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I'm curious to see what the crossing of a newspaper network and a mercenary kill optimizer will produce. Is Palantir getting a propaganda arm extension?
Re:A new C++ back end for ocamlc on Thursday April 02, 2026 @02:07PM (#47618009)
Accounts like that should be deleted.
On https://news.ycombinator.com/active it's still on the front page.
Re:GitHub is once again down on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @11:52AM (#47519047)
You're underestimating Microsoft. They're fully capable of fucking up without the help of AI. Although I heard it's really good at that.
Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode on Friday August 29, 2025 @03:10AM (#45061114)
They are already forcing OpenAI to keep all logs. Go figure.
Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode on Friday August 29, 2025 @03:07AM (#45061096)
However, MS do everything they can to make plugins not work in VSCodium. And the plugin marketplaces are separate now.
Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:24AM (#45060520)
This could change on a daily basis, and it's a valid concern anyway.
So much for people preaching Android as an alternative to Apple's walled garden. Enshittification advances apace.
Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @02:48AM (#45023110)
No opposition. Just block the IP address.
Re:NASA's Juno Mission Leaves Legacy of Science at Jupiter on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @02:46AM (#45023103)
I do hope that Juno gets another extension. It's obviously worth it. Its mission is an impressive demonstration that no sooner do we take a closer look at something than we realize we knew nothing and don't understand what we find.
Re:Burner Phone 101 on Monday August 25, 2025 @04:48AM (#45011707)
So get ready to be legally bound to leave your front door unlocked because some people store stolen loot behind locked doors!
Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me on Monday August 25, 2025 @01:45AM (#45010604)
Came here to say something similar. The sheer amount of IP addresses one has to block to keep malware and bots at bay is becoming unmanageable.
Re:Git-Annex on Monday August 25, 2025 @01:40AM (#45010579)
Could this be abused to simulate something like SVN externals? I always found git submodules to be a very bad replacement for that.
Re:Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf] on Friday August 22, 2025 @02:14AM (#44981514)
> Rick Astley

Agreed. Do the kids even still know about him?

Re:Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf] on Friday August 22, 2025 @02:13AM (#44981507)
Any platform that introduces hardware ray tracing for the first time will do so for the sake of emojis.
Re:Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf] on Friday August 22, 2025 @02:11AM (#44981497)
I would love a mirror ball emoji, why can't we have nice things?
Re:Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:26AM (#44960224)
What a wonderfully hacky project!

Noob question: How were the diagrams created?

Re:How to Draw a Space Invader on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:13AM (#44959130)
A good space invader has to look badass and threatening. Extra points if it waves around its pincers in a grabbing motion.
Re:Tiny Microbe Challenges the Definition of Cellular Life on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:07AM (#44959102)
Too bad, I was hoping for an electron microscope photo or something.
Re:Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:03AM (#44959077)
And, wouldn't you know it, it actually does not also apply equally to the alternative (humans).
Re:Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @01:22AM (#44958863)
+1. Also, those systems made out of meat were the ones that discovered the strict mathematical models in the first place and the rules by which they work.
Re:Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @01:19AM (#44958851)
I'm getting so tired of this dumb kind of non-argument. You can't defend LLMs on their own merits, so you try to make them look smarter by throwing shade on humans. That's a non sequitur and whataboutism.
Re:How to Use Snprintf on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @08:01AM (#44950609)
Came here to say exactly this.

The lost art of RTFM.

Re:"AI hype" is the true AI product on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:55AM (#44939273)
How the fuck is this submission flagged? It's an excellent analysis that explains exactly how and why the AI hype is way worse than all the cryptocurrency scams taken together.
Re:"AI hype" is the true AI product on Thursday August 07, 2025 @08:08AM (#44823403)
> Any form of doubt or questioning is quieted.

Witness any HN comment thread with "pro-AI" vibes (which is almost all of them). It's almost as though AI has become a religion.

More re hype as the product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44737346

Re:Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @08:13AM (#44810924)
Looks like Japan learned from the malicious compliance shenanigans Apple is pulling with the EU. I hope Apple gets served some substantial fines that really hurt when they try to pull the same shit there. And I say, "when", not "if".
Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @08:15AM (#44797108)
I get shown a fucking ad for Google Chrome when searching for “ublock origin lite” in the iOS app store.
Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @08:11AM (#44797076)
That's what you get for letting megacorps get away with monopolistic and anti-competitive behavior.
Re:Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:09AM (#44795866)
Why would I prefer a film that was generated by you pressing a button over a film that was generated by me pressing the same button?

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