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Re:Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death
on Monday October 19, 2026 @07:19AM (#50150991)
In the rural UK area where I live farmers will often be happy to have you shoot them with an airgun, if you seek permission. Nice (if stewed) cheap meat.
Re:Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:26AM (#49989466)
Isnt that a bit slow for these?
Re:Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century le...
on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:47AM (#49841002)
I wish HN could auto-tag comments from bots.
Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @05:22PM (#49808286)
I think there must be such a thing as design dyslexia because they all look fine to me shrug
Re:When the FM Band Goes Transatlantic
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @07:24AM (#49774710)
I am about to release a streaming Internet radio app (Pentode) and I thought it was cool to be able to listen to FM stations far away - but when I read this I realise what really WAS cool.
Re:Usenet rewind archive search engine
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @05:03AM (#49670460)
I can imagine you’d be embarrassed, I did stupid stuff too, but unless you’re running for Congress you should just say “I was a stupid teenager” and let it wash. Anyone fair minded will dismiss it.
Re:ChatGPT Images 2.5
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:47AM (#49622188)
Love the John Politics page, utterly slick completely bland and phoney. Assume it’s a meme i missed, love it.
Re:Jellyfin 12.0
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @06:20AM (#49608287)
All I did was create a wrapper script to pipe to the torrent client, then "pipe these torrent files to the script" - so easy to circumvent you wonder why they bother
Re:Jellyfin 12.0
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:08AM (#49607141)
this skill may help: https://github.com/blader/humanizer
Re:Jellyfin 12.0
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:00AM (#49607051)
I already had DeepSeek tell me "I cant help you with torrents or other copyright infringing uses".
Re:Jellyfin 12.0
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:58AM (#49607042)
As someone with coding projects in the is area would you care to elaborate on "a lot of learned lessons"?
Re:QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
on Sunday September 06, 2026 @11:58AM (#49587784)
Shhh, do not talk about *senet!
Re:GPT-6 Astra
on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:55PM (#49556827)
exactly, there's no meaningful discussion without the pelican.
Re:Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything")
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @01:47AM (#49496031)
I wonder how much of this could be done by a clever linker? There’s a lot of skill in there but how would an llm do, for the rest of us?
Re:StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @06:37AM (#49488712)
Someone must be fishing for C&D letters
Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated out...
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @04:09AM (#49430519)
This seems like something that could be confirmed by reverse engineering a printer’s firmware? Surely someone has done that?
Re:Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:43AM (#49397226)
Second lawyer here, well - ex-lawyer, I'm saying the first Law Talking Guy is 100% right.
Re:See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet
on Friday August 07, 2026 @03:55AM (#49207214)
It was a great comment, HN still offers nuggets now and then
Re:'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout
on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:39AM (#49153429)
“Will no-one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
Re:More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @02:48AM (#49094153)
I was also going to make a snarky comment about AI written blog posts but they are just so prevalent now it’s barely worth saying. I just have to suppress the irritation and parse out the information. And I’m guilty of doing AI documentation so I’m a total hypocrite.
Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No Agenda has ...
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @05:06PM (#49013422)
He was the house curmudgeon - hilarious
Re:Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio
on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:29AM (#48890010)
Is this issue specific to 122B or will it lurk in other 3.5 r 3.6 models? I run a 9B model locally so while this fix doesn't help me I'm wondering if it's general?
Re:How to Hide from Killer Drones
on Saturday July 11, 2026 @03:30PM (#48875008)
As a bonus it will also repel horse flies.
https://www.science.org/content/article/zebra-stripes-confus...
Re:Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
on Saturday July 11, 2026 @04:38AM (#48870082)
Indeed, a lot of HN readers don't realise their good luck in life. It takes a dose of poverty to bring perspective.
Re:Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn o...
on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:29AM (#48806062)
I was taught 20% of customers generate 80% of the work. It seemed borne out by experience and I mostly fucked them off, the surprise/outrage when I told them they weren’t a good fit and told to go elsewhere was something to behold.
Re:How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:47PM (#48751467)
Slightly tangential to the article, which seems interesting, but the main issue with IPFS was the horrendous performance of clients which I seem to recall related to having a refresh storms, sparse routing tables, unreachable peers as well as lookup speeds. Mostly the reputation was so bad that people didn't bother with it, I dismissed it for my own project. If your only users are crypto-grift projects you're in a bad place.
Re:Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5...
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:51AM (#48743131)
True. But for how long? 6-9 months till Mythos equivalence in glm-5.4?
Re:Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5...
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:48AM (#48743116)
The counter example is the administration’s great success in the Iran war. Oh, wait.
Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
on Friday June 26, 2026 @01:25PM (#48689301)
Shutup peasant, you'll get it when we say. And be grateful.
Re:PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:01AM (#48669923)
When I was a lawyer my selling point was exactly that I knew tech deeply, coming from a dev background, and was current as I read Slashdot daily compiled my own Linux kernels etc. It allows punters trust you & is a rainmaking skill.