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Re:I Love Software Rendering
on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:35AM (#50118872)
I think it's because adding a sound card offloaded sound processing from the CPU and it had more cycles to draw frames! Probably back when we were at like 25Mhz
Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @12:37PM (#49868282)
As far as I can tell the only remedy for this is holding CEOs responsible for the actions of models operated by their company. If there are no consequences then they will have no concern for these crimes.
Re:ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room
on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:02AM (#49786174)
The nearby glasses app linked in this thread seems to be a lovingly hand coded tool to detect Meta glasses.
Re:What a time to be alive – rouge AI agents attack RubyGems.org
on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:01PM (#49699156)
So we make a law that the CEO is responsible for actions of any agent created or operated by anyone in their company. CEOs will get serious about AI security real quick. Honestly we need to do something. There needs to be a single wringable neck.
Re:Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
on Friday August 21, 2026 @05:23PM (#49393947)
More like they've looked you up and the apps being missing would be a giveaway about the dummy phone
Re:France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @08:22AM (#49257157)
For all these countries that don’t get scam calls, it has nothing to do with your do not call list since these are criminals anyway. It has to do with the fact that Americans are Legion and have a lot of money.
Re:'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:06PM (#49245546)
I agree with the verbiage if not with the sentiment. These are a perversion of technology. People hold their phones up for entire songs at a concert instead of being absorbed in the experience. Removing friction from recording will multiply digital hoarding behavior no matter what other risks are at play. There is a balance there; it's nice to be reminded of experiences. But where is the line?
Re:Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @08:56AM (#49182204)
SOLUTION: Make a law that someone is responsible for a bot's actions. Either the bot is signed cryptography with someone accepting responsibility, or responsibility falls to the CEO. Charge Altman with hacking hugging face. Throw him in jail where he belongs. That will realign safety incentives.
If the HF hack were perpetrated by a human, they would certainly be charged. WHY has no one been charged???
Re:"Gravity is worth asking about."
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @08:19AM (#49181799)
IS THERE a name for the phenomenon? You are about to tap / click when the UI changes underneath you. You can end up tapping the wrong thing! I call it bait and switch and I am not sure how to fix it.
Re:For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:00PM (#48753689)
As an outside observer, it does seem that the whole process is tedious, capricious, and corrupt. No wonder academia is crumbling - it deserves to, and it needs to be replaced with a new, better system.
Re:Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards
on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @10:38AM (#48733319)
What is reasoning except applying another pattern on top of existing thought? Personally it seems like I and everyone else is simply pattern matching, albeit at a higher level than current LLMs. There is no difference in the process as far as I can tell, just different inputs.
Re:I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing en...
on Friday June 19, 2026 @02:43PM (#48601750)
After the last one of these posts talking about cold brew coffee I attempted to replicate the results by just throwing some water and coffee into an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner. Results were not satisfactory. I wonder if extracting the transducer from the jewelry cleaner and attaching it to my Portafilter would work.
Re:How We Run Firecracker VMs Inside EC2 and Start Browsers in <1s
on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @07:06PM (#48578267)
I think you mean “completely” instead of “at all”. Also, very cool innovative tech you are working on!
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @01:45PM (#48573935)
This is the type of thing I have to fight against daily. You already have both action available - left click or middle click. Don't bloat your software with band aids for problems that don't exist - just train your users better.
Re:Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses
on Thursday June 04, 2026 @04:31PM (#48404219)
At what point does civil disobedience become justified? Expected even? Also let's be clear - this is not violence, not assault, it is simple destruction of property.
Re:Expanding Project Glasswing
on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @10:40AM (#48370883)
I don't think anyone is saying that. You will just need to be authenticated before giving any commands to the bank. Maybe some type of TOTP that you can use over the phone or in person.
Re:Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost
on Friday May 22, 2026 @12:13PM (#48237911)
Yes, it is called paying for the use of copyrighted material which people put a lot of time and money into creating. Is this not obvious?
Re:They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks."
on Thursday May 14, 2026 @08:30AM (#48134456)
The only time I want to read something written by AI is when I am interacting with an LLM directly. I don’t know who these people are that think others want to read their slop. Even if the content is good, I can’t stand reading it.
Re:Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack ...
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @09:36AM (#48083880)
Hobbies are great. Making a living is usually a separate endeavor. I don’t want to pay for an artisan spoon. There will be a limited market for artisan software. But make no mistake, we are entering the era of software mass production. Say goodbye to your chisels and rasps. If you want to make money you will need to operate the machine that builds the machine.
Re:I'm Coding by Hand
on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:49PM (#47810985)
Junior developers have always been a lot less effective than senior developers. We will need new senior developers so we will need to train junior developers. Maybe we train them by forcing them to do things the hard way. The slow way. By hand. Because if we let them do things the fast way they are going to cause some serious damage.
Re:Claude Code Routines
on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @03:22PM (#47770173)
My team was doing this until recently but I think in February, Anthropic made team accounts available for subscription instead of API billing. Assuming that is the cost you mentioned.
Re:Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their N...
on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:46PM (#47592451)
Exactly.... -> Unit tests. Integration tests. UI tests. This is how code should be verified no matter the author. Just today I told my team we should not be reading every line of LLM code. Understand the pattern. Read the interesting / complex parts. Read the tests.
Re:Nebraska wildfires leave ranchers scrambling for forage
on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:50PM (#47481378)
I’m not sure if these fires are correlated with the staff reductions in BLM. In the interview with a resident she doesn’t mention anything about that, just that last year was very wet which provided a lot of fuel and this hot dry spring has turned it into a tinder box.
Re:Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor
on Sunday March 22, 2026 @12:41PM (#47479337)
This is an amazing explanation and I am going to keep it on hand for future use. In the first sentence causal is typoed as casual
Re:$ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
on Sunday March 22, 2026 @10:23AM (#47477812)
Literally just say T-shirt. Nobody calls this a tee. Except if you are in a clothing store I guess
Re:Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:23PM (#47450100)
I hate to say it but you are right. It might be finally time to cut the gcord
Re:Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:21PM (#47450083)
I haven’t read this in years and it was delightful to see it posted here.
Re:Clockwise acquired by Salesforce and shutting down next week
on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:13PM (#47450041)
I mean wow, talk about making it up in volume, but hell I would take it.
Re:Push events into a running session with channels
on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:10PM (#47450016)
Since we are apparently giving messaging platform reviews here, I feel exactly the same way about Microsoft Teams. It works great. It does everything I want. It doesn’t get in my way. 10 out of 10 keep up the great work guys!
Re:Juggalo Makeup Blocks Facial Recognition Technology (2019)
on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:25PM (#47444560)
Pretty sure gait analysis is as good as facial recognition. Maybe wearing shoes with weird heights would confuse it