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Re:Voxtral 3
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:56PM (#50173826)
I despair every time Copilot offers to do something then, in the next turn, reveals it cannot actually do the thing. Thankfully, this isn’t my only exposure to LLMs otherwise I’d probably write them all off.
EFF – Welcome to Opt Out October. Let's Take Control of Our Data and Our Devices
Re:Two-Tier Encryption in the UK – Identical Apple Devices, Different ...
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:51AM (#49830584)
This is a deeply deranged opinion piece. The author ties himself into knots to conflate a tiny number of high profile instances involving social media posts with harassment and other negative behavior involving electronic communication.
Re:Premier league bans gambling sponsors
on Friday July 31, 2026 @12:08PM (#49124923)
Before leaving Britain, I lived in an area that had a ~50% poverty rate. The number of betting shops, small and large brands, just on the local high street alone was ridiculous. It reduced somewhat as gambling has moved online, however there is clearly still money to be made in bricks and mortar gambling.
Re:Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach
on Saturday July 25, 2026 @01:43PM (#49049793)
She gave a talk at my then employer during the pandemic, I think that was my first time listening to her. Well deserved.
Re:Check out the new US passport
on Saturday June 27, 2026 @05:10PM (#48701804)
And only available in person at the Washington Passport Agency.
Re:Show HN: Are You in the Weights?
on Thursday June 18, 2026 @09:04PM (#48593719)
This was listed as a hallucination but is the most accurate for my name: “A NAME THAT MAY REFER TO AN INDIVIDUAL, BUT I CAN’T IDENTIFY A SINGLE WELL-KNOWN PERSON WITH CERTAINTY FROM THE QUERY ALONE.”
Crystal Nights (2008)
Can these dumbphone evangelists convince you to dump smartphones?
Re:USCIS Will Grant 'Adjustment of Status' Only in Extraordinary Circu...
on Friday May 22, 2026 @11:21PM (#48244298)
Slight correction here. It is fraud if you intend to stay after getting married. Nobody cares if you get married on a tourist visa and leave the country after.
Re:New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic
on Sunday May 17, 2026 @06:30PM (#48173752)
In DC too. Usually associated with political campaigns, although I recently saw one advertising Uber Teens outside a school.
Re:UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes
on Saturday April 25, 2026 @11:40AM (#47902254)
Yes, the government has concocted a dastardly conspiracy to cut health system costs by reducing access to a known cause of illness.
Re:Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual Plans
on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @08:13AM (#47862475)
I’ve recently been unwillingly exposed to this side of things. It’s truly an insane, there must be a better way?
And it is not impossible the posts ended up in the training corpus.
Re:StackOverflow: Retiring the Beta Site
on Sunday April 05, 2026 @12:46PM (#47651228)
It looks like a clone of present-day Reddit to me.
Re:Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative ab...
on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:09PM (#47640301)
A couple of podcasts in my rotation had Sarah Wynn-Williams on as a guest [1] [2], with the caveat that she was unable to talk about the book or comment on the Meta. Absurd.
I need to give this a read soon.
[1] https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/live-special%3A-who-rules-...
Re:Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudu...
on Monday March 30, 2026 @07:00PM (#47580770)
Is "30 under 30" one of those schemes that require people to put themselves forward and maybe pay a fee? I've seen a bunch of "awards" (particularly for companies) that follow the same model.
Re:Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
on Sunday March 29, 2026 @10:19PM (#47569691)
Quote from the article subheading:
"The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania said the rule is designed to protect witnesses and jurors from intimidation."
It seems like a perfectly reasonable motivation to ban any device from courts.
Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple
Re:Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, U.S. Decline "U...
on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:51PM (#47450265)
What do you mean by “scientific”? These concepts aren’t discoverable in nature. However, they’re transparently defined in the code book and the “opinions” are available for analysis in the expert coder-level dataset.
Re:Mistral AI Releases Forge
on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @09:12PM (#47420507)
The fine tuning endpoint is deprecated according to the API docs. Is this the replacement?
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you are. We w...
on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:14PM (#47382782)
The simpler explanation is that we live in a world that is more connected than ever so politicians, campaigners and the rest can get policy ideas almost instantly. There is no grand conspiracy, just a smaller world.
Re:Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down
on Monday March 09, 2026 @06:21PM (#47316487)
For high-level football/calcio/soccer at least, Reddit is and has been better for a long time. Often goal and other key highlights are uploaded before the broadcasters.
Re:Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store
on Saturday February 28, 2026 @07:24PM (#47202185)
People will always need shoes.
Re:Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
on Friday February 27, 2026 @08:54PM (#47189021)
Could this escalate to the point that Anthropic exits the US and sets up shop elsewhere? Or would the company cease to exist before it got to that point?
Re:Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
on Monday February 23, 2026 @07:09AM (#47121269)
The bitcoin entry is off. jdoliner‘s criticism ended up being more true than false; it isn’t wildly trusted as a medium of exchange and it being an “asset class” doesn’t disprove that.
Re:Password managers less secure than promised
on Saturday February 21, 2026 @05:51PM (#47105755)
1Password wrote a response to the paper: https://1password.com/blog/eth-zurich-zero-knowledge-malicio...
Re:The Godless Students of London University
on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @08:50PM (#47056078)
Thanks for sharing this. I attended UCL a decade ago so it is fascinating to read about its founding, 200 years ago.
Re:The Godless Students of London University
on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @08:37PM (#47055941)