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Re:It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:12PM (#50329947)
Increasingly whenever I see a product advertised, I look around a bit and find a better, cheaper product that wasn’t advertised as heavily. Almost to the point where excessive advertising makes me suspect the product.
Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:52PM (#50320098)
Cloud does let you do this with VPCs and subnets. Some people don't bother and end up susceptible but it remains best practice even for cloud software
I’m just pointing out that you chose to omit the one that’s over a thousand times worse and accounts for >99% of the “bad” overall.

Traveling the same distance without rail or air (i.e. on foot, horse, car) is also relatively deadly and the alternative (of living in small communities and not traveling long distances) is also not great for multiple reasons

To be fair, both high speed trains and planes are very safe forms of transportation, with deaths numbering in less than 1000 per year.

Currently the yearly global death toll for cars is at 1.16 million and climbing

Re:My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:14PM (#50307969)
The Nintendo Wii notably has two processors that run different operating systems, so you might need some emulation or hardware modifications to do so
They do seem to have successfully moved all of the stuff relating to artifacts out to skills with the latest release.
Re:Java's new AOT cache feature is in a rough state on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:03PM (#50292355)
Yea, it should probably warn and fallback to normal JIT
But you also burn the exact same number of tokens (actually more) every time the model makes a tool call. It's an agent, it makes a lot of tool calls.
Re:New iMac with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:45PM (#50277770)
- You have to run both the host OS and guest OS, losing you about 4-6GB of RAM and ~10% of CPU (and ~20-40 gigabytes of disk space)

- It’s slower

- GPU support in VMs is weird, especially when the host and guest use different graphics stacks (i.e. Windows games often don’t work in a Windows VM running on macOS because while the CPU can be passed through to the VM directly the GPU cannot; the VM driver has to try to translate DirectX GPU commands to Metal or OpenGL; some games can be a worse experience than using Wine)

There are systems with lightweight hypervisors for security purposes (like Android or PlayStation or even Windows sometimes), but those are (a) lightweight and built to use little resources, and (b) specifically designed to support the system APIs needed / use the same stack as the OS, so they won’t have the issues mentioned above.

Stuff like Qubes is also fine because you explicitly accept the tradeoffs when using it (that’s why Qubes has such high system requirements). And the VMs are all Linux-on-Linux, so the GPU issue is minimized.

While modern systems take inspiration from VMs, the sandboxing that most modern OSes do is designed to be much more lightweight than virtualization, since it doesn’t require virtualizing any hardware.

Re:New iMac with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @12:52AM (#50269471)
Asahi Linux exists for ARM Linux and has Windows has no equivalent (since it’s closed source and Microsoft doesn’t want to support that). Linux also runs virtualized, that’s obviously irrelevant because daily driving a VM isn’t a great idea.
Re:New iMac with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:02PM (#50266469)
It has better prospects of being able to run Linux than it does of being able to run Windows, to be fair
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:51PM (#50263045)
Numba is basically this.
Re:Websites Should Be Printable on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:40PM (#50250605)
MathML?
Re:Websites Should Be Printable on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:39PM (#50248796)
A TeX distribution on my computer (mactex) is like 4 gigabytes. Definitely not "bundle-with-a-web-browser" worthy.
Re:Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:07PM (#50248242)
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned https://buildtheearth.net/
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:31PM (#50237947)
You’re missing Group C, who didn’t offer cigarettes to their kids until their kids heard of these “healthy” cigarettes that are “safe for kids”
I was surprised at how obvious the AI was. Cilia do not, in fact, pop in and out of existence while moving around.
Re:Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin on Sunday October 25, 2026 @11:56AM (#50232947)
I see. Based on the wallet address, it does in fact seem to have simply gone down without being exploited.
Re:Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:15AM (#50228266)
Site gives 504 Gateway Timeout. Have there been any updates in the exploitation attempt?
You can set the max file size per ZIP file to 50GB instead of 2GB, then it will only generate 7 zip files
It's challenging to expand vertically while also fighting a battle horizontally. Usually expanding vertically is done by companies after they've already taken over a lot of their industry or the industry has matured (a.k.a. less competition).
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:02PM (#50215282)
iMessage's attachment renderer is also sandboxed, actually. You might be talking about this vulnerability: https://projectzero.google/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero..., but the second half of the vulnerability exploit chain was finding a way out of the CoreGraphics (Apple's image rendering library) sandbox to hack the rest of the system.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:26PM (#50212477)
iOS does sandbox their processes really well, that's why this hack was as difficult as it was. The Safari thing you're talking about is JIT - iOS disables all runtime code generation across the system except in Safari (for JavaScript), but this is a completely separate thing from sandboxing.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:04PM (#50212154)
Would require defining what features are needed. "Require PDF/A" is probably a reasonable approximation, though it would break most PDFs
GeForce Now is $9.99 for 100 hours of playtime (but the hours do expire)
Server GPU/memory has also been getting more expensive along with normal customer stuff. Hyperscalars with a lot of hardware do try to keep prices constant for a bit (since prices for hardware they bought is amortized), but they too are bound by economic markets and have to raise prices.
Doesn't seem like much of a good deal relative to competitor services, especially GeForce now at 10 cents per hour
Re:A farewell to Arc browser on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:21PM (#50198340)
I'm on Zen Browser

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