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What I would really like is a washable "cyber suit". Mock or turtle neck (for the voice / STT capture / control), EEG sensors, breathing rate, blood pressure, gestures via arm motion sensors,). Removable rechargeable battery module to wash the torso / shirt slap it on a clean one. For EEG it would have to be pretty compressed though, so not sure it would be comfortable enough to wear to sleep? maybe only an internal harness needs to be that compressed. not sure. I'm tired of wearing a Fitbit, or glasses, or these different things people have to look at, keep up with, break easy etc.
Looking forward to your acquihire by Guitar Center! Makes me want to dust off my old acoustic after work and practice some more.
Re:Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 on Monday September 21, 2026 @09:27PM (#49795738)
Honestly, seems like a pelican WOULD ride side saddle if at all.
Re:Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions on Saturday September 05, 2026 @12:45AM (#49573144)
Sounds like much needed downtime for the person slinging the garbage then.
Re:Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:54AM (#49560666)
How is security handled in a situation like this? (I'll end up reading up on it). But I mean things like how does the API let a specific session with a specific user only surface information for that specific user from the available tooling?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:59PM (#49527285)
Location: KY, United States (UTC -4/-5), US citizen

Remote: preferred

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Developer by hobby (C#, ASP.net, APIs, Python, Go) but Microsoft 365 Administrator and Virtualization administrator by experience. If it's systems administration or infra based I''ve probably done it.

CV: https://jdunn.dev/files/resume.pdf

Email: It is in my CV

Have a very well rounded skill set regarding Microsoft tenants (both on premise and in cloud) as well as those using VMware. Looking to expand into azure engineering / automation with terraform as well as fully remote / cloud admin roles. Hold various certifications from VMware to azure, to recently taking the Microsoft AB-650 (beta test, so not sure if passed yet or not).

Entry level developer role would be a nice pivot if something is available. or SRE role given my ops background.

feel free to reach out!

Re:Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb on Monday August 10, 2026 @10:52PM (#49252811)
> You ever read a work of literature with such flowery language that right after you've read a paragraph, you pause and realize you have no clue what you actually read, only to read the paragraph maybe a second or third time and have your mind space out again and again on each successive attempt?

I've probably read Jack Vance's Dying Earth Series 3 times; Even though I've only sat and read it once in reality. This also points out the problem of important details along side the fluff.

If only I enjoyed LLMs prose as much as I do Vance's.

Re:Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga on Saturday August 01, 2026 @05:32PM (#49138701)
Still, doesn't really make sense to be here. Content not author is what matters usually.
Re:Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:08PM (#49113540)
In this pages case, I disagree. I feel like when pages try to force their 'aspect ratio / styling' to fit the view port I have to fight more with it. at least as it stands I can zoom as needed on this page, I can appreciate the web devs 'vision' as in how it probably appeared on their machine. I honestly hate mobile sites unless they are done just super super well which is harder than expected. https://rockauto.com is one such site that I think works really well on mobile.
Hella Large - Large Hadron Collider?
Thank you for this article link! I had not seen it before. will be printing it off to read later.
I'm of a strong believer that AI just isn't (may never will be?) a strong judge and executor of "quality". Quality is a loaded term though. Are there any objectively good game designs? Even if there is, maybe only one game of 10 that use the same 'blue print' every reach critical mass (popularity).
probably someone testing their android hacker news client. maybe.
Re:How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale on Monday May 04, 2026 @06:40PM (#48015910)
Roger that, over.
Re:Show HN: Hello, World in many different languages on Sunday May 03, 2026 @11:36AM (#47997994)
That is actually really nice. I'm glad you showed me this! and not sure how I missed this when originally searching. Thanks!
Re:Show HN: Hello, World in many different languages on Sunday May 03, 2026 @10:07AM (#47997099)
Ah, sorry about that! I think my cloudflare rules might have been a little too aggressive! You should be able to try again if you want. Thanks for checking it out
Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @11:16PM (#47858469)
The real NFTs where the images we generated along the way
Re:NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist on Monday April 20, 2026 @11:58AM (#47836173)
I think they mean what is the actual vulnerability and not the score.
Re:Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs on Thursday April 16, 2026 @06:23PM (#47800301)
Reminds me a lot of when I used to deploy this (DataseamGrid) on K12 computers. I was actually just discussing this scenario with a friend.

https://www.dataseam.org/research/

Re:Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012) on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @10:21PM (#47787910)
Could be a symptom of poor stimulation regulation. I know that's the problem in my case. if I have a phone, screen, or even a book in front of me I can stay up until tomorrow. But, if I shut it all down (roughly 30 to 60 mins) before I actually plan to try and sleep it absolutely causes the tiredness to kick in.

I will say there are varying degrees of stimulation. Computer use > TV > Book reading > Music > silence and boredom. At least that is the order in which I shutdown on the nights I have the motivation to do so.

Re:System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @10:49PM (#47684395)
I think computational thinking, or basically "how do I solve this problem efficiently" training data is more valuable then feeding in answers. I don't know what these AI models training data consist of, but it would be interesting to see a model trained purely on reasoning, methods, those foundational skills (basic programming? or maybe not) and then give it some benchmarks.
Re:I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] on Saturday March 28, 2026 @03:35PM (#47557557)
if you were on the development team of that game I send my biggest thanks out to you. it was one of the few things me and my (hard to bond with) father bonded over growing up. We would play I think ..course 2 or 3 with the insanity level bikes ALL night trying to get out times down to something like 1 1/2 minutes. within ms of each other's times. run after run. so thanks.
Ideally at least a few pages in length. I'm trying to limit scroll reading by printing out talks, lectures, long form articles that lend themselves well to paper. But, I don't know where to find these gems like the linked one that showed in today's Tony Hoare main thread.

So what's your favorite(s)?

Re:Tony Hoare has died on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:13PM (#47328848)
From the linked lecture, which I printed out to read as part of a new less is more screen time management regime (where I print out longer form writing for reading) I found this very interesting tidbit in the context of Tony having made a delivery miscalculation and his team failing to deliver on one of their products; which is where I think a lot people are today with LLMs:

"Each of my managers explained carefully his own theory of what had gone wrong and all the theories were different. At last, there breezed into my office the most senior manager of all, a general manager of our parent company, Andrew St. Johnston. I was surprised that he had even heard of me.

"You know what went wrong?" he shouted--he always shouted -- "You let your programmers do things which you yourself do not understand." I stared in astonishment. "

Re:this css proves me human on Friday March 06, 2026 @08:15PM (#47283318)
Zero trust policy is slowly making its way into every day life. Maybe for the best? Trust the people you can talk to, feel, see.
Step one reframe the problem not as an attack or accusation, instead as an observation.

Step two request justification, apply pressure

Step three give them an out by working with you

I think he is saying where is the creativity in the AA+ space. Which still might be a lack of depth / breadth of search, or platform exclusive content. Not everyone can own all the consoles.

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