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Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:19AM (#50337995)
CVSS in general is not the best proxy for "real world impact". You could have a 10 on a software thats only deployed once and the impact would be tiny. In this case, multipath is not used that much (except by go).
Re:Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:24AM (#50270613)
Always comes back to fundamentals: defense in depth, principle of least privilege, patch your shit. Almost every security issue comes from violating one of those.
I've done that too and given up on it. They got longer and longer, the LLM started adding them itself despite specific instructions to not do that, and in the end it let to context bloat. Better of without them.
A significant part of the corpus is marketing copy.
A lot of those games are attempts at cheap cash grabs more than "I can finally make my dream game".
Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:04PM (#50107650)
AI will bring on the biggest gatekeepers of them all: the ones that own the compute.
Re:Grieving the Loss of Details on Sunday October 11, 2026 @08:33AM (#50042607)
I see a different outcome.

- significant amount of money that used to be wages now paid to AI companies

- causing significant power shift to the owners of AI companies

- significant amount of people out of jobs, at the same time blue collar workers still have to work

- causing anger and resentment within society

- fueled by AI owners who will train their models to subtly argue in their favor

- protecting themselves with drones

- significant amount of countries simply go bankrupt or fall apart

- unable to let go of the basic capitalist mindset that cannot work when there simply is no available work for many people

Suffered from ADHD my entire life (undiagnosed). Fixed my chronic insomnia pre-diagnosis. Sure it helped a bit but not even close to medication.
Re:What should we tell our students? on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:39AM (#50018216)
It's already the case. I know a professor and he says most of his students PhD ideas are AI generated, meaning they are outsourcing the fun stuff.
My understanding, and I would love for someone to explain why, is that they measure current with a shunt resistor which is fine for inductive loads like a water heater, but not fine for a big motor for example.
Re:Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:34AM (#49975807)
Dashcams are banned for example in Germany.
Re:cp: -r or -R? on Monday October 05, 2026 @03:45AM (#49961859)
Wow, 24 years of Linux, I never bothered to look it up. Thanks.
Re:So You Think You Could Be an Electrician? on Sunday October 04, 2026 @07:10AM (#49952832)
It is in Germany for example, same as sysadmin and IT-Electrician. They all go to trade school. Personally found it a bit useless though.
Re:Agents don't need memory. They need documentation on Sunday October 04, 2026 @04:15AM (#49951776)
I've done that too, called it Decisions. Was happy for a while, but then the agent started to make decisions longer and longer, putting "x, not y" in there. It started to write them without asking. Suddenly in code review it would say "violates D-236". Some rule it made up that I never approved. Then I made very clear that it should never touch those files. Still does. Now it's just context bloat.
Re:Agents don't need memory. They need documentation on Sunday October 04, 2026 @04:10AM (#49951745)
Do agents actually follow it though? Everything I tried that was not just simple instructions had the same failure mode : ADR, mnemonic, hindsight, code-review-graph, etc were simply ignored by agents after a while. They always fall back to their baseline: grep and Python.
Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026 on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:32AM (#49906032)
I remember back in the late nineties / early 2000s drive failures really were pretty common. During my childhood I think I had three. I've never had a catastrophic failure since then, really came a long way.
Re:Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:58AM (#49867199)
How many people do you personally know that live a better life today than 20 years ago?
Re:Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:48AM (#49867103)
Inflation does not hit everyone equally. Poorer people are disproportionately affected.
Re:We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians on Sunday September 27, 2026 @06:30AM (#49865369)
This is so sad for me. What's humanities purpose? Generate shareholder value? Is this the best we can come up with?

We are destroying the planet and ourselves. There are a few things which we do that are just good in of themselves, which can inspire and proof that there is good. Friendly competition, exploration, art and understanding the world around us.

What world do we want to live in? And what are the kind of personalities that would be required for such a world? A thousand Picards or a thousand Musks?

Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News on Sunday September 27, 2026 @06:17AM (#49865289)
This could go the star trek or dystopian route, and which way depends on who controls the models.

There is going to be a very shitty in between time where we still need blue collar, but no white collar labor. The amount of conflicts out of that will be insane. And who controls the news?

Re:MentalHealthBench on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:24AM (#49840823)
This seems to miss the point for me, therapy is a series of 20+ conversations, steered by the therapist.

Current LLMs would instead be steered by previous tokens, meaning the patient does. So someone that for example has schizophrenia may actually convince the LLM it's true.

Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on Thursday September 10, 2026 @03:21AM (#49639649)
I use this for automated bug triage, just gets all unique error messages every night and tries to find the bug, for this kind of work it's great.
Re:I resigned from Anthropic today on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:45AM (#49621615)
The danger for me is that it's centralized, controlled by a handful of people with their very specific ideas how the world should work. If you believe that AI can be an amplifier to do work than these people now have the most access to the biggest amplifier.
Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:22PM (#49614493)
The singularity happening under trump? We could have had star trek, instead we're getting the combine.
As a European, that would change nothing for me. The issue is systemic disinformation, fundamental lack of empathy and all those echo chambers. As long as this exists, the current situation will repeat or get worse.
Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective on Saturday August 29, 2026 @03:28AM (#49487741)
They're just anti-capitalist nerds, example, they host Linux user groups in a couple cities, collect computers for schools etc.
I got more things done in one week on ADHD meds than in the three months before that. And the only reason I went out to get a diagnosis was an ADHD meme community that constantly made me go "haha, that is so me".

If I got diagnosed 10 or 20 years earlier, I wouldn't have dropped out of university and my life would have been profoundly different and better.

What you personally find important is not what everyone else finds important or inspiring. Destroying something takes it away from every single future human being.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Monday August 10, 2026 @04:44PM (#49249454)
Thank you!
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Monday August 10, 2026 @03:13AM (#49240342)
It's an homage to cultist simulator, another card game, and inspiration. :) But looking at CTR vs conversion rate you might be right. Anyway, too late.

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