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by disambiguation 8mo ago
Its too bad Team Blind doesn't support a dev api to their auth service. Work emails are a good candidate for a simple "blue check mark" system for the HN crowd, but with a layer preserving anonymity. Ex. Generate a token, add
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by disambiguation 9mo ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that KDE revived the Plasma Bigscreen project. No idea on the ETA but assuming all goes well I can see it becoming my daily driver very quickly. https://plasma-bigscreen.org/get/
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
Alfred hitchcock was ahead of his time.
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
I'm just disappointed in crypto. It was supposed to be internet currency, but became another meme stock instead. Maybe someday we'll be able to reboot it the right way so it can actually provide something of real value.
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
I too was in the market recently for a NAS, downgrading from a 12 bay server because of yagni - it's far too big, too loud, runs hot, and uses way too much energy. I was also tempted by the jonsbo (it's a very nice case) but price
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
Netguard solves this, available on the play store and F droid https://netguard.me/
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
I'm under the impression that AI is still negative ROI. Creating absolute value is different from creating value greater than the cost. A tool is a tool, but could you continue performing professionally if it was suddenly no longer ava
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
It's not exactly a science, it's the aggregate trend of many distinct players allocating capital where they think it will be most productive. AI isnt't "taking jobs", but it might be taking the capital that would ot
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
The current education system is going to collapse. Teachers and students alike won't be able to resist the ultimate cheat code. Schools need to become tech free zones. Education needs to reorient around more frequent standardized tests
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
Fantastic - you can improve on the realism in the next iteration by simulating voting based on comment alignment. For example, automatically downvoting negative AI sentiment, maybe add a few child comments calling the parent a "reducti
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
VPN?
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
Correct, however: > By following users over time, as their fingerprints changed, they could guess when a fingerprint was an ‘upgraded’ version of a previously observed browser’s fingerprint, with 99.1% of guesses correct. https:/&#
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
https://abc7.com/post/student-handcuffed-doritos-bag-mistake...
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
That's a hell of an endorsement by the French govt. I use GOS as a daily driver and it's fantastic - it's what android was supposed to be before it enshittified. It's refreshing to feel like i control my smart phone agai
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
https://news.fsu.edu/news/education-society/2025/08/26/on-sc...
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
> The real grift has been in echo chambers changing peoples vocabulary Glad others are noticing this, it deserves more attention than it gets and everyone should be aware it's happening.
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
> The founder, Yudkowsky, posted an article ... in which he asked readers to choose between two options. One is that a single individual is tortured mercilessly for fifty years. The other is that some unfathomable number of people suffer
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
This sparked a really fascinating discussion, I don't know if anyone will see this but thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts :) I understand your point - to an LLM there's no meaningful difference between once turing complete
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
I am once again shilling the idea that someone should find a way to glue Prolog and LLMs together for better reasoning agents. https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43948657 Thesis: 1. LLMs are bad at counting the number
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
The double entendre occurred to me, I don't disagree. But the relative ease does not merely apply to users, but to the barrier of entry for alt products as well. Consider that the current paradigm is contingent on the "blind trust
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
Granted I'm taking creative liberties reading between the lines and mapping to other context. I'd give it low odds overall, but I'm gleaning a non-zero likelihood worthy of consideration: 1. "Mark Zuckerberg has been cas
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
# Encrypt a file openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in secret.txt -out secret.enc # Decrypt openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in secret.enc -out secret.txt Wow that was hard.
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
Wow am I reading this correctly? To recap: - They're going to run Zuck for president to beat the millennial socialist zeitgeist. - They're going to use generational warfare to stage an institutional coup. > we need to do better
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
To rephrase, the start of a large uptick looks like a small one in real time - like we see now. Further, the graph is otherwise smooth. We don't really see small bumps - 1 or 2 exceptions not reassuring.
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000024 With the exception of COVID, nearly every small uptick is followed by a large uptick.
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by disambiguation 10mo ago
https://app.opencve.io/cve/?vendor=samsung
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by disambiguation 11mo ago
I've only used it once before, not as unit testing, but as stress testing for a new customer facing api. I wanted to say with confidence "this will never throw an NPE". Also the logic was so complex (and the deadline so short
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by disambiguation 11mo ago
Yes, mainly because of upvotes. Back when voting systems were fairly new to the social web, there was a lot of resistance for this reason. Now its become the norm.
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by disambiguation 11mo ago
Different strokes. I've been disappointed by every commercial air purifier I've ever bought - expensive and unreliable. The blog is persuasive and provides a full air quality analysis. It's cheap and effective, a potent combi
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by disambiguation 11mo ago
I recently found this blog post about an effective DIY air filter - explicitly filters pm2.5 https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/measuring-my-diy-... I built one (< $50) and I'm pretty happy with the res

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