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Re:I doubt anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach on Sunday December 21, 2025 @10:18PM (#46350949)
You're describing ASI, not AGI.
Re:GPT-5.2-Codex on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:29PM (#46316581)
They did some interesting wordsmithing here to cover their ass without saying it directly.
Re:Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed on Thursday December 18, 2025 @09:49AM (#46313270)
See, this is what happens when you turn off thinking completely.
Re: on Sunday November 23, 2025 @05:24PM (#46027944)
How is it more helpful for debugging compared to just looking at the git patch? As far as I can tell, this is meant to be more of a cool presentation type thing, rather than something to assist with development
Not a realistic solution at all
Re:Language Models Are Injective and Hence Invertible on Thursday October 30, 2025 @08:59AM (#45759560)
I think you're misunderstanding. If you have an extremely large number like 2^256 you will almost certainly never find two people with the same birthday (this is why a SHA256 collision has never been found). That's what the top-level comment was comparing this to.
Re:The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020) on Sunday October 26, 2025 @01:07PM (#45713466)
This was covered in my computer architecture class, which was mandatory for my CS degree.
Re:Pointer Pointer on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:00AM (#45652346)
Conspiracy theory: that explanation is a lie, and the real reason for the delay is that it helps hide the fact that there isn't a unique image mapped to each pixel. If you click two pixels very close together, it shows the same image, but slightly shifted to exactly match your pointer. If the images were displayed immediately, it would be much more obvious what's going on.
Re:Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month on Friday October 17, 2025 @11:40PM (#45624708)
Completely and utterly off topic: why on earth does HN use a dim gray font for the post description? It's so hard to read. I understand why downvoted comments are grayed out but why the post description???
Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP on Friday October 17, 2025 @04:58PM (#45621978)
Correct. And we know the AI will read the docs whereas people usually ignore 99% of docs so it just feels like a bad use of time sometimes, unfortunately.
Re:How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:40PM (#45612570)
I love spreadsheets and use them a ton but I have to agree, creating charts is hard
Getting a 404 from that link
Re:Garbage Collection for Rust: The Finalizer Frontier on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:06AM (#45601346)
With data intensive Go applications you eventually hit a point where your code has performance bottlenecks that you cannot fix without either requiring insane levels of knowledge on how Go works under the hood, or using CGo and incurring a high cost for each CGo call (last I heard it was something like 90ns), at which point you find yourself regretting you didn't write the program in Rust. If GC in Rust could be made ergonomic enough, I think it could be a better default choice than Go for writing a compiled app with high velocity. You could start off with an ergonomic GC style of Rust, then later drop into manual mode wherever you need performance.
cgroups aren't relevant here, I think. Not sure if that was just a typo, since you did mention namespaces in the first sentence. PID and user namespaces in particular are relevant here.
Engineers who are smart enough / talented enough, and who feel secure, can push back on security issues even if it will hold up a deal. This tells me that the most valuable engineers at Red Hat either do not push back enough on security concerns, or don't care enough (or aren't experienced enough) to know that the concerns exist in the first place, or they feel insecure in their position.
Re:Drunk CSS on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:31PM (#45433720)
It's really nothing like being drunk, not to say that you should try it though.
Re:SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 on Saturday September 27, 2025 @01:50PM (#45397931)
SecureHyperTextShell (SHTS)

I meant this in jest but now that I think about it, it actually could be a decent name (?)

Re:SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 on Saturday September 27, 2025 @01:48PM (#45397899)
Doesn't /3 mean v3? I mean, for HTTP itself, doesn't the HTTP/3 == HTTPv3? If so, I don't see how this is any better than SSH3 - both SSH3 and SSH/3 read to me like "SSH v3"
Re:DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @10:45AM (#45182658)
Genuine question: why is `curl https://trusted-site.com | sh` a security risk?

Fundamentally, doesn't the security depend entirely on whether https is working properly? Even the standard package repos are relying on https right?

Like, I don't see how it's different than going to their website, copying their recommended command to install via a standard repo, then pasting that command into your shell. Either way, you are depending entirely on the legitimacy of their domain right?

Re:Protobuffers Are Wrong on Saturday September 06, 2025 @10:52AM (#45149785)
> But why do you need serialization? Because the data structure on disk is not the same as in memory.

Not always - in browser applications for example, there is no way to directly access the disk, nevermind mmap().

Re:I Ditched Docker for Podman (and You Should Too) on Saturday September 06, 2025 @10:32AM (#45149605)
Aren't the statically linked binaries just the remote client? i.e. they can't run containers on their own, right?

In the past I think I wound up using https://github.com/mgoltzsche/podman-static because I could not get those podman static binaries to work

Re:Next.js Is Infuriating on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @08:27AM (#45102206)
Port detection? Thread management? These things have nothing to do with next.js right?
My language is ClickHouse :P
Re:OCaml as my primary language on Thursday August 14, 2025 @12:33AM (#44896751)
Go's %v leaves a lot to be desired, even when using %+#v to print even more info. I wish there was a format string to deeply traverse into pointers. Currently I have to import go-spew for that, which is a huge annoyance.

Python does it best from what I've seen so far, with its __repr__ method.

The website has a little card that says "Interactive Mobile Experience" but your post says "mobile-friendly version coming later," which is confusing. I tried it, and it doesn't seem to work on mobile at all (Chrome/Android)
Re:A valid HTML zip bomb on Thursday July 24, 2025 @12:43PM (#44672873)
Out of curiosity, how do you set these limits? I'm not the person you're replying to, but I'm just using the default limits that ship with Ubuntu 22.04
I've used it - it's lacking a ton of features. Another commenter in this thread said it's very slow compared to the git CLI, which is not surprising given that git is written in C.
Re:Ptar: Replacing .tgz for petabyte-scale S3 archives on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:00AM (#44507049)
Does this support content-defined chunking (CDC)?
Re:Ptar: Replacing .tgz for petabyte-scale S3 archives on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:56AM (#44507035)
I am curious about how you made money with it, if you don't mind sharing.

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