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Comment · 5 days ago
And where else in law is it allowed to lie or omit material facts?

It's a bedrock foundation of the entire financial and legal world. Public and private alike. Refer SEC Rule 10b-5 as well as Private Placement Memorandum (PPM). For example, Theranos never filed an S1 but still was convicted.

Comment · 9 days ago
Thank you for docker.

Went from the good old days of vagrant (xen/kvm) to lxc/lxd to docker, and docker truly clicked all the way from development to production.

But honestly, thanks to Docker hub even more. The CLI is only one part of the puzzle, the worldwide registry is an immense undertaking.

Comment · 9 days ago
You're ignoring and severely underestimating social responsibility and social consequences.
Comment · 24 days ago
For all we know an AI bot wrote the above comment as well.

This is a worrying trend on HN. Nearly for all submissions, there is one unquantified, unproven comment at the top saying it's AI, with just emotion and no proof. This is the new witch hunt, or karma farming without having to contribute anything positive to the discussion.

Comment · 24 days ago
Yes I think the major story here is Google removing and then re-adding it back. Big companies have big egos, so this is quite a miracle.

I have a feeling now JXL is here to stay, finally.

Comment · 1 month ago
I think you're taking it too far.

Exactly 48 hours (before and on the day of election), banning electoral advertising is the right thing, gives voters the mental space to make up their own decision. It's the silence period.

Add much as I hate the lead up to elections, I love the day before and on, where it becomes purely personal.

Comment · 1 month ago
The DoD buys from suppliers, who buy from suppliers, and so on. Hence supply chain. Hence supply chain risk.
Comment · 1 month ago
Alternative app stores are mandated atleast here in the EU I believe?
Comment · 1 month ago
> "$0.23 to under $0.24 - Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"

There are only 6 categories in the site, but a category entirely created out of thin air for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next?

Literally "$0.23 to under $0.24" means EXACTLY $0.23.

Comment · 1 month ago
grep is deterministic. Llm is probabilistic. Llm can be transferred to a tiny quantum cpu or a lower precision float.

When the author wrote Llm can be as cheap as a tool, I read it as not equivalent. They even said the Llm can be embedded into a tool.

Their point was, the higher level use case — like classification — could become as cheap as grep. Which is quite well possible.

Comment · 1 month ago
Your article was well worth the read. Thank you for that. It's merely a HN trend where lazy people who can't read an article bad-mouth it as AI. You'll find the lazy AI comment in every article's top first or second comment now. Don't bother justifying yourself, keep it up and keep writing.
Comment · 1 month ago
Here we go again. Commenter doesn't read an article because it doesn't fit their style. Immediately bad-mouths it as AI.

Edit: typo

Comment · 1 month ago
> what I'd REALLY F'IN LOVE to see go away is the passwordless/magic link auth flow

This seems really naive? That's the only flow that's at the basis if you get locked out. What else, do you put people on the phone to verify people by asking their name and date of birth? That's even worse!

Comment · 1 month ago
> Why, for you as a service provider, are passkeys not just better (or at least equivalent to) passwords?

Why you missed the last line of my answer? How did you get an impression to go back to broken passwords?

Comment · 1 month ago
It's the stupidity of Service Providers to adopt passkeys in the first place.

As a service provider myself, I've evaluated and said "Nah" to passkeys - because it's simply increased Customer Service contacts I have to invest in, whenever a user changes or loses devices, or any of the hundreds of ways Passkeys are not portable.

And guess what, the Tech companies pushing this have zero liability for user login support or security breaches. It's always me. There is no need for me to work hard and spend CS contacts, to wall off my users to the OS or Browser vendor.

I'll simply do passwordless Email or SMS 2FA / Magic Links and own my users without the overhead of Customer contacts, thank you.

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