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Re:Neal Stephenson on AI and What Comes Next [video]
on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:09PM (#50305954)
I haven't read Anathem yet (adding that to my reading list) but Cryptonomicon is high on my list! Snow Crash was incredible and it's one of the few books where I still remember most of the characters in it.
Re:Railway Security Disclosure
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:32AM (#50192358)
A nothing event? Having access to our database is a nothing event? For most applications, all they keys a businesses castle are stored in a platform providers parameter store / secret key system. Downtime is bad for customers and slightly bad for a business. Stolen credentials are critical for both.
Re:Railway Security Disclosure
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:21PM (#50190783)
So far I found they accessed my S3 buckets, used my OpenAI key (which OpenAI thankfully detected odd behaviour and revoked the key automatically), did readonly operations on my Valkey instance, etc.
Re:Railway Security Disclosure
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:16PM (#50190742)
Yeah, I had to rotate my data store keys ASAP. Now I'm stuck with a broken application. Best option, horrible option.
Re:Railway Security Disclosure
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:06PM (#50189344)
I'm rotating production secrets all night... great. I confirmed that they've actually used many of my secret keys already.
Re:Railway (PaaS) Major Outage
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @12:23PM (#50183564)
Worse than the outage yesterday
Re:Railway builds are temporarily paused
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @12:22PM (#50183556)
Worse this time as well
Re:OpenBSD 8.0
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:48AM (#50167258)
It's satire
Re:OpenBSD 8.0
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:47AM (#50167250)
It's satire
Re:Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden
on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:17PM (#49884499)
He's a huge cross country skier so he probably wants his own little playground
Re:U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain...
on Friday September 25, 2026 @01:53PM (#49847813)
I don't think Palantir is concerned? Palantir is LLM agnostic and holds IL5, IL6, compliance with ICD 503, etc. Their entire platform is built around eliminating risk.
Re:Zed DeltaDB
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:21PM (#49188439)
I started using Zed a couple weeks ago and immediately had issues with copy/paste/buffer on an M1 Mac. I tried a few suggested fixes and they didn't work.
Re:Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @10:19PM (#48654332)
I live in Las Vegas and one year at the start of summer my AC went out. It took a week to order the part needed and make the fix. I lived out of casinos for that week (using HotelTonight to get a different place each night) and it was pretty fun. I gained 10lbs. That said, AC's are a necessity out here.
Re:Steam Machine
on Monday June 22, 2026 @03:25PM (#48634834)
Yeah I understand I can get a much better gaming PC at much lower price point but that was kind of the point I was trying to make. I'm in a position where I'd happily pay more for convenience and I know many other people who feel the same way. I think there is a huge market here and this isn't a dead-on-arrival situation at all. Valve knows this.
Re:Steam Machine
on Monday June 22, 2026 @03:08PM (#48634614)
I think it's far from dead-on-arrival. I don't want to buy a PC, put it in a garage, etc. I want a little box I can easily hook up to my TV and play Steam games on. This scratches that itch. I'm old and want convenience. I know a lot of other people in my peer group who are going to pick one up too. Also I don't play any competitive games where I care about anti-cheat. I just want to play my RPG/JRPG's on a big screen and I want it to be plug-n-play.
Re:How many of the 170k English words do you know?
on Friday June 19, 2026 @04:53PM (#48603133)
+1 to all these points especially the first one. I dropped off after about 10 words and didn't have a clear path to move to the next level.
Re:Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds
on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @11:06AM (#48280855)
I just bought a WalkingPad M2 and my first day on it was yesterday. I usually sit on my couch while working. I walked about 6 miles yesterday instead! I woke up with sore calves and I think I'm getting blisters but these are probably good signs.
Re:Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby
on Saturday May 23, 2026 @12:07PM (#48248812)
I've used bash for 20+ years. I've tried so many other shells but always go back to bash. Thanks Brian!
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub
on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:45PM (#47942365)
Hah! I was too. I was at a bar with Chris trying to convince him to base the company off of hg instead of git but they already had the domain name and had already started building it.
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub
on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:43PM (#47942352)
13274 here!
Re:"Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI"
on Saturday January 10, 2026 @10:34AM (#46566554)
Does it work on cryptography? Can it find out the methods behind the fourth Kryptos problem?
Re:Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @06:48PM (#45986929)
> Claude basically disregards your instructions (CLAUDE.md) entirely
Does anyone know of a way to fix this? Claude constantly disregards my CLAUDE.md. I put a decent amount of time into it and it's pretty much worthless without explicitly telling it to reference it before each prompt.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
on Sunday November 09, 2025 @05:45PM (#45869984)
Climbing easy routes in a gym is pretty low impact. It’s only when you start to move into really hard crimps or slopers where you’ll hurt yourself. I was a climber bum for years and have climbed crazy stuff around the world and never hurt myself to where I couldn’t type. A lot of bloody tape, but still able to type.
Re:Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics
on Friday May 02, 2025 @07:00PM (#43875351)
This is insane. I've used tons of virtual synths in my life but this is by far the coolest I've ever seen. Mick's video was amazing!
Re:GSA Eliminates 18F
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @04:21PM (#43223789)
This sucks for accessibility.
Re:Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @05:58PM (#43189256)
I haven't played your game but I've watched a ton of Real Civil Engineer's videos on it. It looks like a blast and I love watching his videos. How did you get into game development? Congratulations on the success!
Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer?
on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:24PM (#43118975)
Great points! I agree with everything you said here with exception to the point about it not being a monetary solution. I've built an "extremely" janky coop for almost no cost in the past. At one point I got absolutely sick of eggs because there were so many than I ended up trading neighbors for other goods. The whole thing ended up making/saving me a ton of money in the end. Let me reiterate how unsafe this coop was however... it was as spacious as it was dangerous (very).
Re:Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus
on Sunday February 16, 2025 @09:34PM (#43074379)
I’ve been listening to SomaFM since 2000! Legendary station.
Re:Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos"
on Thursday February 06, 2025 @06:34PM (#42967589)
/me reinstalls electric sheep
Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
on Thursday January 16, 2025 @10:16AM (#42726372)
Agree completely. I loved Tears and didn’t once think it looked bad in any way. It was a very clever game and made me feel like a kid again. That’s what I’m looking for in a Nintendo game. I’ll jump on my PS5 if I want to be wowed graphically.