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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:52PM (#50321029)
Could it be that the huggingface export mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320784 is out of date?
Re:Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:42PM (#50125148)
Oh I even saw your other posts in this thread but didn't recognize the name. So much for my research skills
Re:Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:53PM (#50123677)
> Someone

> https://www.youtube.com/@steveweis4786

FTA: This work was conducted at Anthropic by [...], and Steve Weis.

I wonder how much time he spent on the video relative to the other stuff

Re:Open Source as We Know It Is Dead on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:35AM (#49974223)
> I don't know what the fix is

You said it was dead. How could there be any fix?

Re:Social Reality in China on Friday October 02, 2026 @06:18PM (#49939326)
Did you just make that one up? It's pretty good!
Re:Social Reality in China on Friday October 02, 2026 @06:10PM (#49939242)
Not simply for failing though. Obviously there were other factors.
That assumes that torture is something that is only done to an object, but it also has effects, probably strong ones, on the torturer. In that sense, torturing a rock, or an AI, could be a real thing.
This position is so extreme, you'd have to have called Reader Rabbit "electroshocking kids" as well.
Re:Count Binface on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:43AM (#48888007)
Re:Dostoyevsky Isn't Difficult on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @10:48PM (#48668231)
> The Possessed (2010), The Idiot (2017), and Either/Or (2022)

That's like publishing Hamlet (2010), King Lear (2017), and Thus Spake Zarathustra (2022). I wonder what her thought process is in choosing these titles? And what will her next work be?

Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars on Sunday June 14, 2026 @03:33PM (#48531701)
What's inaccurate in how he quoted her? The context seems fully consistent with the quote.
> exams are designed so that cheating is not a viable strategy to obtain high grades

That's interesting. How do they do that?

mlinsey wasn't anthropomorphizing technology, and your GP comment seems extreme to me.
Re:Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft on Monday April 20, 2026 @02:42PM (#47838736)
Whatever its other merits or demerits, reinstating the draft would cut back on needless wars. Abandoning the draft is what ended the anti-war movement as a social force, and to reinstate it would be to invite popular protest on that scale again. For this reason, if nothing else, it probably won't be reinstated.

What this has to do with the argument Palantir is apparently making, I have no idea. I can't make any sense of it.

That leaves no solution when the quantity becomes more than any human can review.
Re:Everything we like is a psyop on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:08PM (#47802072)
A 'psyop' psyop!
Re:Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident on Saturday April 11, 2026 @02:41AM (#47728090)
"Violence like this is not the answer. However,"
Humans are social animals. Any mystery about another person is interesting, and wealth and fame multiply this.
Re:Delve Removed from Y Combinator on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:28AM (#47635749)
friday news dump tho
Re:The open web isn't dying, we're killing it on Friday April 03, 2026 @12:31AM (#47623212)
Fuck boosting engagement.
Re:The open web isn't dying, we're killing it on Friday April 03, 2026 @12:30AM (#47623208)
"The lesson is not just to resist. It is to grow up."

Barf.

Re:The open web isn't dying, we're killing it on Friday April 03, 2026 @12:28AM (#47623200)
Well said and I agree completely...but did Robert Plant play guitar?
Re:We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:30PM (#47603087)
Gptzero and Pangram both say this article was AI-generated. Seems we've forgotten how to do other things as well.
Re: on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @01:24PM (#47590653)
> the cheapest bridge that just barely won't fail

That can't be right? What about safety factors

The joke has been old for a while already.
Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @01:10PM (#47338280)
This trend predates LLMS though.
Re:Tony Hoare has died on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @02:46PM (#47327264)
That's a great point which never occurred to me about Dijkstra, even though I knew where he came from. My father in law used to like this joke: "He was Dutch and behaved as such."
Re:It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country (1921) on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:25AM (#47258232)
This doggerel is every bit as propagandistic as what it opposes, and has nothing in common with Owen's poem of unbearably real experience.
Re:It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country (1921) on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:22AM (#47258201)
The gas victim scene is harrowing. But what haunts me even more is the men without boots, marching with bloody feet.

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