News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

vxxzy

Re:Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents on Sunday October 18, 2026 @10:12AM (#50141252)
I suspect the distribution is more lumpy, best case. Worst case, the progeny of the affluent are eating up those sweet gains.
Would these sorts of things happen more often with or without the technology?
Re:What will our economic future look like? on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:51AM (#49627592)
It would be interesting to know what percentage of global inference is spent on projects/problems that would otherwise "wait"/"decay" (if generative ai wasn't a thing). Or maybe the question is: What percentage of global inference is spent on cleaning up and migrating old systems? "New" vs "Old". The decisions I make today can now incorporate what I once termed as "nice to have" when developing a sytem.
Re:Clerky Is Joining Stripe on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:31PM (#49458803)
we will soon be in the last month of q3
now you have two problems. what happens when your reservation system backs up?
It appears Four Sister’s golf course in allegany county md is missing.
One-dimensional. More people are using the software.
Had to read through all the cruft to get:

"If the network is properly secured—meaning it’s protected by a strong password that’s known only to authorized users—AirSnitch may not be of much value to an attacker."

Re:175K+ publicly-exposed Ollama AI instances discovered on Friday January 30, 2026 @09:01PM (#46832581)
A feature! Not a bug! Bugs can be undisovered features.
I am going to use this story in place of the "Pot Roast Principle" [0]

[0]: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thinking-makes-it-so...

Re:The Scam Called "You Don't Have to Remember Anything" on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @12:08PM (#45199756)
i will now no longer press F3 or / instead i will read.
Re:Emergence of collective oscillations in human crowds on Sunday February 09, 2025 @10:05AM (#42991096)
I don’t recall where, but for some reason I remember learning that if people start to bump into you too many times, that’s a warning shot to get out. It was something like “bumps per second”.
he probably meant: syncing your files across devices should be a feature not a product. a feature of the os (icloud).
Go out into more rural areas.
Anyone wanting to get a feel for unintended uses of a product should go look at google map reviews of locations in India. It is fascinating and ingenious.
Have this in Maryland. Local sheriff’s office won’t accept it. Bars and Restaurants won’t accept it either. Is this common in other states?
oh wow. I have become fond of pidgin over the years. There is a slack plugin that makes life a lot better. It seems for plugins, extensions, app stores, and general third-party repositories (pip, npm, crates, etc) risks are increasing. Centralization breeds certain risks that are tough to mitigate. So far, mitigating these risks involve trusting a central steward, cryptographic signing, and contributor reputation.I wonder if we can ever truly mitigate the contributor or steward aspects?
Maybe it will have FIDO2/U2F support? There is a use-case here maybe? I’ll stop giving ideas now…
SSN was never meant to be a form of identification. Now, let’s figure out a way to consistently convert an individual’s DNA to a hash… oh wait. Worldcoin?
Despite what criticisms you may receive, you put something into existence. You may not have gotten everything right but, it is admirable. Congratulations. At your age, many of your detractors probably didn’t do something so bold. Keep with it.
Well, time to move away from Vultr. Luckily I don't have too much over there other than some small projects.

Older »