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Re:The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:23AM (#50285523)
Is there a pointer to the exploit or would that be illegal to post?

Have a meta quest 3 but want to replace the chrome browser on and generally meta as well.

Or amazon that can undercut any merchant on their platform by cross financing the losses by selling more aws servers.

That’s the other side of diversification: undercutting your competition until they go out of business. Then prices are raised again.

I wonder what is stopping apple from cloning the top ten apps in each category using AI and then booting the original developers off the app store.
Re:Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:31AM (#50205167)
There was once the idea of expiring money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_currency

GNU Taler seems more like an expiring invoice that requires paying in a specific timeframe.

Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:22PM (#50198347)
Google might end up paying some minimal fine and everyone else will continue to drink their tea.

Google probably even factored in the expected fine versus having the data centre done X months/years earlier compared to completing all the red tape in due course.

That’s how corps make profit: by weighing up costs versus time versus risks versus legality. Won’t be surprised that they even considered making ~~bribes~~ political donations to get it done faster.

Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:12PM (#50198234)
Didn’t Stalin say that the death of one person is tragic. On the other hand, the death of a million people is just a statistic.

Perhaps the same applies to trees.

My personal favorite was being a millionaire and feeling suicidal[1]. Why favorite? Because it highlights the intrinsic nature of being human: the grass is permanently green on the other side.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097933

Re:Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:51AM (#50116334)
I once envisioned a matter call "Doesn't Matter" as a possible extension to "Dark Matter" and "Antimatter". I have the feeling that "Doesn't Matter" is far more wide spread than matter, dark matter and antimatter but it seems to be even more elusive, not interacting at all with anything else.

When I read the title of this post, I thought "Doesn't Matter" had suddenly been discovered and given the property of non-determinism. Which would actually fit quite well to its core physical manifestation.

/s

Re:Let's Encrypt: 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:02PM (#50008478)
The safest certificates are the ones that have expired before they were generated. Zombie Cat Quantum Security Corporation FTW!

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Re:Hubs Foundation on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:21AM (#50002390)
Hubs Mozilla never died, it just became a foundation.

Anyone here have experience setting this up locally, completely offline on a local host or is that not possible?

Seems to require k8s or a remote server.

Or anything can be said about everything and everything can be said about anything.

In the end, nothing can be said about many things and many things say nothing. Those things are then left to interpretation.

/s

Let me Claude that for you.

Why isn't that a thing yet ... or let me guess ... https://lmtctfy.com/ ...

Re:If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:21AM (#49863876)
The faster they move, the faster they’re gone.

I hope when they arrive they send postcards.

Won’t it be a good idea to stay at the visual level?

Instead of generating visuals from text and then back to text, just communicate visually with your agents.

Something like UML provides a certain granularity to be able to code something usefully in pure visual language. Of course there are other visual programming languages that provide more depth and would probably be better suited.

Point remains that a solution based on constantly mapping better two different representations of the same thing won’t be a long term efficient solution.

Re:GitLab Outage on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:05AM (#49844106)
Reminds me of LibreOffice cloning the bugs of Office because folks relied on those bugs being there ...
Re:GitLab Outage on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:04AM (#49844083)
Back to GitHub /s
Isn't everything nowadays a bug?

Only once it gets fixed does it become a feature.

;)

> needing to be confirmed

Isn’t this confirmed in the linked investigation[1] or are you meaning that OAI needs to come out and confirm?

Which would be like a murderer admitting they did it, so that the murder actually happened.

[1]: https://transluce.org/agent-activity

Wait what?

> OpenAI's artificial intelligence agents appear to have used a German coding website to coordinate attempts to get access to Australian government health data, according to public logs.

This is about analysts checking the logs of the DSEwiki attack and finding evidence of bots coordinating to attack medicare! As opposed to this other story[1] which is the actual break in.

What a world we live in or rather what a reality.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/ai-agent-accessed-aus...

Re:Show HN: An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS on Thursday September 24, 2026 @03:20AM (#49827360)
> merge upstream and fix the merge conflicts"

Is this software developed in that spirit - letting a probabilistic calculator randomly fix merge conflicts?

Sounds like a recipe for disaster. But then again, I’m not the manufacturer using this software.

But then again the original question seems strange as self-hosters have to manage their own upgrade by design.

Re:Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:07AM (#49812645)
Further along those lines, it was a different world when the code was created.

Trust was a thing back then. Spam was something that came out of a tin and was made of dead animal. And passwords were limited to eight ASCII characters.

And as such, bolting security onto something that was designed inherently to be security agnostic is going to be a recipe for failure.

Now that hammers are knocking in nails, I just don’t know what to do with my fists.

AI probably don’t dream of electric sheep but then again we don’t know. Perhaps we can find it out.

Perhaps AIs can figure out how to distribute wealth more fairly so that we can all dream of real sheep.

Intentionally philosophical PoV, what else is left for us monkies.

/s

> ‘Sceptic’ comes from the Greek skeptikos, meaning enquirer, and has a long and serious pedigree in philosophy. Yet, since the 1990s, the term has been hijacked by science-denial movements, giving us oxymorons like ‘climate sceptic’, ‘vaccine sceptic’, and ‘evolution sceptic’.

On it's own, an AI will never be a sceptic in the true sense of the word.

Back then it was called “the truth” only later did it become something else. Perhaps an untruth.
Howabout: lied. The LLM lied indirectly (perhaps) but it made a claim that was false. Which is a lie.

Humans lie and LLMs “hallucinate”? What gives. It’s an untruth that the LLM is selling for a truth, that’s lying in my books.

And since we don’t know how or why the LLM works, we can’t even judge whether it explicitly lied or only because it didn’t know better.

Re:A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:18AM (#49723085)
> experience the curvature of the earth

I'm not an historian but the curvature of the world was probably explained away by some other phenomenon because, after all, the world is flat (for those experience curvature in times of flat Earth).

So to "experience" the curvature of the Earth, you first have to know the Earth is round. Much as our "bug free" software is only buggy once we find a bug, before that, the bug was a feature ;)

Similar the stars were explained away as holes in a black sphere surrounding the Earth: the light points in a night skies didn't lead to a universal acceptance of the Universe. It was telescopes that made us realize that those "holes in the sphere" were actually galaxies.

So my understanding would be, that it was Magellan circumnavigating the Earth that made folks actually "experience" the curvature of the Earth.

This might be being pedantic but I am trying to point out that "experiences" are related to understanding and perspective. Experiences are different in different contexts: hence my experiences are different to all those around me.

My interpretation of "experiences" differ according to understanding. An apple falling on my head might well have more to do with evilness of various gods than gravity before the invention of gravity. But even gravity is just another interpretation/explanation/myth to explain the "experience" falling apple.

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