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Re:A Health Update on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:43AM (#50286555)
What a story, it touched me to the depths of my soul I read it with great hope for a positive outcome Thanks for sharing
I don't know, for me the idea of handing over the reins of humanity to artificial intelligence still sounds dubious
Re: on Sunday October 18, 2026 @07:30PM (#50146571)
get another phone number for such codes
Re:I built a programming language that LLMs can't use on Sunday October 18, 2026 @07:05PM (#50146394)
> Creativity is mostly recombination of things already seen. Doesn't this apply to any creative work produced by humans?
Actually that sounds quite logical
Re:Ask HN: What to Build in the AI Era? on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:15AM (#50068854)
LLMs don't solve all the world's problems. There is still so much left to create. Look closely at your own needs and the needs of those around you, and you will find ideas there.
Re:The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024) on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:29AM (#50068046)
Is a single cell, storing state in the form of chemical modifications and using it to compare "now" with "a few seconds ago," the same computational primitive that a neuron uses, only slower and simpler? Curious
Re:A Modern Web App in C on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:55PM (#50063591)
That's cool
Re:What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:55PM (#49959876)
Mandatory permissions for microphone use and access to nearby devices? That sounds questionable; I wonder how that’s justified.
Re:Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio – Tufte's Razor on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:30PM (#49959743)
That’s interesting. However, with charts, reducing the amount of ink can sometimes compromise readability.
Re:Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:18PM (#49959366)
This is what I needed, but I didn't know it
Re:Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad? on Thursday October 01, 2026 @05:41PM (#49927390)
I think so too
It hasn't been released yet, and local versions aren't always convenient
That may well be the case, but such a long period still seems extraordinary
Re:Best of British Design on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:29PM (#49884651)
In this bracket my choice invariably comes down to the Spitfire versus the Mini, and I always favor the Spitfire, as the Mini reminds me of the terrible parking
Re:Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:42PM (#49884067)
Honestly the DNS trick in this post is neat but I'm not setting up dnsmasq just to share my screen. This is the kind of thing where Sony could just let you stream to anything and they don't, and it's annoying
Re:The current balance of power in open models on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:06PM (#49809938)
DeepSeek and Qwen set a floor American open-weight models can't match without subsidy or a different cost structure, and that price/performance ratio drives adoption more than benchmarks.
The fatalism is understandable, but "no one can keep a database safe" isn't quite right. Some organizations do a better job than others.All in all, of course, the best way to keep information secret is to keep it only in your own head, all other methods are less reliable
Re:The First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:55PM (#49761357)
It always surprises me when people discover new animal species. These little kittens look very cute.
Re:Show HN: Laser Graffiti on Monday August 31, 2026 @03:44PM (#49514055)
Cool project
Wow, that's interesting. It's a good start, and it would be interesting to see how the project develops.
I tend to agree with you
I sometimes keep 4-5 active sessions going plus a couple waiting in the queue. Can't say it's always convenient. I don't know about others but I sometimes forget which session is doing what and end up getting confused.
Re:Identifying fake cosmetics using AI on Friday August 28, 2026 @08:08PM (#49485647)
This was not quite the way I expected to use AI
Re:What Is a Syslog Server? on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:11PM (#49427542)
The article is not bad, but a little outdated. Syslog is a database that will not go anywhere, because a lot of equipment and software still send logs this way. But in 2026, building the entire infrastructure around it is already strange.
Interesting breakdown of a hypothetical attack. The complexity of modern inference engines and the rush to develop them do create some attack surface. But overall it reads more like a "what if" thought experiment. Splitting the GPU and parser is technically doable, but in practice it's trickier, large models run on clusters where the boundaries between components get blurry so defending against this kind of thing would probably require some serious rethinking of the whole architecture I think.
Re:I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip on Friday August 21, 2026 @06:36PM (#49394555)
It's funny how we're all chasing power, and yet here's a 60-cent chip emulating a Mac that people actually got work done on. Not hating on modern devices, they're awesome and all. But it's still interesting.

Also, kinda want to order a RP2350 board now too, but I know I'll probably end up having zero time to do anything with it and it'll just sit in a drawer somewhere...

Re:Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter on Monday August 17, 2026 @09:23AM (#49330422)
61 factories in 39 countries is impressive. But I'm always curious about the real world failure rate. How many of these filters get installed and then crack, or clog, or just get used as flower pots?
Re:The weekend is 100 years old on Sunday August 16, 2026 @01:21PM (#49321872)
Interesting article. I never thought about how important it is not just how many days off you have, but also when exactly you have them. It's really bad when you have days off, but you can't see your family. I actually like the concept of a four-day workweek. I wonder if it will ultimately prove successful, and if the whole world will adopt it?
Re:A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem on Sunday August 16, 2026 @08:56AM (#49319623)
The subtraction point is interesting but I don't think it makes the result disappointing. The whole point of Tarski's problem is what follows from that very restricted set of elementary identities so finding the exact minimum countermodel under those rules still seems like a pretty satisfying result.

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