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Re:OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:03AM (#49830778)
In the old days it was called cybercrime and people went to jail cause of it.

BLLM / ALLM – before and after LLM

Shall we start indicating the time as "before llm" and "after llm"? I've just talked with someone who wants to break into the industry and i've wrote something like "i have few collogues who entered through contributing to open source, but it was before LLMs".LLMs seem to be such big thing and their impact is rolling throughout industries that maybe we shall start using ALLM to indicate the new...

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Re:AWS Acquires DuckDB on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:21AM (#49448684)
it was already like that, and merging 3rd party changes to the core was troublesome, so maybe aws just bought them cause of this reason :D
Re:What If America Went Dark? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @06:44AM (#49359692)
I doubt ER would fit half of the city.
Re:A new Android malware from Google on Thursday July 02, 2026 @05:38AM (#48758812)
All service providers above some scale should be obliged to create a transparent processes or be taken for external jusges.

Even better: all providers of services with more than 100K users or 10% of country internet users should be forced to provide API to export / import data in open format.

It literally takes 1day in Poland.
Re:Ten years of ClickHouse in open source on Friday June 19, 2026 @09:03AM (#48598105)
This is the main driver for their cloud ;-)
This is not true. Over 5% of population is foreign and it’s growing every year.
Re:Inside a Corporate Retreat That Went Very Badly Wrong on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:41AM (#47671121)
Drinking late at office also sounds awesome, but somewhat many people don’t like it.
Maybe it was just an old stupid treason? Someone against the war and… hard to believe there are no rules about location.
Is stealing from a thief a theft?
Maybe because it’s literally a spam what you’re doing?

My email is on many such lists, I never ever would contact someone who spams. Just no.

I also have all tracking pixels blocked, so you would not know I’ve opened.

Re:The lost art of XML on Saturday January 24, 2026 @12:13PM (#46745380)
I’ve once got a contract to write tiny system that had to integrate with 20-30y old system, then written in some version of c# / Microsoft framework, it was only speaking xml. I had problem with timestamp, cause depending on some internal state, it was returned different way. I had to go and read over 100pages of date+time in xml spec and implement it. Also, found that a lib they were using had bugs, so my lib had to deal with it.

I hate xml.

Re:The AI Bubble Is Not What You Think on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @04:23AM (#46614018)
1. They can squeeze a lot from current models.

2. Google can afford to push the frontier as long as it brings more money. They’ve been investing in AI way before others.

Re:Ask HN: How are you vibe coding in an established code base? on Saturday December 20, 2025 @05:34AM (#46335104)
I use it when I know what and where need to be done, because the complexity of the system and that making mistakes can fail the whole app. I do research in codebase using Claude ultrathink.

Our system is pretty well tested, so this helps a lot.

I know most people at my company use it, and with pretty good results(?)

Personally, I stoped voluntarily reviewing code and caring about quality of code that I’m not responsible for. The AI slop is real and reviewing it is counter-career, instead of pushing product forward and getting praised you spend it fighting with AI. I just accepted that this is how the products looks these days.

It is not, because SV people use shallow metaphors from areas they don’t understand, to gain publicity.

But that was the same thought for me. The other totally missed aspect: a fire kills all life in area.

But why? If one may resell apartment for profit, why do we regulate tickets?
Re:Context should go away for Go 2 on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @05:07AM (#42778318)
To not repeat other's (Python) mistakes ;-)

Ask HN: Database threat detection and response – will it fly?

Having spent the last few years working with RDBMS, I recently started exploring an idea for a database-centric cybersecurity solution. Together with two friends, we’ve spent the past three months researching this space. We've conducted dozens of in-person interviews (following The Mom Test guidelines) with CISOs from various scale-ups and enterprises across Eastern Europe and India, zeroing in...

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It's not that simple. If the country introduces a legislation, every company operating in it's border must comply.

If EU would introduce such legislation, it could potentially make software doing end2end encryption illegal. In such case, google would be removing it from EU Play Stores, and this would be more/less end of such messaging apps unless they comply. :-)

This is why it's important to have a reasonable legislature and laws.

From the source:

> Chat control - one of the worst EU plans that is also being described as a surveillance monster - must be stopped. And the EU Parliament has just decided to do so! In a historic agreement on the EU Commission's Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR) the European Parliament wants to remove chat control requirements and safeguard secure encryption. The decision came after extensive backlash against the original proposal from technology and security experts, to international scientists and to citizens across Europe. This is a great win for our right to privacy and for upholding our democratic values in Europe, but the fight continues!

What did the EU Parliament decide?

Breyer writes on his website that internet services and apps must be "secure by design and default". The EU Parliament has agreed to:

    "safeguard the digital secrecy of correspondence and remove the plans for blanket chat control, which violate fundamental rights and stand no chance in court. The current voluntary chat control of private messages (not social networks) by US internet companies is being phased out. Targeted telecommunication surveillance and searches will only be permitted with a judicial warrant and only limited to persons or groups of persons suspected of being linked to child sexual abuse material."
A huge win for our privacy rights is also that the EU Parliament has decided to "clearly exclude so-called client-side scanning".

In contrast to the original chat control proposal, the version of the EU Parliament wants that a new EU Child Protection Centre proactively searches publicly accessible parts of the internet for child sexual abuse material with automatic crawling, which can also take place in darknet and would be much more efficient than private surveillance measures by providers. Found abuse material must be reported and taken down by the provider. Fight is not over

While the EU Parliament's decision is a huge win, the fight is not over. It is expected that the EU Commission will continue to push for general surveillance chat control measures. Now is the time for each and everyone of us to join this fight!

Re:Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for? on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @05:23PM (#29100453)
Eric was great CEO and TGIFs were the thing ;-)
Re:Ask HN: What are the biggest problems in your life? on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @01:58AM (#28755926)
too much work :P not enough time with family and friends
Re:16% of Gen Z Believe Hitting a Router Improves UK Broadband on Thursday September 02, 2021 @07:37AM (#28390819)
About 50% of Gen Z has below average IQ. No big deal.
Re:ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:03AM (#28155726)
minor/major makes sense for, when a company plans to support a major for longer period of time, if the development is continuous, the date sounds good
It happen to me few times. Apparently no one ever has the same problem as me before. This happen super rarely and I'm proud of it.

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Re:The puzzle of Europe on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:50AM (#26383895)
Can it also be that the time of Europe exploiting the rest of the world is over, the last 50 years is US exploiting the world (like forcing it to obey they rules, FAANG de facto monopolies), and the next 50 years will be the china doing exactly the same as old powers but in a Chinese way? :)

Historically, the empires exploited other countries, it used to be very brutal, now it's just who works for whom, who is the product, who control the money and information flow.

Re:Do I need to go to university? on Monday June 01, 2020 @05:49AM (#23376798)
Statistically, people with master earn more and it's easier to get a job (other options are: you get aquihired, have a shit of money; your parents have lot of great connections etc.)

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