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"Add to cart" does nothing. Wonder if they actually sell floppies, or just shred them to keep pushing us towards modern technology.

Every single person in history who has ever made anything has had haters in abundance. People who just hate to hate, or demand outrageous things, or try to belittle you or make you…

"When I asked the computer to identify it, what I got was European Warbler. You see, sir, the SAPS software was originally written to look for birds. And I think when it gets confu…

This has been a raucous success for the "think of the children" crowd, proving that the technique is still, despite all the times its been abused in the past, a blank check to do w…

I'm sorry, you're going to have to dumb it down for me. Are you saying it's "conceivable but unlikely" that courts will find that LLM generated code is owned, collectively, by the …

Governments are not unified bodies, and attempts to introduce thought control on the internet have failed in the US, but easily passed in the UK. Illinois has recently passed a too…

Conspiracy theorists are also the ones who are most likely to read HN constantly, and will get to new posts first. Once it gets bumped up enough, the regular people see it, and as …

> Contributors to F/OSS projects, and developers who run them, will falsely claim authorship of the code written by LLMs It's only "falsely" if the courts rule that LLM-written cod…

You're not missing anything. I think this is a person trying to speak their opinion into fact by quoting themselves.

It's more accurate to say "code was only the worst bottleneck in a multi-bottleneck system". The second-worst bottleneck has been promoted to first. And it might be only marginally…

Apparently a chain of bugs leads to this. This is an internal debugging feature for VIA, but some motherboards accidentally left it enabled.

Calling it a "backdoor" is subjective, because it looks enough like an unintentional exploitable bug that one could make that argument. Is an accidental backdoor still a backdoor? …

Legal departments are ironically very much like LLMs. They are trained on a narrow set of data and don't really understand the real world. If you let them run wild with no supervis…

Hey looks good. If you productize it and get subscribers that'll be awesome.

This post makes two mistakes. The first is an XKCD 605 (Extrapolating). The author makes bold predictions for the future as though they're inevitable, but gives zero evidence, beca…

Customers expect more, so they'll pay more. It really isn't more complicated than that.

Yeah rulings like this often come across as a slap on the wrist, but consider that most banks will fight you over a $36 overdraft fee, and fast food restaurants will fire people wh…

Hey, it's been awhile since we had a good microkernels vs monolithic debate. Time to post it!

The "not hiring juniors" thing started before agentic LLMs were a thing, but it was close enough that it's easy to mistake it for causation. The fact that people retroactively attr…

Not OP but I have an opinion. That's an interesting historical fact, and one that we've locked ourselves out of. I looked into stripping Linux down to the bare minimum, and it's ex…

Seems like a much better idea would be to build it yourself first, then have the AI do it for real? If you don't understand what you're building, you're going to get a lot of surpr…

> Bad faith argument, borderline flaggable Do what you have to do. shrug But when it doesn't have any effect, consider that maybe your bar for "bad faith argument" includes large s…

Thank you, I'm upvoting you, because people need to realize that there's no discussing this issue. We probably need to return to state's rights and ask everyone to move to their pr…

The flock discourse is slowly climbing the ladder to real discussion. We're at the "mostly intelligent people who are casually interested in the topic being confidently wrong about…

The downvoted comments here are very interesting, and it really shows a divide in beliefs here. I fear that there's no reconciling this, and in the end we'll need two internets: Th…