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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:54AM (#50323272)
It's asking to login to YT to prove I'm not a bot!
Re:FreeDNS on Saturday October 24, 2026 @01:27PM (#50223310)
Every once in a while, HN surfaces absolute gems like this. Bookmarked and thanks to esher!
Re:LineageOS 24.0 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:52PM (#50045205)
That's honestly impressive, enough security for a locked down backup phone.
Re:LineageOS 24.0 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @07:22AM (#50041996)
Does LOS provide kernel backports or is it limited to userspace?
Re:Lobbying is corruption on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:28AM (#50032755)
I'm surprised by all the lobbying-apologists in the comments!
LeCun calls these peeps "paranoid" and "crazy". Harsh, but I agree with him. Some have formed cults that worship LLMs. (facepalm)
Re:Extra Big Ass Intelligence on Saturday October 03, 2026 @02:41AM (#49941890)
S4 - Super Statistical Surveillance State
Re:Barcodes are about to go extinct on Saturday October 03, 2026 @02:35AM (#49941860)
JAB Code (color bar code) can fit more data into the same space: https://jabcode.org/
Re:The last time my family was replaced by technology on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:45PM (#49912746)
So far the impact of LLMs have been very much overstated. Like most (all?) tools, they require a human in the loop to work as intended. This fear of being replaced by an LLM is unfounded and irrational.

The alternatives that may cause such mass displacement like World Models and such are yet to be proven.

This is exactly what I was looking for - the website and docs are easy on the brain. I have some apps hosted on distrobox containers that I'd rather not have write access to my home dir.
Re:The revolt of the reader on Sunday September 06, 2026 @12:25AM (#49583308)
I had to reread the first one but I wanted to read it! The second one was understood on the first scan but was a chore to read.

Does that make sense?

Re:Elevators on Saturday August 01, 2026 @02:52AM (#49131800)
Surprised that the LOOK algo beat RSR in the final sim!
The original RDB!
Just watched the mother's interview where she presented an independently conducted investigation report on Tucker's show. Doesn't appear remotely close to a suicide.

Guy was hit in the head while brushing his teeth, sat in a sitting position and shot from above. Wonder how they can get to so many peeps in positions of authority. Coroner, local PD, attorneys were all compromised.

Re:Zed on Linux Is Here on Thursday July 11, 2024 @09:13AM (#40936401)
Not very good experience after opening a simple Python script with no external dependencies in zed for linux. They use Pyright and there was an error and warning that were both incorrect. VSCode uses Pylance IIRC and it's not complaining.
Re:If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it on Thursday July 11, 2024 @08:20AM (#40935870)
I had a decent experience with a service recently that used a ChatGPT powered support agent, it couldn't deal with my situation but I was surprised by how quickly it knew its own limitations and handed me to an actual human who helped me out.

Edit: The chatbot in question was not powered by ChatGPT a few months ago and it was pretty bad, a few canned QAs and really weird loops to get to a human agent. Before that the same service had direct human support. But as someone who has worked in a support capacity myself I will take the nice middle ground with a decent LLM that can quickly dispatch me to a human agent should it not be able to solve the issue.

Show HN: Never let another update break your rolling release distro

https://github.com/pavinjosdev/atomic-update

Really simple Python script to perform transactional updates on regular Tumbleweed/Slowroll distros.Can be adapted easily to other rolling release distros like Arch provided the root filesystem is setup for btrfs/snapper snapshots & rollback.It uses systemd-nspawn for rudimentary checking of the snapshot for issues!Feedback welcome, especially on improving the bootup checks from within a...

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Re:Realtime telemetry from ISS internal components on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @05:13AM (#39614314)
Incredible! I wonder how much delay there is between the sensor data coming in to ISS, being relayed to NASA, fetched by these guys and forwarded to their model's actuators.
Re:Tell HN: "Default" FileZilla download bundled with adware on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @05:06AM (#39614278)
Good that I don't have to worry about things like this when downloading from official OpenSuse repos. Are they allowed to bundle adware into flatpaks and AppImages?