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Re:There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:34PM (#50190472)
15 years ago absolutely. Most modern sites will be running php-fpm (or maybe FrankenPHP)
If you're the 0.01% it's not going to suck.
Well, I'm not going to die. Other's might, but I'll be rich either way.

Or: Global warming just means I'll have to sell my beach house for a villa on a hill and leave the AC on a little longer.

Re:Musk, the Movie on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:24AM (#49873622)
Wow, what a impartial reference.

As expected from MechaHitler themselves.

Re:Seven books I keep close because I love them on Friday August 14, 2026 @02:00PM (#49302367)
> I always look it up in the original Hebrew if I really want to understand

Why do you assume a entire team of biblical scholars, working for years to translate the Old Testement for the NIV didn't know what they were doing?

But you do?

Re:Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:40AM (#48894385)
Have the comments been combined with another story? Because this isn't about a LLM reading and sending contents of the file to be processed, but the agent framework uploading every single file in /home/user to a random server.
Re:What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:59AM (#48880107)
You know why :-)
Re:Odin, Wikipedia and Engagement Farming on Saturday July 04, 2026 @09:35AM (#48785303)
> Isn't Wikipedia a compendium of facts? Odin's existence is one of those facts. /shrug

Nope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_no...

Re:LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:41PM (#48668579)
> For compatibility with other computer languages, the following classic Lua operators can be written in a more customary syntax:

Why though? What does changing `and` to `&&` actually achieve? Were people confused?

Changing the syntax seems very surface level. It's not actually fixing any problems, just making Lua no longer look like Lua. It's not going to help anyone write/learn Lua. It will make everything more complicated as there are now two ways to do everything.

This feels like adding braces to Python because you don't like indenting your code.

They?

I had no idea HN had so many cookers.

Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe on Sunday June 14, 2026 @08:13PM (#48534695)
ePub3 is CSS2.1 (+ some extras) CSS21 standard says "Illegal values. User agents must ignore a declaration with an illegal value."

Ignore != Fatal error

Out of everything Google has done, James Damore...

> Ex-Google engineer Damore sues alleging discrimination against white, conservative men

> “In the gender category, it is only men who are being discriminated against,” Dhillon said. Currently in tech companies "it’s okay to disparage, smear, belittle or discriminate against conservatives and white men. That’s not acceptable.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/01/08/ex-googl...

I would not like to have to work with someone like James Damore. Firing him was correct.

What function signature isn't going to look messy with 36 keyword arguments.

https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/blob/0798e6cbe11b30...

Re:How is Groq raising more money? on Monday June 01, 2026 @11:21PM (#48365592)
> Groq Launches European Data Center Footprint in Helsinki, Finland

https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-launches-european-data-center...

That sounds like they are renting racks in a Equinix data centre. Do Groq have 4 data centers worth billions?

Re:LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear on Monday June 01, 2026 @09:30AM (#48356626)
Creationism does not want to say "magic" and admit that God is intentionally trying to deceive people. So that's why some of these responses seem silly. I mean they are, but only because the pro-creationism arguments are silly.
100k per seat? That's crazy. How do you even hire or train employees with software that expensive?
Re:Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:01PM (#48299756)
Wow, I bought a 128GB Strix Halo machine for $2000 USD in September. Same model is currently on special for $4,399. Insane.
It's actually is a literal transformation (and only a Catholic thing)

https://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/arch...

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> Transubstantiation means the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of his Blood. This change is brought about in the eucharistic prayer through the efficacy of the word of Christ and by the action of the Holy Spirit. However, the outward characteristics of bread and wine, that is the “eucharistic species”, remain unaltered.

Re:Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter) on Monday May 25, 2026 @10:10AM (#48267076)
> who better to lead the cause of humanity than the Catholic Church?

Oh no, is my sarcasm meter broken?

> Do you disagree with the Pope?

Yes I do. I don't think you a prayer can literally transform wine into blood. How about you?

It's actually litterally true.

https://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/arch...

283

> Transubstantiation means the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of his Blood. This change is brought about in the eucharistic prayer through the efficacy of the word of Christ and by the action of the Holy Spirit. However, the outward characteristics of bread and wine, that is the “eucharistic species”, remain unaltered.

Edit: It's a catholic thing, and it's very silly (other denominations say its symbolic)

> Presidents through out American history has believed various forms of genocide and slavery were applicable practices to modern problems; hell the current president thinks variously incredulous things.

And we shouldn't criticize them? Is that the point?

It seem confusing. My understanding is the AI assistant part (i.e. chat) is configurable. But Junie IDE is only via credits through Jetbrains.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/articles/SUPPORT-A-1833/What-...

(To make it more confusing, Junie CLI seems to say it will any provider)

Re:If AI writes your code, why use Python? on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @12:55AM (#48104334)
"Ah, the classic Poe’s Law in action. Reality has officially outpaced parody"

Do you want these to be shorter for quick replies on X/Twitter, or longer for more detailed forum discussions?

Is there a better benchmark to use?

Honest question.

How can a lay person track the real word progress of quantum computers?

> If there's a reason why you think it can't work beyond a certain scale, say so

I'm not saying it can't work. Just that in 14 years no one has managed to factor a larger number than 21. Seemingly focus has shifted to other factoring algorithms that don't have performance improvements over conventional computing.

I'm not the one implying that Shor's algorithm will breaking encryption in "a few years from now".

> Shor of Damocles

What is the biggest number factored using Shor's algorithm?

Last time I looked it was very unimpressive.

Edit: It's gotten worse. 21 from 2012. "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog" say the factorization of 35 in 2019 actually failed.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237

I don't remember ever having downtime on DO when I was using them.

I used to get those emails all the time, but the type of downtime they were talking about was extremely minimal (the entire point of VPS systems).

The last email I got about possible downtime was increased latency for the UI and API for ~10s last year. The email before that was ~5s of potential lost traffic to a droplet.

Re:Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @04:16PM (#47784635)
> removed "Don't be Evil" as its motto and from its code of conduct

It's still in the code of conduct

https://abc.xyz/investor/board-and-governance/google-code-of...

And it still doesn't mean a damn thing.

Re:Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @04:03PM (#47784497)
On a scale of 1-10, Yeah, I'd give them a 1-2 for notifying him after the fact.

The problem is they tell user that they'll inform you right away and give them a chance to challenge the subpoena.

A quick search shows that they've done in the past and people have been able to get the subpoena's withdrawn.

https://thefulcrum.us/rule-of-law/us-administrative-subpoena...

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