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Re:What's Getting Pwned
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @05:57PM (#50201632)
The Sponsors layout looks like a list of the most hacked sites to someone not paying attention.
Re:Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @05:17AM (#49497025)
If they were truly meant to be in the EU they would just keep running new referendum until their people choose the "right" answer.
Re:Lift4D: Harmonizing Single-View 3D Estimation for 4D Reconstruction...
on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @05:28PM (#48651717)
Enemy of the State predicted this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EwZQddc3kY&t=11s
It's only a matter of time before it's in use by law enforcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520807
Re:Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Histo...
on Saturday March 21, 2026 @09:42AM (#47466959)
Archive now, make public after X amount of time. So, maybe both publisher and archiver are happy (or less sad).
Re:Qwen3-Max-Thinking
on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @02:37AM (#46776639)
This answer is the most important one.
The future of state LLMs is not censoring subjects - it's slowly but surely persuading people using your LLM that your version of events - or your spin on that event - is the truth.
Re:The Atelier: Craft, Code, and the Coming Guild
on Sunday January 25, 2026 @10:33PM (#46761568)
Core of the article: the cathedral, the bazaar, and the workshop - https://jamesmunsch.com/words/2026-01-18-the-atelier--craft-...
Re:The Cathedral, the Bazaar and the Workshop
on Sunday January 25, 2026 @10:26PM (#46761525)
Apologies if this is against the rules.
I linked to a sub-heading of the article (which I think is the core and most important part of the article) and named the link after that.
Re-submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761556
The Cathedral, the Bazaar and the Workshop
Re:OpenAI is building a social network
on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @03:42AM (#43702599)
Also, what is their USP? "Join our social network so we can train our models on your data!"
I've invented a replacement for the PDF format.
It's called Locked Markdown. `*.lmd`.
It provides 98% of the functionality most people use PDFs for, without all the extra bullshit.
The Spec:
- The most popular Markdown Spec (git flavour?)
- At the top of the page place a hash sum of the markdown below a marker on the page.
LMD Reader:
- Prevents editing the markdown.
- Warns user if the hash sum is not valid.
Example:
```lmd
sha256 77ec0f678315f8a207c3501137e1dfc9642b79a9c93e21807df7b5242846c05c
-------------------------------
# Header 1
Paragraph of text about how bloated the PDF format is.
```
Zip .lmd together with images/videos if required.
Re:Goodbye, Slopify
on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @09:27PM (#42860794)
Cory Doctrow goes into the reasons behind the rise of playlists and the control it gives the platform over their users/artists. Worth a read.
Re:The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)
on Friday November 29, 2024 @06:14PM (#42277969)
What is modulex: https://www.newelementary.com/2017/11/old-bricks-what-are-mo...
Re:
on Monday September 23, 2024 @11:42PM (#41632952)
You should be embarrassed by the obviousness of this spam.
Nice 'Holy Mountain' vibes in the promo video.
Re:G1 AR Glasses
on Monday July 22, 2024 @12:07AM (#41030848)
Maybe you would never misuse this technology, but if it becomes widespread and normalized then plenty of people are going to be walking into public toilets (other previously private spaces) with this tech on. We're creating the conditions for total surveillance of the physical world.
Is this the future you want to live in? It's not too late to back down.
EDIT: As pointed out by those below, these glasses don't have cameras. Which I think is much more preferable to the alternative.
Re:Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @05:02PM (#39447569)
Maybe "contactcode" would be better in this situation, as it doesn't imply any specific relationship between participants.
Re:Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit
on Thursday December 21, 2023 @12:56AM (#38717432)
Complaints about TailwindCSS always remind me of this quote:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...
The Chinese mafia's downfall in a lawless casino town
Re:AI App Graveyard
on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @02:03AM (#38174006)
These companies are not designed to last forever. Many wrappers can make decent amounts of money for their creators for months and then die. Under these conditions a company can close down and still be considered a big success.
The weird aliens of early science fiction
Re:Who's Harry Potter? Approximate Unlearning in LLMs
on Sunday October 22, 2023 @06:55PM (#37979814)
I will have to update my belief that LLMs would not be practical for use by citizens of authoritarian regimes.
Re:Qwen (通义千问) chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud
on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:49PM (#37682512)
What happens when you ask about Tiananmen Square?
(Asking for redwood, who's comment was inexplicably flagged).
Re:Defcon talk shows cops are trackable, like AirTags
on Saturday September 09, 2023 @06:15AM (#37443810)
Re:Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem
on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:01PM (#36935929)
This is assuming you are trying to create a perfect system. The "good enough" version of this solves most Sibil Attacks[1].
Re:Actors decry 'existential crisis' over AI-generated ‘synthetic’ actors
on Friday July 21, 2023 @05:12PM (#36819853)
This seems like an Innovator's Dilemma (adjacent) trap. The actors will prevent hollywood or the mainstream studios from using synthetic actors, writers, etc. so it will be left up to some completely new entity to create that infrastructure. It will happen anyway because it is so compelling, and there are tens of thousands of actors who never make a living who would happily become digital.
* The Innovator's Dilemma - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
Re:Signal's president vows to reject UK law on message scanning before...
on Saturday July 15, 2023 @05:44PM (#36741230)
I wonder if the Signal app would be automatically uninstalled from existing iOS and Android devices?
Hopefully the signal ban will demonstrate to enough people that they don't really own the phone in their pocket - if they don't control what's on it, they are just renting it.
Ask HN: Recommendations for Universal Translator failure/Tower of Babel sci-fi?
Are there any sci-fi stories with the following scenario...- Most people only speak their local language- They form close relationships (e.g. marriage) with people who doesn't speak their language.- They can only communicate with their loved ones via a "universal translator".- The universal translator breaks down.- They can no longer communicate with their loved ones.I'm sure I've seem similar...
Re:InternLM – new open source 7B LLM
on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:44AM (#36629378)
I didn't think it was that vague. But if you're looking for ideas.
1. High quality LLM made free for commercial use.
2. LLM is used in many places as it is the best.
3. LLM is aligned to subtly promote the interests of the threat actor.
There is no 'compromise'. It is not hacking software, only wetware.
A concrete example...
LLM created by Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is used in educational software aimed at kids. Over time as the kid interacts with it the LLM promotes a way of thought that either aligns with the APT or undermines the ideology of the society they are in. There is no moment that can be pointed to that says: "look they are trying to hack us!", but decades later you have adult members of a foreign society more open to your way of thinking.
i.e. Soft Power.
Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usernames
on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:29AM (#36627583)
HN hating on something doesn’t guarantee success but it is a prerequisite.