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Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @03:54PM (#49040845)
Anyone else not getting chain of thought? Opus 4.8 would show it to me, until around the time Fable came back. Now I dont see it with 4.8/5.0 or Fable. Not having it makes catching mistakes harder.
Re:Dark Corners of Unicode (2015) on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:33AM (#46118638)
Superscript:

Lowercase: ᵃᵇᶜᵈᵉᶠᵍʰⁱʲᵏˡᵐⁿᵒᵖʳˢᵗᵘᵛʷˣʸᶻ

Uppercase: ᴬᴮᴰᴱᴳᴴᴵᴶᴷᴸᴹᴺᴼᴾᴿᵀᵁⱽᵂ

no lower q, and no upper C,F,Q,S,X,Y or Z. And depending on the font, it might be worse.

Re:Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:07AM (#46118470)
re too much shock, how so?
Re:Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:03AM (#46118441)
Forced changes for one.
Re:Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @01:30AM (#46118268)
"This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow."

I dont follow. Why? Why not an hour? A ssl failure is a very effective way to shut down a site.

"you should verify that your automation is compatible with certificates that have shorter validity periods.

To ensure your ACME client renews on time, we recommend using ACME Renewal Information (ARI). ARI is a feature we’ve introduced to help clients know when they need to renew their certificates. Consult your ACME client’s documentation on how to enable ARI, as it differs from client to client. If you are a client developer, check out this integration guide."

Oh that sounds wonderful. So every small site that took the LE bait needs expensive help to stay online.

Do they track and publish the sites they take down?

Re:What happens when an octopus engages with art? on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @03:33PM (#44651977)
Mold – A Sci-Fi Short Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8URdhSigzjs

The typical "it's not incrementalism" response.
Re:15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python on Friday April 18, 2025 @06:32PM (#43732428)
I just got bit by device attestation. Tried to install the latest ebay app version via the Aurora Store (on GrapheneOS), and instead of presenting me with the option of using my ebay login, it wanted a google account at a play store login with no way to bypass. I was able to downgrade to the previous version which does not require the Integrity API, but the walls are closing in. Only took 7 months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41517159 (I did get ebay on the phone and filed an issue, hopefully others do the same)
No google acct here, I use fdroid and the Aurora store. I have no doubt though that google is working on killing the Aurora store.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41773781

Re:fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @01:07PM (#43414622)
Tools must be general. Im not going to invest time using a new one if it cant handle arb vaild filesystems. But thats just me.

https://github.com/jakeogh/angryfiles

Fantastic interviewers. It's pretty rare to get such a technical conversation at a high level (as opposed to a purely technical talk) where the interviewers constantly flesh out exactly what the interviewee is saying until they feel that they understand the conversation.
... until they outlaw silent prayer?
This might seem unrelated. I pray you decided to watch the first yt link.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6lsUJdGLFx7OGLRQCQfH...

You might not. But I do. Fire! Fire! Fire! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2uzEM0ugY

(your comment is deeply offensive by the way, wars are fought over these most basic of freedoms)

No worries though, Germany is raiding peoples houses for offending people online. Please spare me the "only for Holocaust deniers" thing.
blink... They outlawed silent prayer.
Re: on Friday February 28, 2025 @11:51PM (#43216046)
You could have let the vote/flag ratio decide. These articles all came out within a short window. Picking the first eventually (if it hasn't already) leads to a LLM race.

Please consider a (perhaps automatic) top "some comments merged from" note in the destination thread.

I appreciate the response. You do not have an easy job!

Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting on Friday February 28, 2025 @11:47PM (#43216020)
Trump update on Zelenskyy meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t21OERWmxUY
Re: on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:02PM (#43209697)
Quite a bit of finger on the scale.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting on Friday February 28, 2025 @02:52PM (#43209593)
(context) Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks at the Munich Security Conference: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pCOsgfINdKg
With regard to nuclear security, this is a sourceless article, and the comment pointing this out got flagged into oblivion so the outrage machine could ignore it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066633
Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @05:30AM (#43011170)
Local minimum.

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