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Re:Allow Carriers on Planes on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:58AM (#49845607)
Would that lead to a fractal of planes and carriers?
> And what of the night?

Nuclear.

You seem more interested in putting effort downplaying criticism and upholding the optics of "scientifically accurate thing from researcher in big name university" than actually putting effort on making the thing good and using the amazing feedback you got
Re:Job application asked for my SAT scores on Monday June 22, 2026 @09:11PM (#48638852)
Failing 1/3 of a class if that cohort is genuinely deemed not qualified enough to pass shouldn't be a problem by itself.

But then it raises questions like "are they really unqualified or is the testing methodology inadequate?" and "why was the system unable to provide the necessary growth to such a high slice of the class?". And then the easy way out is to just cherry-pick which students enter the system at all.

Re:Job application asked for my SAT scores on Monday June 22, 2026 @08:58PM (#48638751)
My understanding is you're equating `failing a test` to `lacking the relevant skills and knowledge to do a certain task competently`.

The reality is sometimes tests in academia are just not very well made and don't really test what they are supposed to be testing, and that's usually due to multiple reasons like misaligned incentives, staffing shortages and maybe lack of resources / funding.

I don't think the comparison to flight school is relevant enough in this context because it's a too different of a world to traditional academia.

Re:Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit on Thursday May 14, 2026 @12:19AM (#48131057)
The exploit developer themselves say [1] TPM+PIN is vulnerable, though no public PoC.

[1]: https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/2026/05/were-doing-silen...

Re:Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit on Thursday May 14, 2026 @12:18AM (#48131049)
Presumably the key is stored in the TPM
My impression as a driver-in-training is that people are too complacent and forget they are handling a machine that could at any moment kill and maim you, your loved ones and random innocent bystanders. I wish we all were more responsible about it, and I hate the Tesla philosophy of going the opposite way (the touchscreen, the sorta there but not really autopilot, etc)
For those that prefer userstyles, I made a dark theme a while ago https://github.com/andrecarini/hn-dark-mode/blob/main/hn-dar...

Tom (the moderator) said he was looking into getting it appended to the HN's CSS. I haven't asked them about it since ages ago, wonder if they dropped the idea.

I've managed to draw the Japan flag in middle school one time. Add me to the list of reputable sources.
Re:Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @04:51AM (#46374121)
Thanks ChatGPT
Re:Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:06PM (#45971322)
You have a Minecraft server. You generate money from it (selling VIP packages, et cetera). You could generate more money if you had more players. You can have more players if you consistently DDoS other more popular servers; the experience for these players will be horrible and they might give your server a chance.
Re:Springs and Bounces in Native CSS on Thursday November 06, 2025 @06:32PM (#45841863)
> Bézier curves are great, but there are certain things they just can’t do. For example:

It would be nice if we had a better explanation of what is wrong with the Bézier curves in the example. I've put the spring Bézier example side by side with the javascript simulated one, had them both trigger at the same time on a keyboard press and I can barely notice a difference; one doesn't look better than the other to my eyes.

As an unpaid volunteer to a multimillion dollar corporation that has just erased a huge collective volunteer effort, listing in writing the reasons I'm unhappy is already way too much effort.

Asking that same volunteer to hop on a video call is just insensitive. They're the one providing free work; if you care about solving the problem and not losing the volunteer force, you should go where they are (the forums) instead of asking them to come to you (video call). They probably don't want to take time out of their schedule to waste their time talking with a community rep. And they probably don't even want to do a voice/video call.

Re:Poll: Opinion on AI Generated Music on Saturday November 01, 2025 @08:26PM (#45786814)
I've been playing with Suno lately (I'm an amateur/hobby musician, for context) and I've been making some tracks for my own enjoyment. I've shown it to friends and got mixed reactions.

Personally, I think it's still uncanny similar to these AI image gens with multiple hands and nonsense details in the background. You can one-shot a lot of passable stuff but the moment you want to put more effort into it (e.g. correct a word or two, slightly change the style of a section) the track gets really messy very fast.

Poll: Opinion on AI Generated Music

What are your opinions on AI generated music?Suno and other similar tools have been discussed on HN a few times and they make it very easy to get started. If you go to YouTube and search for "music to listen to while X" you're very likely to hit AI generated music. What do you think about it? Do you use these tools to make music for yourself only or do you publish them? Do you one-shot tracks...

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Re:Affinity Studio Now Free on Thursday October 30, 2025 @09:45PM (#45767488)
> Opus

Which software is that? I can only think about either the open source codec or the LLM from Anthropic.

Even if you could generate real-time 4K 120hz gameplay that reacts to a player's input and the hardware doesn't cost a fortune, you would still need to deal with all the shortcomings of LLMs: hallucinations, limited context/history, prompt injection, no real grasp of logic / space / whatever the game is about.

Maybe if there's a fundamental leap in AI. It's still undecided if larger datasets and larger models will make these problems go away.

Yes, VPNs add encryption only between you and the VPN servers.
Re:A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet on Saturday September 27, 2025 @04:38PM (#45399133)
There's probably a bunch of different rooms/shards/servers and you get randomly allocated to one when starting
Would you mind expanding on your theory more?

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