

pitched — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:17:31 +0000

From what I gather, this is Anthropic-only because of disagreement there. OpenAI is not subject to apply the policy and the US has no power to limit foreign companies like Deepseek and GLM.

New comment by pitched in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

pitched — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:07:00 +0000

Anyone willing to accept an efficiency loss is already using an interpreted language and doesn’t have this class of problems.

New comment by pitched in "Fable 5 pushed Gemma 4 to 255 tok/s on WebGPU"

pitched — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:54:18 +0000

China is benefiting a lot from releasing the models open-source and those benefits immediately end if they start doing closed-source releases. It would be very short-sighted

New comment by pitched in "Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them"

pitched — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:27:27 +0000

Without going that far, send a few people a couple hours North instead and serve international customers from Canadian data centers. As far as I understand, it is only blocked in the US, right?

New comment by pitched in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

pitched — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:54:19 +0000

I’m on your side in that I would never take a contract to actually do this, but…

If we swapped out the IAM backend for something extremely simple like just private keys (one per allowed service or JWT-style list all services in the key), then we could have something that looks/feels pretty similar. With a 2$ token spend.

Not at all the same but it would look/feel pretty close.

New comment by pitched in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

pitched — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:47:36 +0000

> you might be able to make a version of some small subset of aws services that runs works ok

lol, you’ve got that goblet of koolaid with me! Equal parts horrifying and interesting that it might not be impossible

New comment by pitched in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

pitched — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:17:29 +0000

The good ones all seem to be pointing in the direction of Django. Which, on its own, says a lot about how likely people will care about vibe-coded anything, whether pooled or not.

New comment by pitched in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

pitched — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:14:47 +0000

lol but at least in comes in a nice cup then

New comment by pitched in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

pitched — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:56:25 +0000

This, unfortunately, gets flagged for cyber and you would need to be on the unlocked Mythos.

New comment by pitched in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

pitched — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:55:34 +0000

A lot of AWS is built on open-source. This is obviously ignoring hardware costs. I don’t know if it is all that ridiculous anymore. These models are very good at wiring together open-source systems. The world is crazy right now…

New comment by pitched in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

pitched — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:50:12 +0000

Did it not charge anything for the estimation itself? I wonder what model they’re using for that

New comment by pitched in "Canada proposes teen social media ban – with workaround for tech firms"

pitched — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:46:33 +0000

HN is social media. I’m learning this on social media. That’s a good thing. [1]

What alcohol helps with is forming connections with other people. It lowers barriers to sharing and those connections are important. [2]

In a world in the middle of “loneliness epidemics”, these are more important than ever. Getting drunk obviously doesn’t help though. Neither does yelling at everything on Facebook for hours.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_reserve [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_support