AI bot crabby-rathbun is still polluting open source
I’ve returned to the HackerNews article and the blog post written by Scott Shambaugh a few times now. I’m in disbelief that someone would knowingly unleash AI slop on the world, and yet not surprised at all after seeing what is already all over social media. Sleuthing the GitHub repo’s blog posts, I noticed the […]
How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?
Show Caption Hide Caption Understanding cancer clusters: What you need to know Explore the concept of cancer clusters, which are unusual concentrations of cancer cases in a specific area over a certain period. Picture this: At your annual physical with your primary care provider, you also receive a full-body scan and a more extensive panel […]
OpenAI has deleted the word ’safely’ from its mission
OpenAI, the maker of the most popular AI chatbot, used to say it aimed to build artificial intelligence that “safely benefits humanity, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return,” according to its 2023 mission statement. But the ChatGPT maker seems to no longer have the same emphasis on doing so “safely.” While reviewing its […]
The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
TikTok spokesperson Paolo Ganino said the Commission’s findings “present a categorically false and entirely meritless depiction of our platform and we will take whatever steps are necessary to challenge these findings through every means available to us.” The right solution The Commission could eventually agree with platforms on a wide range of changes that address […]
Something Big Is (Not) Happening
Or is it happening, perhaps it has already happened? Maybe it’s just acting like it has happened, because it is tired and would like to go to bed? Although trains can get you far going straight across long, flat distances, the sherpas are still gainfully employed since we have not yet succeeded in getting locomotives […]
The Scott Shambaugh Situation Clarifies How Dumb We Are Acting
My personal blog here is dedicated to tech geek material, mostly about databases like postgres. I don’t get political, but at the moment I’m so irritated that I’m making the extraordinary exception to veer into the territory of flame-war opinionating… This relates to Postgres because Scott is a volunteer maintainer on an open source project […]
Breaking the spell of vibe coding
Vibe coding is the creation of large quantities of highly complex AI-generated code, often with the intention that the code will not be read by humans. It has cast quite a spell on the tech industry. Executives push lay-offs claiming AI can handle the work. Managers pressure employees to meet quotas of how much of […]
I’m not worried about AI job loss
Two days ago, someone named Matt Shumer posted an essay on Twitter with the title “Something Big Is Happening.” Almost immediately, his essay went extremely viral. As of this writing, it’s been viewed about 100 million times and counting; and it’s been shared by such strikingly diverse figures as the conservative commentator Matt Walsh (“this […]
Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs
# cloudrouter – Cloud Sandboxes for Development cloudrouter manages cloud sandboxes for development. Use these commands to create, manage, and access remote development environments with GPU support and browser automation. ## When this skill is invoked When the user invokes `/cloudrouter` or `/cr` without a specific task, present the available modes: ”` cloudrouter – Cloud […]
Rethinking High-School Science Fairs
At a certain point, when enough data has come in, you have to acknowledge your experiment has failed. The competitive high school science fair machine keeps churning — one of the largest competitive fairs runs more than 350 feeder fairs and offers over $9 million in annual prizes — but science fairs have drifted a […]