Recent submissions

Comment · 20 days ago
You haven't accidentally sent a prompt to a locally-running LLM using the wrong delimiters/formatting then. Noise, random parts of words, looping repetition, it all happens.
Comment · 24 days ago
On PC the "original" (Windows 3.0 and earlier) shortcuts for cut/copy/paste were Ctrl-Del, Ctrl-Ins, and Shift-Ins respectively. I believe these were inherited from some older IBM user access standards. And for the most part they still work in Windows, especially in command lines.

Ctrl-X/C/V were originally Macintosh (and maybe Xerox before that?) and then were adopted by Windows in the 3.1 era so Word for Windows would match up better with Word for Mac. But PC not having a Command key, and the Windows key not being a thing yet, they were applied to Control instead. Which of course overlapped with the other major use of Ctrl-C as "interrupt" starting back into early UNIX machines (and adopted by DOS) but... being a graphical environment they apparently didn't consider that important at the time.

Comment · 1 month ago
Or is it to lobby for restrictive rules on AI research that only the largest firms can hope to comply with? And "only coincidentally" ends up outlawing open source / open weight / import of overseas AI models?
Comment · 4 months ago
Yes they do. General physical appt. 6 months ago. Doctor spent 2x more time on the wall-mounted EHR terminal slowly typing and clicking through menus than having a conversation or doing physical exams.

Just means their interface and workflow is bad and needs to be improved though, not that the doctor needs to be removed from the process altogether.

Comment · 4 months ago
The idea is that enough users insist on non-attestation devices and platforms that governments and mega corps aren't able to require them for critical services. And loudly protest, switch to different services, etc when they DO attempt to be required. Example: already personally switched banks when they tried to require a validated Android device, and let them know directly and in reviews all over the place.

Don't fall for the trap that all of this is inevitable, you have to try and resist it first.

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Linux intends to be left out of all this attestation garbage because it completely undermines the point of fully owning and controlling your own devices. I don't want or need to ask permission before I run a program - not from random megacorporations, and ESPECIALLY not from any of the various governments. If some third party service wants to make sure I'm not doing anything nefarious, they should do it at the border of their servers and the services they offer.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
TagConnect is too fragile. Broken off way too many of the little plastic "hooks" that go through the board.
Comment · 5 months ago
If you developed (truly developed; including test cases and documentation and deployment strategy and change management and...) a 12 month roadmap in a couple days with Claude Code, then you seriously overestimated your time requirements in the roadmap. 2x, even 5x improvement maybe but not 300x. And you're left with a new codebase dripping in tech debt and structure nobody understands, and an agent that's likely to wipe your Prod instance and backups at some random future time.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
Not so useless. In my experience LLMs are about 50/50 on making a regex that actually works and covers the cases you asked it for. Even less when you get into cases needing advanced features like backreferences and lookahead.
Comment · 1 year ago
Can you have an "anti-"emotional connection to a brand? The iPhone for me is missing a critical feature, which is ability to run the software I choose even if it didn't come from the App Store. Which means that brand is dead to me until that situation changes.

Not particularly happy with Google for other reasons either. There are some days I want to go back to the days of Windows Mobile ROM kitchens and PalmOS. At least it wasn't such a monoculture back then.

Comment · 1 year ago
Or SS7 attack to intercept SMS messages, no SIM swap required.
Comment · 1 year ago
Didn't help. With AC on maximum it'd still "turn off" early. Honda claimed working as designed.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton