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Re:Moving our warehouse off DuckDB on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:41AM (#50339516)
Engineers like to experiment and we get the benefit of learning from their experiences. Not sure why you’re upset.
99% of phone calls i receive are scams. Clearly we should ban phones.
Re:Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:56AM (#48457073)
BULLLLLLLLLLLSHIIIIIT. Bullshit. Bullllllllshit. No qualified american analysts? Show me your job description.
Re:Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage on Monday May 25, 2026 @03:13PM (#48270507)
If this were legit then twilio would offer it already. People in messaging/b2c apps have been asking for it for a decade and the best weve managed is whatsapp. Kind of weirded out that this made it into YC.
Im a big fan of divesting in these scenarios but i dont know how that would help in this scenario specifically. His current role and his previous ownership made the site a target, but it would be a target regardless of who owns it currently.
Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format on Sunday May 17, 2026 @08:13AM (#48168220)
Good communication for who?
Re:YC's Biggest Scandals on Sunday May 10, 2026 @08:53PM (#48089836)
Ooof. Thats a statement.
Re:Am I the only one who hates delivery robots? on Sunday May 03, 2026 @01:07AM (#47993529)
Do you think roads are somehow commercial property?
Re:Russia Poisons Wikipedia on Saturday May 02, 2026 @09:45AM (#47986362)
This is the shit LLMs are trained on.
yeah, theres a lot of trash assumptions going on here.
classifying people's businesses as an "opium den" using a shitty LLM prompt seems like a pretty good way to piss some people off.
This thing is ripe for a lawsuit and has terrible methodology as far as I can tell.
Re:Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @06:53PM (#47786383)
Cybersecurity has always been proof of work. Fuck, most of software development is proof of work by that logic. Thats why many attacks originate from countries were the cost of living is a fraction of the COL in the United States. They can throw more people at the problem because its cheaper to do so.

But I don't really get the hype, we can fix all the vulnerabilities in the world but people are still going to pick up parking-lot-USBs and enter their credentials into phishing sites.

I have the exact opposite experience. I can run claude forever, my codex quota was done by Wednesday morning.
ty, didn't see that.
I didn't see this over the weekend, caught me off guard this morning when i found out i have 0 credits left for the week. I had really started to like it too but now ill be going back to claud fulltime.
He can’t cancel elections. Stop fear mongering about that. He can 100% drop a nuke though, so thats probably worth fear mongering about.
Not even close and you know it.
Theres already laws that protect kids. Thats why they just lost in court.
The latest trivy attack was announced just yesterday. If you go out to dinner or take a night off its totally plausible to have not seen it.
How convenient, just in time for tax season.
Re:America tells private firms to "hack back" on Monday March 23, 2026 @08:12PM (#47496957)
Can you elaborate on that?
No man, thats not going to fly. No one ever got anything done by just hoping. Get started now.
"They aren't paying their dues..."

Author sounds like a relatively well off white dude in the 1950s.. 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s...

I get it, everything is being massively disrupted right now. I'm not trying to say ai is good or that bad, but the authors argument is weak.

One point. This isn’t an article, it’s a blog.
I thought it was just me… like maybe my hand eye coordination was failing as I aged or maybe my dexterity was decreasing. Its been driving me absolutely nuts since i upgraded my phone a few months ago.
Re:Why I Joined OpenAI on Monday February 09, 2026 @03:17PM (#46950570)
Ignore the downvotes, this group is finicky.
Re:Why I Joined OpenAI on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:25PM (#46920714)
I stopped reading just after that. “I joined PhilipsMorris to make smoking cigarette smoking safer…”

The problems are interesting and the pay is exceptional. Just fucking own it.

I don’t know shit about security testing but i stopped by to say that i think this is an exceptional use case for LLM usage in software development. Cool idea.

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