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Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:29PM (#50295408)
I don't knwo why but I was sure he would live to be much older... He will be missed.
Re:Start Doing Graph Theory on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:33AM (#50273284)
I get a lot of obviously wrong or slightly wrong answers from all LLMs across the board. If you don't double-check you just don't know or you might miss it.

And for the bleeding edge part: My godchild wanted to know the name of a Pokémon from his licensed shirt. One of the first ones, found in every training set. Couldn't get it right, was certain it was the wrong one.

"A well regulated Militia"
> they don't seem to really mess with regular citizens all that much.

Except they do. The NSA has been handing over intel over a decade ago:

> A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who received such tips from SOD described the process. “You’d be told only, ‘Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle.’ And so we’d alert the state police to find an excuse to stop that vehicle, and then have a drug dog search it,” the agent said. [1]

Sure these were criminals, but who knows how many “undesirables” were prosecuted or targeted for some crime anybody commits?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/us-drug-agency-g...

I will always be baffled by the dichotomy of "the US has the most freedom" and "no democratic country spies more on its citizens".
Re:The Future of CSS on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:50PM (#50188790)
How many sites actually need reactivity? For most sites you can either use a bit of vanilla javascript or htmx.
Just because people think something and it becomes popular doesn't make it in their best interest.
Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:48AM (#50105407)
I can imagine this being really helpful for beginners and kids. It's hard to grok what windows and tabs are etc. without any context.
Re:Show HN: Opensidian on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @07:08PM (#50080229)
I don't think we disagree that much. But the repo in question had basically no human input, at least no substantial one. It will be interesting where the courts will decide the boundary lies though.
Re:Show HN: Opensidian on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:10PM (#50079613)
This project has zero chance of being eligible for copyright:

> Nearly all of the code, the design docs, and this README were written by Claude

The only way courts will deem LLM output to be copyrightable is if there is substantial human input. Just orchestrating agents won't be enough.

Re:Show HN: Opensidian on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:16PM (#50076148)
No, LLM output isn't copyrightable.
Re:Show HN: Opensidian on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:47PM (#50075737)
However, Obsidian isn't a saas, it can't just disappear. As long as you have the installer you are fine.
Re:Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:30AM (#50070629)
They are liable. In Germany the seller of a product is responsible not the producer.
Re:Time Travel in Braid (2015) on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:21PM (#50008773)
That purchase really ruined my expectation of future bundles.
Re:The death of web development education on Thursday October 01, 2026 @05:34PM (#49927334)
This implies that you know which question to ask. If people don't know about accessibility, security etc. How are they able to learn? Also, most people don't use AI to learn but to do it for them.
Re:Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe on Saturday September 26, 2026 @03:49PM (#49859911)
There is no value for a government in long-term thinking, if the electorate only votes on short term issues.
Re:We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians on Saturday September 26, 2026 @06:09AM (#49855023)
> AI has the ability to be impartial, and immutable.

Which AI has this ability? LLMs definitly don't.

Re:Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member' on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:48AM (#49741648)
I assume there are a lot of Canadians and Europeans (myself included) on HN, who like some positive news for a change.
Fingers crossed it doesn't burn your house down when your out and about. At least put it somewhere outside.
A non-profit I help out sometimes, was affected, and I have to say the emails were not that clear. Because it's hard to figure out what is part of a license, the free tier etc. I let it lapse, because we migrated of Office, but apparently the license also applied to Intune.

Fine, so I bought licenses but apparently Microsoft deletes "some" of the data. All groups were still there, users and the device ids.. but not the devices themselves. I could see all devices associated to a user but couldn't recreate or restore them in device management. Thus, I had to re-enroll multiple devices. Will migrate off Intune in the future, since it's garbage but haven't found a good alternative for Android devices yet.

"protect your freedom" does a lot of work here..
> They also ate less overall,

I can't look it up right now, but calorie restriction also shows this correlation, so maybe it is not sugar at all.

Re:How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:28AM (#49342961)
I understand the sentiment, but think about the non-technical user. Every time I use my mothers or any elderlies phone there are a lot of screenshots in the gallery, because they accidentally click the combo. How many people get scammed using screen sharing? It isn't that unreasonable to prevent this vector just to be more safe, especially if the bank might be partially at fault if a scam happens.
Re:Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature on Friday August 14, 2026 @04:35AM (#49296071)
Samsung has had this for about ten years now. Switch to the app switch view, hold the icon at the top and pin the app. If I remember correctly, on some versions this had to be enabled once in settings.
Re:Fastmail offers EU data region on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:43PM (#49224031)
For anyone curious, it's the CLOUD act:

> The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

This looks really close to what I need. I manage a few laptops for a non-profit. For now, it is all done by hand, since I haven't found a good solution for Linux and I will kill myself before using Windows and Intune again.

I would love to see configurations for Linux Mint's Cinnamon. Is there a way to execute custom scripts? How does the user mapping work exactly? Could I create a user in Authentik with a laptop-permission and this would map to a Linux user account?

Nonetheless, this is really great work so far, and if you keep it as nice and tidy as it currently looks, then you might make a nice niche for yourself. I can't wait to try it out.

Re:Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea on Thursday July 30, 2026 @07:30AM (#49108553)
The question now becomes: Will the AI bubble pop before we get sea datacenters?
To be fair, how is Google blocking you from downloading an app, a Wero problem though?
I actually like Wero a lot as a name, sound like virtual euro to me.

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