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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?
linking.

One could say depressed people stay in bed all day and don't go outside and get sunlight, thus low vit d

I guess the atlantic ran out of AI doom bait articles.
> 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)
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

I think revenue per employee is more interesting. By this measure, tech companies are minuscule compared to energy and real estate companies.

https://i.imgur.com/4DPs1Io.png

https://i.imgur.com/LgFx831.png

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?
2040: Butlerian Jihad
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.
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
here's a rare tech book written by the guy who wrote the C compiler for Sun

https://progforperf.github.io/Expert_C_Programming.pdf

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