> 16GB RTX 9070

What's an RTX 9070? Do you mean the RX 9070 or RTX 5070?

Oops yeah I meant RX 9070, fixed it!

The whole point of the plan is to remove some of the incentive for an invasion, thus making it less likely.

I think you're missing what I'm getting at. Yes, I understand that part. But do you seriously think that if TSMC was destroyed right now, China would change its decision to invade Taiwan? Can you imagine what the actual consequences of executing that plan would be?

The issue is that it only goes in one direction of partisanship.

That is hardly the Truth's fault.

So you are suggesting less truth is good? That we should come here and post lies because that's more fair? Absurd.

I've noticed pretty heavy partisanship here on [flat earth] vs [spherical earth].

Shocking really.

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."

I believe that's new public debt per annum.

They actually think Musk bought SpaceX. If you try to correct such facts on Reddit, you get downvoted and/or permabanned by mods. Same on BlueSky. Sometimes even on here, it's a religion.

> The issue is only one side of the bias makes the HN front page.

lol.

There are different kinds of tedium that LLMs automate, being a hobbyist doesn't mean you see value in all of them. Removing tedium that you personally find uninteresting or boring actually accelerates the hobby because now you're able to get past the tedious parts instead of giving up or delaying doing them. That does not mean that everyone finds those parts boring.

Even before LLMs came along a lot of hobbyists were using high level languages, linters, IDEs etc. instead of handcrafting assembly or machine language. Those tools increased the capability of hobbyists to build what they find interesting.

> Even before LLMs came along a lot of hobbyists were using high level languages, linters, IDEs etc. instead of handcrafting assembly or machine language. Those tools increased the capability of hobbyists to build what they find interesting

Yes and many programmers who came up in the 80s or early 90s writing C or equivalent decry these tools as ruining XYZ thing. LLMs are the same effect just on steroids

>At one point I was collecting posts I found where LLM boosters explicitly mentioned how it interacted with their ADHD.

Care to share it?

No, it felt too invasive and creepy so I abandoned the idea. Or my lack of follow-through is a sign that I’m actually on the other side of the “war”. Reader decides! But suffice it to say that it was, to me, a significant trend especially around the “Claude Code moment” back in February/March is this year.

Tesla buys batteries from CATL.

It's not the same batteries. CATL sells its better ones to Chinese EV makers.

That's 102 characters, HN's limit is 80.

Upvote to you if you understand the obsolete rationale why it’s 80.

Presumably to avoid having to line wrap for all the lynx users connecting to HN using DEC VT100 terminals.

Lets just break the lynx users for once, and see who complains. Change it to 81. Small enough to be invisible to most users, but when it breaks, someone will come up and shout. Better than going to 100, 132, 140 or 280.

Vermont pharmacy AI rollout leads to delays, misinformation and privacy concerns

(Exactly 80 characters)

Or with the Oxford Comma:

Vermont pharmacy AI rollout brings delays, misinformation, and privacy concerns

(79 characters)

I think in this case - where an editorialized title is better representative of the article, but the published title is too long - it’s usually left to someone like you to give a suggestion, publicly, which is then seen by @dang or their kith, who can then actually make spot adjustments. I personally approve of your editorialization, but that’s worth naught but a canker in a hedge

Why 80 characters? Are they storing them on punch cards?

Most of Dang's day is spent shuttling HN titles into the archives in a salt mine in Nevada in between moderation.