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They just need to last 3 years on a PCP for most people. No-one buys cars any more.
Midway through the page I was randomly asked how much I'd be prepared to spend on a new keyboard. It was like a cognitive wrecking ball when trying to concentrate on the article's content.
Re:Keeping the Bonfires Lit on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:20AM (#50316456)
You utter melt. In what way is that relevant? Go and follow your thought leaders somewhere else.
Re:Keeping the Bonfires Lit on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:34AM (#50316055)
And now too Diwali, the festival of light, is very popular in many parts of the UK - the only constant is change!
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:26AM (#50314407)
Oh right, now they want government to get involved with their make believe 'currency'...
76 (already a good age) with an existing heart condition and increases HIIT exercise frequency by 25%.

I wonder if they consulted their physician before doing that, and what they recommended?

Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:59PM (#50308604)
ish. the 'we don't need no gubmint interference in our currency' crew certainly seem happy to have gubmint help in sorting this mess out.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:38AM (#50305470)
Headline is still "Binance hacked for $6BN". Too late to control the narrative.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:11AM (#50301057)
It's 10 months of revenue, but 10 years of reputation.
They conform to EU and UK safety standards (there are enough of them on the roads here to demonstrate that).

Are US safety standards that much higher - seems like a regulatory nightmare over there?

/s

Re:Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:15PM (#50248387)
They don't! They may appear to make untruthful statements, but they're making them without any reference to a concept of truth.

"make no mistakes"

Re:Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:07PM (#50248233)
"explicitly stated that zero tools would be triggered"

When are people going to stop anthropomorhizing these things and accept that they're bullshit machines?

Often useful, sometimes wrong, the words exist outside of any notion of ethics, or truth.

Potential PII nightmare. You're now potentially circumventing access controls from sensitive data.
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:16AM (#50230420)
A faster postgres/regex is literally the faster horse metaphor.

That software is a means to an end can be quite unfashionable on HN, but it's more ambitious thinking we need, and maybe software will be the answer.

(and no, the wet dreams of a teenager's interplanetary conquest fetish is centuries old rehash, not original thinking)

typescript is a linter, not a language.
It's mainly used by profitable and/or public sector orgs, so unlikely to have much intersection with the HN crowd.
Re:Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:17AM (#50192229)
Ask a psychopath.
Re:Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:28PM (#50184574)
Sounds like you don't have a good use case here though - you don't need editorial workflows, shared asset libraries etc?
Which is also what tfa says btw
In what sense "separate" though? No shared memory? No IPC? No what?

No-one can ever deterministically test any of this - just expect the worst to happen.

"Don't write any bugs"

Re:Google cloud outage takes down banks on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:58AM (#50164970)
Alternatively, and from the top of the HSBC homepage

"We would like to apologise for any inconvenience and continue to monitor the situation, which is also affecting other organisations."

Oh, don't worry. Someone is also blaming the product manager!
This is how every product manager feels every day.

If you're an LLM prompter shipping products, you're outputs are more akin to a product managers, not an software engineer's.

I'm not a USian but doesn't the first amendment apply to restrictions by the state?

It also doesn't protect from any consequences of your free speech of course.

Re:What I Self-Host on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:55AM (#50117286)
Wanted their own postgres container or database? Why should the service know/care how postgres is running?
Re:4 Years of Ludicon on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:25AM (#50115242)
Most people at large corporates seem to use copilot daily (bundled with O365) to summarize Teams calls and assign actions, rewrite large documents and inflate them back out into PowerPoint decks.
Re:Tiny Little Office on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:10AM (#50102522)
It looks like you can't host it locally as it relies on being hosted by Cloudflare.
Re:Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:20AM (#50073132)
In the UK you can buy them _from_ your energy company.

https://octopus.energy/plug-in-solar/

Re:Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:13PM (#50058527)
Yes but MS are driving that growth so they should really have done some impact analysis.

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