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I'd argue a lot of the recent focus on AI safety, "pacing the frontier", etc, is the industry freaking out about models like DeepSeek.

But the other reason is because most people in technology are just as lazy as consumers and the friction between getting onto DeepSeek vs OpenAI or Anthropic is just a tad too much and people go with what's convenient.

Hi HN peeps! My newest video is up. This one was an absolute ton of work, I hope you enjoy it!

A Pattern Language is a book that seems to come up in all sorts of circles. Not only did it inspire Will Wright to create The Sims, it changed the way software is developed – in ways you're probably familiar with, but may not have known the origins. (That's a human em-dash btw; I refuse to give them up.)

If you like this, please like & subscribe to the channel. And if A Pattern Language touched your life in some way, please respond here in the comments!

I wanted one so bad but we couldn't afford it at the time, so my experience like so many others was at school. But such good memories!

512k is lucky too because as cool as it would have been to get the original, man that memory was a real constraint!

Putting this video together was fun, and as always I ended up learning a bunch of new stuff and seeing things in a new perspective. Kind of a bookend to the HyperCard video that launched my channel last year.

Wish I'd gotten to meet Atkinson, but his influence is still everywhere. More on Kare in this one, as well as some of the really cool innovations that came before.

What was your first digital painting program?

Probably not! I'd imagine that whoever did production design for the movie would have visited some of the labs of the time, or talked to people involved in AI – and the CM-1 / CM-2 were very much at the forefront of that type of computing back then.

But that's such a great find – I've seen T2 many times, but that visual of the black hypercube-looking design really is strikingly similar!

Thank you! My biggest regret in the video is I didn't get to touch on Brewster Kahle's involvement – especially given what he's gone on to do with Internet Archive. Would love to do a followup.

Re: Search Engines, I think I mention this in the video but apparently Sergey Brin was part of the Connection Machine user community, and had that experience on his resume. (A copy of that is still floating around.)

As an American, I just want to say that I'm very dismayed by the discourse around this topic over the past 24 hours in particular. The polarization of politics has become so intense, that the bipartisan mainstream position of just a couple of decades ago – that immigrants are a net positive to this country – feels like a distant dream.

We've gone from perpetually punting the football on comprehensive immigration reform, to people saying, "Good, go back home, we don't want you here."

The same people who want to paint the Statue of Liberty gold seem to have no clue what it represents.