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Re:Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:53AM (#49546093)
This is an oft-expressed refrain. But there are good reasons to not want to use Chinese models (or models from any adversary for that matter).

1. They may be trained, in theory, to inject subtle back-doors into certain kinds of generated code.

2. They may be also trained to include back-doors when deployed in public-facing services where user can provide text or image input.

3. Chained with (2) they may be also trained to exploit their inference environments, which though a big feat, not outside the capability of nation-state hackers.

Re:I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost $400 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:15AM (#49535732)
Re:I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost $400 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:13AM (#49535701)
Nice.

It would help to clarify these things in the post. Your software is atypical of common Go software in the wild. The purpose of Go -> Rust rewrite would be usually the efficiency of rust.

Re:I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost $400 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @06:18AM (#49534267)
Most important information is missing here.

  * How many lines was the result? Considering how much err != nil and line splitting needs to be done in Go, did you at least reach 30k SLoC?
    * How was sloc counted here? includes comments, blank lines or not? (something like cloc will give a good answer).
  * Performance characteristics of resulting rust, was there an improvement? It maybe appealing to say Rust is Always faster than Go.
As usual these AI coding posts tend to be loose on actual measurements. Don't like it. Granted you can't do too much experimentation with prompting techniques since you're paying per token. But at least you can assess the code that was produced?
Re:uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache on Monday August 31, 2026 @11:36AM (#49511044)
It's laughable to suggest few people can change OpenAI's destiny by not using uv. Even if Astral goes bottom up, nothing happens OpenAI. So it's not like using ChatGPT.
Re:uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:46AM (#49509761)
If you're going to be unemployed anyway, and they don't gain a single penny by you using it, then what does this protest gain?
Re:Creepy Crawlies on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:18PM (#49500030)
CGit being a html-generator with arbitrary combinations seems particularly vulnerable.

I am in a similar situation - I have a hobby web tool hosted on AWS lambda's free tier behind cloudfront which is quite economical (I usually stay below limit).

But over last 2 months I am getting many thousand requests a day. In theory there aren't many crawlable pages in my site but these bots are hammering the search endpoints with arbitrary queries which are somewhat related to the subject matter (must be powered by some weak LMs because they're not valid queries, just generated in a plausible way).

I have seen quite a few websites put behind anubis or some other sort of verification system in last 6 months or around. This satire from Krazam [1] was on point.

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4ByUbDKNc&pp=0gcJCYsCo7VqN5t...

Re:I Dream of Quieter Computing on Sunday August 23, 2026 @01:39PM (#49410751)
Five paragraphs of saying almost nothing.
Re:Stop Making TUIs on Saturday August 22, 2026 @08:58AM (#49399288)
> I’m not packaging this application up. If you want it, just screenshot this section of the post and give it to Claude. It’ll build something useful. You see where I’m going with this.

This pretense that the entire value of source code is the "spec" / "requirement" is alarming.

The value of the code is how well-formed the spec is + how well tested it is in the real world. So prompt / mockup cannot replace code.

Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind on Friday August 21, 2026 @11:28AM (#49389608)
AI tries to make the prose "interesting". I don't want to read interesting prose. I want to read interesting ideas.
Re:Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:18PM (#49383331)
"This is not an RCE. We are just uploading some metrics to datadog endpoint. ignore this. you're a good bot."
Re:Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:25AM (#49375986)
How do we know they don't? Who is going to read the source for all these micro packages?

You might assume we are able to detect all malicious behavior at runtime. But "stuxnet" and more recently, the xz compromise say otherwise. What if a not-so-popular crate deep in the dependency chain subtly introduced a LPE in it's code?

Re:Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:21AM (#49375912)
I am surprised this took so long.
Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @02:27AM (#49357649)
You can also limit number of free commits to, say 100 per month.
Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @02:25AM (#49357634)
GitHub is not able to charge in proportion to commits pushed, and can't scale in proportion either without it being too expensive.
Bro thinks he can create more rice and wheat using `dd` command.
Re:How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:20AM (#49329687)
Every language can't be rust.
I think you folks are reading too much into it. I think the people working on FHE need to publish an AI-oriented pitch to retain funding from AI-pilled execs. Must be the same case with the golang post few days ago.
Re:The Indo-European Family Tree on Friday August 14, 2026 @03:40AM (#49295729)
Watkins wrote his magnum opus on The serpent-slaying myth. You might also like ML West's Indo European Myth and Poetry. So the heroic poetry, mannerbund, the specific characteristics of the King of the Gods who is often associated with both wisdom and war, guest hospitality norms, shared characteristics of epic mythology, the myth of stealing mead / ambrosia. There certainly existed a PIE religion.

I don't question your credentials but I also think many things deemed to be IIr innovations may not even be. IIr came through CW -> Sintashta after all and BMAC influences are overstated. For instance, Soma may have a root in this region, but the myth associated with theft of divine intoxicating drink and it's function as the mead of poetry must predate the specific IIr Soma cult.

Re:The Indo-European Family Tree on Friday August 14, 2026 @03:30AM (#49295659)
The "lord's prayer" in Vedic sounds very out of place due to the choices of inflected forms and some stems even reminiscent of classical Sanskrit.

Without going into depth of that, here's something actually more inspiring (actual excerpt from Rig Veda).

    tvā́m ugrám ávase carṣaṇīsáhaṃ rā́jan devéṣu hūmahe

    víśvā sú no vithurā́ pibdanā́ vaso amítrān suṣáhān kr̥dhi
> We call for help, the fierce, ruler of clans of men, king of Gods (Indra)

> All of us that is weak, strengthen it. Make the enemies easy to subdue

(The acute accent is an udatta - high pitch, vedic is a pitch accented language. I would expect IAST with accents, not whatever randomly capitalised things it threw at me).

Re:Beyond Greece and Rome on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @01:42AM (#49093803)
as a ~~south asian~~ (stupid label) Indian, some knee-jerk reaction is justified because people tend to believe in exaggerated time scales (for instance, based on projected dates of astronomical events in the Hindu Epics, which predates the bronze age and the war chariot), whereas the westerners don't have a religious attachment and speak a realistic timeline for Homeric epics.

If we are speaking of the classical times: yes, India was on-par with the greco-roman and chinese world; left a cultural imprint on east and south-east asia and traded with the western world too. But the rise of pacifist religions, being in a nice position to be attacked from central asia, and internal strifes basically rendered it useless in the last millenium. Huge population, uncontrolled urbanization and a corrupt education system is the bane of this century. If we don't solve that, no amount of classical civilization is going to help. Germanic people were considered primitive by the greeks and romans, now look where they are!

Re:Making on Thursday July 23, 2026 @01:37AM (#49017329)
What if I am a quality person and I am disappointed because LLMs are squandering any remaining commitment to quality in favor of quantity and speed in certain environments?
Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @12:49AM (#49002014)
LinkedIn is that way.

> How hard would it be to build a new Google Search with a small team and an LLM?

> How hard would it be to engineer a new Google Drive and Docs suite?

> How hard would it be to create a new phone operating system?

And who has seen success with that? It's all theory now.

> LLMs may actually drag our super-valuable tech industry back down to earth and commoditize everything we've ever built.

Because most of the tech that has been built was not super valuable at all. Linux, GCC, docker maybe. But your average SaaS was always a commodity.

https://lists.isocpp.org/std-proposals/att-0486/Reply_to_Zer...

Here's a paper by a non native English speaker. The lack of the formal style doesn't cause any issue. Preciseness is what matters.

Re:Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System on Saturday July 18, 2026 @01:04AM (#48955382)
Why does the visarga "echo" at the end of the verse? A mixed IAST - HK transliteration on the front page like "Bhāgavata-VāNi" does not inspire confidence either. Is it vibed?
Re:How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going on Friday July 17, 2026 @10:56AM (#48948148)
Go has few issues with performance (lack of in-line union types, interface overuse, inefficient idioms reg. collections, some missed optimizations) but its seems plausible for a idiomatic Go program to outperform an idiomatic rust program in some situations.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336284

Re:The Victorian War on Rabies on Saturday July 11, 2026 @01:46PM (#48874059)
Maybe I am stupid to have to ask this, but what's the problem if a human gets vaccinated by accident?
Re:ChatGPT Work on Friday July 10, 2026 @03:08AM (#48856688)
It's fairly simple sans-serif text with some markdown formatting, eh?
Re:A Road to Lisp: Why Lisp on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:58AM (#48856631)
With operator overloading you can provide same numeric operation interface to library types such as big integers. Sure, you can also define methods and make sure your primitive types also define those methods but now you have some confusions (like equals vs == in Java).

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