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Re:In LLM era, can software startup survive? on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:28AM (#50335486)
One a much larger time scale, I think that premise still holds. Greybeards used to tell me how back in the 80s/90s "everyone" (in software) was developing & selling their custom solutions. And it was completely normal to buy your software, the OS, IDE, compilers, Browser, basically everything. But with the proliferation of free software/open source many software business models had to compete with viable free alternatives. And with big tech doing price-dumping in many markets (who still buys a browser?). So nowadays many software sub segments there exist very good solutions that are free, competing with those are super hard and only possible for very specialized niches.
Brotli2Shell seems to be a more appropriate name for this.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Saturday October 24, 2026 @05:06AM (#50219434)
That's because the Swiss DNS blocking originated in an anti-unregulated-gambling law. Basically all unregulated gambling websites are blocked. There shouldn't be any other sites on that list.
Technically, if the rate of bug detection and correct bug fixes by AI is larger than the rate of newly introduced bugs by humans & AIs, then we'd asymptotically approach a bug free OS in the long run. But these are big ifs.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:19PM (#50197490)
Host in Switzerland, that's where Quad9 operates from.
Isn't that at least the second time that LiteLLM got compromised?
Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:02AM (#50182235)
Why is the official source (php.net) marked as [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180943

and not the github mirror?

Re:PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:46AM (#50181958)
Now they have finally shipped it.
Re:PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:44AM (#50181909)
More like >10min early. It's close, but given today’s speed of agents..
Re:PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:41AM (#50181858)
Just make sure to have the ca-certificates fixes already...
Re:PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:07AM (#50181252)
Good point, at least now Debian has shipped the patched packages.
Re:PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:00AM (#50181122)
A bit too early for the announced coordinated release, no?
Re:EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:09PM (#50169479)
On my just updated Firefox 158.0.1 on Android they are not blocked.

Edit: however on Firefox Focus 157.0.1 they are blocked.

Re:Timestral: Mistral release time-series foundation models on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:00AM (#50151327)
What's the connection between Timestral/Mistral and The Forecasting Company?
Re:Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains on Sunday October 18, 2026 @05:30PM (#50145680)
Sounds like Namecheap. They took one of my domains (held for many years) and try to sell it back to me for thousands because now it's a valuable domain.
Re:The math that OpenAI keeps for itself on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:08AM (#50138998)
What's the $-value of some street cred/publicity vs. $-value of finding some optimization trick that reduces training/inference cost by millions compared to their competitors? Of course they're going to keep that IP to themselves.
Re:The Mathocalypse on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:34AM (#50030908)
By standard semantics, if you state that believing with certainty that the proof is incorrect is stupid, then you surely believe with certainty that it's correct.

Unless you want the negate the certainty part, but then the nudge to gambling is less coherent.

Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:12AM (#50006794)
What a timeline, OpenAI's model is so good, it publishes hundreds of math papers.

The latest model even finds mistakes in previously published math papers!!!*

* so far, only OpenAI's math papers were faulty and needed retraction.

I'd guess for a change to the usual AI dominant frontpage.
Re:Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models on Saturday October 03, 2026 @07:01AM (#49943134)
The entitled consumer is just a symptom of large scale anti competitive practices. It's classic price dumping by the oligopolists. It's so pervasive that consumer get used to these super low prices (free).
The underlying question is: has a human counted and classified those 140 issues? Or is that information the output of LLM?
Re:Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about on Saturday September 26, 2026 @05:17AM (#49854716)
Scrolling through ~200 items is not really "infinite scroll", as in reels/shorts etc.
Re:Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:02AM (#49737780)
You had profanity filters for SMS?
Re:Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:00AM (#49737772)
Is that a cultural/national thing instead of an age thing?

I've never had texts censored by texting providers, they're not supposed to read texts in the first place (at least around here).

Re:Java 27 Released on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:57AM (#49712607)
And still funny today, not all jokes survive that long.
Re:Most people prefer traditional architecture on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:13AM (#49710724)
Classical and in a sense neoclassical architecture literally stood the test of time.
That's why I had to enable the "pause updates for four weeks" setting on Windows. Otherwise every second update would break something somewhere and disrupt workflows regularly. With the one-month update delay you'd get the updates that fixed the previous update.
Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @01:24AM (#49708078)
Like how one can easily not use snap on Ubuntu? /s
Re:1,000+ shoes reviewed and cut in half on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:08PM (#49699270)
What if they'd retest shoes after 6m/12m and compare certain parameters with the first review? Basically checking if manufacturing quality degraded.

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