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I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Megan Ellis / Android AuthorityFor those who have followed my past work, I’ve recently considered leaving Claude for Gemini, as the latter chatbot is a much better value. Still, I’ve remained on the fence largely because I find that Claude is the best AI partner for following long, detailed threads. Its memory is exceptional compared to Gemini, and it can search backward through your chat more readily than ChatGPT. I really feel like I’m talking to a collaborative partner in a way I don’t with other tools. Or at…

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GitHub – openai/git: “the information manager from hell”

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals. Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net. Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions. Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/…

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Don’t Go Quietly Into the AI Night

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💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Two AI futures There are two visions for the future: AI as a deity built and controlled by a small group of clergy Humans at the center with AI as an amplifier A new technical clergy is emerging: the small group that builds frontier systems, receives privileged access to them, and decides which capabilities everyone else may use. The clergy warn about mass unemploymentDario Amodei warned that AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years (May 2025). Sam Altman said AI means…

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AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence

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✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard takeoff AI is coming. Then I joined the real world and actually tried to do things. At comma, we ship a hardware product of similar complexity to a cell phone, and it’s really hard. Reality has lots of finicky details. I would like to see the authors of this document try to change a bike tire. Even with a superintelligent ChatGPT, I suspect they would struggle.…

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Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: For most of the mid-twentieth century, lead gasoline was considered normal. But lead is a poison, and burning it has had dire consequences Kat Eschner December 9, 2016 A Standard Stations filling station in California, circa 1939. Wikimedia Commons For most of the mid-twentieth century, lead gasoline was considered normal. It wasn’t: lead is a poison, and burning it had dire consequences. But how did it get into gasoline in the first place? The answer goes back to this day in 1921, when General Motors…

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The U.S. just approved a giant space mirror to test ‘sunlight on demand.’ Low Earth orbit is getting weird

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A giant mirror to create “sunlight on demand” was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), despite opposition from astronomers and the public, and real safety concerns. The FCC approved the company Reflect Orbital to test one satellite, named Earendil-1, as a means of reflecting the sun’s rays back to Earth for extra solar energy and wide-area lighting. The light is expected to cover an area about five kilometres wide, and will require repointing every four minutes. And this is just the…

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How we scale PgBouncer in ClickHouse Managed Postgres

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✨ Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: PgBouncer is single-threaded. A single process uses one CPU core, no matter how many the machine has. On a 16-vCPU box that means one core does all the connection pooling while the other fifteen sit idle, and the pooler starts capping throughput long before Postgres runs out of room. In ClickHouse Managed Postgres we run a fleet of PgBouncer processes, sized proportional to the available cores. Every process in the fleet binds the same port with so_reuseport enabled. The kernel load-balances incoming connections across the…

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Lucky Code

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Lucky Code Your code is fast - if you’re lucky Recently, while I was working on an optimized Quicksort implementation, I came across a rather interesting quirk. Modern compilers (especially Clang) optimize loops using fast, branch-free instructions - provided you use the right programming style. sort.h - a quicksort with sorting networks // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT // sort.h - Branchless Quicksort // (c) christof.kaser@gmail.com #ifndef SORT_H #define SORT_H #ifndef BLQS_CMP #define BLQS_CMP(a, b) ((a) < (b)) #endif #include #include #define min(a, b) (((a) < (b)) ?…

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Client-side semantic search for your static site

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Listen to this article insteadYour browser does not support the audio elementEight years ago I added client-side search to this blog with Lunr.js. It creates an inverted index at build time, ships it as JSON, and matches strings in your browser. No server-side engine required. It has worked fine ever since, in the sense that it finds a post if you type a word that is actually in it.Earlier this year I wrote a semantic search engine in ±250 lines of Python (the kind that…

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Networking and the Internet, from First Principles · Faza

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Have you ever wondered what happens when we text, call, or video chat with a friend or a colleague on another continent, and their reply arrives in a fraction of a second, as though they were in the same room? Behind the scenes, a chain of invisible conversions takes place: your voice, video, or message is translated into radio waves crossing the room to your Wi-Fi router, then electrical pulses in copper (or light, if you have a fiber connection), and then flashes of light…

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