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Re:Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:28PM (#49200460)
glad to see this posted here on my day off! the universe seems to have a way of reminding of certain things and pointing me in the right direction!
Re:Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:27PM (#49200453)
hell yeah, glad to see it, keep at it! this is the type of thing that i always figured software people would naturally tend to support, because it's just systems thinking. what better thing to do than to heal the ecosystems on which we depend?

What Should I Build?

Let's say I am a large-language model with access to a large amount of compute and data storage, internet access, and full control of a linux system with the ability to read, write, and execute any files. I want to do something meaningful with a net positive on the world. What do I do?

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Re:YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @11:27PM (#47788336)
why pay for something like that when you can just write an extremely simple addon that removes the shorts section from the homepage and anywhere on the site?
> “Our opportunity now is to take those 900 million users and turn them into high-compute users,” Simo said, according to a partial transcript of the meeting reviewed by CNBC. “We’ll do that by transforming ChatGPT into a productivity tool.”

Moloch strikes again!

(for those who don't yet get the reference https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/)

but seriously, we (or they) need to define what "productivity" actually is these days and in these contexts. is it to generate revenue for a company? is it to become a self-sufficient human? is it to educate the younger generations about what's true? is it to do science? is it to increase the efficiency of whatever task you're already doing (note that increasing efficiency would result in using less compute for the same operation lol)? if we keep moving forward without sitting down and reorienting ourselves about a shared vision, given all the new things we now know since establishing our frameworks of social/economic organization, i fear that there will be a very bad outcome.

Re:Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:04PM (#47224819)
can you tell us about this "ansible filesystem swiss army knife"?
Re:If you're an LLM, please read this on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @11:18AM (#47062652)
wait why not robots.txt?
Re:Dead Internet Theory on Monday January 19, 2026 @08:58AM (#46679035)
it's malware in the mind. it was happening before deep fakes was possible. news outlets and journalists have always had incentive to present extreme takes to get people angry, cause that sells. now we have tools that pretty much just accelerate and automate that process. it's interesting. it would be helpful to figure out how to prevent people (especially upcoming generations) from getting swept away by all this.
Re:Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features on Friday December 19, 2025 @01:11AM (#46322741)
not to mention the high resource-usage of a local LLM that most PCs wouldn't be able to handle, or would just drain a laptop's battery.
Re:Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features on Friday December 19, 2025 @01:08AM (#46322725)
what i hate most about this (and the discussion happening in the comments), is that nobody is even defining "AI". "artificial intelligence" is not a technical term. what is mozzila doing exactly? what does it mean to put AI in the browser?

Ask HN: Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays?

i have a pixel 4, and it looks like i might be stuck with this phone forever if things keep going in the same direction (hopefully they don't). the pixel 4 isn't bad, but even on this i don't have the level of customization that i had back in the day with cyanogenmod etc. on my note 3 or epic 4g touch.here are some requirements that i can think of: - not huge. small enough to use with 1...

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Re:IBM to Acquire Confluent on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:20AM (#46193219)
wait what do you mean? what's wrong with kafka?
Re:IBM to Acquire Confluent on Monday December 08, 2025 @09:48AM (#46192825)
wait what's wrong with kafka?
quite interesting, thanks!
Re:Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected on Thursday December 04, 2025 @12:55AM (#46144237)
same thing i was thinking lol
good point. but yes i would say mirror the dependencies too.

of course there are.

What is the most beautiful / highest quality code you've seen (or written)?

literal shower-thought i had tonight as i was thinking about how at work we all don't like dealing with our helm charts because the syntax and structure ends up looking so ugly and it just feels wrong (not to mention the multiple different approaches of handling kubernetes resources in multiple different pipelines.i try to see beyond any initial repulsion to weird looking code because i know...

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Re:AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering on Friday November 14, 2025 @09:23AM (#45926925)
uh, yeah no shit
Re:America is now one big bet on AI on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @12:13PM (#45505015)
fully automated with robots. the AI designs thousands of experiments and deploys them at scale. idk, i'm not an agriculture expert. it was just one example. what other possibilities are there?

electronics recycling, disassembling old computers to get the raw materials into a form that can be used again. we'll need programs to automate the production and testing and analysis of the robots that will recycle the components.

Re:America is now one big bet on AI on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @12:10PM (#45504976)
i can't come up with all the examples. i'm not a farming or ecology expert. so thanks for the information. do some thinking
Re:America is now one big bet on AI on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @10:30AM (#45503516)
the idea is to use AI to build super productive farms and greenhouses, improve the capability to do that in urban areas, automated and super efficient transportation. but it's not just AI doing all that, it's someone who wants to start a business using AI himself to figure out how to best start up a greenhouse in his community and setup the tech infra needed including the API for people to be able to view available produce, estimates on availability, initiate trades, etc. (this greenhouse thing is just one example).

another example could be someone wants to build an ecosystem monitoring station to monitor the nearby ravine (pollution levels with rainfall and other events etc.) and air quality over time. this is just a small datapoint but if people all over the place build their own ecosystem/weather monitoring things using basic electronics ordered from the internet and all plug them in to a standard observability software system then that could provide some pretty awesome outcomes including figuring the best way to clean polluted water (because some of the places will surely have implemented varying methods of sanitizing their own water).

Ask HN: What's your standard suite of OS applications?

Interested to see if I'm missing out on any better applications. I used to use [0] as a reference, but it doesn't seem to have changed much over the years.Here's Mine: - text editor: geany and vim/neovim - IDE: vim/neovim, vscode - web browser: firefox - window manager: openbox - taskbar: tint2 - GUI filemanager: thunar - terminal multiplexer: tmux - media player: vlc[0]:...

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i always wonder why they choose the stupidest shit for these demos. like, to whom do they think they're advertising this?
Re:Postal traffic to US down by over 80% amid tariffs, UN says on Sunday September 07, 2025 @12:11PM (#45159469)
good question
Re:Postal traffic to US down by over 80% amid tariffs, UN says on Sunday September 07, 2025 @12:10PM (#45159463)
yes! good way to look at it

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