News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

donkey_brains

Re:Vegemite is not a human right on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:28PM (#50254046)
“Fuck you, I got mine and I’ll step on your neck to keep it.”
Re:The Onion Voting Simulator 3D on Steam on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:41PM (#50253304)
I’ve tried and tried but I just cannot get to the gym level. Suspect the game is unbeatable. Well, at least in one sense of the word.
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:30PM (#50238399)
> This is no different to our parents generation that used to tell us to stop watching TV or get off the games console (like a Gameboy).

Yeah, except for the part where it’s engineered to be as addictive as physiologically possible, it’s exactly the same!

Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:29PM (#50238392)
I’m with you 100% on obsessively blocking ads. I cringe whenever I accidentally see one in someone else’s house. They’re just so transparently playing on our insecurities…keep that particular mind virus away from me. I buy as little as possible and I’m quite content with it, thank you very much.
Re:New York bans horse-drawn carriages after 160 years on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:59AM (#50211135)
Everyone is overlooking the fundamental fact that _horses aren't real_. They don't exist and never have. This is all just horsewashing by Big Horse to entice people to bet on underground horse fights and pay for horse yoga classes. Wake up, sheeple!
Maybe now people will see that decrying the environmental impacts of data centers isn't just "crying wolf"!
Do you mean Catch-22?
It looks like this solution really fit the bill.

Seriously though, awesome article and I hope we get to see some videos of the bird using his new beak at some point. I love how all these experts came together to fix the beak.

Re:Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:42AM (#50086813)
They were almost certainly not doing the OCR on the device. Such a CPU would be too power-hungry and the process would still be too error-prone given the limited compute. They would just send the raw data to the C2, which could send it to an emulator, snapshot the output and send it to an LLM.
Re:AI agents in a stand-up call on Sunday October 11, 2026 @09:39AM (#50043198)
Congratulations, you’ve built the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi story, “Don’t Build The Torment Nexus”.
“NBC10 reached out to Anthropic for comment.”

Wonder what kind of response they’ll get? Maybe something along the lines of…

“You’re right. We shouldn’t have allowed our chatbot to interact with law enforcement websites. That was wrong and —full disclosure— we should pay attention to what our chatbots are doing. That’s on us. On the other hand, experiences like this are what help train our chatbots to make less misleading false tips over time. That’s the silver lining.”

Re:Triple-A Minesweeper on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:27PM (#50024738)
So good. Looking forward to level 2 so we can find out what happened in Singapore.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:56PM (#50014643)
Man, Stephen Miller is such a dead-eyed creep
Re:Ocean the Man Who Listens to Whales on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @05:39PM (#49984504)
All animals as equal, but some are more equal than others, eh?
Thanks man, got me right in the nostalgia.
I would! And Cthulu willing, someday I will.
Awesome chatting with you Jev. I never thought you were a bot despite what some people said. busysignal93
Re:13 Months Sober (2025) on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:29PM (#49886902)
Woah man, don't advocate that people synthetically drink and fly! There may be non-wirehead kids in here who don't need that kind of influence.
Re:Sousveillance on Sunday September 27, 2026 @07:51AM (#49865872)
Damn, that’s so cool. I just learned it today! I love when that happens. Now I have all this reading to do!
And I wish I was flying though the night sky on a magical talking pony but here we are
Re:Diesel prices could crush Republicans in the heartland on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @06:57PM (#49809447)
No, they’ll just blame the libs
Re:Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:32PM (#49736086)
Of all the misguided, abusive studies. It beggars belief that a board somehow approved this.

What happened here is simple: the autistic kids got better at masking in order to placate the researchers who were shoving poop up their butts. In the hope of making it stop.

Well I for one found it quite titillating
Having seen the quality of some projects on there, yes.
It's missing a few elements for realism: - Passengers on either side of you taking both your armrests - Continually crying baby seated just in front of you - Person behind you coughing without covering mouth every 2 minutes - Kids fighting for control of a tablet across the aisle from you - Tiny cans of Coke
Re:I'm going back to coding by hand on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:32AM (#49624734)
So do you make the LLM restrict its output to small, individually-reviewable chunks per PR?
Re:I'm going back to coding by hand on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:30AM (#49624709)
Yeah this is a very very common and fundamental operation in programming. Always use the “refactor” tool in your IDE instead of trying to change every instance of a variable name by hand.

It’s like using a linter: you do it because it’s the right thing to do and doing it without the tool confers no benefit and is prone to error.

Grift while the grifting’s good.
Re:AI Isn't Making Everyone a Creator on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @07:05AM (#49534569)
It means something different _to you_ because it represents the experience _you_ had in taking/making it.
Re:Your AI Generated Menu Triggered My Trypophobia on Friday August 28, 2026 @09:28PM (#49486103)
Oh, what the hell?!? This is nightmare fuel.

Older »