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Sans-serif for body, serif for headlines? Unconventional choice.

Why is that better than having the agent(s) write regression tests or explanations of the old codebase?

If nobody knows how the old code works, how will anyone know how the new code (written by an autonomous agent) works?

This site redirects to about:blank if it sees a HN referrer. Clever but obnoxious.

You seem to be jumping to a lot of conclusions here. Who said anything about any server being compromised? Much less root-level compromised? And an AI agent being involved?

I mean the most frequent scenario is that the person trying to unlock the device is the one who owns it, yet we still have account passwords. You have to protect against the worst case. There is not a trusted enclave in existence (Apple, Intel, etc.) that will let you read its contents. That’s the point!

LLMs are not training on obfuscated fingerprinting scripts, and there’s essentially no way that could become associated with your brand.

Wow, talk about a change of subject.

That’s not true at all. Many of the most famous religious accommodations in the US are things that mainstream Christians find illogical/absurd:

- Sikhs keeping long hair/beard in the military or police

- Quakers being exempt from the draft

- Quakers, again, refusing to drive with NH plates that say “live free or die,” because they don’t believe that

- Muslims needing breaks to pray 5x/day

- Jews requiring food that follows extremely complex kosher preparation rules

- Native Americans using peyote, a hallucinogen

- Jehovah’s Witnesses and others refusing to swear oaths, even in court

Of course many of these had to be fought for in court, but courts are very amenable to the earnestly held beliefs of minority religious groups in the US. We don’t have a state religion.

“Some person with physical access to the computer” absolutely is part of the threat model.

I mean, is this an actual issue? There have to be plenty of developers using LLMs to write Lisp(s).

I have occasionally seen Claude models struggle to balance brackets/parens in nesting-heavy languages like Dart (Flutter), but it’s gotten much better.

It’s crappy design. It’s just the most logical design they had after starting from the bad premise of “everything is in the Start menu.”

macOS’s Apple menu, which only ever contains system management commands and doesn’t try to be an app launcher too, is so much more logical.

> “To put me to work that way, without remittance, is a form of slave labor,” said Wolff, professor emeritus of English and winner of the National Medal of Arts. “They’re using my work without paying for it. As time goes on, they’re going to make the lives of writers very difficult if there’s no fruit to their labor.”

This is obviously hyperbolic, but it was a very poor choice of words.

It also relies on an assumption - that AI will become a substitute for buying books - that I think is likely untrue. You’ve been able to easily gain a surface-level understanding of anything for free online for decades, and for that matter, you’ve been able to easily pirate any book for decades! Hasn’t stopped people from buying books, or going to college, or doing any number of other expensive things that are technically unnecessary if the goal is just to gain information.

Definitely rose-tinted glasses when people look back at Windows XP and earlier in particular. So many HN posts waxing poetic about how great the UIs were then. No! They were ugly, unreliable, inconsistent, and slow. It was a bad OS. Being gray and having small buttons doesn’t make it automatically more powerful or functional.

Well, it wasn’t!