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searls commented on Intel will start making GPUs techcrunch.com/2026/02/03... · Posted by u/SunshineTheCat

bhouston · 5 days ago

I am a little confused, I thought Intel had a big push the last couple of years to create its own GPU:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/discre...

searls · 4 days ago

Agree, extremely poorly reported out across numerous outlets.

searls commented on Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/davidbarker

scosman · 5 days ago

All of this could be avoided if their CLIs worked reliably and well. Instead the randomly fail (you fix them by running the same task from Xcode), and output 5k lines of useless unstructured output (tools like xcbeautify try to help but it’s an uphill battle).

I feel like Xcode knows how to work around xcodebuild’s shortcomings, and instead of fixing them they just wrapped Xcode in an MCP server.

Better than nothing I guess, but reliable CLIs would allow a whole ecosystem of tools.

searls · 5 days ago

This is true of the CLIs that start with `xcode` but not of the CLIs that start with `swift`. As `swift-format` and `swift-test` have come into their own, they're just as reliable as any other language ecosystem. And the difference is indeed staggering. I wrote this guide last summer on extracting all your app's code into a (nonsensically necessary) Swift package dependency simply so you can test it with Swift Testing https://justin.searls.co/posts/i-made-xcodes-tests-60-times-...

searls commented on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team github.com/tailwindlabs/t... · Posted by u/kevlened

refulgentis · a month ago

Smells like unnecessary sycophancy: I grep'd Adam in every comment and every single. one. is positive and phrased like this.

I grew up on this site, from 20 year old dropout waiter in Buffalo to 37 year old ex-Googler. One of the things I'm noticing me reacting to the last year or two is a "putting on a pedestal" effect that's unnecessary.

searls · a month ago

This is madness. Some stories actually have good guys. I don't know Adam directly, but we have plenty of second degree connections. I've benefited immensely from his work, have never heard anyone say a single negative thing about him, and I genuinely believe he's done more to push the web forward with Tailwind than the larger players have done (certainly more than Facebook did with React and Google has done with Angular/AMP/etc).

Reflexively assuming that unanimous positive sentiment towards someone is itself an indication of a problem is exactly the reason people are writing posts as recently as (double checks) _yesterday_ titled "65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform" https://philippdubach.com/standalone/hn-sentiment/

searls commented on Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere indieweb.org/POSSE#... · Posted by u/47thpresident

yunesj · a month ago

I'd prefer to write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media. I imagine I'd also want to get an overview of - or make an ad-hoc post from - one of several accounts on one of several platforms.

I came across Posse Party and Postiz, both of which are self-hosted. It doesn't seem like either is built for this use case.

Which direction would you go in?

searls · a month ago

FWIW, "write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media" is exactly what I built POSSE Party to do. All your site needs is an Atom feed to read from https://github.com/searlsco/posse_party/blob/main/docs/feed....

https://justin.searls.co/atom.xml gets flung to 8 social accounts

searls commented on Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere indieweb.org/POSSE#... · Posted by u/47thpresident

OgsyedIE · a month ago

I'd like to have a POSSE setup for video with a landing page, a static image and transcript, a download button for very slowly downloading the video, metadata and links to instantly-available external copies so that I can channel as much of the server costs that video entails to the big platforms.

Has anybody written about adapting POSSE for videos?

searls · a month ago

POSSE Party (http://posseparty.com) supports syndicating YouTube Shorts and Instagram reels, but trying to syndicate longer form video just didn't make sense IMO

searls commented on Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere indieweb.org/POSSE#... · Posted by u/47thpresident

simonw · a month ago

Ooh I hadn't seen that. I'm still hung up on character limits - I want to make sure the summary I include isn't truncated with ... and is instead the right length for that particular platform.

searls · a month ago

I created POSSE Party because I had similar concerns. Truncation and spacing are highly customizable. You can add a posse:post sidecar element containing JSON that formats exact presentation for each platform exactly as you want it. The built-in truncation can be configured at the account level. And how you count characters, naturally, differs by platform, which the app handles pretty well.

searls commented on Anthropic: You can't change your Claude account email address support.claude.com/en/art... · Posted by u/behnamoh

searls · 2 months ago

OpenAI doesn't let you change your email address, either.

searls commented on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race theverge.com/news/836212/... · Posted by u/goplayoutside

felixfurtak · 2 months ago

OpenAI is basically just Netscape at this point. An innovative product with no means of significant revenue generation.

One one side it's up against large competitors with an already established user base and product line that can simply bundle their AI offerings into those products. Google will do just what Microsoft did with Internet Explorer and bundle Gemini in for 'Free' with their already other profitable products and established ad-funded revenue streams.

At the same time, Deepseek/Qwen, etc. are open sourcing stuff to undercut them on the other side. It's a classic squeeze on their already fairly dubious business model.

searls · 2 months ago

It would be funny if OpenAI turns for-profit, faceplants, and then finds new life (as Mozilla did) as a non-profit sharing its tools for free.

searls commented on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race theverge.com/news/836212/... · Posted by u/goplayoutside

jdoliner · 2 months ago

I've seen a rumor going around that OpenAI hasn't had a successful pre-training run since mid 2024. This seemed insane to me but if you give ChatGPT 5.1 a query about current events and instruct it not to use the internet it will tell you its knowledge cutoff is June 2024. Not sure if maybe that's just the smaller model or what. But I don't think it's a good sign to get that from any frontier model today, that's 18 months ago.

searls · 2 months ago

Funny, had it tell me the same thing twice yesterday and that was _with_ thinking + search enabled on the request (it apparently refused to carry out the search, which it does once in every blue moon).

I didn't make this connection that the training data is that old, but that would indeed augur poorly.