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Re:GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:20PM (#49203435)
Do they still have any engineers? From the downtime it seems like they don't any more. Yep - the competent ones likely all left.
Re:GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:14PM (#49201820)
https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/
Seems pretty conclusive. Very similar story when they bought skype.
Re:GitHub Actions Is Down
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:11PM (#49200252)
Broken for almost 4 hours.
Re:Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @05:46AM (#49194575)
If you start to let AI decide or influence policy, it can kill people. This seems very simple to me...
1. Put AI in charge of health policy 2. Give it a naive misguided charter/goal eg eliminate suffering 3. Euthanasia for everyone
This is simply AI optimizing for the goal - the goal is the evil/naive/misguided part, not the AI.
Those who aim to "eliminate suffering" are the issue here to be clear, but unfortunately they are a growing group.
Re:Nikita Bier Steps Down as Head of Product at X
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @06:23PM (#49189884)
Isn’t the whole point that they don’t want you to use the website - they want you to install the app. Why would they make the website an enjoyable experience?
Re:Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?
on Friday July 31, 2026 @05:04AM (#49120739)
Wouldn't need any of that. An AI agent setup to "Do the best for the world" or some other broad claim, and with enough power to say crash the stock market, disrupt power supply, delivery, etc etc after reasoning that it's all for the best.
If people start giving enough power to AI, with ill thought out goals, and no human in charge, don't be surprised...
Why would it need "free will" or "consciousness" whatever that means?
A concrete example might be putting an AI in charge of health policy, and telling it to "eliminate suffering" without any human to check and push back. Well, the best way to eliminate suffering is...
Re:Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?
on Friday July 31, 2026 @04:22AM (#49120443)
If the human isn't ultimately in charge, don't be surprised when AI decides to eliminate humanity "for the greater good" or something.
Re:Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds
on Friday July 24, 2026 @08:13AM (#49034454)
LLMs are as good as the operator directing them.
Re:Postmortem of a British Startup: Tract
on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @07:18PM (#48999679)
You're citing a government report to support their position on why we need infinity immigration? Seriously?
The UK population grew from about 58.9 million in 2000 to 69 million in 2025 - an increase of roughly 10 million people. The large majority of that came from immigration.
And you don't think having to house an extra 10 million people is a reason for the housing crisis?
I would suggest you do your own research, and use your own logic and reason rather than blindly accepting government reports into why what they're doing is brilliant.
Re:Postmortem of a British Startup: Tract
on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @06:27AM (#48990406)
" Housing in Britain is expensive because getting planning permission is difficult. "
Nothing to do with millions of new people arriving wanting to live somewhere?
Rewriting stale OSS projects using LLM
Re:Expertise in the Age of AI
on Friday May 29, 2026 @02:07PM (#48326987)
That's exactly how it was in the 90s really.
Re:Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
on Friday May 29, 2026 @12:17PM (#48325277)
Maybe you want to byte align some data, or pack to a certain size but keep compat. I think they're going to be rare cases, but I can see it being used.
Re:Expertise in the Age of AI
on Friday May 29, 2026 @11:39AM (#48324605)
I don't think you can ignore it. It's the biggest change to tech in 30 years I'd say.
"I'm tired of all this internet talk" in 1990s?
Re:Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells
on Friday May 29, 2026 @10:01AM (#48323246)
> ...are poor design choices that humans wouldn’t write.
They certainly do in my experience. Maybe you've been lucky and haven't worked with really messy programmers.
Re:Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells
on Friday May 29, 2026 @09:54AM (#48323159)
I don't think this approach is wise.
Concentrate on code quality, and whether it does what it needs to do. Not whether it was written by AI or not.
Re:About LLMs at Zig Days
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @03:34PM (#48314274)
That's like saying ban IDEs. Or ban search engines.
LLM is just a tool that humans use to create things.
Re:Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission ...
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @12:16PM (#48311085)
Fun little game, but I think the questions jump context so much it's a little unrepresentative. It might be better to group things into "packs", which have more real-world representative structure to them.
For example, lots of "editing something.js" file permission requests, and then an "npm publish" is far more normal, and it's more of a risk, if you're used to pressing Y lots and then suddenly out of the blue...
Re:Go: Support for Generic Methods
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @11:05AM (#48309989)
And so the cycle will continue. Always a shame when languages cave like this and add extra unnecessary complexity and error prone hard to parse syntax.
It'll be interesting to see the next language that comes along rejecting bloat in favor of simplicity, and then we can all start again.
Leah Culver talks about Convore on twit.tv
Re:Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code
on Monday February 28, 2011 @02:19PM (#2272448)
If ever there was proof needed to show just how far HN has fallen...
Perhaps time for me to move on.
Re:Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code
on Monday February 28, 2011 @01:40PM (#2272270)
Am I the only one who absolutely detests cats?
They're evil irritating virmin IMHO.
Re:How Chris Sacca And J.P. Morgan Acquired 10% Of Twitter
on Monday February 28, 2011 @08:22AM (#2271098)
Riding on top of the bubble for as long as they can I believe.
Re:How many users do you need for a 100MM / year consumer Internet pro...
on Monday February 28, 2011 @06:57AM (#2270947)
I've always found B2C advertising supported relatively easy. Perhaps I'm just lucky at it :/ Perhaps I'm just very bad at B2B.
However, I'd much rather have a million customers paying me $1 each, than have 10 customers paying me $100k each.
But I agree with your last point. Depends what gets you excited. For me personally, B2B is as soul destroying as it gets.
Re:Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?
on Monday February 28, 2011 @06:21AM (#2270905)
The UK health system is absolutely fantastic FWIW.
Re:How many users do you need for a 100MM / year consumer Internet pro...
on Sunday February 27, 2011 @06:18PM (#2269304)
One of the things I dislike about B2B is the lack of fine grain control.
With B2C, your revenue grows over time as you grow your userbase. It's pretty predictable, and not too risky.
With B2B, it's more binary. You might go months with 0 revenue, then get some deal and suddenly be profitable. But then there's added risk, as losing a single client can have a massive impact on your bottom line.
Re:DuckDuckGo FOSS Donations 2010
on Saturday February 26, 2011 @04:33PM (#2266577)
A company on the stock market owes it to investors to make them a return.
Donating 10% of revenue away, wouldn't go down too well with average Joes pension scheme.
Also I'm not sure any big company 'completely depends' on FOSS. Yes it's an awesome thing, but big companies would survive just fine without it.
Re:Which websites dropped the most in the latest Google algorithm change?
on Saturday February 26, 2011 @04:25PM (#2266563)
Went to look at their stats on quantcast. They've hidden them! Wonder why...
Re:DuckDuckGo FOSS Donations 2010
on Saturday February 26, 2011 @04:06PM (#2266531)
Presumably it's the sudden jump on Jan 3rd onward here?
If so seems like money well spent indeed.