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Re:How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment on Sunday September 06, 2026 @01:58PM (#49589077)
I feel this is a balance they are trying to achieve, one is to not make the model lazy, the other is to give it safeguards for going overboard
Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @08:09PM (#46983636)
its not a bad idea to use one of the GPU Terminals on linux just for claude code, it works out a bit better
Re:World's first fully Client-Side Webmail Client on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @03:53PM (#46966742)
What a bad name for a webmail client
I've got a old dead multiplayer only game I would love to try and get a basic server online for again.... ( Wulfram II will always be missed )
Re:Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:11AM (#39014094)
IPFS also has issues with large datasets, anything larger then a few TBs cases nodes to explode and indexing takes forever.
Re:Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update on Friday November 17, 2023 @02:17PM (#38308591)
Start clicking on stuff, You'll find it :)
Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine on Friday March 31, 2023 @03:28PM (#35392190)
That whole list is a hoot,

has_toxicity_score_above_threshold

is a interesting value, I wonder were the 0.91 was though up at

Re:I Avoid Async/Await on Saturday April 16, 2022 @07:57AM (#31051616)
I avoid Javascript outright because async/await/promise is confusing to me. I blame it on being a PHP Programmer and likes things to run serially.
The biggest feature of PHP for new people to the language is in-lining

You can do stupid stuff like

<table> <?php foreach($array as $row){ ?> <tr><td><?php echo $row[0];?></td></tr> <?php } ?>

Meaning you can just inlay PHP in your raw HTML as you please, this example will reprint the <tr> and <td> for every key in $array

I am working on a MicroPHP to shove into something like a RP2040 since PHP is really just a shell script for a whole bunch of C functions... but PHP eats too much ram currently on the micros
Two low end Hetzner/OVH Boxes for redundancy should do the trick
Re:Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes on Monday March 14, 2022 @08:37AM (#30671657)
I wonder what mine will end up being
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze on Sunday March 06, 2022 @02:04PM (#30580124)
IPFS is not for long term data storage, and once you get about the 100k file mark your tables are so damn slow you can't add anything new
Re:Help preserve the internet with Archiveteam's warrior on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @03:20PM (#30532516)
Full Archival with the standards required by the Internet Archive require that full unmodified headers are required, and unmodified content. This tends not to work well with modern browsers. Chrome and Firefox both fail at this currently. Someone is looking into a kind of modified Firefox to help with this. but its just not that how this system works. Now the Archive.org does have a API of sorts to say hay archive this URL, and a little working on the backend goes and does it..

What the Archive Team does is on a much more massive scale. Like SETI at home scale of scraping data across the internet. At almost every point we have had to make custom tools to ensure it meets our needs in our archival efforts.

Re:Help preserve the internet with Archiveteam's warrior on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @08:15AM (#30526966)
Yep, Using Virtual box is rather easy to get the warrior running!
Re:I'm so sorry everyone. Or: why I'm switching to Cloudflare on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:04PM (#30449742)
I really think this is what Gabe did with Valve. To this day they are a privately owned company. It may not be the best place to work, but I do know they get paid well.
That is kinda hard to do in modern browsers, My main want is to blink the HDD light when you are typing, just never got around to it.
https://jrwr.io -- It's my personal website with a fun "fake" terminal with a custom command set with a set of challenges to solve to gain more access levels in the machine. Its been fun to watch the commands come in.
Re:Who is squatting IPv4 addresses? on Thursday February 17, 2022 @12:15PM (#30375728)
Over at a University we run, we like to run like a ISP and only have a /16 to work with, its very tight even now, we have thousands of students using the Wifi, Dorm Networks and such. I do wish we had more.
Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:03AM (#30085477)
Here is the API you are looking for: -- https://archive.org/wayback/available?url=example.com&timest... -- this will show the oldest timestamp of a archive that the wayback has. The trick is to set the timestamp to be /really/ old and it will show the first snapshot it has.
Re:Number of people on government websites now on Thursday January 20, 2022 @01:22PM (#30012600)
Interesting thing with that tool, it doesn't show any rise in the great lakes, I wonder if they would rise at all.
Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:35PM (#29999666)
Its always a fun thought experiment to understand the source of "truth" for ones ID in the USA. The main source is your Birth Records. but these can be lost and do often as older records are rather scattered about. If your older they want proof of stuff in your name like bills and other records, but these tend to be what ever name you gave them over the phone. Bank records are based off SSN or Driver ID, and thats based off your birth records. What if your birth records are lost? Lets say you have nothing, No ID, No Records, What do you do? how do you prove yourself is really your old you?
Re:Shodan 2000 on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:28AM (#29934177)
Oh.. Its Static. All the "hacked" targets are pre-coded into the javascript
Re:Why Linux is now my primary OS going into 2022 on Saturday January 01, 2022 @02:47PM (#29761919)
I wish Linux worked on my main work laptop, but with the current state of nvidia prime its just a non starter. I spent 3 days trying to get even basic graphics switching going when in windows its seamless
Re:Internet Archive as a default host-of-record for startups on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @10:20PM (#29645249)
They do respect robots.txt matter of fact, it will remove the website outright and most of its archives will be hidden until that website's robots.txt is offline.

Their documentation about it is rather crap right now, but its in several of their FAQs about it

Re:Internet Archive as a default host-of-record for startups on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @10:17PM (#29645222)
right now, most of it is coming in as ZSTD with a central index. older stuff was gzip
Re:Move myself to inactive on Sunday December 19, 2021 @01:05AM (#29611805)
That website is something else for sure. It really needs some help on explaining what it even does... (And it throws around the fancy buzzwords like Web3)
Tell that to my poor Legion 7i - Has on going onboard audio issues and very wonky iGPU/dGPU support.
Re:1.1.1.1 for Families on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:18AM (#29026423)
This has come up a few times. Mostly the owner is set in their ways and are mad at CF for not providing the DNS flags that allow outside CDNs to figure out what IP you are closest to. From a 2019 thread about this:

The archive.is owner has explained that he returns bad results to us because we don’t pass along the EDNS subnet information. This information leaks information about a requester’s IP and, in turn, sacrifices the privacy of users. This is especially problematic as we work to encrypt more DNS traffic since the request from Resolver to Authoritative DNS is typically unencrypted. We’re aware of real world examples where nationstate actors have monitored EDNS subnet information to track individuals, which was part of the motivation for the privacy and security policies of 1.1.1.1.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

Re:Something weird is happening on Facebook on Monday September 27, 2021 @05:12PM (#28676085)
Used too, But anyone under the age of 20 will have a random SSN [1]

1: https://www.ssa.gov/kc/SSAFactSheet--IssuingSSNs.pdf

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