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And I'd add language. With vim, you can hardwire your brain to your keyboard / editor, and use some sort of language to almost unconsciously express what you want to do. Like edit a typo, move a work, move a paragraph, capitalize this, etc.

Without vim, your language is limited to very basic actions that you need to repeat ad nauseam.

Then we must have a "Show HN: HackerHack", all the Hackerfoo sites mentionned on Hacker News.
Fair enough.

But then I would rephrase that because it's confusing, and not doing justice to your tool.

Re:Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:21AM (#50289564)
The conclusion is correct. Closed models don't need to send your data, since the data is there already.
Re:Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:50AM (#50272105)
Eat you musk.
Re:Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:45AM (#50272051)
How would losing ownership be a bad thing?

Isn't that exactly what we are trying to achieve by re-distributing the wealth, and avoiding that few people have such huge ownership that they have more power than governments ?

We are still living in a middle-age system, where the lords don't own lands but stocks and companies, but they still dictate the laws.

You timeshare the girl?

Ok taking the :door:...

So... the Super Intelligence is Democrat?
Re:F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:12AM (#50240650)
Yup.

Something that the bot overlord didn't even think to say in its superdense page intro.

That's the problem with AI-generated text. They have no idea of what proper context is.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:54AM (#50178821)
Stop caring because not seeing initiatives is like inverting responsibilities.

Initiatives will come if people care.

Never in history the solution to major crisis came from politicians or alike.

Even if your contributions is small, it doesn't prevent you to do them. By which extent is a personal choice, but personally I chose to be consistent with myself and my values, and I don't care about the choices of others.

Regarding airplane, I much prefer an 8h+5min trip in train than a 1h+2h trip in plane because comfort is way better and you are not dealt with like cattle. Of course I wish the price advantage would be different than nowadays.

Electric cars are not yet the perfect solution, but they are already way better than fuel cars. As for the rest, my government says its the way to go, then I go.

Note that in GIEC report, nuclear (fission or fusion) was not identified as a major solution to climate change (only contribute 10% of the whole). The main contributors were green energies.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:34AM (#50178635)
This comment shows how much disinformed you are on that question.

The temporary transition to coal was studied long time ago and identified as the best solution even though it would increase CO2 for a small time. But in compensation it would allow to transition faster to green energy thanks to savings done on nuclear, hence overall reducing faster CO2 emission.

Re:Muse Spark Open on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:33PM (#50108156)
> Meta is going to win consumer AI.

That zucks.

Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:02AM (#50054545)
You are missing the point.

The point is that you have an AI system that claims having found a cure to cancer and passed all requirements. You can only interface with that AI system or with published results (run by the AI), you can't run experiments on your own.

Would you trust it to take the cure?

Of course, you won't.

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:56PM (#49982532)
don't know about AGI, but humor is gone.
Ok, so the guy manages GitHub and doesn't want to pay the price.

Fair enough.

But the worrying part is that he seems really convinced that his security analysis of the vulnerability is complete, and that we should be convinced as well.

If you didn't need a strong hash, use a very fast one then, like MurMurHash.

How they changed?

For all practical purpose SHA-1 is a bad hash function, it's slow, it's insecure.

If SHA-1 is not a security measure, why do you even sign the commit. It doesn't make any sense. You give a strong signature on something weak.

Re:Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf] on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:32AM (#49919987)
"It does, however, drastically lower the estimated security of RSA, and it does so in a way no one knew of previously"

Wrong.

Multiplicative structure of RSA is known since it was invented, and that's exactly why standard like PKCS were created. This attack is NOT applicable to these standards (as said in the article). Author shows a poor understanding of the field.

Using RSA blinding signatures is like using windows 95 and connect it directly to the internet.

Re:The US state replacing power plants with home batteries on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:56AM (#49907115)
So all Europe are managed the same way?

What do you know about how the grid is operated anyway?

"Works for me, so must work for everybody."

Re:My Weird New Hobby: Wandering Around Tokyo on Google Maps on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:02AM (#49842816)
Need to have one first I guess.
No problem with that as long as content responsibility is enlarged to all videos published on their platform.

Given all the sh*t that FB videos contain, I guess Meta's direction will soon be in jail.

They have to choose, safe harbor provisioning or responsibility for the content.

Then I guess Meta glasses will be banned in Portugal.
Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop on Thursday September 24, 2026 @07:36AM (#49829224)
it's not bad, you don't like it.

And you don't want to adapt.

Just watched a video of a guy ranting on Gnome 3 14 years ago, the reasons are just wtf, mentioning things I almost never used in my life.

I also had issues, but just learned to get over it and now my workflow is excellent while requiring only minimal customization.

Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop on Thursday September 24, 2026 @07:26AM (#49829119)
Exactly what I like in Gnome, it stays out of the way, it's "lightweight" enough. At the beginning, I was customizing it a lot, but learned over the years to get rid of many things.
Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop on Thursday September 24, 2026 @07:22AM (#49829090)
KDE is an experiment to pack 20 big things in a bag that can only hold 5 things. Then add one more thing in next release. And make every pixel clickable.
Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop on Thursday September 24, 2026 @07:20AM (#49829066)
Ctrl-T.
Re:I said no and Apple said yes on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @07:15AM (#49799413)
I'm not sure the hardware is worth the price.

As for the OS, everytime I tried MacOS, I find rapidly major showstoppers. It's like people are just blind to them.

If I'd qualify each platform, I'd say Windows is a toy, Mac is a piece of art, Linux is a tool. I picked my category.

If you invest millions, you make sure that being wrong is a very tiny probability.
Re:AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:39AM (#49740608)
I tried too, but found no sentence that makes any sense. It's all gibberish from top to bottom. I'm not a native speaker but my only reaction was "wtf this is all about and wtf are you even trying to say???"
Re:Small Programming Tricks on Thursday September 17, 2026 @08:06AM (#49739588)
Sharing an hundred tips one tip a day has certainly more chance to be shared correctly than pointing to a page containing those hundred tips.

Personally I don't care if the guy looks for attention or not. IMO people that do care have likely some jealousy issues ("I don't want other to get more attention than I do"). Lose-lose attitude.

Re:Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:56AM (#49724660)
In which language a string would be a pointer to a pointer to a character?

Even in C, string literals are simply a sequence of null-terminated char, no pointer involved.

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