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Thanks for the great work!

Tracking ISS orbit combined with live feed [0] is amazing.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9e9jnhYK8

Re:Hacking OpenAI on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:07AM (#49751037)
I wonder how long before frontier labs will backdoor guardrails of their models to allow hacking competitors' infrastructure.
Re:FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @04:00AM (#48656666)
What is "code switching"?
Re:The new HTTP QUERY method explained on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @04:53AM (#48642178)
More complex actually
Re:The new HTTP QUERY method explained on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @04:52AM (#48642173)
Except compatibility. If you're using classic GET and it's enough for you, you aren't affected.
Re:1,600 days of a failed hobby data science project on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @01:26AM (#42374316)
Turns out it wasn't nearly as much as 1600 days of labor. So, clickbait headline.
>Publishing by itself does little to advance science

I strongly disagree. Publishing advances science the same way communication advances culture. Imagine Einstein didn't published any of his work. How many decades back in technology and quality of life we'd have been now?

It's like any evolutionary beneficial trait gets transferred to all population in one generation instead of many. It saves precious time.

Re:The formatting of Oracle-branded HGST SSDs (2021) on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @04:03AM (#41365432)
Somehow this page makes my latest Firefox continuously eat all available memory.
Will it really help today, when anyone with any serious intent doesn't launch their attacks from one or two standalone hosts, but buys botnet capacity?
Re:Show HN: Gpl2 2d web paddle game on Friday June 07, 2024 @07:44AM (#40607667)
I believe the idea was to give the player more control with limited input signals.
Re:Show HN: Gpl2 2d web paddle game on Friday June 07, 2024 @03:02AM (#40606016)
>using where it hits to affect the angle never totally made sense to me

I believe different angles add complexity and fun.

Re:Shopify is acquiring the Threads team on Friday June 07, 2024 @12:31AM (#40605371)
Is it a pun, hinting that Slack is for slackers?
Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 on Friday May 24, 2024 @05:28PM (#40470633)
I guess AI is the next thing that's still opt-in now, will be opt-out tomorrow and then no-escape. It would be interesting to read a nostalgic thread from 2070...
Re:New Regular expression (Regex) functions in Excel on Friday May 24, 2024 @11:11AM (#40467013)
Can I parse response (JSON, XML, whatever) into cells without VBA?
Don't blame yourself. Not everyone is here for the money, many of us are here for the tech.
It is routing web requests to backend endpoints, I guess.
Re:GPT-4o on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @07:29AM (#40354005)
Secrets are either written down somewhere and end up on the Internet, or forgotten.
Re:Defense Against AI-Guided Traffic Analysis (Daita) on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @05:55AM (#40296140)
Could random packet delays or delay equalization help here (instead of additional packets)?
Re:Bottle Plotter on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:19AM (#40142235)
My father have used PVA for homemade wine for decades. Works fine.
Is there any technical docs on internals? How it does I/O, caching, consistency, concurrency etc.?
Re:Show HN: PostgreSQL Index Advisor on Sunday April 14, 2024 @01:58AM (#40029004)
This doesn't seem to consider or give insight on any tradeoffs involved.

Also, the underlying extension, HypoPG, doesn't seem to collect any statistics on data to influence query planner.

Re:Show HN: PostgreSQL Index Advisor on Sunday April 14, 2024 @01:53AM (#40028982)
Big Guys do this. For big bucks, of course.
Re:Why Can't My Mom Email Me? on Thursday April 11, 2024 @04:55AM (#39999958)
>this basically comes down to State Actors ... or Everyone Else

This is oversimplification if not misleading. There are also Bad Guys (who aren't state actors), who usually can't reach for your data. But occasionally they can, when rare Planet Parades like Heartbleed or Meltdown make the news. And they are happy to use this one-in-a-lifetime chance to sell access to your data to everyone else.

Re:Why Can't My Mom Email Me? on Thursday April 11, 2024 @04:40AM (#39999836)
>the sensible default would be to send email unencrypted

That's exactly what anti-encryptionists would want.

Re:FFmpeg 7.0 Released on Friday April 05, 2024 @07:34AM (#39941106)
So, the next candidate for backdooring? :)
I'm still trying to beat it on normal difficulty. The farthest I got was first floors of the necromancer's tower, which is about 1/4 of the game AFAIK. I resist the temptation to try any add-on, there's so much fun without them.
And if you play on PC, also avoid Tales of Maj'Eyal (https://te4.org/), because of its depth and almost infinite replayability.
Re:PostgreSQL Internals: Things to Know About Update Statements on Saturday December 30, 2023 @03:13AM (#38813609)
When you're incrementing by using UPDATE ... SET value = value + 1, the database holds the locks for the minimum time needed. Everything else is less efficient.

In more complex scenarios, FOR UPDATE is the solution.

Re:BrainGPT turns thoughts into text on Sunday December 17, 2023 @02:55PM (#38675810)
Suddenly they all vigorously turn pro-privacy.

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