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Judging by the enthusiasm for hosted AI models and tools like Claude Code on Hacker News, I don't think people care much about surveillance anymore.

> scalpers and their bots would claim a large share of them Is there any actual data on this? I know people don't like scalpers but I wonder what the actual percentage is.

Tests can only prove the presence of bugs, but not their absence. If the AI can access the tests, it can easily make them pass by just adding additional if statements. It doesn't m…

Surely programs can know where the pointer is as long as it is over a window that belongs to the program. Otherwise hover wouldn't work.

I heard the desktop environmentalists are working on such a project.

The first question should have been "Was this ticket AI-generated?".

> the ability to start a program with restricted access to files, network or OS calls (on Windows and on Linux) Bubblewrap allows you to do that on Linux.

I just realized that you can run sudo apt install nyancat on Ubuntu. It even includes a man page.

Stablecoins are just tokenized versions of exisiting currencies. Instead of settling through the current financial system which takes days for a global transaction you settle on a …

Stablecoins are quite different from banks. Under the system of fractional-reserve banking, banks by definition only have reserves for a fraction of their user's balances. Stableco…

This article seems to be built on a few misconceptions. It starts off with the claim that stablecoins are the modern-day 'digital gold standard' which they really aren't. Stablecoi…