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Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:58PM (#50262116)
I believe Ford pushed for the 40 hour workweek in the 20s, so... yes, at least once :)
Re:Things to know if you get cancer in 2026 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:48AM (#50105415)
As someone who's dealt with cancer in the family, and also my own chronic illness - if you can, bring someone along to take notes during office visits. It frees you up to pay attention to the doctor and ask questions, and it keeps staff on their toes.
Re:Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @11:39AM (#50089394)
The tampered devices have their own eSIMs - it's not running data through the Ledger app on your computer.

The impacted resellers would have to test the devices powered on to see if they were using cellular data.

Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:22AM (#49710835)
Both have performance issues when installed as snaps across my 24.04 and 26.04 machines.
Re:>10x More Efficient Pretraining on Thursday September 10, 2026 @03:31PM (#49649095)
More data (daily scans) can mean we get better at medicine, though, and more accurate. You're assuming "daily cancer scans" look just like they do today, rather than eg unobtrusive devices in our daily lives that measure changes over time.

The frequent "muh false positives" comment we hear from doctors appears to be a lack of imagination?

Re:Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM on Saturday August 22, 2026 @07:14AM (#49398537)
Literally just dealt with an nvim/rust-analyzer indexing latency issue. Excited!
I'm not a hard bread expert but at high enough prices, I know plenty of enterprising people with kitchens.
A higher margin increases the incentive for people to make more, though.
Tauri is a good balance. Rust "backend" plus a native web view, so less JS and a lighter binary.
Re:Claude Cookbook on Friday July 24, 2026 @12:56PM (#49038413)
I think there's "how to use AI" and "how to make frequent AI use economical in systems". Different things?
Re:If You Build It, They Will Come on Saturday July 18, 2026 @03:30PM (#48961420)
Per the article, if you want to fix this... maybe start your own :P
Re:Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 on Friday July 17, 2026 @08:11AM (#48946396)
No, it's a nostalgia thing from us olds + the long battery life and hackability.
Re:Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @03:24PM (#48925853)
Interested in the implied strategy - that training a bespoke model for what you need will make economic sense over using a mass-trained model. I wonder if that's true?
It resonated with me!
Re:Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship on Monday June 29, 2026 @11:44AM (#48720784)
This clearly isn't true for eg a single-member LLC, and likely not true in general.
I expect them to give a shit, yeah. Just like they should care about what they read or watch, or who they hang out with.

Don't let your kids have an internet-connected phone, or keep it locked down so they don't have parasitic apps preying on their pre-frontal immaturity until they're old enough to handle it.

All of this needs to be done intentionally, of course, or it will feel like the kids are being punished. But I can't emphasize this enough... it's our job as parents to raise our kids.

Sure! With my kids it's meant not buying them internet-enabled devices (or disabling the internet access, eg smart TVs), only having 1 family computer in a shared space, and managing my own local network. There also aren't screens in the house through the week.

On the flip side, I let them read whatever they want, including things that are upsetting or that other parents would say aren't appropriate, and I talk to them about what they've read.

Overall, I think these policies have meant more thoughtful media consumption, and more time outside and with friends. I'm not enough of a fool to think our rules are enforced at friends' houses, but we've chosen to live in a community that's largely on the same page.

None of this stuff is easy, but as a parent, it's the job.

Or perhaps we should expect parents to take some responsibility for their kids' screen use?
Re:The room the economy can't see on Friday June 19, 2026 @10:37AM (#48599130)
By that logic, from my perspective - your family life, as we're practicing it today, it a car without a steering wheel.

The church down the street from me, that I have nothing to do with, is a car without a steering wheel. My local town, of which I'm only 1 member, is a car without a steering wheel.

Just because you see a system that you don't understand or control doesn't mean it's dangerous. The first instinct shouldn't be to centralize power.

Re:Iroh 1.0 on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:55PM (#48544820)
Hi! As someone who has historically built on libp2p, I'd love to see an updated comparison focused on app developers!

Last year, I was trying to choose between the two and went with that I know... but it feels like there's real momentum on Iroh's side.

My understanding - "insider trading" is specifically for securities, and brought by the SEC. The equivalent for commodities is called "market manipulation", brought by the CFTC. Market manipulation is a much harder thing to prove than insider trading.

This kind of reminds me of the OpenSea "insider trading" scandal. [0]

Not a lawyer, not legal advice, etc.

[0] - https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2025/09/...

Re:Using AI to write better code more slowly on Monday May 25, 2026 @09:41PM (#48273997)
If you're not shipping faster, it's meaningless, and if you are, it's also bad?
Re:Why Japanese companies do so many different things on Friday May 22, 2026 @12:03PM (#48237727)
> if they saw me romanticizing the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain?

Speaking for myself, I'd find that very interesting! I just stumbled over an article about it a few days ago, and don't think it's weird that different parts of the world would be interested in a regional business phenomenon.

If they use the system keyring, it depends on the OS and other details - MacOS, Linux, and Windows all have different implementation tradeoffs.
Re:System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @05:12PM (#47681439)
Two different "rent"s.
Re:France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain on Monday April 06, 2026 @06:34AM (#47659116)
When something is "realized" is a matter of accounting. It means to make the change, they sold the gold fo currrency, then bought it back. For many of us, realizing a gain is when taxes happen, though I'm not sure what it means for a nation state.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/realizedprofit.asp

Re:I am leaving the AI party after one drink on Friday March 27, 2026 @01:23PM (#47545628)
If I'm not mistaken, this was Socrates' exact perspective on writing.

Show HN: Shrouded, secure memory management in Rust

https://github.com/thesis/shrouded

Hi HN!I've been building a project that handles high-value credentials in-process, and I wanted something more robust than just zeroizing on drop. A comment on a recent Show HN[0] made me realize that awareness of lower-level memory protection techniques might not be as widespread as I thought.The idea here is to pull out all the tools in one crate, with a relatively simple API. *...

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Here are a couple examples of physical access leading to key extraction. You're welcome to be pedantic (those are side channel attacks, they don't defeat the boundary!) but one way or another, physical access wins.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/ https://ninjalab.io/eucleak/

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