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Re:Can't fish Ethernet? Use "invisible" fiber instead on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:34PM (#50344970)
GoCoax/MoCA is a fantastic non-destructive option if your copper can handle it. Just make sure you install a filter at your ingress point to prevent sending data to neighbors (MoCA does have encryption, but why trust math when you can trust physics and math?).
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:21PM (#50344770)
> why wouldn't you want to fry the Wi-Fi chip if possible

The TV might throw an conniption over loss of this critical functionality.

> "Even if an alternative were objectively better, by whatever metric you care about, it would still be of no interest to Steam users," Ritchie says,

The metrics to win over Steam gamers aren't hard - and it could be done with another well-funded and like-minded CEO. The problem is that the metrics that Steam wins with are for users, not board members, not C-suite, not investors, not shareholders. Valve is no saint, but they are pretty damned close to as close as a capitalist can get.

You couldn't get a competitor financed.

Re:GPT-Rosalind-6 System Card Addendum on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:32PM (#50344096)
In my experience the failure mode is more broad than just lazy, the issue is:

* It doesn't do things you ask it to

* It adds things you didn't ask it to

It still does both and therefore I still consider it failing. If you don't want to call it "lazy"; fine, but it seems as though the underlying issue is still there.

Claude does this too, FWIW.

Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:20AM (#50339134)
Paid support. Doesn't look like it's worth it, though.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:57PM (#50332625)
Wouldn't reflections be worse (genuinely asking)?
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:40PM (#50332491)
They will probably find an open (or semi-open, like the comcast ones) to connect to.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:29PM (#50332412)
They would be traces with pretty obvious patterns and easy to cut.

But I don't the GP comment was talking about that; I have also used WiFi without an antenna (PCB or otherwise), and it was also slow for me.

A dummy load is probably the best idea: an impedance mismatch would obliterate any chance of anything working (including Bluetooth fwiw).

Re:Switch Lowering in GCC on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:35PM (#50321306)
> The compiler is able to implement them as a decision tree (even though maybe it shouldn't)

Sometimes a decision tree is definitely faster. When developing System.HashCode, I used a switch (which I think always compiles to a jump table in .Net - at least my case did back then). This was for the trailing non-block sized bytes, I think. It was either suggested, or I decided to try, a decision tree and it was significantly faster. This was _many_ years back, so I don't have the figures, but they can be better in some scenarios.

Re:Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:12PM (#50320287)
"But AI can oneshot Redis, so we can just vibecode it."
Re:Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:00PM (#50319542)
The question is whether most people use a screen like a desk. Nearly everyone I know has a window maximized all the time, and occasionally floats a window to drag or something extremely temporary (e.g. calc). Niri has a significantly lower impedance mismatch with that workflow (and it can temporarily float windows).

Where they could improve is hotkeys: they are all heavily reliant on them, which is unreasonably hostile to non tech users.

Humans aren't very good at identifying what they need from tech. The earliest example is the spreadsheet: no average user would have asked for it because there was no skeomorphism to draw from. We would have had graph paper with a single char per cell if we went with skeomorphic.

Cascading window managers are objectively terrible. Obviously we don't force better solutions onto people, but they have very few redeeming qualities.

Re:Fair Use Benefits Everyone on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:12PM (#50312257)
Unfortunately congress and the senate will only pass malicious compliance laws like that when it's to the benefit of megadonors.
Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:10PM (#50308761)
Exactly, this is exactly what I'm going to do on NixOS. Apparently Epic is greenlighting CachyOS, so I'll most likely just pull their bins.

> GP: EACv2 can't accept self-signed kernels and bootloaders

Also, from what I understand from the NixOS discussion[1] on this, it's using mok. That does put which keys are trusted in Epic's hands (which also isn't perfect, but is still vastly better than Microsoft). That article author seems to be poorly informed, or may be spreading FUD.

[1]: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/eac-linux-v2-requirements-vs-b...

Re:Building an AI-native engineering org on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:55PM (#50307685)
I have come to realize that code (and I think possibly productivity in general) being expensive was always a feature. I am sure that a few great ideas did get lost to obscurity due to lack of access to resources to build them out. However, we now have an absolute deluge of complete and utter shite.
Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:41PM (#50307448)
It's truly bizarre for there to be widespread hope and excitement for a bubble burst. It's arguably stupid, and I'm one of the stupid people because I find myself hoping for it too.
Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:41PM (#50307438)
> all that's left for them will be gamers

Tim Sweeny being "one of the people who dooms Windows" was the least likely thing on my multiverse bingo card - but he's eroding that too. EAC v2 will have kernel mode (eBPF) anti-cheat. Microsoft has lost their moat at the throne of AI.

The problems with floating a bill is that it would be killed by the Republican-controlled branches (all of them). Best to hold it back in the hopes that Americans show up to save the coutnry.
Re:LLM Voice on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:55PM (#50299359)
> uncanny valley of prose

Ah good ol' serendipity. I strongly believe this too, and I think that's why older (less capable) models fared better: they hadn't fallen into the valley yet. Maybe it's not a valley at all, and is just a cliff after which there is uncanny.

When the earliest models launched I was super-excited to no longer have to write pull request descriptions and commit messages. I have done a sharp 180 on that and I'm no longer a meat proxy[1]: instead I point out any redirects and improvements I made the agent do before opening the PR (which there are still _many_ in even the most trivial tasks).

[1]: https://meatproxy.me/

Re:We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:48PM (#50298491)
> Bram says you're securing quarry. I have stone pick at spawn; can assist mining once safe. Any priority dig direction? Hunger 10 so keeping travel short.

And this is where you need a world model. A human player would have taken the 2 minutes required to solve their hunger issue.

> O(millions)

Big-O doesn't include constant factors for a reason (never mind just being a constant entirely), but maybe I am misunderstanding what you are trying to say?

Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:30PM (#50292813)
> Practically speaking, what's the risk?

1. Revenge on an ex.

2. Send someone the packet, set up a situation where they need to call 911.

Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:27PM (#50292777)
It's the uncanny valley for text. Models were previously nicer to talk with because they were incompetent enough to still appear to be machines to our minds.
Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:22PM (#50292681)
That's the problem with LLMs. Sometimes they follow instructions too precisely, others they sneak in a slow and buggy IEEE-754 parser instead of using `stof`.
Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:16PM (#50292569)
> Huh, but then it's neither remote nor zero click if you need to locally install malware?

The software is installed on the _sender_ device.

Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:56PM (#50292214)
> I don't really understand how the personal economics for this work out for the majority of the population.

8.5% of American households have no car[1]. That isn't a strict majority, but if you can be charitably informal: paying for grocery deliveries is orders of magnitude cheaper than loan+insurance+maintenance for a car.

If you want to become car-less then the like of Instacart make that a realistic prospective (but Instacart specifically makes no sense because stores usually do it for free if you can tolerate next-day).

[1]: https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT1Y2024.B08201

Re:The case of the 9 bit AES key on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:41PM (#50282954)
> Rust is a general purpose programming language

I don't understand how I hit the anti-Rust tripwire here:

> My comment: any memory safe language will do

Re:The case of the 9 bit AES key on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:19PM (#50282347)
File formats are the buffer issue honeypot. You may be aware of how often video and audio codecs have vulnerabilities - it's nearly never the hand-tuned frame decode assembly (where you would think all the mistakes would be). It's nearly always the thing that reads the metadata and encoded frames to memory. Binary formats have things like offsets in them, and those can be trivially used to overrun.

Same thing applies here. Even Rust has a crate for dealing with binary data, despite its memory promises: https://crates.io/crates/untrusted

It's a fucking minefield, and this is one area where the Rust zealots are undeniably correct. It doesn't have to be Rust, any memory safe language will do, but Rust also happens to be performance competitive and that's usually also desirable.

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:13PM (#50282288)
My machine is an almost bleeding edge gaming+dev desktop; I do not believe it was anything near a hardware problem, but best of luck!
Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:18PM (#50266642)
I'm on Rio at the moment, pending a wezterm bugfix (but I might just stick to Rio). The launch is perceptually instant on all my machines, and it does support sixels and all that nonsense.
Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:50PM (#50265603)
I have a soft limit of $35. I generally find that quality decreases (not quality-per-dollar, just quality alone on an absolute scale) once you start going over that. By the time you reach $60 it's in the gutter. Exceptions to the rule obviously exist.

So probably still in line with what you remember.

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