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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creat...
338•haunter•2h ago•99 comments

Appearing Productive in the Workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
73•diebillionaires•1h ago•14 comments

The bottleneck was never the code

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/thoughts-on-coding-agents
336•Anon84•2d ago•233 comments

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent Sandbox with a Transactional, Versioned Filesystem

https://tilde.run/
66•ozkatz•1h ago•40 comments

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

http://halupedia.com/
30•bstrama•1h ago•18 comments

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)

https://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/
25•downbad_•1h ago•30 comments

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
564•rolph•14h ago•318 comments

What makes a good smartphone camera?

https://cadence.moe/blog/2026-05-05-what-makes-a-good-smartphone-camera
27•zdw•22h ago•8 comments

Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

https://play.templatical.com
18•oahmadov•1h ago•2 comments

StarFighter 16-Inch

https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter
591•signa11•15h ago•316 comments

CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”

https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara2
364•hakonjdjohnsen•2d ago•47 comments

Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/
98•jandeboevrie•6h ago•28 comments

The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-thinking-plants-man/
41•benbreen•1d ago•6 comments

CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death
75•pseudolus•2h ago•56 comments

Google tools for customizing searches

https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has-a-secret-reference-desk
17•maxutility•13h ago•4 comments

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/
128•e12e•2h ago•162 comments

Knitting bullshit

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/knitting-bullshit/
333•ColinEberhardt•12h ago•150 comments

Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI-Native Growth Tools

https://www.coveragecat.com/careers/engineering/fractional-growth-engineer
1•botacode•5h ago

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

https://draxinar.github.io/articles/2026-05-01-uodemo-reverse-engineering.html
177•notsentient•11h ago•42 comments

Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors

https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2026/04/batteries-not-included-or-required-these-smart-home-sensors
152•gnabgib•3d ago•55 comments

Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

https://yuanchuan.dev/multi-stroke-text-effect-in-css
236•cheeaun•13h ago•32 comments

245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping

https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/industry-leading-245tb-micron-660...
191•neilfrndes•14h ago•145 comments

Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)

https://www.happydaze.se/wolf/
103•ksymph•2d ago•17 comments

Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-04-26/colombia-hosts-talks-on-exiting-fossil-fuels...
20•PaulHoule•52m ago•0 comments

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken
276•veeti•16h ago•96 comments

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex
148•meetpateltech•1h ago•94 comments

RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both

https://gizmodo.com/shrinkflation-is-quietly-making-all-gadgets-worse-2000754565
87•cainxinth•4h ago•65 comments

Virtual violin produces realistic sounds

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-engineers-virtual-violin-produces-realistic-sounds-0429
62•gmays•3d ago•42 comments

Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer's Disease in Adventist Health Study-2

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022316626001902
7•Stratoscope•23m ago•3 comments

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
1592•john-doe•1d ago•1055 comments
Open in hackernews

Am I Meant to Be Impressed?

https://www.wheresyoured.at/am-i-meant-to-be-impressed/
27•crescit_eundo•2h ago

Comments

JohnMakin•1h ago
I don't know if ed realizes that criticizing the capacity issues of anthropic directly contradicts his early, fierce take he'd had since early on (and is slowly retreating from) that they would not be having capacity issues unless people found this tool useful enough to cause the capacity issues in the first place. He claimed up to a few months ago that these tools were not useful, would never be useful, and people weren't actually using them to do anything useful, just as fun toys. Clearly, in the case of anthropic, this isn't true, as the enterprise side is growing so rapidly - the only way you could say this is bs is if you think the entire tech sector is experiencing delusion about their usefulness, which he used to say, but doesn't anymore.
presbyterian•1h ago
"A lot of people use this tool" and "this tool is productive and useful" don't necessarily track. People do and use all kinds of things that aren't actually useful, they just feel useful, and I think that's the argument most AI critics would make.
JohnMakin•57m ago
Companies don’t generally torch money on things that don’t improve their bottom line at a scale like this. Yes you can point to saas bloat and crappy tools like jira, but this isn’t some trend thing anymore. I know because I’ve been personally seeing it play out.

There was an argument to be made that bigger companies with skin in the game were and are making a bigger deal than they should have about how useful it is, but enterprise is growing way, way beyond those companies and it can’t really be easily explained away.

Like this:

> And really, why do these capacity constraints not seem to have any effect on its revenue growth?

Is either absolute obtuseness on purpose, or completely dishonest. Obviously the answer is people find it worth the spend even with the capacity issues. What other answer could there be? To ed, he will say they are simply lying about their revenue and doing accounting tricks, which is a crazy claim to make with no evidence.

kev009•56m ago
I think he's just locked in to this performance. He raises a lot of interesting points in his articles, but gets a little over his skis when he conflates the absurdity of particulars with long term death of the entire industry (people thought the same thing about .COM and look where we ended up). The applications of this technology are both more immediately applicable and relatable versus some recent bubbles.
Analemma_•38m ago
Textbook audience capture: once you've built your entire brand on "AI is a scam", you can't back down even if the facts change, because your paying customers are there for that take— the demand for "AI is a scam" takes is almost as frenzied as the demand for AI compute right now— and going back on it literally threatens your ability to pay the mortgage.

This is a big reason why I'm none too happy about the rise of individual-authors-as-brands via Substack replacing traditional journalism: once people are following and paying you specifically for a specific opinion, you're locked in. A very small number of individual bloggers have a brand of "I'll say the truth no matter what" and actually mean it, but the overwhelming majority are like Ed.

dominotw•46m ago
when will this show up in revenue and profit numbers or these enterprises ?

otherwise its just "fun toys" right?

JohnMakin•42m ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Anthropic in particular's revenue is exploding, driven by enterprise demand. There's no real evidence to claim otherwise.
indigodaddy•28m ago
Is Anthropic profitable and/or profitability on the horizon?
JohnMakin•25m ago
You just shifted the goalpost a lot from the original comment that was being replied to. The answer of course, is no to the first, and 2nd is not really knowable. I'm not sure what that really demonstrates or what your point is.
dominotw•24m ago
> the enterprise side is growing so rapidly - the only way you could say this is bs is if you think the entire tech sector is experiencing delusion about their usefulness,

i am talking about revnue/profit growth of ai consumers ( not producers). if they are making anything useful or improving productivity surely it would it show up in numbers right? otherwise whats the point.

usefulness isnt a feeling

nh23423fefe•1h ago
> In reality, they’re the paypigs for Anthropic and OpenAI

> In fact, fuck it, I’m ending this with a rant.

What is this. People pay for this?

npilk•1h ago
“I’m ending this with a rant” made me laugh. What was the rest, then?
npilk•1h ago
I admittedly didn’t take the time to read all 10,000 words of him shouting into the void in detail. But the capex complaints seem trivially misguided?

Current revenue is being generated from capex investments in the past; the most recent capex hasn’t begun to pay off at all. That’s expected.

Now, I don’t know if those investments ever will pay off and there are reasons to be skeptical. But if you assume the capex doesn’t lead to any revenue, then you’re just assuming the conclusion that the investments are bad…

Jtarii•59m ago
Did AI run over this guy's dog or something lol.

He seems to have done nothing but write hundreds of thousands of words about how much AI sucks and is doomed to fail for the past 2 years.

dominotw•45m ago
he discovered the niche early on and latched on to it. There is a big market for it now given how widely AI is hated by all sections of population.