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I think I pretty much agree with you that if someone finds evidence of danger to someone else's life then it is a fair expectation that they do something with that evidence. And despite that I still believe that is not a good enough reason to eliminate someone's right to privacy, and yet still that right doesn't mean that we should be able to demand privacy in all products. I think it is fairly clear that these big LLMs are not private products and we shouldn't expect them to be, but I'm still in support of offering private alternatives that people could use without having every input scrutinized.
Re:Pi 1.0 on Friday October 02, 2026 @10:25AM (#49933907)
I work over SSH often from various other OSs, TUIs don't need any additional abstractions to make that work, I just SSH in from any computer/OS and everything works. All I need is SSH and the terminal based apps. It's not psychotic, it's literally a feature that cannot be found with GUIs.
Re:Small Models Have Arrived on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:29PM (#49468278)
Perhaps we'll get to a point where believing any un-sourced information from an LLM will feel crazy. I don't want my model to know more than it needs to perform logic and use tools. Once it is capable of using tools I would much rather it looked up information or sourced it from existing context rather than just divine it from it's weights.
Really want to play this with a controller. Seems to me that a joystick to steer and another to adjust the sail would be really intuitive. Aside from that really fun, looking forward to future updates.
Re:Tangled – We need a federation of forges on Thursday April 30, 2026 @09:29AM (#47962133)
Except it is intentionally unstructured. AT proto is one way to add the structures we obviously care about for "social" internet media on top of the freedom that the web as a whole provides.
Re:Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees on Friday April 24, 2026 @12:38PM (#47892557)
Eerily close to Roman decimation.
Came here to say this, difftastic is great as long as you are working in a language where it understands the language tree (most languages). Getting away from diffs being focused on line changes to diffs that understand the actual language makes so much sense once you start to use it.
Ideological is carrying a lot of weight there. Perhaps you can be more specific about the ideological arguments you are hearing that are not worth it?
Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @03:59PM (#46980865)
Yes as of about a week ago, last I checked.
Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @03:58PM (#46980840)
Anthropic is actively blocking calls from anything but claude code for it's claude plans. At this point you either need to be taking part in the cat and mouse game to make that plan work with opencode or you need to be paying the much more expensive API prices.
Re:We mourn our craft on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:07PM (#46927331)
I'm not particularly against AI programming but I don't think these two things are equivilent. A compiler translates code to specifications in a deterministic way, the same compiler produces the same output from the same code, it is all completely controlled. AI is not at all deterministic, temperature is built into LLMs and furthermore the lack of specificity in prompts and our spoken languages. The difference in control is significant enough to me not to put compilers and AI coding agents into the same catagory even though they are both taking some text and producing some other text/machine code.
Re:Nostr on Friday September 19, 2025 @04:42PM (#45306305)
Existing social platforms are built for profit, which modulates emotion for engagement (something kind of like entertainment, but I wouldn't say I'm entertained exactly by the rage bait I'm often fed by algorithms). Users of an open protocol might select for the same experience, or they might not, I think that's yet to be seen. This also assumes that this fantasy open protocol could also escape the pressures of maximizing profit.
Re:This map is not upside down on Thursday September 18, 2025 @03:56PM (#45294212)
Re:We shouldn't have needed lockfiles on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:38PM (#44816672)
I generally agree, pinning versions and then having some script to automatically update to capture security updates makes sense, except that it also assumes that every package is just using standard symver, which in my experience is something like 99% true.

But it's also missing the value of hashes, even if every package used symver, then you had a script that could easily update to get recent security updates, we would still gain value from a lockfile hashes to protect against source code changing underneath the same version code.

Some other cryptocurrency fixes this, maybe (big maybe). But as long as _Bitcoin_ is seen primarily as an investment opportunity it can't really function as a means of exchange. For the same reason that we expect and need USD to lose value over time, people need to be encouraged to exchange their currency, not sit on it forever.
Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures on Saturday June 21, 2025 @01:15PM (#44339122)
Not sure what this says about me, but I ran into youtube putting a 3 video limit on me because I was using adblocking and when I hit that limit I just ended up going outside to have a lovely day. Honestly wish video limits was just a feature I could turn on.

Funny enough, awhile back they made it so that if you turned off watch history, they would disable the front page feed. Not sure if that was seen as a punishment to try to encourage people to turn back on watch history but that also ended up being a welcome change.

Re:Servo vs. Ladybird on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @02:45PM (#43485454)
The engine approach seems like a solid advantage to me given that at least one decent browser has been built around it. Servo can ultimately support end users who just want a browser built off of it, and developers who want to build a browser with it. Ladybird can only support the former.
Re:Show HN: Mixlist on Thursday January 23, 2025 @02:12PM (#42807005)
You got a back trap. When I try to navigate back from the playlist screen it goes to the processing screen, and then repeats the processing request every time I navigate back after that. Maybe a bit gnarly if that is kicking off the spotify fetch each time.

Aside from that, nice, I'm listening to one of the playlists right now.

Why do we need to keep replacing these jobs (or working hours perhaps)? If as a society we produce more for less work why is that bad? Why don’t we spend more time questioning the underlying system that makes efficiency improvements a bad thing?
I definitely appreciate the confirmation step when browsing around sensitive UIs like my company's AWS dashboard.
Here is the link to the repo itself. https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1
Re:You probably don't need that hip web framework on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @07:21PM (#19559498)
You probably need the right tool for the job. I'd argue that react, Vue, and company are only best for true web _applications_, that is highly stateful projects that are more akin to standard desktop apps than web pages, ex: google docs.

If you need server side rendering that could be a sign that what you have is a lot of public indexable information and that most often describes a traditional web site instead. In that case your "old school" rails or laravel solutions are almost definitely a better choice.

Re:Ask HN: I would pay X for Y on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @12:30PM (#15602884)
The built in weather widget gets the job done
Out of curiosity, if this were to solve problems with endpoint pricing and cold-starts, then what other problems do you see that would still force you to move over to EC2? Just wondering, I've used Lambda a bit but never at scale and these are the only two problems that I can foresee.
Here is a rough idea of what 7,000 acres looks like. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2t4y1KUdvnlbUV1aW9CdHR1dF...
Re:Google – My Activity on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:45PM (#12897732)
"Visited [insert all my untracked searches here] at DuckDuckGo"
Re:Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X on Thursday May 26, 2016 @01:13PM (#11779673)
In the details tab when you click on a particular entry, you can modify that entries productivity category, more so there is a checkbox to send that info to the developers. I believe this is the functionality you are looking for.
Re:Housing in the Bay Area on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:25PM (#11774556)
I can't say for sure if this is what Foobarqux was referring to but this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11708873 came up a couple weeks ago which states

> Tim Redmond of 48 Hills has argued that building more housing would make the problem [high housing costs] worse because the people who would move into it are likely to be wealthy newcomers whose demand for services will increase low-income employment, putting further pressure on older, lower-cost housing.

It would be cool if you could allow for user commenting/voting so that people could add and build up cultural context for them rather than just having the spec definition. If you got enough of a community around that it could become very useful. Kinda like Urban Dictionary for Emoji.

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