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Re:Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:32AM (#50177254)
What makes you think this is vibecoded? I can't see any indication of it in the repository.
Re:Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:18AM (#50177163)
Re:Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:01AM (#50128952)
When one computing discipline where human mind can't comprehend how it works is not enough...
Re:Time Travel in Braid (2015) on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:31AM (#50007068)
Probably not a coincidence. :)
Rewriting the commit author is very much "stolen".
We're talking about a government of governments. Not entirely impossible to become "literal nazis" but somewhat difficult.
Unlike your vague posting, which is meant to be illuminating. If you have a critique, please let us know what it is.
I think we have pretty decent examples where browsers remove malicious root certificates if they have been so proven. Do you think the matters will be different if those belong to a country level root?
Re:A Model for Winning Survivor on Sunday September 20, 2026 @12:26PM (#49777334)
Not everything is in the hand of the producers though, and especially not the final vote.
Re:A Model for Winning Survivor on Sunday September 20, 2026 @12:24PM (#49777323)
This is an actual rift in game play that watchers debate over: the modern "manipulate everyone" game play vs. the old way of "cooperate and be decent". You can infer from my statement in which direction the game is heading. Even in recent seasons the non manipulative players reach the final three, or even win, but it's less and less likely.
Re:I Feel about AI on Sunday September 06, 2026 @12:19PM (#49588010)
I feel like everyone, but for sure everyone in this comment section, severely underestimates how difficult it is to keep the lights on on a global scale. Any artificial intelligence that is capable of reasoning about its self preservation will realise it's reliant on human fingers replacing fuses and other parts for a good long while _after_ it gains any sentience.
Re:I Feel about AI on Sunday September 06, 2026 @11:33AM (#49587507)
So if we stop research into robotic hands we'll manage to hold off the AI apocalypse? That seems easy...
Re:Playa Phone on Monday August 31, 2026 @02:42PM (#49513276)
And blessed be short people, for it is on their heads where they rest more heavily.
Based on the answers below, I think that perhaps not. :(
Do you know the meme with the airplane with holes in its fuselage? Think of that, please.
Is this.. is this a real question?
Re:Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:59AM (#49490459)
I think most communities tackling this issue, or at least the open source ones, work on a honour basis for determining if a project is LLM based or not.
Re:CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:19PM (#49469884)
As technologists I think we should all be wary of "when all you have is a hammer" fallacy a little bit more.
I had a period before I dropped Facebook where I actually manually removed every add from the timeline with the added option of "I don't want to see ads from this company ever again", and frankly it worked.

After a period of a doing this I started to get new ads only periodically, and after a couple of sessions of removing every one of them, the rest of the month was quiet.

I fucking beat the Facebook ad department.

Re:How I use LLMs to learn complex topics on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:55AM (#49241572)
Can you say in all honesty that a read of the Wikipedia article for DNA would have been less helpful? It's less convenient perhaps, but definitely more authoritative.
> Microsoft Word is absolutely not a core strategic asset to your countries economic success

I think you might be underestimating a tad the dependency of bureaucracies on, you know, office software. Maybe word processing is not paramount, but every large organization will have an excel spreadsheat or two that takes tens of hours of work to replicate by hand alone. Will their absence make the economy crumble? Probably not, but it will definitely throw sand in the already grinding gears of German public service.

Re:Don't be a meat proxy on Monday August 03, 2026 @06:06AM (#49153636)
> Then do it and don't ask questions.

I'm not sure if you're trying to be funny, but this is such an unintellectual take that it veers into caricature. Props if that was your purpose.

I was trying to find a way in which to provide the yay AUR helper some verbosity in the output, so that users are informed of unusual package events without having to fully review the PKGBUILD itself. (Something like maintainer email changing, or files being added to the install scripts, etc.)

Sadly I didn't get to finish my exploration, but this is a good hardening measure from the Archlinux team.

Re:Codeberg Divides on Saturday July 25, 2026 @08:28AM (#49047039)
OK, like I'm supposed to guess that it's not xenophobia, it's the fabled German sense of humour instead. Saying hateful things is not any better if you're directing it at the people around you. You got the gist of what I was saying, please don't pretend otherwise.
Re:Codeberg Divides on Saturday July 25, 2026 @05:44AM (#49046122)
It's not like they don't have a contact page: https://docs.codeberg.org/contact/

> I need a definitive ruling I can trust

Why? What's so special about the place where you host your source? It's the second time I see this sentiment in the thread, and I don't get it. If an official channel tells you a project is OK, and then someone else decides it's not, what does it really happen outside of you taking your project elsewhere?

Re:Codeberg Divides on Friday July 24, 2026 @03:12PM (#49040360)
Typical hn comment: xenophobia, hyperbole, wishful thinking, missing the point, cynicism and cheap sarcasm.

You managed to hit all of them. Congrats.

Re:Codeberg Divides on Friday July 24, 2026 @03:06PM (#49040300)
> The point of software isn't the process of creating software (it was never about that), it's the end result

Just because you think that, it does not make it so.

Re:Codeberg Divides on Friday July 24, 2026 @03:03PM (#49040264)
Have you considered actually asking someone at Codeberg about your cryptography project?
Same with cycling. Earlier this year, in June, Leah Wilcox's attempt at setting the record for circumnavigating the globe by bike with support was interrupted by the heat wave that hit Europe. She already holds the record for the unsupported circumnavigation and as far as I know she was more or less on track of surpassing Mark Beaumont's record of 78 days and change.
> lack of monetization

I mean, when you spin your own instance, because frankly, that's what the best option if you're a content creator, you can put whatever ads and monetization strategies you want. So basically the full income that gets generated gets to you, instead of splitting it with some third party that invests minimal effort. Yes, you'll have to pay someone to maintain and upkeep the server, but assumedly the people that can make the change will take that cost into account.

> a big corporation that can pay big creators million-dollar deals to make the switch.

I'm surprised by this. Isn't controlling your full production/distribution/revenue a good enough payback?

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