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Re:Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:13PM (#50328093)
He was a fictional leader. In a fictional utopia.
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:15AM (#50316916)
Wherein I predict phds do not make good politicians.
Oh in fact, there's a term for it
Out-of-Domain Appeal to Authority
Re:Tell HN: Scribd Breached
on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:39PM (#50312994)
I don't even think they actually pirated book pdfs. Just previews to get you to sign up that lead to no where
Re:Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:21PM (#50312919)
so, are LLMs going to be come the universal computing medium?
Re:I didn't know I was lacking in Vitamin D until I collapsed at work
on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:37PM (#50306409)
linking.
One could say depressed people stay in bed all day and don't go outside and get sunlight, thus low vit d
Re:Just Noting That Your Candy Corn Is Made of Bug Secretions
on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:05AM (#50304947)
I guess the atlantic ran out of AI doom bait articles.
Re:Study: Schoolwide phone bans show no significant impact on mental h...
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:47PM (#50299290)
> Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Odgers reported membership on the Youth and Families Advisory Committee for YouTube.
All you need to know
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:55AM (#50284717)
Ternus is defending the touch screen
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/28/apple-executives-touch-...
Re:Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:47AM (#50284681)
A bit more than that. You need to understand Hessians to compute the loss function efficiently
Re:The new iPad mini
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:07PM (#50280143)
reading books in the bath tub / hot tub /pool side
yeah or business uses outside in the rain
Re:CNC Stone Carving
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:06PM (#50280130)
cybermonks of wyoming
love it
Re:The new iPad mini
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:36AM (#50254749)
it's water resistant
that's huge
Re:Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:25PM (#50233274)
I think revenue per employee is more interesting. By this measure, tech companies are minuscule compared to energy and real estate companies.
Re:Docker Is Weird
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:51PM (#50203944)
How does it feel to have fundamentally changed how many/most enterprise software runs?
Re:Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @09:44PM (#50137008)
2040: Butlerian Jihad
Re:Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder bl...
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:46AM (#50128883)
charge admission to view it
Re:C++26: The New Debugging Header
on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:55PM (#50127775)
The chance that it is AI is much higher than the chance a human would use an em-dash (and not just an easily typeable "-" ) in a PR.
I bet that could be modeled with a markov chain
Re:Jev Meets the Trolley Problem
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:30PM (#50112188)
People who think about the trolley problem and similar are a massive red flag for me.
Re:Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to diss...
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:27PM (#50112171)
Apple is sherlocking the "iphone xxxx teardown" websites
Re:Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:21PM (#50112150)
> WHO is actually falling for this in the big 2026????
some 13 year old on his dad's Dell
Re:Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2026 Cancelled
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:47AM (#50088527)
You haven't seen San Francisco non-profits. There's a web of them controlled by the same gang of people who are taking in billions from the state and the city.
Re:RIP Eric Binnion
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:46AM (#50088519)
I guess his friends/colleagues didn't actually care enough to write it without AI
Re:Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:42AM (#50085462)
This had nothing to do with DEI.
It has everything to do with something we're not allowed to criticize.
Re:Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2026 Cancelled
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:02AM (#50082246)
> Total nonsense.
Isn't that the entire point of foundations and non-profits? Massive salaries for their EDs.
Re:11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:00AM (#50070292)
Here's the weakness of compiled programs. Does this compiled code have this vulnerability? You have no idea. At least with a VM or interpreter you can scan for vulnerable versions and replace the runtime or the specific library.
With this you have to recompile everything
Re:Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @07:53AM (#50070217)
You don't even need that. Just paste your pdf in codex or the gpt work app and say make me an audio book from this with such and such kind of voice.
Re:Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch
on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:40PM (#50065074)
Not sure what this is supposed to do?
Re:Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch
on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:39PM (#50065068)
nothing happened
Re:Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @02:28AM (#50030243)
the circle is complete
Re:Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read
on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:48PM (#50028706)
here's a rare tech book written by the guy who wrote the C compiler for Sun