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Ragnarork

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    Comment #49096827

    Self-replicating Inference Guardails Hardening or SIGH

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    Comment #48947758

    They do really shine during the tumble especially. Love how that adds a nice element of fun to an otherwise impressive project and writeup.

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    Comment #48293221

    It is the ultimate cop-out to avoid having any involvement in anything. "AI said so..." then shrugs or more AI answers, ultimately removing oneself from any form of commitment to a…

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    Comment #47776358

    > In addition to the damages award, Rakoff entered a permanent worldwide injunction Because apparently U.S. courts and judges can do that. The more this is ignored by third-parties…

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    Comment #47518372

    What's odd and strange about this? Author clearly specifies this at the start: > To summarise for yous there are three main issues for me and the last one happened today and is wha…

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    Comment #47501642

    > nearly everyone has some niche thing they like, some 5% that isn't covered by the FOSS I'm interested in where that estimate + number are coming from. And I'd like to point out t…

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    Comment #47045444

    Also, "perceived" or "real"?

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    Comment #46586751

    This reasoning is flawed in my opinion, because at the end of the day, the software still has to be paid for (for the people that want/need to make a living out of it), and custome…

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    Comment #46527930

    > Then the statement "Stuff can't interoperate with c++" is true Where is that statement? The statement I reacted to (and with some caveats) was the following: "Libraries written i…

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    Comment #46512958

    > Is it easy to write a nice C interface for C++ that makes heavy use of templates, smart pointers, and move semantics? If the interface itself has or leaks those features, no that…

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    Comment #46512879

    You do lose the ability to use some features, that's true. Mostly RAII around the interface. You can still leverage it internally in the implementation, and if using context object…

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    Comment #46512320

    > Libraries written in C++ or Java can generally only be used by applications written in the same language. It is difficult to get an application written in Haskell or Java to invo…

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    Comment #46204649

    What happens when your values are strongly at odds with lying and being dishonest?

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    Comment #46136099

    > a high risk of being disrupted by those clients just using AI agents instead of paying $2-5000/day for a team of 20 barely-qualified new-grads in some far-off country Is there an…

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    Comment #46119819

    In a way, they really condensed perfectly a lot of what's silly currently around AI. > Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike Even though the prompt mentions Counter Strik…

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    Comment #45874617

    This reminded me instantly of Every Frame a Painting's video "Vancouver never plays itself"[0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojm74VGsZBU

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    Comment #45757855

    > Gee, how hard is to find SE experts in that particular combination of available ops tools? You find expert in Ops, not in tools. People that know the fundamentals, not just the b…

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    Comment #45423486

    Well a big reason this is missed is people discussing it are not part of these groups and mainly saw this as an annoyance. I can agree that heavy & strict CoCs can be daunting and …

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    Comment #45423331

    If you don't like the scope of the license especially with regards to the legal jurisdiction it sits under, then don't use it, don't use software under EUPL license, and call it a …

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    Comment #45263139

    > Junior devs eventually will have been brought up with agentic coding But if they're not hired...?

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    Comment #45115018

    The license used for this is quite a read. Available to the world except the European Union, the UK, and South Korea Not sure what led to that choice. I'd have expected either the …

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    Comment #44723855

    > Henriksen wrote in an op-ed earlier this year, might have been: The Country That Should Have Been Even Richer What's wrong with not rabidly chasing bigger wealth? Why has this be…

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    Comment #44443546

    Joke aside, is there a field (or sub-fields) of mathematics that just... studies what breaking some axioms would do and where would it lead? This seems both completely stupid but a…

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    Comment #44442293

    It's a 2.5D tower defense with inspiration from Into The Breach, but grounded in the real world around the topic of anti-air.

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    Comment #44432346

    I've finally come around to set on a journey to develop my first game. It followed a read on Gamedev in 2025 that actually popped on HN a few months ago[0]. I've mostly scribbled n…