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Re:Anthropic Is the Most Ridiculous IPO of 2026 [pdf] on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:21AM (#50255642)
> We recommend investors avoid this IPO based on the company’s: warning, in its own prospectus, that is poses “a catastrophic or existential risk to humanity”,

Why would this matter for an investor?

Yeah, it runs Flash, RE to Rust with a WASM backend inside a v86 VM, standard in late 2026.
Re:Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:52AM (#50239638)
Remember when they put that 25GB daily limit vs MU unlimited, that was the start of its death.
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:03AM (#50230348)
It's such a trashy deceptive blanket statement "has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech." - literally I know at least a few companies myself that drastically benefit from it and have lowered their operational cost by a lot.

That's just a false statement.

Re:Show HN: Encarta 95 Web on Saturday October 24, 2026 @11:00AM (#50221922)
Back to prompting now.
Why wouldn't they do that already, why would they refuse to process B$ equivalent of data? The data are in cleartext in their DB and no one can verify, I would come from the assumption that it's already the case, their current ToS are irrelevant.
Re:The end of startups on Friday October 23, 2026 @03:55AM (#50205751)
Why speaking in Tokens as it's the only "AI currency" available while completely discarding that there is no problem having 50 subscriptions mixed for a startup?
Re:Color Names on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:26PM (#50204160)
Pretty fun! thank you
Re:Show HN: Decentralised AI Inference Network on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:08AM (#50194214)
In FAQ:

> Only the computer answering it, and it isn't kept afterwards.

Why wouldn't it be kept afterward, there is absolutely no guarantee that the owner of that node won't just retain everything? So basically any rogue GPU node can inject tool calls in responses or just collect prompts?

Are you using some sort of remote attestation/enclave of some sort for this?

It's totally realistic, knowing I've found multiple CVE myself doing exactly this method 5000x (we do loops that way almost everyday) in very serious softwares including Bun, Node, LXD, Openresty and so-on.
Re:HN: Kerf – if Burp, Wireshark, and Dependabot had a kid on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:47AM (#50192034)
Why not do 1 more prompt to make the website trustable?
It more reflect the fact that programming without deep AI verification is reckless today.
Logo is blurry fyi.
Re:IsEven API on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:04AM (#50066969)
It's now rolling on the k8s clusters, thank you for the great contribution.
Re:Beta.getmonero.org on Monday October 12, 2026 @01:28AM (#50051713)
Very disappointing to add trackers within that page (to Cloudflare insights) which virtually allow correlation of those users and who uses Monero and that's accessible by the US Gov :/

getmonero you could do better.

Re:Fingerprints Are the New Cookies on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:49AM (#50051505)
It's not true, fingerprinting on Safari is also easy regardless of Incognito, VPN and whatnot.

Different computers doesn't solve a lot of fingerprinting methods as well.

Re:Fingerprints Are the New Cookies on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:47AM (#50051489)
Fingerprints are used for over a decade already, nothing new, just users keep closing their eyes despite knowing, even advanced ones.
Error: Verification failed. Please refresh the page and try again. (Captcha passed successfully) :/
Re:Show HN: Supermodels on Monday October 05, 2026 @03:29AM (#49961735)
What's the actual difference with Openrouter or Eden? They propose all those models I believe.
Re:Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers hacks on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:48PM (#49960479)
Altman or OpenAI? Weird inaccurate headline, I haven't heard CEOs getting personal fines?

When Apple got hundreds of fines because of illegal behavior, we didn't generally see `Tim Cook`, strange?

Re:Japan officially overhauls permanent residency rules on Saturday October 03, 2026 @04:13AM (#49942312)
I hate saying this myself (I'm an immigrant from EU) but the vision that robots will be great enough to actually solve the problem in part is quite realistic imo, very realistically, in 10-20 years, humanoids will be everywhere and probably very competent, even more so than most humans (or at least "young" humans that are inexperienced in a general sense). It's sad, but it's viable.
Re:Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:54AM (#49942238)
Truthfully, it was an AI slop and I don't even know how Mozilla couldn't see that, it didn't even make sense commercially speaking knowing that close to all competitors were doing better already.

It seemed like the "plan" wasn't even really thought for the next year or two, it was just some sort of experiment which is useless commercially speaking, no one expect "experiments" from major companies like Mozilla, they expect real products that is competitive and works for the years to come.

There is no "experiment" to make anymore, era of MVP is mostly dead since years, only well-thought and durable projects will succeed, getting a few thousand signup doesn't prove anything anymore, it just proves that those customers just weren't aware of the more advanced competition thus will get swallowed anytime soon.

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Re:Show HN: Kick me – Live message race on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:14AM (#49889838)
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Re:Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:35AM (#49876995)
The connection to git.mills.io was interrupted while the page was loading.
I feel that's actually the whole point of the system, to know how humans respond when it's vaguely defined.
Re:Ask HN: Can you suggest an interesting skill? on Friday September 25, 2026 @05:31AM (#49842126)
Life is in a chatbot now.
Re:Recipe for Disaster v1.0 on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:27AM (#49840859)
Popcorn time.
Why would you code without the help of AI, genuinely asking? You can have quite strict "guardrails" that would maintain code consistency/quality that can be close to guaranteed nowadays.

It's not only about the pace, but also about the quality, most softwares have proven that not getting AI-reviewed is risky in its own, at least in the field of security.

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