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Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:59AM (#50338675)
Yes, this is a fuckup by Canonical

But it doesn't sound too hard to backport a patch from Debian to Ubuntu yourself.

So if it's a critical security concern to your company, open your laptop and get to work.

Re:Show HN: Ultrafast Rust Based Agent Workspace on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:21PM (#50310313)
"Palomino does not send your code, files, prompts, or chats to us. AI services you choose to use receive the content you send them."
Re:Deepgram is acquiring Daily, makers of Pipecat on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:33AM (#50290718)
"I love Goolybib's integrated multi-platform functionality. Yeah!"
VIEW AD TO CONTINUE...

...after already dismissing two ads. :(

The "court" in question is being used to hide blatant violations of US Citizens constitutional rights against mass surveillance.
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:19PM (#50261515)
Agree with the general workflow: prototype with an easy-to-read language then port to lower-level, faster language
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:45AM (#50196140)
I would have never guessed that
Prosecutors "protecting those careers" is 100% true

Source: I work with a top defense lawyer in Chicago

IL here.

Blue state systems are not better run.

Ignore the name.

This new type of education/retirement savings account is a good deal.

My daughters will be happy to receive their free SpaceX shares.

Re:Photopea DMCA Takedown on GitHub on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:17PM (#50106935)
You're not allowed to 'fork' somebody else's proprietary software!
Re:America Didn't Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:38PM (#50094832)
Best thread here!
Re:Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:32PM (#50094724)
I graduated college in 1992.

2 male friends from college died by their own hand within the last decade.

By most measures, they were successful professionals.

Re:Ukraine says new Starlink restrictions disrupt their military on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @11:21AM (#50089028)
Part of the "Cheap Diesel from Russia" deal?
Re:Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE) on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @11:04AM (#50088774)
no pictures of the IDE?
Until we find a better substrate, silicon IS the future.
Re:Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:05PM (#49980511)
Are you using riscv64 in the cloud or desktop?

i'm very interested in RISC-V and would love to read anything you can provide.

Thanks!

Re:How much do coding agents spend rediscovering a codebase? on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:34PM (#49970303)
i'd guess 25% of their time

https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify is supposed to help with that, but I haven't tried it yet

Marketing!
I have a lot of negative feelings toward modern Software Defined Vehicles. Unwanted surveillance is one of them.
per yahoo finance:

MICRON INSIDER TRANSACTIONS (LAST 6 MOS)

Purchases 887

Sales 337,619

Seems like the Execs aren't seeing this as a good thing for their company

Re:Ask HN: Do You Use Siri? on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:48PM (#49793178)
Yes. To snooze my alarm, when it's across the room. She fails maybe 20% of the time, in that the audible portion of the alarm may not return after the snooze period.
Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:51PM (#49792438)
My bet is that the new Trump-flavored NASA still wants to do this, but without the Europeans.
Goddamn kiwi ads wasting my time in the time-wasting app!
We need to figure this out. These people don't have "income", but do somehow have plenty of money to spend. So we should use their sources of spending money as a proxy for income, for taxation purposes.

Can we:

- create a progressive tax on dividends and capital gains, based on total wealth?

- create a tax on asset backed loans?

This is one of the most interesting comments on here.

Hints at unauthorized, illegal mass surveillance riding on top of authorized (but also possibly illegal) mass surveillance

I guarantee that Apple Computer + Apple Semi, as 2 different public companies, would have a larger combined market cap than Apple does now.

Mgmt is failing shareholders by not considering this seriously.

I wish Apple would become a CPU/GPU vendor.

I would love to see what amazing things that non-Apple people could build with Apple silicon.

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