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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:40AM (#50335556)
If you're worried about giving money to these corporations, why don't you buy second-hand? It's not like a 9 month old TV model suddenly is obsolete. An excellent TV from 3 or 4 or 5 years ago is still excellent today. Resist turbo-consumerism and just buy second-hand!
Re:My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:24AM (#50314398)
When they were shoved in yes, it's terrible. But the effortless way they were incorporated in games like Super Mario Galaxy is something special.
Re:My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:20AM (#50314379)
I've played more MK Wii custom tracks, on split-screen multiplayer, than pretty much any other multiplayer game for the past few years.

The custom mkwii wiki has 17,000 articles https://www.mkwiiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

Re:My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:16AM (#50314362)
Relevant video from one of my favourite youtube channels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwnphd_QUXo
> I'm using frontier AIs to monitor every last one of them

The jokes write themselves.

This is not numerology, 13 and 22 are synonyms for Lula and Bolsonaro, used in common speech by every Brazilian.
Yarrrrrrr
Re:Source code of the Estonian online voting system on Saturday October 17, 2026 @07:28PM (#50136166)
You could also — get this — have people write a cross in a piece of paper, fold it and put it in a locked box, monitored at all times by delegates of the different candidates/parties.
Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @06:02AM (#50129595)
Where does one even get decent ZDR provider? I'm wary of sending sensitive data but not at a scale where I would build my own machine.
Re:A Modern Web App in C on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:59PM (#50062998)
Instantly reminded me of this: source code of the first big Portuguese www portal and search engine: https://github.com/celso/sapo
Re:LineageOS 24.0 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:20PM (#50047413)
In a practical sense, what are the consequences of that? If you're careful about not installing random shit on your phone?
Now do OpenAI's dc...
Re:Grieving the Loss of Details on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:12PM (#50036663)
> transient LLM crappiness notwithstanding

Bold of you to assume.

Re:Triple-A Minesweeper on Saturday October 10, 2026 @01:35PM (#50035181)
Everything in that list except "install drivers" is also present in consoles.
Re:Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay on Friday October 09, 2026 @07:21AM (#50018931)
Why should a report about crimes committed by the IDF write about crimes committed by Russia or by Hamas? That's the most ridiculous attempt at whataboutism I've seen in a long time.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:01PM (#50009473)
You did not respond to the point.

> they're applying this argument asymmetrically to their allies vs. foes

If a law is on the books, but it's only applied to a specific set of people in a retaliatory fashion, then it's worse than not being applied at all.

Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:13PM (#49999491)
On the contrary, I found it a nice piece of rethoric to reflect on how misaligned incentives can overrule each individual's preferences in order to induce the group to take the opposite path.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:10PM (#49999458)
> Give it six months

Ah, the "six months till AGI" meme, but unironically :)

Also, before citing Terence Tao on LLMs maybe you should read what he has to say about it...

Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:08PM (#49999444)
Then you don't understand the process at all. You will get something back, you will get an immense amount back. But (almost always) not directly. A mathematician will not suddenly solve a theorem that will enable a cure for cancer or better solar panels or whatever. But working in mathematics will build the gradual understanding that will enable those practical breakthroughs to take place. It's also the most important part of how the people that create those technical breakthroughs will be trained.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:31PM (#49999061)
> AI math is happening and there's no going back.

> I suspect that this is in fact the source of much of the angst.

Your comment reveals that you absolutely did not read or understand the Field medalists' open letter... Please, why would you refer to their complaints and claim you disagree when you clearly aren't engaging with the arguments presented therein!?

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:51PM (#49983929)
Speaking in favour of peace in Palestine can get you thrown out of the country.

I know what you're going to say: not a citizen. But first they came for the foreigners, then...

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:47PM (#49983868)
This comment could not have been more stereotypically American. I stress "stereotypical", I'm obviously not saying Americans in general are like this.

> I don't like Trump. But how has he weakened privacy rights?

Attacks on rule of law and civil liberties have increased, and the right to privacy is one of those liberties. It's of course not limited to Trump, he wasn't in office when Snowden showed the world the scale of American mass surveillance on domestic and foreign citizens.

> Do you have any evidence to the contrary?

I'm totally unsure what you are attempting to imply. That mass surveillance by the American state stopped at some point in the last 10 years?

> Allies spy on each other. The Europeans do it to each other massively and have done since the dawn of Europe. Good lord, go read some history.

What does that even mean "read history" ahaha. Espionage != mass surveillance. You do understand the difference, do you not?

> thanks for the classic European condescension

> I consider Europe to be dominated by happenings in DE + FR + UK. I don't care what Latvia does.

l m a o. Oh say can you see...

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:39PM (#49983766)
> Like the surveillance state is insane. No e2ee chats, backdoors in everything.

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Re:Accountability mechanisms can be joyful on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @05:32AM (#49976180)
I can't imagine anything more unappealing than exchanging AI generated images with my wife every time one of us cleans the kitchen or finishes reading a book on time. Goes to show, people really are different!
Which claims? The general feeling in the mathematical community was that significant progress towards Navier-Stokes was being made, and that the last "piece" to settle the question was imminent for some years now. Riemann Hypothesis seems virtually as unreachable today as it was 50 years ago.
RH would require completely novel insight and a brilliant original thought. Unlike Navier-Stokes it's not a gradual effort and you cannot piggyback off of other mathematician's works, so "AI" will not solve it anytime soon.
> "solve an open math problem" which has conclusively been done with Navier-Stokes (regardless of the controversy surrounding that).

In the same breath you recognise there is a controversy (there are actually several orthogonal ones!), and yet you call it "conclusive"... Very strange!

The bear tax is working
Re:Sonnet 5.5 on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:40PM (#49883293)
Damn, yet they still hire programmers, marketers, researchers like there's no tomorrow. I thought everything would be vibe coded and we wouldn't need to even understand code anymore. Which one is it?

The proof of the pudding.

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