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Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:18AM (#50335830)
Sure, but this is clearly a public forum with the intention of communicating publicly with others. I don't know if people would necessarily be OK with the kind of speech they use during games to be treated the same.
Re:Surviving "The Graduate" on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:47PM (#50321007)
I remember watching and discussing this film in a film appreciation class. Neat to hear Hoffman's side of it (though it sounds like it wasn't a good time).
Re:LLM Voice on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:22PM (#50293634)
AI doesn't help the writer communicate ideas. It helps them obfuscate those ideas behind bloated language where even the writer can't discern if it's good or not.

It's the modern equivalent of going to a thesaurus and replacing all your natural words with five-dollar ones.

If you're not confident in your English then just write your brilliant ideas in broken English. Or at most do a direct translation. But don't fluff it with AI's nonsense.

If the ideas are good they will be recognized.

>Start worrying when it's not a headline anymore.

By then it's too late

I'm a bit confused why you have housing and healthcare "up to the state". Are we talking about the United States or somewhere else?
Generally agree, but this is Wikipedia we're talking about.
Well, the article itself is just an excerpt from a book released by Simon & Schuster and written by this guy:

>Matthew Cole is an investigative journalist and the author of Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six. He has covered national security for more than two decades, much of it focused on America’s clandestine wars and covert programs. He was previously an investigative producer for ABC and NBC News, and a longtime national security reporter for The Intercept. His other work has appeared in The New York Times, GQ, New York magazine, Salon, and ESPN. He has reported from more than twenty countries, across five continents.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Princes-and-Thieves/M...

>are you sure you even have a way to notice all the new cool software that exists?

This might be a problem in itself. I find myself unable to have the time to even investigate new software because even newer software with even more features comes around a week later. I bookmark so many Show HNs that I'm impressed by and only ever go back to a rare few.

The term "drop" becoming a synonym for "release", "put out" or "put into effect" for things outside of music/albums is one of the most confusing linguistic innovations of the last decade.
Re:Using AI to reverse engineer hardware on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:55AM (#50116375)
>and good for my reputation

Do you think this will still apply for future generations? It seems like many people now are grabbing code either directly from model training or using agents to blindly scrape the web, finding code and customizing it without ever considering the author. Do you think individual contributors of open source code will have the same reputational incentive?

Re:Tesla Roadster on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:10PM (#50113014)
I must be old. I just keep thinking about what kind of whiplash I'd get with those flips
Re:Things to know if you get cancer in 2026 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:42PM (#50095759)
What are we all filling out those forms before the visit for if the doctor's not even going to read them before we see them?
That's interesting because I think of Low E on the "top" as meaning close to me, which puts it on the bottom of the screen in this app. That matches what happens when I twist a real guitar face towards me when I've got one strapped. So I just switched it to Tab view and it all felt better.
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:46AM (#50073573)
I don't know about hate, but it is funny to see their take on the modern family (no pun intended).
"Oh, Honey, I think we forgot to turn the stove off!"

"Well, I can't help you there, but I can turn off the fume hood from my phone!"

"..."

Re:No Man Is an Island on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:21PM (#50027313)
Can you give some examples? I'm interested, but out of the loop here.
Re:Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:00PM (#49998056)
Is it realistic or cynical for me to assume this is to wean developers off the heavily subsidized subscriptions? Presumably it's using similar compute.
Re:How California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:44AM (#49991384)
Don't plate numbers technically belong to records held by the state? They aren't really private information for an individual (and I think you can request new numbers at any time, no?).

I think the only reason we enforce showing the plates is so the police can easily see if a vehicle is allowed to be on the roads from their own vehicles during traffic stops. We don't have police out patrolling for gun owners, but if we did I bet we would see more public "gun registration plates" for convenience purposes.

As for drivers licenses at bars, again, it's just convenience. We could split all that info into separate little cards and only show what we need to, but we've collectively decided the risk is very low that a bar or supermarket is going to track our address and DOB as we flash them to buy booze.

Re:Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:00PM (#49983285)
>I could only get one of the dots to actually tell me anything

I'm on Firefox and could only see a custom tooltip on the first row. All the rest are visible as browser-default tooltips, however.

Mainframes, baby!
Re:The death of web development education on Friday October 02, 2026 @10:56AM (#49934221)
Our desires are being met increasingly by fewer and fewer humans.

It's the great turn inward of humanity.

Re:The death of web development education on Friday October 02, 2026 @10:48AM (#49934123)
Sorry for the tangent, but if you don't mind can you explain more how you're using it effectively? Are you speaking using "Live" mode or typing? Is it remembering and planning lessons for you or is that on you to do?
They pay as much tuition as the wheat and the schools want them to keep paying said tuition.
Re:I Vibed a Proof of Conway's Conjecture on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:17PM (#49759673)
>one of the latent findings LLMs unlocked

Either I really misunderstood high school English classes or this is what poems have always been known to do.

Well, now I'm intrigued. I can envision some interesting mechanics...
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @07:56AM (#49695334)
A very simple open-source browser extension called Karaoke Pitch that lets you adjust the pitch of a YouTube video and optionally store that chosen pitch for later.

https://github.com/djeastm/karaoke-pitch

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/karaoke-pitch...

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/karaoke-pitch/facck...

The Firefox one has 12 average daily users already, so that makes it my most successful side project ever haha.

When my agents start referring to humans as a virus and AI as the cure, that's when I'll worry.
Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:28AM (#49684397)
>They’re running a Wuhan for AI.

What does "running a Wuhan" mean?

Re:LG strongly denies TV spying claims on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:57PM (#49676581)
>voice recordings and data were treated as essentially radioactive waste, deleted as soon as legally possible

Is this what is done with the "Audio was not intended for this device" entries in the Review Alexa History section of the Alexa app?

This report says 49 confirmed cases as of a few days ago. https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/07/health/screwworm-billion-flie...

You're right about the countermeasures, but I can't help but look at 1971 (473 confirmed cases, then almost 100,000 the next year).

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