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Re:DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:33AM (#50337373)
Oh really? I thought the Citizens United ruling was _why_ we have near-trillionaires buying elections.
They should use that super intelligence to get themselves outa debt - ya know pull a Thanos.
Re:Git for US Legislation on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:14AM (#50269587)
I wonder if there are any public sources for any of this data at a federal level? And do any of them still hold the older now versions?
Just give me a sec to crawl into a hole will ya?!

But yeah, re-election without re-evaluation of the systems that failed to protect the public from abuse will just result in a replay anyway.

cough citizens united cough

Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:20PM (#50197508)
agreed, its not enough to fault the aggressor, its necessary to punish the enabler
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:19PM (#50197492)
I mean isn't closing up shop for certificates kind of giving a reason for them to toss/burn all evidence before its asked for

"Oh sorry, we erased the evidence because we no longer had use for it"

Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:17PM (#50197453)
they haven't tore down the barn, they are still in business.

they should tear down the entire barn

Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:16PM (#50197437)
this ^^^, you can't just exit the business and wash your hands
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:14PM (#50197401)
repeat it once for clarity:

it doesn't matter that they left the business, it matters that _they_ continue to be investigated

Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:13PM (#50197383)
as part of a review process its not just the developer that wrote the code who gets blamed, its also the reviewer of said code.

Analog

sure eMudhra needs to be investigated and confirmed that even a small part of their business hadn't been used to compromise (it doesn't matter that they left the business, it matters that the investigation continues)

but also we need to see how it is this even happened, who dropped the ball and approved the bad code/behavior to enter in the first place??

or is this a structural issue where we need to introduce more checks/balances (tests)

Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on hiring junior engineers in 2026? on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:08PM (#50120180)
I'd wager a Junior engineer has the same capability to become versed in AI technology software delivery workflows is just as capable of learning and maybe more capable of thinking with the mindset of all the new LLM tooling than someone who, though capable, may not be amenable to learning yet another set of tools.
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:01PM (#50075940)
why does it feel like they are creating something so its more difficult to use a competitor?
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:39PM (#50074571)
so this doesn't function as a security camera too?
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:36PM (#50074535)
too true...and doesn't that miss out on one of apple's power plays? Their hardware ecosystem (their software ecosystem was touched on a little).
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:28PM (#50074370)
Change that ugly base - wall mounts are nice but dangling cords are not.
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:16PM (#50074128)
the ad did a good job of displaying all the features of the new device, of course it left out the parts I would have liked as a parent who's already dealt with these types of devices. I mean apple had the benefit of 20/20 vision and could have looked into blocking little kids from just going to it to watch YouTube. It could have also solved the issue that dad's around the world would have united against: locking who gets to set the thermostat.

that said, also what's with the kids being disrespectful, untruthful, dismissive, and patronizing (in that order) to their parents...I bet these kids were a joy to be around as toddlers and will continue to be so as "formed" adults

Re:Leaving Tech on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:15AM (#50066626)
> It never made sense anyway for two people to do the work of one

Disagree, pairing has helped me in the past to reach answers more quickly and at the same time means that more than one person is familiar with a codebase (which is a helps reduce bus factor)

same, nicely executed, except for the building part :(
> As per the bot analysts at Tom’s Hardware, bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks.

I wonder if this is what is being referred to

Before midterms is strategic.
Re:PewDiePie uncensors Qwen3.5-9B with Heretic on Friday October 02, 2026 @11:42AM (#49934779)
Basically, Pewdiepie hits dead ends trying to distill “Ajax” from OpenAI's models, which is what got him banned twice, and his response was that OpenAI took everyone's data first, so why not me too.
This is the exact comment I’ve been waiting for, what is the difference between classifiers and jev?
Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs on Saturday September 05, 2026 @08:12PM (#49582050)
I read that like the meme:

<guy with messy hair>Aliens</guy with messy hair>

I too have been distro hopping, loading up Claude has made it extremely easy to be comfortable in exploring other distros
This is hilarious.
Re:Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:38PM (#49383479)
At first I thought spec driven development would be an obvious solution to the deficiencies you’d laid out, but thinking a little more I’m concerned my original words and prompts which are “captured” in the roadmap, tech-stack, mission and the in subsequent feature documents doesn’t always preserve the exact prompt I’ve given and I’m concerned that something I said would be lost and then forgotten.
Re:Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:02PM (#49369221)
Doing the whole “pay per token rate” when logging into a harness not made by them is not only being enforced by anthropic/claude though. It also is what Google does with agy (their TUI).

Is there any provider that doesn’t do this? That’s the one I want to support.

  > TLDR: they are all probably doing it because they are banking on you not using all your tokens.
I would be surprised though, it makes business sense to make the default vendor native TUI cheaper because it’s understood that most nascent users will just use the harness offered by the LLM provider and those that would stray off that would probably be more power users who would spend their token share more consistently till it drains.
Re:Being Ambitious and Being a Dad on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @08:40PM (#49369060)
There are so many stereotypes involved in this that it may be hard to believe but at least I know I have caught myself repeating the stereotype almost to a T (especially with regard to the oldest being worked so hard or, as I would put it, constantly on the hardest jobs).

That said it does help that it’s a stereotype/generalization/trope that I’m aware of because I get to take that as part of my feedback loop to make the attempt to iterate around the negative aspects you’ve pointed out.

I think I’m doing better - I’ll know if my kids still talk to me after they move out.

Re:Being Ambitious and Being a Dad on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @08:31PM (#49369009)
This is the take I pursue in my home, everyone is doing a see one, do one, teach one. There are still struggles around it but consistency makes the conversations shorter and more effective.

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