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Re:Eunice is almost here (William Gibson, Agency) on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:23PM (#50237893)
I think “made” is probably fine, but it does bug me to see “I built/coded…” to describe a vibecoded project
Re:Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed on Saturday October 24, 2026 @07:51AM (#50220409)
They clearly have at least a decent bit in the tank bc whenever either lab releases a new update, the other one matches benchmarks in like 24h
Re:Archive of Our Own on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:40PM (#50170746)
> or against their TOS e.g. not a fanwork

Isn’t there an “original work” category?

Egregious & consistent mistreatment of the horses.

The past four mayors have all tried to end the practice but the jockeys (drivers?) are part of a powerful transportation union.

Re:WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement on Saturday October 10, 2026 @11:32PM (#50039589)
Isn’t archive.today notorious for doing exactly what you describe
Re:Ember-1 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @05:07PM (#49870849)
"Oh darn, you know that thing I made and released with explicit, precise language defining who can use it and what, if any, restrictions apply? Well now someone is using it in complete accordance with those conditions I set out, and that's somehow making me upset"
Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:40AM (#49866572)
The “hacker” community (for lack of a better term) has a longstanding and well documented skepticism towards the concept of intellectual property in general. “Information wants to be free” and all that.

Let he who has not downloaded from Annas Archive cast the first stone

Re:AI Is Not Going to Kill My Love of Math on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:50PM (#49651685)
Some people still make wood furniture by hand too. Do what makes you happy. Just don't get caught up insisting that you deserve to be paid for it.
If anyone wants to know more about the chess model: https://lczero.org/blog/2024/12/the-leela-piece-odds-challen...

You can choose which piece it's missing. It's humbling to lose starting up a queen

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub on Monday August 17, 2026 @09:16PM (#49339925)
I must be illiterate. Ofc. Sorry
Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:50PM (#49339750)
edit: totally wrong
Re:The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later on Sunday August 16, 2026 @05:29PM (#49323882)
I’m not even sure what would be gained by formal verification of a GUI
Well there is no “roof rule” on the page they linked
Re:Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course on Friday June 19, 2026 @07:44AM (#48597499)
Are there any other self-guided online university level CS courses like this?
Well there are plenty of places that aren’t in anyone’s backyard
Re:CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @08:11PM (#48201388)
LLM spam account
Who is "we"? Lol
I would be surprised if, in the "mature" future of AI tools/products, the labs building the models are also selling/building to end users like they are now.
Re:AI is a technology not a product on Monday May 18, 2026 @02:39AM (#48176238)
>I think I'm at 1 success out of 15 attempts for Gemini to explain how to do something in Google Sheets/Docs, though, so I'm not hopeful that anyone can actually implement this.

People love to talk about this as one of the helpful features of AI (knowledge extraction from documents/summarizing), but I'm really not convinced. The last generation of models seem to have 70-90% accuracy on tasks like this, which is way below what i'd consider a reliable tool

e.g. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11197181/

I don't know if there are any benchmarks for this sort of task, maybe the new ones are improved but I also doubt that people are using GPT5.5 pro ultrathink for these tasks anyways

Re:I Bought a "Junk" PSP from Japan: Here's How It Went on Saturday May 16, 2026 @08:25PM (#48165022)
This post is full of AI flair unfortunately
Re:SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud on Saturday May 16, 2026 @12:52AM (#48156937)
This is quite interesting, but the blatantly AI generated explanations are like an anti-signal for quality
Me explaining to a teacher why i cheated on the test: well did you stop to consider the cognitive load of doing the problems myself and how much easier it was to cheat?
Re:I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left on Sunday May 10, 2026 @09:17PM (#48089986)
I can’t agree more, this “our software is open source but we have unwritten rules about how you can use it or we’ll attempt to shame you” attitude is absurd
Re:"Why not just use Lean?" on Monday April 27, 2026 @02:46PM (#47925585)
I think they're talking about conjectures that are unproven but seem "likely true" and people build further math off the assumption. E.G Reimann hypothesis
Re:Can you stop beans from making you gassy? on Saturday April 25, 2026 @06:35PM (#47905262)
This is exhaustively covered in the article
Re:An update on recent Claude Code quality reports on Thursday April 23, 2026 @10:59PM (#47884954)
Not a problem if they're offering unlimited, lol
Re:Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @04:41AM (#47860800)
Just like me :)
This comment seems addressed to the portion of the population that both doesn’t know how to safely buy illegal drugs and also is able to determine which drug sellers are reputable. i can only assume this is an extremely small amount of people
Re:Antimatter has been transported for the first time on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @12:59PM (#47520072)
AI slop account

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