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Re:Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons? on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:54PM (#50279952)
What's the benefit? It appears that the outlook rejection was unintended. So against llm processing?
Re:The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video] on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:33AM (#50219287)
well how much work did he really put into it?

It feels like making "Where the tokens land was checked against the table published in Scientific American in 1996 (Illinois Avenue: 3.18% published, 3.19% in my simulation)." a key point of the investigation doesn't see like a human choice

Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:40AM (#50196947)
technically possible
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:40AM (#50196941)
we could stick with the metaphor of keys. The modern web requires fancy ones capable of hundreds of notches. The company in question basically skipped the step of notches and just used the blank key
Re:What even is an OS now? on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:51PM (#49852397)
Most people don't have specialised computing / software needs or uses. In fact, they're generally Overwhelmed by the current software landscape. They want less, not more tools.

And to them software is generally a not much more than a home-screen bookmark to some client that could be a website.

Re:Astra for Law on Thursday September 17, 2026 @05:15PM (#49746655)
There will still be a need to distribute and exchange ressources, goods and services.

Real estate, food, energy, mobility.

That will be done with money. Or violence. Either way, a scary future to people when labor doesn't provide any value. Elon promises abundance, but what can he do against greed?

Re:Why care about programming languages on Monday July 27, 2026 @04:40AM (#49066724)
Yep, it helps llms, and the same is true for libraries. Technically neither are necessary. Imagine an llm that's restricted to assembly.
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:14PM (#49042762)
I've heard chinese contains more information per token
Re:Half-Baked Product on Friday July 03, 2026 @10:55AM (#48775805)
What drives him then? Power?
Re:Show HN: Zanagrams on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:30AM (#48715968)
so i found two bonus words today
I actually prefer them being public than in some governments or corporations toolbox
Can someone help me understand the following?

Getting up from a seat als walking a couple steps feels that same at home and in a flying airplane (or does it?). But the base speed is 0 in the former and several hundred mph in the latter case

Re:A Family Project on Monday June 08, 2026 @12:37PM (#48447588)
Glad to see an emotional family event that doesn't try following the latest social-media trends or societal norms in general. Instead the people involved just figured out what's important to them and did just that
Well so the Nazis founded VW with confiscated union capital, and after the war control of the company was basically handed over to the union to make things right.
Re:AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale on Thursday May 21, 2026 @10:42AM (#48223526)
robots.txt is a way of leaving the door unlocked but kindly asking bots to stay outside.
Re:A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10 on Friday May 15, 2026 @04:43PM (#48153548)
Without knowing details I guess that ai is changing the game a lot and a lot of 'capital' in the form of zero days has been destroyed.

If this is the case it's good news for everyone else besides NSO and Co

Re:Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:22PM (#48011784)
or the engagement spooked them
Re:There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning on Saturday April 25, 2026 @01:05PM (#47902884)
also interested
Re:CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:43PM (#47576607)
uh isn't the font size kinda independant from the font style?
Re:CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:41PM (#47576563)
now i'm curious. care to share you're settings?
Re:Art of Roads in Games on Monday February 09, 2026 @04:06AM (#46943213)
I hope the water comes to the city through a pipe and not with trucks on roads.
Re:Space Elevator on Monday October 20, 2025 @03:37AM (#45640909)
but every behaviour has a cost. In cast of flight altitude its energy and distance to food, water, mating zones.
a bi-cycle?