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Re:Pakistani Judges Give Their Verdict on JudgeGPT on Monday August 17, 2026 @05:14AM (#49328231)
We have already seen LLM misuse by counsels around the world. While this judge use is being tried out in the open for what seems like the first time in the world, I wonder how long until judges do the same thing as software devs and barely look at the output.

Inb4 Vibejudging

Re:Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:32AM (#48627388)
Which Indian state is this? I'm assuming something southern.
Re:SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable on Thursday June 18, 2026 @04:27AM (#48582449)
That non-steam-deck section is glorious.
Re:GrapheneOS and Forensic Extraction of Data (2024) on Thursday September 11, 2025 @09:06AM (#45211146)
The post had some nice structural discussion about digital forensics
Re:I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @06:43AM (#44508358)
The author wants a DRM that won't stop working in older platforms. He wants DRM. The problem is that the DRM is on a rolling release, and non-latest versions are not supported. His concerns would be solved if the games are able to pin to a specific DRM version/policy
Re:I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:25AM (#44507895)
Lots of the key people working on things like SDL that Value very heavily relies on are also very vocal critics of the Steam Input API. Steam Input is a bastardization of SDL technically.

I have personally benefitted from the steam input feature in niche cases, but the way it hijacks everything by default even when not enabled does seem to be poor engineer-ship. I have run into some issues when doing controller management within games, only to realize it has to be solved at the steam level.

Re:# [derive(Clone)] Is Broken on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @08:54AM (#44499508)
This is the best explanation I've read of this limitation
Re:Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel on Thursday June 12, 2025 @09:08AM (#44257366)
I used to wonder what was the play with pouring so much money into making a React framework the default. Now I understand the play
Sounds interesting, is there anything online about this?
Re:Steve Jobs would have fired everyone on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:17AM (#44246013)
It would be more grey on white than you think. It's not just Gaussian blur, they also have noise layers in the shader.
Re:A year of funded FreeBSD development on Saturday June 07, 2025 @03:50PM (#44212130)
Very enlightening piece on how corpo sponsorship of OSS work. Thanks to the author for writing this.
Re:Rsync's defaults are not always enough on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @06:13AM (#44168322)
There are a lot of reasons why just making a copy of the files you need to another FS is not sufficient as a backup, clearly this is one of those. We need more checks to ensure integrity and robustness.

BorgBackup is clearly quite good as an option.

Re:Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestrator on Friday May 30, 2025 @02:02AM (#44133347)
This is great for web developers who have to manually write multi-browser compliant code. Fat frameworks might take care of the cross compat stuff, but for those raw dogging, this will be good.
Re:Minecraft Server in FreeBSD Jails Container on Saturday April 05, 2025 @08:53PM (#43598064)
Running containers inside VMs in multitenant scenarios is so common that Google though of inventing gVisor which you can think of as a highly paravirtualized guest OS that is lighter than a full VM but still based on similar virtualization principles for isolation.
Re:Minecraft Server in FreeBSD Jails Container on Saturday April 05, 2025 @08:51PM (#43598054)
I read the first line and expected LLM spam, but I was wrong. Thanks for the detailed comparison.
Re:How Kerala got rich on Saturday March 29, 2025 @12:44AM (#43512807)
Isn't Kerala's economy held up by remittances and duct tape?
Land of the free after all
They have VAC and the newer version that they promised would save CS2 hasn't exactly changed much from CSGO days in terms of results.

I would love for Valve to prove it is possible but so far they haven't shown it can be done without leaving a bad experience for legit players (due to delayed ban waves, etc) despite the repeated claims.

Makes sense considering Valve has maintained that kernel level AC is not required and has not included one in their own games, but let's be honest, unfortunately you have to often wonder if your enemy is having a good day or if he's hacking in CS but not so in valorant for a reason.
I wonder how explicit and clear they were about the intended purpose of these vouchers. I can see myself saying fck it and using it however I feel without thinking much since it seems insignificant, unless they make a deal of it.
Re:China Is Losing the Chip War on Friday June 07, 2024 @05:12AM (#40606788)
This is a super weirdly written article that reads like something I would expect to be written about Xi and China in a Chinese publication.