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side note but what is the consensus on figuring out whether small brew packages like this one are malicious?

I'm sure this one probably isn't, but I have no clue how I would know whether it is without reviewing the source code myself (or pointing an agent at it etc)

Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:44PM (#50261886)
>coming soon to Google AI Ultra subscribers in Project Genie

Would be fun to muck around with world models. Are there any that I can try for under £200 p/m without being part of a special project?

> All comments by this account herein are generated by a neural network, unless otherwise specified.

fuck off

Re:Fingerprints Are the New Cookies on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:03PM (#50061202)
>Test your browser:

>coveryourtracks.eff.org shows you how unique your fingerprint is, with entropy for each measured data point.

Something to note - if a fingerprint is generic enough, that might be a _good_ thing!

Having worked with fingerprinting, anti-fingerprint browsers are very hard to properly identify. The ways to get around it are things like collecting more coarse fingerprints[0], as the overall one is fairly easy to change (e.g. make your browser lie about a collection of browser apis).

What's imo more difficult though is a fingerprint like:

- iPhone <new_version> - running os <latest_stable> - using default safari - bought and used in <common_location> (e.g. usa)

on a 5g mast in a decently sized city, you'll share a fingerprint with at least one other active user using a setup like ^

grapheneOS on the other hand stands out a bit more!

[0] - https://blog.castle.io/fingerprints-beyond-device-ids-engine...

Re:Show HN: Google Trends for Hacker News Comments on Sunday October 04, 2026 @12:08PM (#49955135)
also there's so much stuff i don't get when i search it up e.g. why does "burger" have a giant spike in popularity in like 2019

Show HN: Google Trends for Hacker News Comments

https://hntrends.hughparry.com/

I've seen a fair few posts recently that try to categorise HN posts, so I thought google trends for hacker news would be fun.- chart the popularity of phrases up to 3 words long - includes all hn comments, apart from stuff like who's hiring threads - quite fun for looking at trends you'd expect with words/phrases you'd expect llms to use more frequentlywords/phrases are only in there if they...

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but rises again, harder and stronger
If you push me into a bush then you'll make me a pollinator as well
> The regulation should not include AI-generated ads "not intended to mislead users, for example, generating an image of a living room to showcase a sofa, or enhancing product visuals for presentation purposes", the letter said.

While ads have always been misleading (think gluing burgers together) this just seems lazy to me. Put a real sofa in a room. If that's so hard to do then how am I going to put your sofa in my house!

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:00AM (#48541405)
Building a map guessing game where you're given a map with the labels/axis redacted, and then you have to guess what it's a map of. e.g. the map would be average height by country, but you would just get a map where countries like The Netherlands were the darkest, and then you'd have to try and figure out that it's average height!

The hinting system for it is a bit work in progress (trying to tune the difficulty and feedback from hints)

https://figarooo.com/

I’d probably think it looked alright.

I think it’s the fact that my eyes have been blasted with a certain visual ‘vibe’, and I’ve come to associate it with apps that are, on average, a bit lazy

Re:Multi-stroke text effect in CSS on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @06:16AM (#48034500)
I wonder why the firefox CSS rendering engine prefers to smooth out. Looks like a dramatically different implementation, but maybe that's just because it's an edge case of rendering
Re:Digg is gone again on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:11PM (#47380680)
I’ve never seen people on the likes of blackhatworld selling hacker news accounts or services. The glass half full take on this is that hn is surprisingly robust in its ability to deal with vote manipulation.
Re:Two long-lost episodes of 'Doctor Who' have been found on Friday March 13, 2026 @03:30PM (#47368647)
Ah I mean others disliked the results.

Make up your own mind I suppose, I doubt you will find them rewarding: https://youtu.be/rQabMPpdQnk?si=Fm9Yqj7EwAjYp5np

Re:Two long-lost episodes of 'Doctor Who' have been found on Friday March 13, 2026 @02:07PM (#47367622)
Somebody spent a small fortune trying this a while ago with disliked results https://nypost.com/2025/04/13/entertainment/ailing-doctor-wh...
Re:We built an AI that spots problems in your product data on Monday November 24, 2025 @10:40AM (#46035263)
Please don't capture my cursor on your homepage, and if you have to, please don't apply smoothing to is so that it doesn't go where I want it to! I appreciate that it's pretty, but making your site annoying to use can only increase churn
Re:Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has passed away on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:30AM (#45656302)
RIP Danya <3
Re:YouTube Is Down on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @07:46PM (#45599776)
The outage did make me realise I’d be happier watching episodes of House instead
Re:YouTube Is Down on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @07:37PM (#45599680)
Most services appear to work, aside from actual video streaming for me

YouTube Is Down

More interesting than YouTube being down is the fact that YouTube doesn’t appear to have an official status page that is exposed externally.Reported by 3rd party sites for reference:https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtubehttps://downdetector.co.uk/status/youtube/

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Posted on the other thread as I thought it was pretty interesting:

>Roughly 0.5% odds on him on polymarket before he was announced

Re: on Thursday May 08, 2025 @01:23PM (#43928662)
Roughly 0.5% odds on him on polymarket before he was announced

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