Oil will only become more and more volatile. The supply chain is both complex and fragile to geopolitical nonsense. China is betting on stability and reliability, environmental concerns is just a bonus.

High quality photo archive of public bathroom walls with curated text describing the grafitti like fine art would be something I could spend hours consuming.

Kudos to whoever built tiled clouds background on the gcmap site.

Prompt injections hidden into rare books, swallowed by the AI machine.

Model performance is very much subjective to what you’re using it for. I’m a PM and doing mostly knowledge work, and I’ve been really happy with Opus 5 as my daily driver with very good results, perhaps my favorite anthropic model so far. I do a lot of front-end coding with it too. I prefer it over the openAI models, been switching frequently. Kimi K3 is great too.

Opus 5 is trash imo. 4.8 was better. 5 is overly verbose and complicates solutions. I switched to sol for my coding since and have been pretty happy

Im with you, my take-away from the article was of sadness for all the books that are going extinct because of this.

Real humans sharing their unique knowledge, packaged in a book.

The thing is, I doubt this is even in the top 10 causes of books going extinct. I feel like people often over-romanticise the medium, especially.

No. We need to think in other ways than the ad economy. I’d gladly pay for good content if there was a decent system set up for it.

I find the best content is free content, made from passion rather than monetary need.

But there’s not and the end result is the same.

Youtube paid works. People pay, get no ads. Kagi so far seems to be doing well for search too. One model may not work for all content types but to say that there is no alternative is straight up not true.

I'm not sure Youtube doing fine while local news sources go under and such a is a positive.

What local news sources are going under? As far as I've seen not many actually are. I'm paying my local newspaper, it seems to be doing just fine.

Dwindling of news outsets / local news outlets has been pretty widely covered, as are the results:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31976955

Its probably just a corporate symptom, weird stuff like this happens in messy large orgs.

Which is often the case in music too actually. So many famous artists and bands created their best work early in their careers. You would think touring and several albums make them perfect the craft of making songs, but I think involving money and external pressure actually kill the creative spark if you’re not mindful about it.

Those early albums often consist of material that was basically battle-hardened by the time it reached the studio. Bands early in their career often spend lots of time all in the same room, writing songs together then do lots of playing for small crowds, where they get a very up close feel for the audience response. Material that doesn’t go over well with band mates and audiences gets dropped.

With the industry’s album release cycle, bands are often under time pressure to cut a new album, so they end up writing in the studio, each person laying down tracks individually, and missing out on all the feedback of earlier iterations.

I wrote about 10 albums and my music generally got better over time, but I just stopped writing because I had children; also less time for creativity with a family.

If I were forced to write music, now, for money or whatever, it would be bad music.

Also a missed opportunity for some of that sweet vanilla html paired with the keygen and crack ansi splash screens