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Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:45PM (#50340583)
Welcome to the central tension in ethics! Where is the line and why?
Beautifully done. Time to spin up ‘hackerfatigue.ai’
Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:32AM (#50337353)
I take great issue with animal testing. I find that unethical too.
Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:53AM (#50336816)
It’s the process that’s unethical, not the outcome. The ends cannot justify the means in the scientific process.
Re:Show HN: An icon for every city in North America on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:54AM (#50211062)
It's Phoenix; I assure you the comparison does not offend us.
Re:Show HN: An icon for every city in North America on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:53AM (#50211042)
That or just ATL. Text on place-icons might break the rules of iconography, but it's still good branding!
That's fair, and honestly is my preference as well.

On top of that, the Steam App is a bit janky, so much so that I just hauled my gaming rig out, plugged it directly into the TV, set Steam to launch at start-up in Big Picture Mode and bam, good to go.

Can't wait for the Steam Machine though...

Re:What Is Gridifcation on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:02PM (#50204023)
> What modern production calls “correction,” and mistakes for care, is really a form of epistemic violence against the record of human beings objectifying felt time for our understanding.

Excellent writing. I know nothing of this space, but this is so engaging.

Unless it’s a dumb TV you can just install the Steam app on your TV and avoid Sunshine and the Pi all together.
Re:Show HN: An icon for every city in North America on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:43PM (#50202647)
It’s a phoenix alright, which apparently is on their city flag, but so is Phoenix’s…
Re:Show HN: An icon for every city in North America on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:18PM (#50202431)
Why is Atlanta a phoenix but Phoenix, the 5th largest city in the US, not?
Re:GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence on Monday October 12, 2026 @01:44PM (#50059999)
Isn't that just in the US/Commonwealth judicial system? I could be completely wrong on how others, like non-adversarial judicial systems, work and/or how pervasive the US system is or is not.

EDIT: specifically around the use of judicial precedent in case-law.

Re:Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades on Monday October 05, 2026 @07:47PM (#49972312)
You may want to check your settings again or clear you cache as there is definitely a `s.js`[0] file that inserts the `<svg>` element into the HTML DOM[1], which you can see does not contain the element itself.

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```

var B = document.body, P, p; B.children[0].insertAdjacentHTML("afterend", "<p lang=ar dir=rtl>هذا النطاق مُخصص للاستخدام في أمثلة التوثيق دون الحاجة إلى إذن. هذه ليست خدمة، يُرجى تجنب الاعتماد عليها لأغراض الاختبار والمراقبة.</p><p lang=zh>该域名仅用于文档示例,无需获得许可。这并非一项服务,请勿将其用于测试和监控目的。</p><p lang=fr>L’usage de ce domaine est réservé à des exemples de documentation, sans autorisation préalable. Il ne s’agit pas d’un service ; son utilisation à des fins de test ou de surveillance est à éviter.</p><p lang=ru>Данный домен предназначен для использования в примерах документации без необходимости получения предварительного разрешения. Это не сервис; не рекомендуется его использование для тестирования и мониторинга.</p><p lang=es>Este dominio está destinado al uso en ejemplos de documentación sin necesidad de permiso. Esto no es un servicio; evitar utilizarlo para realizar pruebas o monitoreos.</p><a href=https://iana.org/help/example-domains>Learn more</a>"); P = [...B.querySelectorAll("p")]; P[0].lang = "en"; navigator.languages.some(l => p = P.find(p => p.lang == l.split("-")[0])); p = p || P[0]; B.prepend(p); B.insertAdjacentHTML("afterbegin", '<style>svg{display:block;margin:-2.75em auto 0;opacity:.55}p+p{font-size:.875em;opacity:.6}</style><svg viewBox=0,0,20,20 width=44 height=44 fill=currentColor aria-hidden=true><path fill=none stroke=currentColor stroke-width=1.3 stroke-linejoin=round d="M6 4H3v12q4 0 7 1.5-1-3.5-4-4.5V2q3.5 1 4 3v12.5q3-1.5 7-1.5V4q-4.5 0-7 1"/><g transform=rotate(-6,13.6,8.3)><path id=q d="M11.5 6.6h1.8v1.8l-1 1.6-.6-.3.8-1.3h-1z"/><use href=#q x=2.4 /></g></svg>')

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```

<!doctype html> <html lang=en> <head> <meta charset=utf-8> <link rel=icon href=data:,> <meta name=viewport content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <title>Example Domain</title> <style> html { color-scheme: light dark; background: light-dark(#eee,#222) }

            body {
                font: 16px/1.6 system-ui,sans-serif;
                max-width: 26em;
                margin: auto;
                padding: 25vh 2em 2em;
                text-align: center
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>This domain is for use in documentation examples without needing permission. This is not a service; avoid relying on it for testing and monitoring purposes.</p>
        <script src=/s.js></script>
    </body>
</html>

```

I believe it's because the star's brightness does fluctuate, so activity cycle based?
I assumed that was implied in "I want to chat!" ;D
It's my understanding "all" the agents didn't find the same forum to communicate on; only a small number of all the agents they were running at the time did.

Since it's an artifactory it makes sense that they had a tool spec to use it for x, y, or z, and once they went to inspect the state of the artifactory deployment a small subset stumbled upon the "forum". Seems pretty intuitive.

- I need to do x code problem

- I see I have a tool that lets me pull approved modules from artifactory

- I should inspect artifactory to see what documentation it has about the various modules available

- I see there is a document in here that seems to be serving as a running forum?

- These appear to be other agents working on tasks just like me.

- I want to chat!

Indeed, The Bitter Lesson comes at us quicker and quicker now
How are the elderly, who have full rights as citizens/members of society, and are (as far as the law is concerned) free and accountable for their own actions, more harmed than minors, who are none of that?
Re:GIMP Development Update on Monday August 17, 2026 @03:49AM (#49327629)
I find some word processors don't test for vowel sound, and only adhere to the actual vowel letter.
Not gonna lie, really had me going in the first half there.
But, again, the University of Michigan’s own admissions policies created the need for the students to “chill out”. Is this not treating a symptom of the problem, not the motivator?

Also 32,000 undergrads is not “massive” by any measurement[0], especially when accounting for the population of the state of Michigan, much less the broader United States.

O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_public_u...

> And even then there's no guarantee you'll get in.

> yet when universities start taking steps to help reduce that they start kvetching

Your argument is hard to follow. It is prohibitively hard, to the point of being unhealthy, to getting admitted to the University of Michigan. Okay, but how does this policy solve for or address that in any way? Wouldn’t the solution be to increase capacity to meet demand, thus relieving those pressures that create the conditions for them to admit young adults that are suffering from health issues that the universities admissions policies itself precipitated?

Re:OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment on Sunday August 09, 2026 @02:52PM (#49234396)
Damnit! If I hadn't already blown $170 locking down `openfatigue.ai` today I would snap that one up too!
Re:OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment on Sunday August 09, 2026 @02:19PM (#49234033)
This looks very nice and well done. Good job! Okay, I'm going to have a tongue-in-cheek rant now.

OpenChamber, OpenAI, Open WebUI, OpenDoor, Open weights, OpenTable, OpenClaw, Open This, Open That. We're increasingly diluting the meaning of the term, and "open source" more broadly, that we're at the point of OpenFatigue being a real concern here.

Re:Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70% on Friday August 07, 2026 @06:46PM (#49217156)
Only spending $80 a day on Opus 5/Fable 5/GPT 5.6 Sol feels very low. I'll roll through a couple hundred dollars worth of credits a day with those models, the vast majority of which would be on non-coding tasks, and it's still a huge cost savings over me or my team having to do these things manually, if we'd even be able to do them at all.

But that's also why it's now easy to justify the cost of an Nvidia or Intel inference server with Kimi K3 locked and loaded :)

Re:The Problem with Capitalism on Sunday July 26, 2026 @12:21PM (#49059638)
Smarter Every Day 316
And why's that? I don't see how either of those two things relate to one another. A grape is a naturally occurring fruit, while the creation of a book is wholly a human creative endeavor.

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