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Re:Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:37PM (#50281265)
I think refer to Qwen 3.8 Max.

It was released, got the top agantic ranking, and AA immediately made an update to their index calculation that made it lose the top spot. It was very suspicious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200652

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201726

> Funny that we picked democracy for our government but we just left corporations as little feudal kingdoms. It seems like quite the oversight.

Congratulations you have reinvented communism from first principles! And you are completely correct in your analysis.

Re:Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:37PM (#49566936)
The main benefit of MCP today over just giving an agent a CLI is of course that you can be a lot more certain about what the agent can or can't do.

Yes, an agent with CLI access and access to making HTTPS calls is a lot more efficient for most tasks, but also a lot more unpredictable and with much higher blast radius if it starts misbehaving compared to one that only have access to exactly the tools and data sources you want it to use.

Re:Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good? on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:06PM (#49467921)
Or even better, a TV-show.
Re:Alibaba/Open-Code-Review on Friday June 05, 2026 @07:21AM (#48410896)
Which LLM did you use? I assume that will make a pretty big difference.
This is propaganda, not data.

If the Chinese government published a graph that said the opposite, would you consider that a serious and objective source?

Re:Mistral Medium 3.5 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:23PM (#47950604)
> China is not competing, it is distilling US models

China are cheating by using data obtained without permission to train their models in an evil commie way!

They should have done what the US did instead and trained models on data obtained without permission in a fair and freedum way!

> Where are the Chinese models that are blowing US ones out of the water?

Kimi2 blows every US model out of the water in any comparison that includes both costs and performance.

Re:Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:28AM (#47946015)
That's not nearly as big a problem in Germany as the US.

The median age of Bundestag members is 45.4

https://data.ipu.org/parliament/DE/DE-LC01/

In the US Senate It's 63.9.

https://data.ipu.org/parliament/US/US-UC01/

Re:Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @03:49AM (#46598648)
Yes. The constant full screen color flashing made Windows 8 not just unpleasant to use, I was unable to use it since I literally got migraines after using it for too long.

Click on a pdf? The whole screen turns bright red for a second before loading. Click on a Word file, same but blue. It was hell to use for people sensitive to flashing lights.

I got special permission at work to stick with Windows 7 longer than the rest of the company for medical reasons.

Re:Django: What's new in 6.0 – Adam Johnson on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @03:57AM (#46215588)
I think another ace up Django's sleeve is that it has had a remarkable stable API for a long time with very few breaking changes, so almost all blogposts about Django that the LLM has gobbled up will still be mostly correct whether they are a year or a decade old.

I get remarkably good and correct LLM output for Django projects compared to what I get in project with more fast moving and frequently API breaking frameworks.

"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."

-Terry Pratchett

Re:Four causes for 'Zoom fatigue' (2021) on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:38AM (#42643494)
I relate completely. I usually solve it by sticking a post-it note on the screen so it covers my face in the call. It makes the calls feel a lot more natural and less awkward.
Re:Advent of Code 2024 on Monday December 02, 2024 @06:40AM (#42295212)
"Running a marathon is hard work, but a car will do it for you."

Sure, but then what's the point?

Re:Htmy – Async, pure-Python rendering engine on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @02:44AM (#42253911)
Probably, but I fail to see how that's relevant here. This is not a "dataclass heavy" library in any sense, they just used dataclass in the examples to make them shorter.

Based on everything I see in the documentation, you should be able to use Pydantic models as well, or standard python objects, or anything else, as long as it has a method `def htmy(self, context: Context) -> Component`.

Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back on Monday November 04, 2024 @02:49AM (#42039443)
> How long will those tactile buttons last

I can say without a doubt that I've had more touchscreens fail on me in my life than buttons. This is despite buttons being far more common for most of my lifespan.

Re:You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web on Monday October 28, 2024 @06:13AM (#41969509)
That works fine without any extensions at all, so I'm unsure what does the extension even does?
Re:First Images from Euclid Are In on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @03:23AM (#41911990)
You are right, it is from h2g2.

It's the planet Krikkit, which is a major part of Life, The Universe and Everything, the third book in the series.

They (or someone they hired) actually rewrote their whole app about a year ago, I remember seeing lots of people complaining about how much worse and buggier it got after the rewrite.

I have no idea if the back end was also replaced then or if the vulnerabilities were present in the previous version as well.

Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls on Monday July 22, 2024 @02:33PM (#41037983)
Not if you are on a phone or similar device, which lots of people are. Important info like that should never be only accessible by hovering a mouse pointer that may or may not exist.
Re: on Friday June 28, 2024 @07:14AM (#40819490)
Because a company should know the identities of the people who work for them.
Getting a suggested command from a chat bot is not a terrible idea.

Directly executing commands given by a chat bot on your machine it without inspecting it first is pure madness.

Re:Slack AI Training with Customer Data on Friday May 17, 2024 @07:49AM (#40388865)
If a company opts out, do you guarantee that all information from their instance that you have already used for training is somehow completely removed from the "global models" you have used it to train?

If not, it's not really an opt-out, is it? The data remains compromised.

And then you have to wait a month and more and they log time on your project budget. Legal department takes that kind of stuff seriously and don't give off the cuff opinions. So now your project is severely delayed you are under budget and the only thing you got from it is that you maybe gets permission to use a new library.

Ooooor... you can just pick one of hundreds of options with a more commonly used licenses that have already been approved by them many years ago.

Re:Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @09:38AM (#39616392)
Yes, it's just a different translation of the original French quote.
So their AI refused to actively contribute to increasing global warming, and people are calling this "woke" and say it's a bad thing? Some people just don't like any kinds of ethics and morals at all I guess. When I was young and watched Saturday morning cartoons, charterers with such beliefs were referred to as "evil", but I guess the preferred term nowadays is "anti-woke".
Re:Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat on Friday February 09, 2024 @07:42AM (#39314205)
GDPR definitely applies to employees as well. It applies to all handling of personal data.

One of the most important rules in GDPR is the requirement for companies to have an up to date list of all places where personal data is being stored, the reason it's stored there and what it's used for and the retention policy.

So an employee creating their own lists of previous employees could potentially get the company in trouble if it was discovered during some external audit if it wasn't listed.

This sounds like it will be a great place for less ethical hacker to find product ideas to steal outright and beat the people who came up with them to the market.

Why would I as a developer post my ideas so openly on your page, just inviting competitors to copy me, before making an MVP? Sounds very high risk/mid reward to me.

Re:Tidy First? on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:37AM (#38951404)
I was not aware of the changes in MISRA-2023, thanks for informing me!

Also, that's great news to hear in case I ever want to go back to the automotive industry. :)

Re:Tidy First? on Thursday January 11, 2024 @03:32AM (#38949400)
I think it's still required by by the MISRA-C standard, so if you write code for cars and some similar industries, you may get forcefully dragged into that church.
They wrote "may", it was clearly speculation about one possible explanation, not an absolute statement of truth.

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