More garbage content on the front page. It’s a constant AI hype pieces with zero substance from people who just happen to work for AI companies. Hacker news is really going downhill.
Readit Newsbadgersnake commented on LLMs as the new high level language federicopereiro.com/llm-h... · Posted by u/swah
badgersnake commented on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft theverge.com/tech/865689/... · Posted by u/Anon84
Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code." You can't do that if you write the code yourself. That means they'll always be chasing the best model. Right now, that's Opus 4.5.
We’re back to measuring productivity by lines of code are we? Because that always goes well.
badgersnake commented on A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words forkingmad.blog/wordle-cr... · Posted by u/cyanbane
I am not a native speaker but how does your wife name the caulk in the shower? Silicone? Or do you maintain it in such pristine condition that no word was ever spoken about it?
Yeah, silicone or just sealant. Maybe it’s an Americanism.
badgersnake commented on Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/jsheard
I think the summary is that "product owner" types and other agile simulacrums wanted it simply because they viewed it as an easy win towards KPI and other performance metrics. The most damning proof of this is Copilot in Notepad, and that half-attempt at renaming the entire Office suite to simply "Copilot" (they seemed to reverse this a few days later).
I think that’s a little harsh. When the CEO groupthink network says AI all the things, what are the PMs supposed to do?
badgersnake commented on A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words forkingmad.blog/wordle-cr... · Posted by u/cyanbane
It’s this. There are many five letter words that are not “wordley”. Words such as, idk, bokeh, are technically part of the lexicon but would never appear as a solution. The wordle bot will even tell you this if you guess them — “good guess, but unlikely to appear as a solution”. The crossword has a similar sort of unwritten rule, maybe not as strict, but really hard technical words seldom appear.
Caulk is in there, I would say that’s fairly technical. My wife didn’t know it.
badgersnake commented on The Five Levels: From spicy autocomplete to the dark factory danshapiro.com/blog/2026/... · Posted by u/benwerd
These hype articles are getting very boring.
badgersnake commented on UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs reclaimthenet.org/uk-hous... · Posted by u/ubercow13
I've written to my MP several times about this. Each response just repeats the same talking points about safety whilst completely missing the underlying technical issues and consequences.
Same, my MP is clueless. They won’t listen to the experts. This is what he said:
The UK has a strong tradition of safeguarding privacy while ensuring that appropriate action can be taken against criminals, such as child sexual abusers and terrorists. I firmly believe that privacy and security are not mutually exclusive—we can and must have both. The Investigatory Powers Act governs how and when data can be requested by law enforcement and other relevant agencies. It includes robust safeguards and independent oversight to protect privacy, ensuring that data is accessed only in exceptional cases and only when necessary and proportionate. The suggestion that cybersecurity and access to data by law enforcement are at odds is false. It is possible for online platforms to have strong cybersecurity measures whilst also ensuring that criminal activities can be detected.
Bravo! Not a single mention of LLMs changing the calculus.
In some situations it may be politically useful to pretend that an LLM makes things faster because that is what your boss wants to hear though.
Smells like an article from someone that didn’t really USE the XML ecosystem.
First, there is modeling ambiguity, too many ways to represent the same data structure. Which means you can’t parse into native structs but instead into a heavy DOM object and it sucks to interact with it.
Then, schemas sound great, until you run into DTD, XSD, and RelaxNG. Relax only exists because XSD is pretty much incomprehensible.
Then let’s talk about entity escaping and CDATA. And how you break entire parsers because CDATA is a separate incantation on the DOM.
And in practice, XML is always over engineered. It’s the AbstractFactoryProxyBuilder of data formats. SOAP and WSDL are great examples of this, vs looking at a JSON response and simply understanding what it is.
I worked with XML and all the tooling around it for a long time. Zero interest in going back. It’s not the angle brackets or the serialization efficiency. It’s all of the above brain damage.
I had great experiences with XSD as a contract in systems integration scenarios, particularly with big systems integrators. It's pretty clear whose fault it is when somebodys XML doesn't validate.
I remember spending hours just trying to properly define the XML schema I wanted to use.
Then if there were any problems in my XML, trying to decipher horrible errors determining what I did wrong.
The docs sucked and where "enterprise grade", the examples sucked (either too complicated or too simple), and the tooling sucked.
I suspect it would be fine now days with LLMs to help, but back when it existed, XML was a huge hassle.
I once worked on a robotics project where a full 50% of the CPU was used for XML serialization and parsing. Made it hard to actually have the robot do anything. XML is violently wordy and parsing strings is expensive.
There are a lot of good arguments against the XML ecosystem, but "I'm too lazy or dumb to understand it" is not one of them.