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Re:Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive on Saturday September 19, 2026 @11:16PM (#49772240)
Code is a formal language, and can be partially (or rarely fully) verified by a typing system. There is no equivalent in natural language.
Re:Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap on Friday September 18, 2026 @10:46AM (#49755177)
Hi! I'd like to know how bend2 differs from Hoare logic or Lean?
Sounds like hoare logic to me?
Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:10AM (#49679952)
Reminds me of Asimov's robot novels where robots technically indeed followed their instructions and caused behaviors not aligned to the intent of their instructions.
Re:The Evolution of Human Science (2000) on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:01AM (#49669682)
I think it can be an interesting or even prominent read in the current age.
Re:HuggingFace: Security.txt on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:13AM (#49659852)
Would be absolute hilarious if OpenAI or Anthropic agent actually dumped their weight by escaping from... sandbox!

Ask HN: What will happen if AI is mature and people have little work to do?

Three years ago I asked the same question (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35327092), and the landscape has changed since then. Just say that even the most AI skepticism people will have to admit that with recent models, even open source ones, LLM is already a valuable intelligence resource, at least in the right hands. Of course we are nowhere near AGI yet, but no theorem can assert that...

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Re:Recursion into Madness on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:11AM (#49656424)
Be cautious of that claim. Lossy compression may exactly hold intelligence.
Re:Music Theory for Programmers on Sunday September 06, 2026 @06:48AM (#49585215)
I would not call it harsh. The author don't even bother to assemble sentences themselves. And a title "Music Theory for Programmers" imply it is comprehensive even at an elementary scale.
Re:Learn Programming with OCaml on Sunday September 06, 2026 @12:21AM (#49583286)
> It’s still an abstraction

C is still heavily abstracted. Modern OS evolved in conjunction with C s.t. it behaves like a C runtime simulating a PDP11 (I remember reading a nice article on that). To learn system, what you need is an OS course, not C. I'd say the current C-based stack is in a quite embarrassing state.

Digital rights are indeed important, but only a small portion of the entire concept of human rights. I can imagine general public places much more emphasis on wealth (re-)distribution policies.

A lumberjack may also argue GP don't care about environment laws if they had timbernews.

> Only Gen Z and later are starting to care and willing to spend the time and effort to self host.

I can't quite confirm that. My younger siblings' classmates (still high school students, born >=2010, non tech average people) don't give a shit on these topics and behave identical to the Gen X and Y described.

Re:Learn Programming with OCaml on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:25PM (#49579794)
You can also learn for your own amusement, and solely for the fun of comprehension; a lot of mathematician were driven by this. It's a shame current social value places so much utilitariaism on learning.
Re:.name Termination on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:20PM (#49552548)
just a figure of speech
Re:.name Termination on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:19PM (#49552541)
May I ask what is wrong with Verisign?
I am really happy to live in the modern age. It is quite amazing to think that people are facing cardiovascular disease and cancer instead of random parasites nowadays. Modern medicine is such a miracle.
Re:SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview on Saturday August 29, 2026 @11:22AM (#49490663)
Nice, they are quite close to upstream.
Re:Interactive pattern discovery in binaries (FF-16-TUI) on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:41AM (#49480200)
I can imagine it is helpful in reverse engineering protocols and application binaries.
Re:Pnpm 12.0 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:27AM (#49460625)
Time to hop off I guess. They don't even bother to write changlog on their own.
Sony DPT-RP1? Some are jailbreak-able.
I've seen papers using fine-tuned small local vision models to transcribe math into latex. Personally I tried Claude Opus & Claude Code directly to do this. It works (to my surprise) but AI sometimes take guesses that are mathematically right but deviates with my original writing. There is no 100% correct method though.

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