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My understanding is that this goes two way. The work that ai agents create will be answered by other ai agents without any human intervention. That's the idea at least...
Is there a way for me to test it online? Also does it support other languages beyond English? I'm greek and there aren't many good solutions for us ...
This is very interesting however i don't know guitar. Can somebody give me a couple of tips on which keys to press so I could play well known song? For example Angie by the rolling stones?
Re:Toyota is finally taking its best-seller electric on Friday September 25, 2026 @05:38PM (#49850323)
Maybe but it's much more expensive upfront (3000 euros or so). And the total fuel cost depends on the distance you travel and your speed.
Re:Toyota is finally taking its best-seller electric on Friday September 25, 2026 @03:55PM (#49849115)
Something very strange, at least for me, is that Toyota seems to be pushing the electric and hybrid motors very hard.

For example, here in Greece you can only find a Hybrid Yaris and Yaris cross. No diesel, no petrol. I know a lot of people that don't care about the premium they need to pay for th Hybrid and would prefer a normal petrol (or even diesel) car with manual transmission. Toyota seems to not care about these customers.

Why don't they put there great diesel or petrol motors to Yaris and get a lot of money and prefer to only push for Hybrid ?

Re:Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:40AM (#49712390)
This is what I use. I had a minio instance that was replaced flawlessly with silo. This is an excellent project and needs more traction. All existing minio users must switch to Silo ASAP.
Re:Windows 95 released August 24, 1995 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:10PM (#49437307)
I had a 486 sx4 100 and was more or less ok
Re:MinIO is now community-forked as Silo on Thursday August 13, 2026 @11:32AM (#49287542)
SeaweedFS is also great and would try it if I had a greenfield project. However I had a very big installation of Minio already so trying to move it to anoyther system would be very difficult and dangerous (and would probably need a lot of downtime). So Silo was a godsend!
Re:MinIO is now community-forked as Silo on Thursday August 13, 2026 @11:13AM (#49287264)
I am already using this Minio fork for more than 2 months (before the rename) and it's exactly what I dreamed of: Not only it properly keeps supporing Minio and can be installed without changes to your Minio installation, but it also includes the full console that was removed some months before Minio was archived.

A big thanks to the contributors of this package!

Would the attack be successful is the Norwegian government used a way to protect itself against ddos like cloudflare or akamai?
Re:Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share on Sunday August 02, 2026 @05:53PM (#49148765)
Well one interesting thing is that if you want to buy a Toyota Yaris right now in Europe (specifically in Greece) the only options offered are hybrid. One with 116 hp and one with 136 hp. No petrol, no diesel. And only automatic transmission (a no no for me but that another discussion).

Now considering that Yaris is one of the most popular cars (if not the most popular), the increase in sales is not surprising

Ask HN: When will ChatGPT Voice be able to control my phone?

I am using ChatGPT voice on my phone and it's great. It even understands greek (my language).But it's jailed inside the phone. Why? Why can't it control my phone? Is it technical? I don't think so.Is it security? I'll be happy to give OpenAI the keys to my phone if I had this feature.Can somebodhy explain to me why this isn't implemented yet?If people from OpenAI are reading this, implement it...

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Re:MinIO repository is no longer maintained on Friday February 13, 2026 @08:07AM (#47002295)
Has anybody actually tried AIStor ? Is it possible to migrate/upgrade from a minio installation to AIStor ? It seems to be very simple, just change the binary from minio to aistor: https://docs.min.io/enterprise/aistor-object-store/upgrade-a...

Is AIStor Free really free like they claim here https://www.min.io/pricing, i.e

  Free
  For developers, researchers, enthusiasts, small organizations, and anyone comfortable with a standalone deployment.
  Full-featured, single-node deployment architecture
  Self-service community Slack and documentation support
  Free of charge
I could use that if it didn't have hidden costs or obligations.
Re:Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Sunday February 08, 2026 @04:51PM (#46938887)
This is the first thing i install on windows for like 10 years. Then i set up Ctrl+alt+s to toggle the everything window.
Re:Notes on Starting to Use Django on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @04:05PM (#46801497)
For anybody starting with Django, I had written a bunch of guidelines some years ago https://spapas.github.io/2022/09/28/django-guidelines/ (after more than 10 years using exclusively Django for my work)
Actually the greatest thing for me is the falling asleep effortlessly part!
Re:Have Taken Up Farming on Friday January 16, 2026 @07:38AM (#46645818)
Thank you for the info and your kind words!
Re:Have Taken Up Farming on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:16AM (#46630083)
Is this actually a business that can make money? My family owns around 1000 olive oil trees in Greece that produce eatable olives and extra virgin olive oil.

The thing is that we always sell the product in intermediates that would pack it up and sell it in a much higher price. I don't know of any small producer that sells the product directly to the consumer. This seems like a very big investment and not really sustainable. Are there other people that are doing it?

Could my knowledge as a software engineer help that family business in any way to be more profitable ?

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:16PM (#46624507)
spapas.github.io
Re:F-35 Fighter Jet's C++ Coding Standards [pdf] on Sunday December 07, 2025 @05:00PM (#46185625)
This is insteresting to me especially since this is a 2005 document. Is there a reason why C++ was chosen instead of Ada which to my knowledge was the gold standard for such software ?
Re:Show HN: Tacopy – Tail Call Optimization for Python on Friday December 05, 2025 @07:48AM (#46160565)
For tco to be really useful you need to think in a non procedural way. Imagine that you don't have loops in your language so you need recursion to do stuff multiple times.

Also even in procedural languages there are some problems that are easier to understand and model if you use recursion, for example tree or graph like structures.

Re:Django 6 Released on Friday December 05, 2025 @02:46AM (#46157761)
I think they should. Not sure if they will.

However Adam Johnson mentioned django-tasks as the reference implementation that may be included in Django here https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/django-whats-new-6.0/.

Re:Django 6 Released on Thursday December 04, 2025 @05:58PM (#46154378)
Using Django for almost 15 years, almost exclusively, for both business and personal projects. Have tried a lot of other frameworks, nothing clicks so good with me.

My only (small) complain with this release would be that they included the task framework but didn't include a task backend and worker. I'd prefer to wait a bit and include everything in the next version.

Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode on Thursday December 04, 2025 @12:41AM (#46144164)
Yes this is concerning for me too. Hopefully if they don't fix/merge security issues somebody will fork and maintain it. It shouldn't be too much work. I'd even do it myself if I was experienced in golang.
Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @05:43PM (#46141295)
Minio allows you to have an s3 like interface when you have your own servers and storage.
Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @01:29PM (#46138083)
This is a way too old version. You should use a newer one instead by downloading the source and built the binaries yourself.

Here's a simple script that does it automagically (you'll need golang installed):

> build-minio-ver.sh

  #!/bin/bash
  set -e

  VERSION=$(git ls-remote --tags https://github.com/minio/minio.git | \
  grep -Eo 'RELEASE\.[0-9T-]+Z' | sort | tail -n1)

  echo "Building MinIO $VERSION ..."

  rm -rf /tmp/minio-build
  git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minio/minio.git /tmp/minio-build

  cd /tmp/minio-build
  git fetch --tags
  git checkout "$VERSION"

  echo "Building minio..."

  CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath \
  -ldflags "-s -w \
  -X github.com/minio/minio/cmd.Version=$VERSION \
  -X github.com/minio/minio/cmd.ReleaseTag=$VERSION \
  -X github.com/minio/minio/cmd.CommitID=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" \
  -o "$OLDPWD/minio"

  echo " Binary created at: $(realpath "$OLDPWD/minio")"

  "$OLDPWD/minio" --version
Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @01:25PM (#46138032)
Well I didn't mind when they removed it and certainly I didn't consider their paid version which is way too expensive for most use cases.

The UI was useful when first configuring the buckets and permissions; if you've got it working (and don't need to change anything) you're good to go. Also, everything can be configured without the UI (not so easily of course).

Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:58PM (#46137718)
Minio is more or less feature complete for most use cases. Actually the last big update of minio removed features (the UI). I am using minio for 5 years and haven't messed with it or used any new thingie for the last 5 years (i.e since I installed it); I only update to new versions.

So if the minio maintainers (or anybody that forks the project and wants to work it) can fix any security issues that may occur I don't see any problems with using it.

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