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Its too bad Team Blind doesn't support a dev api to their auth service. Work emails are a good candidate for a simple "blue check mark" system for the HN crowd, but with a layer pr…

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that KDE revived the Plasma Bigscreen project. No idea on the ETA but assuming all goes well I can see it becoming my daily driver very quickly. …

Alfred hitchcock was ahead of his time.

I'm just disappointed in crypto. It was supposed to be internet currency, but became another meme stock instead. Maybe someday we'll be able to reboot it the right way so it can ac…

I too was in the market recently for a NAS, downgrading from a 12 bay server because of yagni - it's far too big, too loud, runs hot, and uses way too much energy. I was also tempt…

Netguard solves this, available on the play store and F droid https://netguard.me/

I'm under the impression that AI is still negative ROI. Creating absolute value is different from creating value greater than the cost. A tool is a tool, but could you continue per…

It's not exactly a science, it's the aggregate trend of many distinct players allocating capital where they think it will be most productive. AI isnt't "taking jobs", but it might …

The current education system is going to collapse. Teachers and students alike won't be able to resist the ultimate cheat code. Schools need to become tech free zones. Education ne…

Fantastic - you can improve on the realism in the next iteration by simulating voting based on comment alignment. For example, automatically downvoting negative AI sentiment, maybe…

VPN?

Correct, however: > By following users over time, as their fingerprints changed, they could guess when a fingerprint was an ‘upgraded’ version of a previously observed browser’s fi…

https://abc7.com/post/student-handcuffed-doritos-bag-mistake...

That's a hell of an endorsement by the French govt. I use GOS as a daily driver and it's fantastic - it's what android was supposed to be before it enshittified. It's refreshing to…

https://news.fsu.edu/news/education-society/2025/08/26/on-sc...

> The real grift has been in echo chambers changing peoples vocabulary Glad others are noticing this, it deserves more attention than it gets and everyone should be aware it's happ…

> The founder, Yudkowsky, posted an article ... in which he asked readers to choose between two options. One is that a single individual is tortured mercilessly for fifty years. Th…

This sparked a really fascinating discussion, I don't know if anyone will see this but thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts :) I understand your point - to an LLM there's no m…

I am once again shilling the idea that someone should find a way to glue Prolog and LLMs together for better reasoning agents. https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43948657 Thes…

The double entendre occurred to me, I don't disagree. But the relative ease does not merely apply to users, but to the barrier of entry for alt products as well. Consider that the …

Granted I'm taking creative liberties reading between the lines and mapping to other context. I'd give it low odds overall, but I'm gleaning a non-zero likelihood worthy of conside…

# Encrypt a file openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in secret.txt -out secret.enc # Decrypt openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in secret.enc -out secret.txt Wow that was hard.