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Any pulse on how likely this is to pass or what hurdles it faces? Neews like these give me hope but often they are written before anything materializes.
Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:01PM (#50197223)
Animals are all cool with all the different pollution that data centers brings? Vibrations, noise, as well as climate?
Re:GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:20PM (#49903609)
If GLM-5.3 enables malicious actors than I want it to enable me to lock down my infra. If they can do it for free, I also want to do it for free.

*Running efficiently still costs serious hardware.

You don’t need to be a hacker to do this. My elderly neighbor searched for some version of “Microsoft help center phone number,” but Gemini suggested a scam number based on her search terms. She was scammed so much that I needed to spent the weekend helping her wipe computers, lock down the digital accounts and deal with identity theft.
Re:OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:50AM (#49831439)
How long until “hacking organizations” simply pose as AI labs, unleash autonomous agents to hack on their behalf, and evade responsibility by saying, “Oopsies, the agents did it”?
I'm assuming apple did their homework about 1 party-2 party states for recording etc. anyone have any references how this will not be legally scrutinized?
And no one wants to take action, they want others to. Anthropic CEO urges AI companies to slow model development amid fears over misuse [1]. If they truly believe that, they would announce "we are slowing model development."

https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-ceo-urges-ai-comp...

Re:Eating Fruit Skins on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:34PM (#49679031)
Wait until you hear about eating the skin of a kiwi, like an apple.
Re:LLMs as a Cognitive Virus on Saturday September 05, 2026 @08:26PM (#49582147)
Much how we have mostly evolved away from physical labor and now need to go to the gym to maintain fitness. I imagine LLMs will do the same for our cognitive acuity.
Re:The Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew [video] on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:24PM (#49558952)
I'm rooting for electric planes not because I prefer them over rail but bc I share your disappointment and pessimism about American railway. I much rather take a train but when Amtrak NYC<->DC costs as more than a plane, leaves from the same destination, and takes hours longer then flying becomes preferable. There are many route similar to this. Only legup that Amtrak has is frequency. If planes become cheaper hopefully airlines will afford more of them and offer more frequent flights. I dream of a constant stream of aircraft flying between destinations. But never underestimate greed, airlines will probably reap the cut costs and charge customer the same as before :/
Re:The Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew [video] on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:07PM (#49557031)
These kind of startup excite me. More so than the "next killer app" or "look what we shoved AI into."

Cheap electric transportation can finally offset USA's lacking rail commutes and attack Europe's short flight market (which is already cheap). Now we need bigger planes or more frequent planes and the next startup to solve the energy needs.

Re:I wanna live an NPC life on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @05:09PM (#49542604)
Reading Dungeon Crawler Carl series... I would not like to be an NPC from that series :D
Gruez was spot on, our last car was 15 years old. Though I don't know if his stat considered resold cars. We wouldve kept it too but the work it needed was $8k. Parts were available and already imported, just that mechanics in the area had all raised their labor rate. I support liveable wages but that points to tarrifs having higher order effects than just the goods that they apply to.
Re:What will be left for us to work on on Thursday August 27, 2026 @09:05AM (#49464279)
Hey someone needs to attend dinners and rub elbows. Technical leaders are the strongest but mostly csuite is useful for their connections.
Re:What will be left for us to work on on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:25PM (#49456765)
I was wondering that too. I suppose if we take it to the extreme end of the spectrum, "end world hunger" is a great decision but how to actually realize it is another problem.
I have anecdotal experience that makes the ~$1,600 per house hold feel like an underestimate.

We purchased a Subaru Outback right around the first round of tarrifs. We were in the market for the base trim, no bells & whistles. We ended up getting the highest trim bc all the remaining base trims were post-tarrifs and and cost $3.5k more than the pre-tarrif higher trim that was already in the lot.

Mind you the Subaru outback was assembled in IL, USA so it is not just imported entirely from Japan.

And that's not considering all the other "consuming" we do (which is quite limited being outdoor ppl).

Re:What will be left for us to work on on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:59PM (#49456486)
There are three parts of this talk, the last part (~last 15mins) bluntly address the question "how human roles shift in a world with advanced AI?"

My main takeaways from the speaker's position are: purely technical skills will get devalued because they tend to be verifiable tasks and AI will get better. Also effort will shift from building to evaluation of AI and systems. Speaker also mentioned that more of our time will go to decision making while AI takes over delivering on decisions.

I found many arguments to be at odds with one another bc the speaker does not address how someone can gain understanding without accumulating purely technical skills. It simply does not add up that someone who lacks purely technical skills in an area can make good decisions. Experience is often a by product of accumulating technical acumine in a particular problem area.

Re:OpenAI's Head of Data Centers Has Left the Company on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:51PM (#49443209)
One year tenure. Yikes.
Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:09PM (#49428654)
Tell ya what. Go ahead and prompt your agent to build your next project completely from assembly. Why even bother with the higher level inefficiency since it'll be compiled away.

Report back how productive debugging is and the velocity of adding new features to a codebase you can't reason about.

Without strong coding fundamental, this is what it will feel like for the future of the profession.

Giving up knowledge (password) is something that is typically scrutinized at the border as well. Had he just handed over the phone and the phone had abilities to self destruct if tampered with (e.g too many incorrect pin entries) -- well the gov's case wouldn't been much harder. If they seized property and accidently destroyed the data, then that's on them.
Re:Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo on Friday August 21, 2026 @09:00AM (#49387451)
What an awesome website!
Yo Louis Rossmann, do your thing!
Mozilla has been killing itself. $400mil a year and very little to show for it in the browser. I still rep Firefox but ladybird could not come sooner.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @06:19PM (#49236750)
My health
Re:How I use LLMs to learn complex topics on Sunday August 09, 2026 @06:00PM (#49236535)
> I ask it to review the accuracy of the knowledge base it built in the previous step.

> [I ask it to build an interactive thing]

> I then push it to a new repo and enable GitHub Pages for it.

Congratulations. You are an echo chamber for LLMs. Use it to create, and verify, and post to then be scraped and trained on again.

If you are serious about health tracking, get a device that specializes in that and knows what they are doing -- get a polar. They publish papers on the science behind their technology. Many professional athletes do heart tracking with polar devices. Even Garmin isn't as good being it is a GPS company first. If you want mediocre, by all means get an apple device. Their goal is to sell you stuff and keep you hooked in the ecosystem with a veil of convenience.

Fwiw, polar let's you tune the parameters of when to start and stop recording.

> I would consider this a hobby because it costs me money and I get no value out of it outside of the act.

I LOLd very hard at that one, thanks. Very relatable.

A hobby of mine is also woodworking. I can make jigs, I can buy jigs. I can use hand tools, I can use power tools. I can use screws I can use joints. I can even buy made furniture and just assemble it. Though the latter is more of interior designing. But the point is it is a spectrum and everyone has their own niche. SDLC are not the same and there is different value to be derived. But the process of woodworking makes me handy. The experience allows me to elegantly and cost efficiently fix broken things. It enables me to do interesting things in interesting ways and there is more of a community around that. If I automated away all the woodworking and just bought the furniture... Well there isn't much of a community around that except flexing who has more cash. Idk, I'm trying to have empathy for both those who are for and against it.

A hobby is something you enjoy the process of doing, not just the end result. Everybody likes a clean home, but cleaning is rarely a hobby. LLMs expedite achieving the end result. Take from that what you will.
Re:Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:19PM (#49184959)
I used to read their blog regularly because it had lots of interesting technical details. Lately, though, there’s less of that, and I can’t quite put my finger on what changed. My guess is that they realized how popular the blog had become and started using that attention more for advertising. There’s nothing wrong with that, but earlier the “advertisements” actually made me want to try things out and bring them back to my team. I even considered applying to work there. Not so much anymore. I’ve even removed it from my RSS feed.

I don’t like offering criticism without a solution, but I’m not really motivated to come up with one here. It looks like employees may read this, so maybe someone will see the feedback.

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