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Re:Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits on Sunday May 31, 2026 @01:19AM (#48343250)
Before, there was a chance to spot it (and things like XZ Utils backdoor were rare), now it will be well hidden in the ocean of slop PRs.
Re:The Last Technical Interview on Saturday May 30, 2026 @03:06AM (#48333495)
I came to conclusion that a lot of these interviews just nerds revenge lol (20+ yoe in faangs).
Re:The Dead Economy Theory on Friday May 29, 2026 @10:34PM (#48331867)
but just imagine the brave new world, where a law firm has super-duper-frontier model and you're trying to argue with it in a court with your latest best local oss model (only 6 month behind the bestests ones).
"That's the point: just pump the shit and offload it to retail. Yeah, it's less than 1% of the S&P 500, so who would even notice?"
Isn't it a nice bussiness, pulling 2% from sp500, I wish I could join.
easy: 1. Shit goes into S&P 500 (pump phase)

2. Shit goes to 0. Your 401(k) invested into S&P 500 takes a dive (dump phase)

3. Retail holding bags (full of shit) phase.

Case study: Tesla, with a P/E ratio in the hundreds along with declining sales and TAM, is a part of the S&P 500 and, consequently, of many people's 401(k)s.

Re:Bun support is now limited and deprecated on Friday May 22, 2026 @06:19PM (#48242368)
Except it's not vibecoded, it's litteraly the best prompt an LLM can ever get - literal code. If the whole thing ends up as a failure, then it will show that the king is naked.
Re:AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale on Thursday May 21, 2026 @03:04PM (#48227494)
If all ads were like that, I would't have an ad blocker.
Re:No Slop Grenade on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:22PM (#48226152)
Isn't it ironic? don't you think?
If you don't do it for every update, then there is no real point in doing that in the first place.
Same (Only some default plugins, and from known sources), and VS code even don't have a html preview functionality so I had to vibecode one (took about 10 mins, e2e).
We're trying to outsmart The Genie(a Jinn) now. He will deliver according to the letter of the prompt but not the spirit of it.
I now think AI is a virus, which infects whatever it touches. Not just software, but the books (there're already slopbooks printed, and I'm not talking about fiction books, but rather real textbooks, history, music, art, etc...). In XX years what can you even trust? We will adapt and get around it, but I'm not yet sure how.
A tool which is supposed to supercharge you - supercharges you.
Re:AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities on Friday May 08, 2026 @02:35AM (#48059431)
good, i see what you've done here.
Re:AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities on Friday May 08, 2026 @12:20AM (#48058508)
Quora became human-slop-infested trash before it was trendy.
Re:I Want to Live Like Costco People on Thursday May 07, 2026 @12:04PM (#48051064)
I was a coffee snob, but now I'm buying coffee in Costco, you just have to do it online:

https://www.costco.com/p/-/kirkland-signature-organic-ethiop...

https://www.costco.com/p/-/mayorga-buenos-das-usda-organic-l...

I have no idea why do they not sell these(light roast) ones in warehouses.

Re:Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad? on Sunday May 03, 2026 @04:14PM (#48000930)
They will run a background check listing all your past jobs, with the exact title you had, and start-end dates.
Re:Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:02AM (#47944049)
Yeah, and totally missed RAI part, billing, model deployment, security patches, rate-limiting, caching, dead GPUs, metrics, multiple regions, gov clouds, gdpr(or data locality issues), monitoring, alerting and god knows what else while at extreme loads.
Re:AI can cost more than human workers now on Monday April 27, 2026 @11:23AM (#47922865)
>>> Instead of doing a grep | uniq | awk which would give me an answer in 100 milliseconds for free, I launch a prompt to spend 30 seconds on it and will cost some actual money.

I'd argue it will be even worse, you still remember how to do it, next gen of SDEs won't even try.

Well, because I like it, and I like my morning rituals.
I stopped drinking coffee for a month and didn't notice any difference in my anxiety/mood/etc, so I returned to my regular schedule (3-4 large cups in the mornings).
Re:Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @08:24PM (#47870965)
not in windows
I stopped doing any personal stuff on a work laptop long time ago, like 10+ years ago. There is absolutely nothing on my work laptop which is not work related. Working from home though helps, I always have my laptop next to me. Same with the phone, under no circumstances I will do anything work related on my personal phone (and yes I do have a company provided phone with MDM and etc).
Re:Who Killed the Florida Orange? on Monday April 20, 2026 @11:36PM (#47844216)
It was a sad day for me when I realized that a glass of orange juice(or any juice in general) isn't much better for your health than a can of soda and probably even worse than diet/zero coke.
Re:AI chatbots could be making you stupider on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:48PM (#47837985)
I like how people come up with some analogy (and all analogies are wrong by definition) and then attack said analogy and based on that make a declaration on the original statement. But what if we use a different analogy: basically using an LLM is like skipping the whole learning process - not learning how to read, not learning how to write and not learning how to think, then what?
yeah, low popularity, got almost 30% in unfair Moscow mayoral elections. Go fuck yourself murzilka.
Re:Isaac Asimov: The Last Question on Friday April 17, 2026 @08:44PM (#47812176)
Re:European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:45PM (#47801967)
how many billions?

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