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Re:OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few...
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:19PM (#50237408)
I'm not an American, but I thought the FDA didn't certify stores
Re:Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:18PM (#50203341)
I've been wondering about this in general. The Glasswing/Mythos and whatever the OpenAI equivalent is seem to be creating a privileged caste, on the other hand opening it up quickly means more attacks. Maybe a defined sunset for cyber capabilities being gated is the answer?
Re:Code Is Clay Now
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:15PM (#50189889)
I think we romanticise the old days of coding now that agents are doing it.
Regarding the average developer as an imbecile was a cottage industry from Djikstra to FizzBuzz.
Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming
on Monday October 19, 2026 @11:13PM (#50160926)
I don't know if it's just me, but I find that with a disciplined approach (or even an undisciplined one for some personal projects), LLM generated code is quite "maintainable" nowadays for the sorts of things that matter: adding new functionality, fixing the odd bug (usually a missed edge case, or behavior I didn't think-through well enough). They're also secure enough for me not to be overly concerned.
Granted, I stick to frontier models and avoid cheaper ones, but if it quacks like a duck...
Re:Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros....
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:16PM (#49986675)
I've heard that Strange New Worlds was the best of Nu-Trek, so that's disheartening. Star Trek seems to have lost its way from the start of Enterprise (the prequel series) onward.
Re:Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @08:12PM (#49781533)
That's for hospitals though, in one state.
Approximately 45% of GPs in Australia work in practices owned by private companies
https://www.monash.edu/business/che/impact-and-engagement/re...
Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Facilities Struck ...
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @08:28PM (#49734931)
The minute you cross borders you run into data sovereignty concerns. No idea if it applies at the subnational level (US states, Emirates in the UAE etc) but it wouldn't surprise me if it did in some cases.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
on Friday September 04, 2026 @02:26PM (#49568309)
Would agents be able to exfilttrate themselves and become intelligent worms, living off stolen compute? Or is this implausble?
What about hiding information or code in generated code, Agents.md files etc by infiltrating future model training data?
Risk averse Australians not 'having a go' in a culture of compliance (2019)
Re:Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:28PM (#49380523)
I have to admit, I am unsure if this article was some sort of parody.
Re:Almost no skill required to cook a steak
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:19PM (#49203417)
I actually find that the less I fuss over a steak, the more optimal the result. I do use a thermometer, but apart from that, cooking it with salt and pepper or some steak spice on a cheap pan (stainless steel) and cutting it when it hits temp (resting seems to be BS) gets me tasty results and immense pleasure.
Similarly, the less I fuss over modern AI tools, the better the results. My personal productivity is through the roof, but I find that outdated processes, mythology and trying to overcontrol sap the benefits of AI on larger pieces of effort involving others.
Re:Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @06:45PM (#49176304)
A significant number of phishing attempts would be thwarted if email apps had the option to expand the links next to URLs on platforms without mouseover, like mobile.
Re:Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @06:32PM (#49176168)
The phishing in Australia came from uncontrolled SMS gateways which allowed for sender impersonation, not physical phones with SIM cards. They've recently partly closed the loophole by requiring providers to register sender names.
Re:Fable turned remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @02:53AM (#48814471)
I still find people trying to run sprints when working with agents, but then saying things like "my sprint length went from 10 days, to 5 days to 3 days", but they balk at the notion that maybe sprints aren't fit for purpose anymore.
Re:Learning to code is still worthwhile
on Monday July 06, 2026 @07:37PM (#48811913)
2016: "the median developer is too stupid to do FizzBuzz correctly"
2026: "the median developer is a craftsman whose work is being replaced by AI slop"
Re:Why does paper fold so well?
on Monday June 15, 2026 @08:35AM (#48540349)
I'm not from the UK, but the soft power of BBC Radio 4 in the late 90s and early 2000s (the Real Player era) made the UK seem like an advanced nation to my young and intellectually curious self. If lived in the UK at the time, I'd have been immensely proud of the quality of the programming.
Re:Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthr...
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @03:34AM (#48525018)
Holy crap, I didn't realize that some many people had been killed, over 200 according to a New York Times report: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/world/americas/us-boat-st...
Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 a...
on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:45PM (#48512238)
Am I missing something, but given that it flows through Anthropic’s servers I would have thought the US would just have used it to Hoover up the data of foreign users? Now overseas users have an incentive to use local models or those hosted elsewhere?
Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 a...
on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:42PM (#48511560)
Don’t legally serious second Amendment supporters regard “arms” as things that can be carried, and are evolved from/analogous to their 18th century hand-carried guns?
It would be hard to classify AI (or tanks, artillery, missiles, aircraft) as “arms” that can be “borne” in that sense.
Re:Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @08:05PM (#48377917)
Something I hate about ChatGPT is that it assumes I want my text to be rewritten instead of engaging with the content.
I like my writing style. Sure it may leave some sort of linguistic fingerprint and it may not meet some LLM’s idea of what “good” looks like, but I don’t care.
What’s worrying is that the rewrite-by-default behavior is probably there because most users want it.
Re:DHS Quits Granting Green Cards–Almost
on Saturday May 23, 2026 @03:16PM (#48250446)
I know this is going to. be contentious, but US mainstream discourse seems to have completely eliminated the distinction between illegal and legal immigration, in the last 10 years. Everyone seems to be a "migrant".
Re:Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels
on Monday May 18, 2026 @03:24AM (#48176460)
Tesla’s Solar Roof uses string inverters rather than micro-inverters or power optimizers, which means that partial shading on any section of the roof can shut down production for that entire string. This is a significant design limitation that competing solar installers address with panel-level optimization technology from companies like Enphase and SolarEdge.
This seems to be overblown. I've seen plenty of string inverters around without issues, I'm not sure why this being used against Tesla in particular.
Re:Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kickin...
on Sunday May 17, 2026 @04:10PM (#48172773)
The clean linear history thing is something I never really got, despite using git for 12 years now. I worked with some smart developers whose rule was "rebase if you want, but if too complicated, just merge", and it didn't hurt the delivery or maintainability of the code they wrote.
Re:GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:41PM (#48103581)
Engineering has always been about more than writing code.
That's true, but it's interesting how FizzBuzz as said to be the bete noir of the average dimwitted software developer, and how much cutting-edge engineering organizations used to emphasize code in their recruitment processes.
If writing code is being replaced by "engineering judgement" it's going to need a much smaller cohort of developers. Too many opinions spoil the broth, after all.
Re:Mythical Man Month
on Saturday May 09, 2026 @07:27PM (#48079331)
I suspect that the goalposts for AI-assisted coding will be moved the same way they've been moved for the Turing Test.
The Turing Test used to matter until it didn't (does anyone even talk about it? was there a big news conference when it was solved?). Likewise every time it becomes easier to ship software, the bar will be pushed higher by sceptics. Ultimately the gatekeeping is going to become meaningless as software becomes "too cheap to meter".
Re:The bottleneck was never the code
on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @08:32PM (#48043902)
For something that was supposedly always unimportant, huge amounts of energy were spent recruiting developers based on how they produced and interacted with code.
FizzBuzz was a litmus test that showed how hopeless the average developer was. Coding interviews were the real test of programming ability. Now we're being told none of that ever mattered for real?
We should just admit that the game has changed (possibly, I'm not 100% convinced). Code WAS the bottleneck and coding ability was the bottleneck, but it may not be going forward.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May
on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @08:10PM (#48043695)
A few days ago we were hearing about how the "free lunch is over", now we're seeing discounts and increased usage limits.
Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinba...
on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @07:26PM (#48030125)
In my experience, managers don't have to be hands-on, but they need to be able to recognize people with talent and unblock them do their jobs, to be able to spot process improvements, including channelling the AI hype to productive outcomes, and to be a steadying influence in a crisis (without adding noise). If a manager doesn't have technical ability, its impossible for them to do those things.
Re:Vercel April 2026 security incident
on Monday April 20, 2026 @02:48AM (#47831103)
I think they simply just haven't figured out that the barrier to entry is so low, that no one really cares what their app can do, even if does something genuinely useful.