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US Air Force secretary reveals deployment of on-orbit space control weapons(militarytimes.com)
2 points by dustfinger 2d ago|0 comments
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NASA's New Experimental Jet Promises Supersonic Flight Without the Sonic Booms(nautil.us)
3 points by dustfinger 7d ago|0 comments
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by dustfinger 24d ago
> Technology like that would be incredibly valuable, which means it will be developed if it can be. I agree! The technology to read the thoughts and intentions of the human brain has some positive applications. I am sure Stephen Hawking
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by dustfinger 24d ago
It would be nice to add a "right to private thought" to the Bill of Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as something similar to other countries' rights and freedoms laws wherever possible.
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by dustfinger 1mo ago
I wonder if there is a health hazard wearing this due to breathing in spores or toxins released into the air? Or perhaps there is a risk that the wearer will absorb harmful chemicals secreted by the mycelium via contact with the wearer&#x27
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by dustfinger 1mo ago
To be fair it only claimed "near self-repairing".
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by dustfinger 4mo ago
Here are the last two sentences: > Governments don’t do anything about the status quo, for a number of reasons: it inconveniences them to look too deeply into the darker corners of their own financial systems, and they make money from pr
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by dustfinger 5mo ago
I think I have watched Star Trek: TNG all the way through 3 times with my kids already. They also love Deep Space 9.
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by dustfinger 5mo ago
It was happier, with plenty of opportunity for everyone and society felt like it was held up on common ground. It defnately felt bigger, because it was.
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by dustfinger 5mo ago
> Any, and I mean any, attempt to remake this show is doomed to failure I second that. Please, for the love of all good things, do not remake the X-Files, or Firefly.
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by dustfinger 5mo ago
It would be interestingi to know if AI is less likely to follow rules if the instructions provided to it contain foul or demeaning language. Too bad we couldn't re-play the scenario replacing NEVER F* ING GUESS! with: **Never guess**
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by dustfinger 6mo ago
> Only a receiver with the right equipment can pick up the hidden message. So all an eavesdropper has to do is setup the right equipment then? I guess it is only invisible until the technology becomes more widely available.
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by dustfinger 6mo ago
> We’ve combined lab-grown neurons with silicon chips and made it available to anyone, for first time ever. There is a line somewhere here that I personally feel we should not cross.
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Etymology of the Word W00T(en.wiktionary.org)
5 points by dustfinger 8mo ago|3 comments
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by dustfinger 8mo ago
Appreciate this breakdown and the disclosure. +1 for highlighting that PR quality is the bottleneck. Garbage-in/garbage-out is exactly what I ran into and it’s why I’m planning to introduce PR templates so the why/what changed&#x2
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by dustfinger 8mo ago
I agree that the best quality notes are the ones hand written by a thoughtful human. In my case we had about two years of history with no curated notes, and writing that by hand would have meant significant time investment vs shipping fixes
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by dustfinger 8mo ago
I agree with the philosophy of curating release notes for the consumer of the release. When I first started looking for a release notes strategy, I was considering towncrier for that exact reason. You are also right that commit messages are
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by dustfinger 8mo ago
Yeah, that matches what I have seen: if the upstream metadata isn’t reliable, automation can amplify the mess. I tried to avoid relying solely on contributors to accurately label or tag things correctly. The script is tag-driven only for re
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by dustfinger 8mo ago
+1 on separating "how to upgrade" due to breaking changes from "what’s new". A dedicated BREAKING.md / MIGRATIONS.md is a really good idea. One thing I am trying to do is make the generator surface breaking/mig
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by dustfinger 8mo ago
I hear what you are saying, there is a risk that auto-generated release notes end up as PR-title soup. I put a lot of effort in my script to mitigate against that. If you are willing and interested enough to take a quick look, here is what
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by dustfinger 8mo ago
That has been my concern as well. The script I wrote tries to bucket entries into categories, including "Backward Incompatible Change" so those are easier to spot. Since it is automated I am trading some accuracy for time saved, w
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Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
10 points by dustfinger 8mo ago|15 comments
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Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board(github.com)
32 points by dustfinger 8mo ago|16 comments
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by dustfinger 8mo ago
I am curious what are people using for release notes in their own projects? Towncrier, GitHub Releases, something else? If anyone tries my script on their repo and runs into issues, I am happy to help troubleshoot. Also, the output is actua
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Show HN: Tag driven changelog generator (MDX) with optional LLM summaries
1 points by dustfinger 8mo ago|1 comments
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by dustfinger 9mo ago
I realize cache segregation is mainly about security/compliance and tenant isolation, not protecting secret prompts. Still, if someone obtained access to a company’s prompt templates/system prompts, analyzing them could reveal: -
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by dustfinger 9mo ago
I wonder if there is valuable information that can be learned by studying a companies prompts? There may be reasons why some companies want their prompts private.
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by dustfinger 9mo ago
Ouch!
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by dustfinger 9mo ago
What we need is a "Little Bobby Tables" vanity plate that exploits a buffer overflow in speed cams.
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by dustfinger 9mo ago
True. how about https://ycombinator-status.com or https://status.ycombinator.com . They can drop that link on their official ycombinator.com site just so it is easy to tell that it is legit when they are not down. The

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