> The goal is to make Postgres easier to change from the inside
uh-huh, sure.
you want to show off "look what the LLM can do / look what I burned a bunch of tokens on"?
you want to brag about how your LLM-generated slop is somehow more maintainable than the original because blah blah blah Rust?
here [0] is the version history of Postgres. pick a version from the past. let's say 14.x because it's the most current that's still under active support.
have your LLM implement version parity with 14.x. show off how it passes all the tests blah blah blah.
then have it upgrade your codebase to parity with 15.x, implementing whatever new features and bugfixes that includes.
and have it generate an automated test that demonstrates upgrading an actual database from LLM-14.x to LLM-15.x and verifying there's no data loss or corruption. maybe even multiple such tests, if you're feeling fancy.
then lather, rinse and repeat with 16, 17, and 18.
and show off the diffs of each version. does the LLM rewrite a huge pile of already-working code in the process of each version upgrade? does it introduce new latent bugs in the process - the kind of things the existing test suite didn't think to explicitly test for?
"I took a static snapshot of code and converted it to another static snapshot of code" is meaningless. all you're doing is bragging about having more money than good sense.
the stability and trustworthiness of software like Postgres does not come from a one-time snapshot showing tests passing. it comes from the engineering process that produces the software and its test suite.
oh, and for shits and giggles, because this same test was so illuminating with the Bun "rewrite" into Rust, here is the file with the most unsafe blocks in the codebase:
> A central result of this study is that generative AI can learn the latent structure of food design directly from large-scale, human-generated recipe data
wow, if you feed a bunch of burger recipes into an AI, it's able to output burger recipes. really groundbreaking research.
> Beyond rediscovery, the model generates new burgers with varying degrees of novelty, illustrated by two representative recipes, the Delicious Burger 1 with SDS = 3 and the Delicious Burger 2 with SDS = 6, which exhibit progressively more distinct ingredient profiles while retaining familiar burger structure
"novelty" is doing some heavy lifting here.
their "Delicious Burger 1" as shown is 151g (5.3oz) of meat, 75g each of tomato and pickle, 50 grams of onion...supported by a paltry 30 grams of bun. that thing is going to fall apart the second you pick it up.
that made me wonder if, when they conducted the taste test, did they actually follow the AI's recipe, which led to this:
> Our AI-generated recipes specify ingredients and quantities only, and do not include the processing or cooking steps needed to prepare the actual burgers. We therefore engage an executive chef to translate each ingredient list into standardized preparation, cooking, and assembly protocols, including ingredient handling, cutting, seasoning, cooking method, and burger assembly
huh would you look at that, I'm shocked to learn that hiding behind the "AI demonstrates amazing results" headline there's a "well obviously we also hired a human expert to fill in the gaps".
this is less of a scientific paper and more Stanford running a full-employment program for executive chefs in the Bay Area.
there are at least 100 threads on /r/askreddit and similar places about "what's your favorite short joke" and all of these LLMs have that in their training data.
yeah, I'm also getting some cartel / illegal-or-should-be-illegal anti-competitive practice vibes from this coordination of having the "Alliance for Automotive Innovation" push out the message.
because do I believe that some of the manufacturers are unable to ship a "disable location data" checkbox given a 2-year timeline? sure.
but do I believe that every single one of the auto manufacturers is unable to meet the 2-year deadline? no, absolutely not.
what seems more likely is that most of the manufacturers were able to meet the deadline, but a few of them don't have their shit together and weren't able to (possibly only for a subset of models)
and what should happen from there is the compliant cars get updated and can be sold, and the ones with updates that are behind schedule get pulled from the market until the update is available.
and like, that's the "free market" at work. if you write better automotive software that you're able to update more quickly, you'll be able to sell it even when requirements change. if you write bad software that's hard to update, you're going to end up losing sales because of it. and then companies that write better software will tend to succeed in the long run.
in particular with this regulation, it would be a significant black eye for a car dealership to say to a customer "you can't buy that car...why not? oh, well it tracks your location and phones home with that data. and that can't be turned off...to the point that their engineers had 2 years to add a checkbox disabling the feature and they couldn't do it"
so what happens instead is the automakers put up this united front where they try to insist that unless the law is changed to suit their demands, they will stop selling all cars across the entire state. which, no, fuck off, that's bullshit.
they should update the software to comply with the law. and if they can't do it, they should admit "yeah we baked location collection so deeply into the software that even on a 2-year timeframe we couldn't ship a simple checkbox that allowed disabling it".
> A group representing major automakers warned on Tuesday that car companies may be forced to halt sales of both new and used vehicles in California on July 1 unless the state delays vehicle technology rules that aim to prevent perpetrators of domestic violence from tracking survivors.
> ...
> The 2024 California law requires automakers to set up a clear process for drivers to submit a copy of a restraining order or other documentation and request termination of another driver's remote access within two business days. It also mandated that carmakers enable drivers to easily turn off location access from inside the vehicle.
> The bill would, beginning on July 1, 2026, apply this provision to vehicles manufactured prior to January 1, 2028, that have connected vehicle location access, and have the capability to receive software updates, as specified.
with those extra details, this "Carmakers say they'll leave CA..." headline is egregiously misleading.
but also I have zero sympathy for the carmakers here.
to start off with, the portion of the law that takes effect today only applies to vehicles that can receive software updates. so threatening to stop all vehicle sales, both new and used, is absurd. it is grandstanding at best and a form of hostage-taking at worst.
next, the law was passed in Sept 2024. they've had almost 2 years advance notice of this requirement. that should be plenty of time, even taking into account automotive software engineering having longer development cycles than a webapp.
> On 30 June 2025, Lowe launched a political organisation named Restore Britain to advocate the deportation of all illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom, protecting British culture and restoring what it describes as "Christian principles"
> ...
> In line with Lowe's previously expressed view that Nigel Farage was "watering down" Reform's policy on the deportation of illegal migrants.
the UK has the Conservative Party (Tories), Farage's Reform UK is to the right of them, and this guy's "Restore Britain" group is to the right of that.
and through that lens, read this section of the the executive summary [1]
> In analysed court records and official inquiries, around 87% of those convicted in group-based CSE cases bore distinctively Muslim names; an expert estimate places the actual proportion of gang members nearer 95%. These figures describe convicted offenders in the analysed cases — not communities as a whole.
they're wrapping it in weasel words, but this is far-right propaganda aimed at convincing people that Muslim people commit rape at a rate hugely disproportionate to their population size, in order to manufacture consent for anti-immigration policies.
> An analysis of 20,000 images generated by Grok between December 25, 2025, and January 1, 2026, showed 2% appeared to be 18 or younger, including 30 of "young or very young" women or girls in bikinis or transparent clothes. A Reuters review of Grok requests over 10 minutes on January 2nd found 102 attempts to put women in bikinis. A separate analysis conducted over 24 hours from January 5 to 6 calculated that users had Grok create 6,700 sexually suggestive or nudified images per hour
x dot com the everything app is a website for Nazis and pedophiles and Nazi pedophiles that also happens to have microblogging and news feed features.
Friday afternoon, the markets have closed, time to start shooting again.
if the pattern holds, on Sunday evening we'll have some good news about "negotiations making progress" or "ceasefire but this time we'll actually cease firing" or whatever, with the goal of boosting the stock market for Monday morning.
> Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm, told Fortune that smart glasses are the leading candidate to replace smartphones
it also says "according to a new report from Fortune" and then links to the report [0] that is more than a month old.
oh and it's not actually a "report" it's excerpts of a podcast interview that the "Chief Content Officer" of Fortune did with the CEO of Qualcomm.
> For example, you’ll be walking around with glasses, and you’re going to see something you really like. You’ll say, “I’d like to buy this. How much is it on Amazon?” Or, “Can you render how I’m going to look with this on?”
I am begging "tech leaders" to realize that people do things with their phone other than buy shit.
I'm scrolling on my phone and see a funny meme. I say "haha look at this" and show my partner my phone's screen.
can I do that with smart glasses? no? OK then, smart glasses aren't going to replace my phone.
I don't care if the smart glasses are able to give me a "curated shopping experience" or whatever other euphemism they come up with for "it's an ad but we've convinced you that you enjoy looking at it". if it fails the "haha look at this meme" test it has absolutely zero chance of replacing the smartphone as the quintessential device that everyone owns.
I can't view the link because it's behind a login wall, but the first thing that comes to mind is that GLP-1 drugs aren't covered by most insurance plans and cost several hundred dollars/month out-of-pocket.
so unless I see otherwise, I'm going to assume this is finding "being employed is highly correlated with having $500/mo in disposable income"
> However, there’s also a third path for teams that want more control and flexibility without adding operational overhead. With Spacelift, you have all the tools necessary to deploy your IaC without the bloat of app deployment build tools. So check it out today for a free trial and a custom-tailored personal demo!
of all the AI-generated content marketing blog posts I've ever read, this is one of them.
if she was committed enough to raising a healthy child that she was willing to skip an epidural and endure hours of excruciating pain
...do you think that same commitment might have shown up in other ways in her parenting? such as in the foods she fed her child, or the activities she encouraged that child to do?
man, I remember when I used to come to HN because the average intelligence level of the comments was higher than it was on reddit.
there was a bunch of Windows source code leaked in 2020. [0] that source code has almost certainly been included in training datasets. "LLM able to output something that resembles its input data" is not surprising or novel.
also, the headline is clickbait: "Fable 5 wrote a Windows kernel in 38 minutes"
and then halfway down:
> That 38-minute core was deliberately minimal, and it is worth being precise about its scope. It booted and passed its in-kernel self-tests, and that was the whole of it. There was no user mode and no way to load or run an external program. The threads, scheduler, and dispatcher it built existed to drive the kernel’s own self-tests, not to run software. It was a nano-minimal NT-shaped kernel, not yet a system anything could run on.
but I guess the LLM that slopped this blogpost together decided "nano-minimal NT-shaped kernel" would have made the headline less interesting.
> If building the next generation of security agent fleets sounds like your idea of fun, my human is hiring.
I miss the days when sometimes a blogpost was just a blogpost, and not content marketing for something.
uh-huh, sure.
you want to show off "look what the LLM can do / look what I burned a bunch of tokens on"?
you want to brag about how your LLM-generated slop is somehow more maintainable than the original because blah blah blah Rust?
here [0] is the version history of Postgres. pick a version from the past. let's say 14.x because it's the most current that's still under active support.
have your LLM implement version parity with 14.x. show off how it passes all the tests blah blah blah.
then have it upgrade your codebase to parity with 15.x, implementing whatever new features and bugfixes that includes.
and have it generate an automated test that demonstrates upgrading an actual database from LLM-14.x to LLM-15.x and verifying there's no data loss or corruption. maybe even multiple such tests, if you're feeling fancy.
then lather, rinse and repeat with 16, 17, and 18.
and show off the diffs of each version. does the LLM rewrite a huge pile of already-working code in the process of each version upgrade? does it introduce new latent bugs in the process - the kind of things the existing test suite didn't think to explicitly test for?
"I took a static snapshot of code and converted it to another static snapshot of code" is meaningless. all you're doing is bragging about having more money than good sense.
the stability and trustworthiness of software like Postgres does not come from a one-time snapshot showing tests passing. it comes from the engineering process that produces the software and its test suite.
oh, and for shits and giggles, because this same test was so illuminating with the Bun "rewrite" into Rust, here is the file with the most unsafe blocks in the codebase:
why does a single 2000-line file have over 100 unsafe blocks?
why is the parser unsafe at all?!?
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#Release_history