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Why would you put shared visual cursors on a site like this - so unbelievably distracting all these random people moving their cursors randomly.
> We study a common intermediate setting: a developer pastes one complete file into a chat assistant [5], which sees the file’s internal structure but not its callers or dependencies.

Ack! Do people actually try to develop software this way?

Re:Agentic backdoors via pretraining poisoning on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:35PM (#50342408)
Downloading models off huggingface feels like the new warez.

Sure, the person who abliterated/edited that model might have given you an amazing unlock for free, or they might have given you a credential stealer.

Re:Agentic backdoors via pretraining poisoning on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:30PM (#50342324)
If LLMs can edit weights directly to achieve desired ends as recently reported[0], then this class of Agentic Backdoors likely becomes even easier and more prevalent.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341174

Raymond Chen is one of the great treasures of the web.
Re:Herdr has released native app on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:41PM (#50299248)
A native app is definitely a good thing.

herdr is great, and the original runs-in-a-terminal vision was cool, but at least on OSX it has a ton of selection management bugs that are pretty sucky.

No first person view or auto-orienting 3rd-person view?
Re:ThinkRail from JetBrains on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:35AM (#50221097)
I want to support JetBrains. I've loved their products. But we're a couple years into the AI revolution and their response is non-existent.

Claude is still using sed and grep.

Why haven't JetBrains turned their amazing tools into amazing tools for AI harnesses to leverage? I no longer right-mouse-click on method names to rename them or to go to the definition, but my AI still needs to be able to do that, constantly.

I want to renew, but I can't see any reason why I would. Complete failure of leadership.

P.s. Worktrees? This product announcement is about supporting worktrees? They do realize just telling Claude to "blah blah in a worktree" already works, right?

Re:Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:50PM (#50213665)
>Where do people live that they need to remove such things

SF Bay Area during the summer fires of a few years ago

Re:SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:02AM (#50196371)
>Why? Why should we give up being critical of things we read?

Remember how pre-AI everyone used to complain about hating how this or that website hijacked scrolling? Countless words were written about hijacked scrollbars and back buttons. Zero conversations were improved by the comments and zero websites were changed as a result. It was just complaining.

"Boo hoo AI" is the same kind of low-effort, complain about everything while adding nothing to the conversation post.

Instead, try to say something more substantive than "I found a word or phrase that I think was AI."

It's certainly an impressive accomplishment, but it's unclear if this has a hypergraph/dependency nodes or if the construction history is maintained through some other means.

If it has a hypergraph, it would be helpful to include a list of which nodes are currently implemented and what level of compatibility they have with the official nodes.

The context around copyright of LLM code, at least in the US, is currently more complicated than clear. See for example [0] and the comments on the article it's responding to.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49354482

Re:Show HN: I think Apple should have built this a long time ago on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:42PM (#50097665)
You'll probably get more interest if you say something about what it is and what it does.
> "We are not terminating the relationship but are setting clear boundaries on our relationship with Mullvad"

Organizations that support the right of free speech always have to come to grips with the reality that supporting the right of free speech necessarily involves supporting the right of others to say things that the organization and/or the individuals in the organization didagree with.

Tor isn't the first such organization to have to draw distinctions between the principles it espouses and the parties it encounters, nor will it be the last.

This type of statement is not an invalidation of one's own principles, it is simply bringing clarity and focus to them. Tor advocates for freedom of speech, not for everything that others use that freedom to say.

Cool, but I can't tell from the README if it returns a bitmap in a PDF (huge, hard for recipients to copy text out of) or text in a PDF (what people expect of a PDF)
The SR-71 is cool, but this article is not at all confidence inspiring on many fronts.

Guy being interviewed by a reporter about a secret project. A secret project that is trying to resurrect an antique plane that has been subject to weather and on display as a museum piece for many years.

It sounds like a clown-show staged around a cool looking plane that's older than 90+% of HN readers.

Re:Show HN: Museum of Numbers on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:10AM (#49888895)
> 2147483647

It's also known as the most common phone number on the web[0], because of programmers trying to store phone numbers as 32 bit integers, and hitting overflow.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2196421

Re:Show HN: Durable Actor Session Protocol on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:04PM (#49882875)
My question wasn't about transport - it's more do I have to repeatedly poll for events, or can I make a request that effectively subscribes me to a stream of events.
Re:Show HN: Durable Actor Session Protocol on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:09AM (#49879292)
Is this purely polling, or am I missing how to subscribe to events?
As a real question, why would anyone provide a free proxy other than as a criminal or monetize-the-user-some-other-way scheme? Someone needs to pay the costs of providing that service (even if they are exploited via a cracked 3rd party enterprise).
Re:Two and a half years without a gallbladder on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:38PM (#49852972)
> What would be the sypmtoms?

Of an infected gallbladder?

Don't worry - the pain is so incredibly intense, there is zero chance you'll not be aware of it, regardless of how high you think your pain tolerance is.

Re:Cloudflare Quick Tunnels on Friday September 18, 2026 @12:54PM (#49757057)
That's handled by all the prior releases of cloudflare tunnels
Re:GitHub is having trouble counting things on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:18PM (#49731607)
>EEE

My god what an ancient trope.

Presumably you realize most current Microsoft employees were not even alive when the EEE memo was written.

Must we also talk about some decision Henry Ford made in 1906 every time the automaker is mentioned, or something the Gauls did in 200 BC every time England is mentioned?

Re:Show HN: Most Penalized HN Stories on Saturday September 12, 2026 @11:16PM (#49679636)
So, maybe it's a huge conspiracy, or, alternatively, maybe it's a case of a person who attempted to reverse engineer the HN ranking algorithm missing a couple terms in the equation.

Everyone can apply their own form of Occam's Razor. Some will conclude conspiracy, others, missed second and third order terms.

I don't understand why Microsoft and JetBrains aren't shipping versions of this. It seems like exactly what Roslyn was designed for
Re:What will our economic future look like? on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:22AM (#49627104)
I try to never be that guy who complains about the way a web page scrolls, but this page is completely unreadable.
Re:Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:39AM (#49626387)
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2347/
>I presume the lecturer read from a script.

You presume wrong. No college professor will waste the amount of time required to fully write out everything they will say in class in advance. Notes, yes. Detailed notes, not unlikely. Full script to be read verbatim, nope.

Re:Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:38PM (#49539683)
This is via Wine, so presumably it should also run on Macs now.

Paint.net is the only thing I miss from my days on Windows machines, so super excited about this!

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