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If that book was titled "hey mentally ill person, you should kill yourself", and if I was handing it out in front of a clinic, then yes, I'd probably bear some blame. Normal, well-…

Public schools are public schools. They're more or less compulsory and are just meant to try and get you to a point where you can contribute meaningfully to the society. Princeton …

But that's precisely the evolution we've seen in the past 20+ years. For the sake argument, let's say that Fox News started it by more overtly embracing a specific political alignm…

I continue to be impressed by our collective willingness to engage with obvious AI slop, as long as it also talks about AI. Sincere question for any of the nearly 300 folks seem to…

The usual explanation in these threads are "chargebacks", but come on. Payment processors could deal with chargebacks and disputes just fine. They suck for the seller, not the cred…

If humans can find bugs, why can't humans write flawless code? Whatever the answer to that conundrum might be, LLMs are trained on these patterns and replicate them pretty faithful…

My reaction to the first demo (recipe) is that it was slower than typing the same thing on your keyboard. The second demo seems to be a wash: there's no time saved in saying "move …

The main thrust behind their foray into hardware was that they feared being cut off. Whoever controls the terminal has the power to push users toward their own platforms (Bing, Mic…

I think this is an odd article. It mixes together a variety of technologies that have little in common (gas discharge tubes, CRTs). It doesn't really say anything about the operati…

> I wonder what gives them that "high confidence", as opposed to this being just a traditional zero-day? Google, Cloudflare, and Microsoft are a trio of companies that get to see m…

> LLMs are really good at translating to different programming languages. ...for which ample training data is available. > This makes sense, given that they are derived from text t…

No, come on. Have you really tested all VPNs in 2026 and picked the best one? You're posting 100% AI-slop articles and the internet is already overflowing with this content.

This is an AI-generated article on an obvious spam blog that also features such bangers as "Best VPNs in 2026 for privacy and security", "Best crypto hardware wallets in 2026", etc…

I think some of it is account farming, but some is just people buying wholesale into the idea that if you're not using AI for everything, you're gonna be left behind. On the Kagi S…

We do precisely the same thing here. Here's a relatively recent post that, to me, seems obviously LLM-written. It just rattles off some management platitudes: https://news.ycombina…

This is a pedantry for the sake of it. If it's present by default and an attacker can trivially cause it to be loaded, it's the same as "on by default".

You can make precisely the same argument for network services. Who knows, maybe you need telnet and UUCP and NFS and ftpd running on your system?... why should the distro maintaine…

If this indeed works on all major distributions, I just continue to be amazed by how irresponsible the maintainers are. We're talking about optional kernel functionality that's pre…

I'm pretty sure that I've seen more LLM mistakes than coworker mistakes at this point and I'm nowhere closer to enlightenment.

One answer, as another person pointed out, is that LLM mistakes are just different . They are less explicable, less predictable, and therefore harder to spot. I can easily anticipa…

HN sends tens of thousands of views to AI-farmed articles about why AI is good or why AI is bad. These articles get upvoted to the front page literally every day. They don't say an…

Another reason why I often skip them is that for "tech" products, the tours almost never cover how I want to use the product. Instead, they tell me how the vendor wants me to use t…