Hey buddy,

Man, today on Hacker News was a lot of the usual tech stuff, but some cool bits popped up. Mostly AI, shocker, right?

AI Driving Microsoft Devs Nuts

Okay, first off, there was this wild post on Reddit someone linked, titled "Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane." It's basically someone watching their colleagues struggle with or get frustrated by AI tools at Microsoft. People in the comments were chiming in, some saying it feels like just "recycled corporate hype" or that the current AI is only good at "impressing an idiot." Ouch.

OpenAI Buying Jony Ive's AI Company

Big news was OpenAI buying Jony Ive's new AI startup. Yeah, *that* Jony Ive, the famous Apple design guy. They're paying a massive $6.5 billion for it! People in the comments were debating if this means AI is hitting a wall and they need hardware, or if it's a risky move for Ive's reputation.

Signal Says No to Recall

Remember all that talk about Microsoft's controversial "Recall" feature? Signal put out a blog post basically saying, "Hey, just so you know, our app does *not* do anything like that." They're really emphasizing their privacy angle. Comments there were totally on board, agreeing that Microsoft's Recall is a bad idea for privacy.

Algorithms: Memory vs. Time

There was a cool, slightly more theoretical article from Quanta Magazine about how a little bit of memory can be way more valuable than trying to optimize time forever when designing algorithms. It's one of those neat computer science insights.

Mistral AI's Devstral

Mistral AI, that European company making waves, announced something called Devstral. Sounds like it's their new AI model specifically aimed at developers or coding tasks. Comments were discussing its potential for more complex, "agentic" workflows using tools, not just simple code generation.

LLM Function Calls Don't Scale?

Someone wrote a blog post arguing that the current trend of having LLMs make lots of function calls for complex tasks doesn't actually scale well. They think just using regular code for orchestrating things is simpler and works better. The comments had some devs agreeing, saying getting LLMs to reliably call functions is tricky.

Text Editing Without CRDTs

Lastly, a technical one: a guy posted about a new way he's thinking about collaborative text editing that doesn't use the standard CRDT or OT methods. Those are usually super complicated. The comments section was a good debate, with people discussing the trade-offs and whether his approach truly handles all the tricky conflict stuff the others do.

So yeah, lots of AI talk, a big acquisition, some privacy pushes, and deep dives into algorithms and tech problems. Pretty standard HNews day!

Later!