Found it interesting but would have been easier to see an example of how the html looks in the github page!

I've just added a simple example on the github page of how the resulting difference-file looks in an html-browser, I hope this helps to get a better idea.

Good point. I'll add something on the github page showing the html result, thanks for the suggestion!

LMK if you finish it, sounds like something my daughter would enjoy!

That's a refreshing article. Easy to read and I learned a few things!

Another +1, it would be incredibly useful to play with this approach! (and fun)

I'm sure he didn't bought the WaPo to make a profit. More like to have an influence.

It's noblesse oblige, or rather an example of the end of noblesse oblige, that the super rich don't even have to pretend to do things for others any more. Which, I would suggest, is a short-sighted and ultimately hubristicaly stupid change...

And influence he got. Gutting it was an act of influence and carried the message he wanted to carry across quite perfectly

His reason for buying it has been right there in front of us all along: Democracy Dies In Darkenss

It's just like "To Serve Man".

This is absurdly pedantic, but the fact that the Twilight Zone episode relies on a pun makes the two phrases somewhat different.

They would be alike if the book title had been "If Mankind isn't at the Table, Mankind is on the Menu"

Please don't "both side" this. As much as there is corruption in any administration, R or D, the levels we are seeing now are completely unprecedent and blunt. EG: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/politics/trump-fundraise-emai... (from earlier this morning on the HN frontpage)

On that topic, how many presidents in the past have had merch stores after elected? I can understand fundraising during a campaign, but after winning or losing, the fundraising usually stops.

The fundraising never stops, not even for lame ducks, because the money can always be delivered into related war chests.

But here it is going directly to the President's pockets. That has never happened before.

Merch. NFTs. Playing cards. Crypto coins. A phone. It's like we have Dennis Duffy as POTUS. If it were 40 years ago it would be like Reagan starting his own MLM.

And the worst part is, I don't think we will ever close this door. Even if the Democrats are in charge of the next presidency, the temptation of easy money will be too strong to resist. It wasn't done in the past, because it was assumed that the people would push back severely, but now that it is clear that they won't, it is full speed ahead.

Wait, what does this imply for Cursor? I DGAF about xAI and will never use their Grok, but I did like Cursor more than the alternatives (even if I'm just running opus 4.6 most of the time).

But now he is poaching the two heads of engineering of a company that's trying to move very quickly, how is that going to affect their speed and success?

I used QGIS 2.x and 3.x a lot when making maps for research papers. But something that always stung was reproducibility. The python tooling was not there compared to what I could do with click-and-mouse, and there was no easy way to transfer my click-and-mouse sessions into an equivalent python script.

Is the situation unchanged? (Maybe a good use for Opus would be to write a wrapper for the python tooling?)

Sad/funny that your comment is at the bottom.

Workers on strike are classified as not employed, so yeah we should ignore that category

It's one of the challenges with data. It's technically accurate, and it's useful for trends like productivity and output, but only marginally useful as a gauge of the health of the economy. You also have to remember it for the next jobs report.

For me the issue is why there's not a new mini since 5-mini in August.

I have now switched web-related and data-related queries to Gemini, coding to Claude, and will probably try QWEN for less critical data queries. So where does OpenAI fits now?