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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:24AM (#50334331)
just be careful to not buy a gaming monitor with Smart TV features (yes, those exist)
could you list the prompts and MCPs / tools used for this? i am doing something similar on another game but with Qwen 3.8
Re:Bunny CDN Security Incident on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:37PM (#50309820)
php.net is on Bunny to my knowledge and so is PECL for example. Great potential for compromised packages if this hadn't been caught , but I don't know the blast radius since the victim would need to connect to this particular CDN
Re:The Federated Code Forge on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:24PM (#50308959)
Didn't know they were Finnish, I wonder if they are planning to join https://koodiasuomesta.fi
Re:The Tragedy of Losing Your Wikipedia Page on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:38PM (#50295550)
Guy Standing and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cetaceans#Family_Ziphi... having [cetacean needed] on missing whale photos are my favorite wikipedia tidbits

I am also scared to see that the list is now full of photos, only one "cetacean needed" remains.

Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:48AM (#50285671)
SO was often a productivity loss for me because I'd scroll down and get distracted by stackexchange questions on the right side of the screen for half an hour
Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:45AM (#50285649)
I think they reversed this change, because I wanted to complain and agree with you , but decided to see how bad it was and found out that the site displays dates as it used to before

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19712903/reverse-content...

Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:35PM (#50278760)
No folding and no Apple Pencil support sadly, would've been a kickass 2-in-1. Would have to wait for ProCreate to be ported to macOS though
Re:SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:50AM (#50270779)
as a kid I thought it meant Royal Majesty's Ship
Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:04AM (#50270483)
in 2023 they were only selling desktop Intel Macs. I am pretty sure by 2021 they weren't selling Intel laptops unless maybe refurbished
Re:A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:11AM (#50269815)
have you seen the new Gundam game Rogue Orbit? I am also patiently waiting for Sunrise's Macross
Re:OLED iPad Mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:57AM (#50243821)
Ctrl+F "ProMotion" 0 results

non-starter

Re:ThinkRail from JetBrains on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:28AM (#50240776)
yeah. I don't think current MCPs / Claude Code plugins that are available for JetBrains IDEs do that, or do they already give access to these things ? I run Claude through the IDE plugin but all I really see being used is access to current selected file / text. If it had access to refactor tools , code warnings etc, it would've been excellent
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:10AM (#50240162)
whenever I see a little kid with his head buried in a tablet / smartphone in a public place or when visting relatives / friends I start to wonder if this is what I looked like to my parents when I spent more than 1 hour playing on the family computer.
Re:iPhone Duo Teardown on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:54AM (#50240043)
it just becomes more and more expensive with time, I don't think that counts as a bargain bin product.
Re:Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead? on Sunday October 25, 2026 @06:20AM (#50230014)
macOS ships an optional autocomplete model with Xcode, but I have no idea if it's actively worked on in any way
meanwhile in my case the app offers functionality that isn't available on the web version while simultaneously requiring the web version for some of the things
Re:Jailbreaking the Switch 2 on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:02AM (#50194167)
yes at least with GKC I immediately know that game is not playable offline instead of needing to go to https://www.doesitplay.org and hope that someone already documented the game I am looking at, which is the case with PS5
Re:Jailbreaking the Switch 2 on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:00AM (#50194163)
never go online and even if you reset the console afterwards , assume the console will get banned when connect to the internet as they know to look for markers of customer firmware.

Switch 1 hacks bypass this by copying ofw from flash onto the microSD card and patching it there to my crude understanding, so that unsigned code never touches the firmware on the system memory.

Something like this definitely will be needed again for the Switch 2 so I'd only do this if you don't care about being banned.

EDIT: ofw = OFW = official firmware

Re:"Ignore the Slop" on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:33AM (#50193947)
I follow Daniel on LinkedIn and he was pretty positive in the past couple months about AI-assisted security research.

https://curl.se/docs/security.html

I didn't count them , but you can compare number of CVEs in 2025 vs 2026

it's been slow for me since yesterday, i chalked it up to PHP CVEs + throttling a VPN user
Re:Some updated Docker PHP images available - not all yet on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:48AM (#50182983)
FYI only some images have digests, most builds haven't finished yet I assume
Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:32AM (#50182725)
they have a long process with multiple build steps before the images reach the registry.

https://github.com/docker-library/faq#an-images-source-chang...

Re:Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:52AM (#50178805)
dozens of thousands if not hundreds of Drupal 7 sites running php 7
Re:Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video] on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:45AM (#50163077)
Thank you for sharing, this brightened my day.

Maybe I should set up an old tablet on my desk to just show this feed. Like a live photo frame

Re:Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:01AM (#50162742)
not a whole lot of documentation, I feel like a lot of knowledge is held within orgs. At my first job I often had to venture into the source code to figure out how something is supposed to work. Copilot has just came out then and it was terrible at helping with a Drupal 10 migration for example because the training data only had 8 and below and a lot of stuff obviously changed in-between.

I reckon AI must be much better now at this since it's doing all sorts of things, but I wonder if you still would need to have the repo cloned so that it can crosscheck with the source code. Since the knowledge cutoff should be around 2025, most of the stuff it knows should be plenty

Re:OpenBSD 8.0 on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:49AM (#50162243)
I agree that it's great but as an anecdote, I have an arch linux laptop i upgrade 1-2 times a year and it still works too, been that way since 2019 so went through major kernel upgrades without a hitch. Only thing that ever broke were nvidia drivers sometimes because it's an shudders OPTIMUS laptop. Last time I updated it, vibe coding wasn't widespread yet so I am wondering if new package versions will finally kill it if I were to upgrade it now
I was struggling with this today. Working on a feature and AI review flagged something so I need to fix that. I iterated multiple times throughout the day and was completely exhausted cause each iteration was always complicated with the fix being ~1k lines. Finally landed on a one I felt at least a little comfortable submitting for review but a work day like this is super draining and I felt like crap the entire evening (I am about to go to bed, I am probably gonna have nightmares about pressing enter and enabling auto mode on plans that make no sense in a true nightmare sense)

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