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Re:The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public
on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:25PM (#50346790)
They already released the q3 numbers yesterday, right?
Re:AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo econo...
on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:00PM (#50340835)
being able to do more with less people is a payoff of its own sort. more people freed up to find other economic niches
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:29AM (#50333729)
Please can we add the name of the guest authors in the titles of these posts?
Re:Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:30PM (#50281172)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50277656
it was doing the thing a few hours ago according to this twitter post
Re:Gemini is censoring Joe Biden in election-related results
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:35PM (#50279622)
Seems to already be fixed?
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
on Monday October 19, 2026 @10:03PM (#50160478)
you can modify chrome flags to force sites into dark mode
Re:How the Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Is Deceiving You
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:01PM (#50142236)
I watched it in San Jose at Alamo and no one was heckling, but they also played a recording at the beginning reminding people not to talk during the movie. So if you want a quiet movie experience you should try a nearby Alamo Theater. The audience did clap after it was done.
I have heard from musicians who visit the bay that concert audiences are more frequently obnoxious here than other places, and they attribute it to a general lack of social skills in conjunction with all the artists being priced out of the area.
Re:How the Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Is Deceiving You
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:44AM (#50142072)
He said that he'd just gone through a breakup during a particular part. Trying not to spoil the movie here.
Re:How the Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Is Deceiving You
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:09AM (#50139007)
The thing where he said he'd gone through a break-up seemed like it could have been misleading (I don't actually know about his personal life)
Re:How the Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Is Deceiving You
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:04AM (#50138967)
I ship Nathan and Holmes
Re:Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:51PM (#50125233)
Thank you for the link.
It looks unlikely that I'll be approved, since I have no CVEs credited to me, and I do not publicly post about security concerns.
..........................................
The Cyber Verification Program is not available on free plans, so we are unable to approve you for the program.
If your plan changes, you're welcome to apply again at any time.
Regards,
The Anthropic Safeguards Team
..........................................
It looks like I will have to pay them to be considered. It has a cooldown of seven days. Check back in a week to see if my bribe works.
Re:Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:36PM (#50123418)
A form of being blocked is sandbagging the models
Re:Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:35PM (#50123396)
Anthropic gets zero of my money because their favorite word is no. I cannot figure out how to as an individual or a small startup request elevated permissions for the purposes of anything that they think might potentially be dangerous for someone who is not me to access. I have a background in cybersecurity. I have a background in life sciences. Can I put those skills to use to benefit humanity? Who knows.
Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:50AM (#50099284)
I did!
Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @11:28PM (#50098767)
Ok, but passkeys have prevented me from being able to do something remotely before.
Like, the far away computer tries to check if my phone is nearby, and it's not, therefore I must not be authorizing the login.
If anyone knows how to fix this I would be happy to learn.
I feel like every time I have added a passkey to an account I've been forced into it, and I didn't fully understand the implications.
Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:45AM (#50086856)
Amazon allows you to make returns and makes it convenient, quick, and easy. I made two purchases through independent sellers' websites in the last year, both with big banners guaranteeing satisfaction and easy returns for 100 days or something. And yet, when I found that the product didn't meet my needs, they would not accept my return. They wouldn't even issue a return label. Both of these sellers used Shop. Shop requires you to fill out an application for a refund and then the seller can drag their feet on processing it. In both cases they let the application sit there for days before rejecting it. In one of the cases my credit card company ruled in favor of the small business when I issued a chargeback.
On Amazon it's easy to request a return and get a return label all on the same day that you discover you have a subpar product. The long and short of it is that consumers do not want to be ripped off, and centralized sellers like Amazon and AliExpress make it easy to not be ripped off. If this raises prices across the board, so be it. It's worth it for the time saved and the accountability that comes along with it.
Re:GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:18AM (#50040490)
I know e-ink has a whole lot of limitations, which is what makes this video impressive, but, what were the limitations on the hardware used in the original gameboy screens that prevented them from remaining popular? Wikipedia says that they were STN LCD.
Re:AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human extinction
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @07:46AM (#49953041)
You seem way more educated on this stuff than most commenters. You should reach out if you want to chat.
Re:ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @04:36PM (#49947528)
> Why this weird ritual??
It's a once a year reminder that people are happy that you exist.
Sometimes children can feel like maybe their existence makes their parents lives worse, so it is important for them to be reassured that that is not the case (even if it is).
It's also just a fun thing to do. For some kids it's one of the few times per year they're allowed to go wild with sweets, so it's something they look forward to.
> If you want something just buy it.
Kids also often do not yet manage their own finances, so they don't have the freedom to just buy the things they want.
Re:The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore
on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:21AM (#49875044)
Prove it then - make mirrored life. I think we still don't fully understand biology and we won't until we start actually proving our theories about what is going on.
Re:Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:41AM (#49867654)
It's proof of concept for biotech applicability.
More details on this page.
Re:"They had no concept of a duty of care to their users."
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:32AM (#49867570)
If people can be upset when llms delete a file, we can be upset when an open-source project deletes a file.
Re:We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @06:49AM (#49855281)
I keep clicking through on these because I am curious about what Terrence Tao has to say, and then they are always guest posts.
Re:U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain...
on Friday September 25, 2026 @01:30PM (#49847531)
I think you're confused. When the White House decided to stop having federal agencies buy paper straws [1], they didn't designate paper straws a supply chain risk, they just stopped buying them. The term has a very specific meaning which would not apply in the pen scenario.
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/endi...
Re:Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train)
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @05:58PM (#49823151)
I'm really hoping the Waymo initiative can convince them to cut the number of bus stops!
Re:Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train)
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @01:22PM (#49819484)
The situation we are talking about here involves a bridge with no dedicated bus lane or fast lane.
Re:Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train)
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @12:41PM (#49818797)
No doubt they are possible. One factor that discourages their existence though is that the dregs of society mess them up or go in there to do drugs in private and then conk out. It's the number one pushback to providing restrooms for the public. It sucks, but it's how it is. Most likely the only way around this is to stop subsidizing transit and to be very careful to enforce fares. This is not popular among the people who love transit, who tend to also love the underdogs and root for them.
Re:Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train)
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @12:28PM (#49818555)
???
You have a really dim view of humanity </3
People need to get from point A to point B. Traveling to meet up with friends is in no way gratuitous.
Re:Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train)
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @04:25AM (#49813138)
Oh, I think it's a great idea to reward people for taking transit because it will help reduce traffic on the road and allow the Waymos to operate in tighter loops, increasing availability to other passengers, and possibly even bringing costs down as a result.
My selfish trip all the way across the city instead of to the nearest convenient transit station makes things worse for everyone except for me :)
To make it more clear why this would be the case, imagine that everyone in the city behaved as I did, all taking Waymos to this same train station, even if it was far out of their way. Almost all the Waymos would start at that train station after dropping other people off, and they would have to drive to get the next person, so you can think of each trip as a loop. Some of the loops would be very small and fast, for people who happen to be close to that train station, while others would be very long, for the people who started all the way across town. Less cars are needed to accommodate the short loop trips than to accommodate the long loop trips, and since there are a limited amount of cars, people will have to wait longer to complete their trips.
If instead you imagine that each Waymo that's driving around initializes on a grid around the city, with, idk, 10 blocks between each of them, and the people who want a ride, also equally distributed, all instead get a ride to their nearest transit station, the loops are shorter, which means more people can receive service.