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Goodnight.....
You would have been fine without HN, just use AI
Re:/dev/null: social network for developers on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:33PM (#50121578)
I am always so floored when I see a new thing written all in PHP. I always got crap for using Perl most of my life.
Dishes need to wash themselves
Use Perl
Yeah bro, you can just use AI!
There are many ways and tools on linux to get a "VM" up and running. But with libvirt you can easy script out what the initial environment and network stack is. The heart of it is just running the 'virt-install' command, but as you can see I've got a bunch of other opinionated stuff going on before that.
Outside of the article's mentioned graphics development, there is no reason to isolate an agent using actual hardware. I threw together this script[0] using libvirt to give claude its own graphical desktop env to be able to do user acceptance testing with Chrome. It has full root and can do what ever. If it makes a mess, I can dump and reinstall in seconds.

0: https://gist.github.com/smith153/04b4068b5a2d7b234f1c3d5992d...

Yes, this
Re:AI Has Broken Hiring on Sunday June 21, 2026 @05:20PM (#48622706)
Me right now
Re:Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @01:53PM (#48111756)
> on the other hand, the ransomware groups that want to stay in business need to be honest

I was thinking about that the other day. Honestly I'm not sure it matters. I feel like if a company didn't pay the ransom that would possibly open them up to lawsuits or something because they "tried nothing". At least paying it makes it look like they did something and could be some sort of legal defense. But again I'm not a lawyer.

>probably just a dirty contact or something

I have a Leopold with MX brown keys. Bought in 2012. Last year the left ctrl (or maybe left alt? can't remember) started to sometimes not work. I took the back cover off and the soldering job was horrid everywhere. And on that key the solder was mostly non-existent. I touched it up and a few others. All good now.

What is wrong with just using a compass??
Re:Claude Managed Agents on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @03:13PM (#47694880)
The website is solid black on Firefox mobile for android. Maybe they should get an agent on that.
Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @04:58PM (#47593394)
Posted 23 days ago: (Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298183
Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @01:19PM (#47590589)
> The layoffs are directly tied to Oracle’s aggressive and debt-heavy expansion into artificial intelligence infrastructure. According to analysis from TD Cowen, the job cuts are expected to free up between $8 billion and $10 billion in cash flow — money the company urgently needs to fund a massive buildout of AI data centers.

Interesting that they admit that the layoff off is due to a pivot from software to hardware.

Re:Sealing Paper Packaging Without Adhesives on Sunday March 29, 2026 @01:08AM (#47560533)
Has anyone seen my stapler?
Re:Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @01:36PM (#47415779)
When did the industry transition to different/lead free solders? Wonder if that was part of the issue?
Oh do tell.
Re:Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users on Friday January 30, 2026 @03:13PM (#46829263)
No.
Re:Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @01:42PM (#46799768)
>This was me in 2005.

Ha, same. Windows XP for me had a horrible habit of booting into a blue screen randomly after updating video card drivers (happened with both ATI and Nvidia). Trying to do a repair install wouldn't work. The only option was a full reinstall.

Installation from the disk took an hour. Then (if you were going about this the legal way) you'd have to call the microsoft number to register your install, but be on hold for another 30 minutes. Then it was multiple hours of install your favorite video player, reboot. Install video codecs, reboot. Install firefox, reboot. Apply all of your registry tweaks, reboot. Install all your games from CD-ROM, more rebooting. And multiple hours of that.

I moved to linux back in 2006 or so and never looked back. Documented part of the journey here https://net153.net/ubuntu_vs_debian.html

Re:Go Away Python on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:51PM (#46439648)
> My proposition for compatibility is to not use dependencies, and instead rely on the standard library

Funny that was the whole attack angle python used against perl back in 2005,etc.

Re:Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole on Saturday December 27, 2025 @04:11PM (#46405273)
>Timing it for Christmas Eve ensures minimal media scrutiny of these connections.

Sounds like the media is truly the one in charge.

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