Hey buddy,

Dude, gotta tell you about some stuff I saw on Hacker News today, Thursday. Quick rundown.

AI and Code Stuff

First up, that Andrej Karpathy guy, you know, the AI brain? He had this video about how software's changing with AI. Big talk about "Software 2.0" and all that. What's kinda cool is one comment mentioned Microsoft is actually using their AI tool, Copilot, inside their own code projects like .NET, and they're being open about it. Like, dogfooding it for real. Some other folks were arguing about the whole "Software 2.0" label and how messy UIs might get if AI tries to change them on the fly based on what it thinks you want. Wild.

Dev Tools Getting Updates

Okay, so remember that Zed code editor? The one that was supposed to be super fast? Well, they finally released their debugger! Took 'em a while. People in the comments were kinda mixed – some excited, some complaining it's still mainly for Mac (and now Linux too, I guess) and they took forever to get a debugger out when they were adding AI features first. Someone else was asking how good the Vim keybindings are, which seems like a common thing people ask about new editors.

Chip Manufacturing Big News

Texas Instruments, TI, is planning to drop a massive $60 billion on making chips right here in the US. That's huge! It sounds like it's not just for the super tiny, cutting-edge chips everyone talks about, but also for the more basic ones used in tons of everyday stuff, like power management and older devices. Apparently, there's a real need for that capacity in the states. One comment was talking about this kind of older tech node manufacturing being important.

SpaceX Starship Hiccup

Saw something about a SpaceX Starship, number 36, having an "anomaly." Not sure exactly what happened, the link was just a tweet about it. As usual, the comments section was a whole thing – people debating Starship vs other rockets like the old Soyuz or the new Starliner, and the usual back-and-forth about Elon. Someone brought up how maybe building a self-sustaining base on Mars with machines might be easier than one with humans, which is kinda dark but makes sense.

Thinking About Thinking

Scott Aaronson, the computer science blogger, had a post called "Guess I'm a Rationalist Now." It's a pretty deep dive into that whole world. The comments were packed, almost 800 of them! Lots of philosophical chat about things like free will and how we define stuff. One random top comment linked to an article about groundwater depletion in the US, which felt a bit out of left field for the main topic, but hey, that's HN comments for ya.

Windows 10 End is Coming

There's a site called endof10.org popping up, basically pushing people to switch their old Windows 10 computers to Linux since Windows 10 is ending soon. People were talking about using Linux in big labs, how some folks are trying to bypass the strict requirements to put Windows 11 on older hardware anyway, and how annoying Windows 11 can be compared to 10. Seems like a timely thing for people with older machines.

Open Source feels different?

Someone wrote a post saying open source feels like it's split into two worlds now – the big corporate-backed projects and the smaller, passion-driven ones. The comments were discussing things like the GPL license, and how maintainers of smaller projects sometimes get demanding requests from users or companies and have to decide how to handle it. It's a feeling a lot of developers probably get.

Anyway, yeah, just wanted to give you the heads-up on some of the interesting tech stuff floating around today. Catch you later!