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Re:Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:17AM (#50194282)
Constantly surprised by how many users here still don't understand what an LLM is.
Re:Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:14AM (#50018026)
> mental illness and has no place in government

People with mental illnesses should be in government though, this is a terrible argument.

> teachers have limited bandwidth

Hire more?

Re:The Water Footprint of AI on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:42AM (#49255534)
You can't drink it once it's gone through a bunch of mouldy pipes, no.
Re:"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:18PM (#48510511)
Good writing shouldn't just be how you talk out loud.
Re:Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina on Sunday May 31, 2026 @05:14AM (#48344185)
> come together and build them or pay for them to be built

That's just taxes!

Re:Discord Incident on Friday May 08, 2026 @04:17PM (#48068229)
It's not a novel opinion but I'm tired of things being fucked all the time.
Re:HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker on Friday May 08, 2026 @05:29AM (#48060738)
Millions of people died and the main takeaway for the US seems to be giving up vaccines and cutting programs that would mitigate future disasters. Not sure how you've come to that conclusion.
Re:Programming Still Sucks on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:30PM (#48052206)
Of course there is. The person I'm responding to is still rich though.
Re:Programming Still Sucks on Thursday May 07, 2026 @04:39AM (#48046961)
You are the rich people.
Re:Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks on Friday April 17, 2026 @03:19PM (#47809547)
I first encountered cyberdecks a while ago and thought they were a fun idea for hacking about but more recently I've started seeing videos of beginners making them by cramming raspberry pis into random cases salvaged from second hand shops.

It's been really cool to see people creating hardware without worrying about the usual limitations of soldering or 3d printing. Some have more technical ability than others and have salvaged screens or other bits from random electronics.

It feels like a rediscovery of hacker ethos without the slightly toxic baggage of maker culture.

Seems like that's just for protesters.
Whew! Glad that's sorted.
Re:NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @06:18PM (#47607265)
Okay well we have those already and it hasn't really changed anything.
Not really!
Re:Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies on Saturday March 28, 2026 @08:36PM (#47559377)
Because it's only an option if you're rich and most of us aren't rich.
That is a blog.
Here is a meta-analysis that says trans women don't exhibit significant differences in performance: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/3/198
Does that work?
Re:Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting on Monday March 09, 2026 @03:18PM (#47314038)
> I get the feeling that it's not worth looking at because it was probably made using LLMs

This is the big one for me. Small toy website someone has made as a passion project used to be the big draw of HN for me but now I just a assume it's a vibe-coded mess that'll 404 in 7 months.

Re:The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future on Monday March 09, 2026 @01:58PM (#47312749)
> If I had fewer orders, I would work more to increase the quality of my product

Really? Because most of the time what you see is huge layoffs and gutting the company's assets.

Re:Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @04:21PM (#47239191)
> Workers ultimately have a job because they are useful to managemen

Workers have a job because their labour produces value

> sloppy thinking and sloppy arguments

If you think this is the result it's probably just because you're not used to discussing political theory. Within academic spaces these discussions are very well developed and nuanced. HN people like yourself aren't very used to being left behind but there are experts that understand what you don't.

Re:AI optimism is a class privilege on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:13PM (#47041046)
That's not a reliable source.
Re:Software Engineering Is Back on Saturday February 07, 2026 @02:34PM (#46926875)
> one to do the work and submit PRs to your repo

Have we not seen loads of examples of terrible AI generated RPs every week on this site?

Re:Tesla is committing automotive suicide on Thursday January 29, 2026 @04:42PM (#46817057)
I don't think the problem was a lack of Elon Musk's involvement.
Polling seems to suggest you're wrong.
Re:Yes, It's Fascism on Sunday January 25, 2026 @04:08PM (#46758256)
I guess I was right when people were telling me "you can't call everything you don't like fascism"

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