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„ 100% of tech experts I talk to“ - that seems like a legitimate population sample to support such broad statements.

Many people on HN seem quite skeptical of the current AI hype—some even believe the bubble could burst soon. For example, a disappointing GPT-5 release in August might already trig…

Funny to see how being anti-GenAI and anti-LLM is now the new en vogue on HN. Can't wait till that dies off as well.

hm I don't think that passwords are an example of good IT security. There are much better options like physical tokens, biometric features, passkeys etc. that are less obtrusive an…

About 'Default Deny': 'It's not much harder to do than 'Default Permit,' but you'll sleep much better at night.' Great that you, the IT security person, sleeps much better at night…

I think most of what a brain cell effectively does could be simulated with water channels, pulleys and gates - so don't expect humans to grok either.

>more risk averse than the OpenAI one At least it's not sci-fi-risk averse ;)

Ok so to summarize: Credentials have been stolen using a rather common malware from some people that didn't protect their computers properly. A subset of those credentials were rel…

It does make sense for russia (or at least Gazprom). They've cut deliveries through the gas pipelines anyway. Now they might have needed a reason not to pay penalties for contract …

>Jesus, I can’t believe how spoiled and entitled so many people are The entitlement is called workers rights. People fought quite hard to get the ones we have right now. E.g. my gr…

The only relevant difference is in which part you use the word "force" in the description of the hypothetical world. In the real world, however, no one is usally forced to WFH. But…

If you wonder why an argument might be controversial, it can helpful to imagine how it would sound like in mirror world: Assume for a moment that working remotly and a flexible wor…

The guy providing the data in the CA scandal was a credible scientist at the Universities of Toronto and Cambridge. His social media data collection back then was considered part o…

To get rid of search engines like Google and Bing we don't need to build a new internet - we just need to build new search engines. E.g., how about an open source spider/crawler th…