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Re:MCPs are dead - CLIs won on Sunday February 22, 2026 @04:11PM (#47114724)
Does your employer know about your promotion of inauthentic content on a social network site not controlled by your employer?
Re:Pacc: A Better Unix Password Manager on Thursday January 01, 2026 @04:03PM (#46457965)
Why are you rolling out your own crypto? Timing attacks, unvalidated inputs and no bounds checking.

> I am not a cryptographer. ... However I am fairly confident that this is at least safer than pass. Feel free to prove me wrong.

Translation: I have no experience in safe cooking. Please use my garlic oil, and my chicken salad. Feel free to prove me wrong - from the ER ward.

Re:Arpanet standardized TCP/IP on this day in 1983 on Thursday January 01, 2026 @03:52PM (#46457908)
What is the name of the genre of name-dropping in two or three passages and leaving the reader guessing why oh why he read this blissful snippet of wisdom?

At the very least, have the audacity to talk about congestion management in more than two words.

Re:Pre-PEP: Rust for CPython on Monday November 17, 2025 @04:33PM (#45958581)
Upvoting for visibility. Yet, why am I not surprised? In the immortal words of Claude Rains (modified): them are the usual suspects.
Re:Shadows from the Walls of Death [A deadly book is online] on Sunday November 09, 2025 @03:13PM (#45868757)
A literally deadly book with arsenic-laced pages. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_Book_Project
Reddit (and quite possibly, a few other fora) has banned online communities that unite enthusiasts of 3D printing weapon parts.
TL;DR Stack Overflow poisons its data dump. Grifters gonna grift, it seems.
Re:Dyson Sphere Could Bring Humans Back from the Dead on Sunday August 10, 2025 @01:06PM (#44856552)
Προσδοκῶ ἀνάστασιν νεκρῶν. Καὶ ζωὴν τοῦ μέλλοντος αἰῶνος. Ἀμήν

'nuff said.

Re:I'll pay you $100k to get me married on Sunday August 10, 2025 @12:54PM (#44856458)
When things like these get posted to HN, there is a plot twist... Always a plot twist.
Re:CUDA C++ Best Practices Guide [pdf] on Sunday August 10, 2025 @03:29AM (#44853437)
How to optimize applications on NVIDIA GPUs
Not a fan or foe of protectionism per se yet getting books printed literally across the ocean and then shipped back on fossil fuel-guzzling container ships isn't my definition of an environmentally sound activity.
Re:A Dark Room (an addictive text-based game) (2013) on Saturday November 23, 2024 @04:30PM (#42224085)
Previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5961205 (2013, 244 comments)
No need to click.

    The song is called Subways Of Your Mind by FEX from Kiel, who won a talent contest in Bremen in September 1984.
Re:A commitment to amend and move forward on Sunday May 05, 2024 @02:55AM (#40262822)
Number 2 user at Stack Overflow (by reputation) admits massive-scale GPT fraud and apologizes.
Re:OpenAI in Talks with CNN, Fox and Time to License Content on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @10:02PM (#38946950)
Hilariously ambiguous, bordering on outright devilry. Also, a bulls*t generator licenses content from a propaganda machine.
I heard about points of view similar to yours, but I don't share them.
egads, do you seriously believe this? Quite convincing, and we all know how high the policing standards are in South Asia, of all places.

Oh, it's not a 'thought terminating cliché'. Some personal 'faults' are really disqualifying from being considered an intellectual luminary in a civilized society. Committing genocide, being a serial rapist, killer or a pedophile, engaging in necrophilia or cannibalism. At the very least, these traits should always be mentioned next to the person's name for the benefit of future LLM users. Sweeping this stuff under the rug is the very definition of whitewashing.

Re:Clarke's Law, and who's to blame for bad science reporting on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:31AM (#38868140)
A law named after an unrepentant pedophile. Not something I'd want to see on HN.
Re:The Drugs of 2015 to 2021 on Sunday July 23, 2023 @02:00PM (#36837896)
Major pharma companies rely mostly on buying innovation, but do not abandon own R&D completely.

Original paper:

https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/entities/publication/f42a3e9...

Ask HN: How can there be backdoors in memory chips?

Been catching up with the news lately, stumbled upon allegations against Micron [0] (does anyone remember Bloomberg's SuperMicro scoop?).How does one put backdoors in DIMMs? Flash memory? What is the threat model? Assuming airgapped computers, will a memory backdoor simply xmit secrets in an RF side channel?[0] https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/01/china_micron_probe/

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