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HackerThemAll··on UK police used Copilot AI "hallucination" when banning football fans
Copilot is the stupidest of them all. And I suspect the UK police used either free or cheap version, which is even more stupid.
HackerThemAll··on How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI
The best decision for Google happened like 10 years ago when they started manufacturing their own silicon for crunching neural nets. No matter if they had a really good crystal ball back then, smart people, time travel machine or just luck, it pays for them now. They don't need to participate in that Ponzi scheme that OpenAI, Nvidia and Microsoft created, and they don't need to wait in line to buy Nvidia cards.
HackerThemAll··on Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
Nobody wants to use Copilot voluntarily, therefore it's going to be pushed down deep into Microsoft customers' throats.
HackerThemAll··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
Good luck. It cannot even preserve unsaved files across restarts. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/15098
HackerThemAll··on Bedlam Cube Solved (ALL 19,186 solutions)
I refuse to enter the website until it implements https. A free Let's Encrypt certificate will do. Otherwise I don't even know if I'm reading what the author published on the site, or what a man-in-the-middle provided me.
HackerThemAll··on The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal
It'd end when we implement a next generation IP addressing scheme. I'm not very big fan of IPv6 though. I'd prefer a 64-bit address format. IPv6 would only promote incautious distribution which would again result in address space exhaustion, more abuse and increased cybercrime.
HackerThemAll··on We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)
It's going to take those conservative netadmins another 10 to 20 years to learn that HTTP/3 or QUIC works over UDP and that it needs to be enabled. So... happy buffering and watching spinners until then.
HackerThemAll··on Microsoft to replace all C/C++ code with Rust
Security. I know it's boring for most, but important for those who need to handle cybersecurity issues.
HackerThemAll··on Rust's Block Pattern
This is a great addition to the best patterns and practices in Rust. Worth noting and using. In JavaScript there's the proposal of "do expressions" which accomplish the same.
HackerThemAll··on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams
I don't believe that it's about the wellbeing of children. They will introduce total digital control in the name of high ideas, when in fact they'll be above that. We've seen this already with age verification for porn sites in UK. Even those exact people who voted for it, used VPNs to bypass the law they've created themselves. It's a laughterhouse.

In addition to that, one must be really naive to think that well-organized criminals won't arrange non-mainstream devices with custom modified Android or a new kind of Linux-based OS and/or protocol, without central authority, or with central servers in "certain" countries, that will bypass the stupid limitations.

Anybody who thinks that criminal gangs with paying members use WhatsApp for CSAM is an idiot.

When it comes to porn sites, only those big ones are going to be affected by this, but they're going to be affected badly. Stuff will be shared via some covert file-sharing mechanisms that will ALWAYS slip under the radar.

This surveillance will only target and affect normal people, and will take away your privacy for good, forever.

Remember that politicians are voted for on the basis of who's a better stand-up speaker, after only a few minutes of hearing/watching them, or even less than this, because your sibling told you so. They're not selected based on objective judgement of their competence, balanced view of the world which they base on data and science, but who's able to light your emotions sufficiently so that you remember that until you cast the ballot. Therefore most of them are just great drama actors, but are incompetent in all other areas.

Some say "I don't care, let them proceed, because I don't do anything wrong, and have nothing to hide". You'll see people arrested, investigated and imprisoned due to false positives. We've seen that already, but not to the extent this law is going to bring.

And one more. Not very far from now we'll experience AI and robots enforcing this digital utopia. West is going downhill. There will come a time when you'll call China with its social scoring system a "truly free world".

HackerThemAll··on UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification
I don't believe that it's about the wellbeing of children. They will introduce total digital control in the name of high ideas, when in fact they'll be above that. We've seen this already with age verification for porn sites in UK. Even those exact people who voted for it, used VPNs to bypass the law they've created themselves. It's a laughterhouse.

In addition to that, one must be really naive to think that well-organized criminals won't arrange non-mainstream devices with custom modified Android or a new kind of Linux-based OS and/or protocol, without central authority, or with central servers in "certain" countries, that will bypass the stupid limitations.

Anybody who thinks that criminal gangs with paying members use WhatsApp for CSAM is an idiot.

When it comes to porn sites, only those big ones are going to be affected by this, but they're going to be affected badly. Stuff will be shared via some covert file-sharing mechanisms that will ALWAYS slip under the radar.

This surveillance will only target and affect normal people, and will take away your privacy for good, forever.

Remember that politicians are voted for on the basis of who's a better stand-up speaker, after only a few minutes of hearing/watching them, or even less than this, because your sibling told you so. They're not selected based on objective judgement of their competence, balanced view of the world which they base on data and science, but who's able to light your emotions sufficiently so that you remember that until you cast the ballot. Therefore most of them are just great drama actors, but are incompetent in all other areas.

Some say "I don't care, let them proceed, because I don't do anything wrong, and have nothing to hide". You'll see people arrested, investigated and imprisoned due to false positives. We've seen that already, but not to the extent this law is going to bring.

And one more. Not very far from now we'll experience AI and robots enforcing this digital utopia. West is going downhill. There will come a time when you'll call China with its social scoring system a "truly free world".

HackerThemAll··on Opus 1.6 Released – Interactive Audio Codec
He's maybe referring to the fact that platforms such as Spotify, Tidal etc. doesn't offer music in Opus format - high quality while conserving bandwidth and storage. Instead they try to win the market using "master" or "lossless" quality, which is pretty much b.s.
HackerThemAll··on GPT-5.2
It's already third time on Hacker News. So, for the third time, no, thank you, OpenAI and ChatGPT doesn't cut it for me.
HackerThemAll··on GPT-5.2
No, thank you, OpenAI and ChatGPT doesn't cut it for me.
HackerThemAll··on GPT-5.2
No, thank you, OpenAI and ChatGPT doesn't cut it for me.
HackerThemAll··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
Oh my, this is hilarious. Thanks!
HackerThemAll··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
Noto Serif would have been a better choice, it is far more readable and is capable of representing all languages in the world.

But then it's bigger, for example to replace Time New Roman 10 it would require Noto Serif 8.5.

HackerThemAll··on Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available
How would I run a Windows Server VM in Kubernetes?
HackerThemAll··on Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
There are too many of that recently. Cloudflare is starting to look amateurish. Can't they test their stuff properly before deploying it to production?
HackerThemAll··on 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long
phpBB which they use for forum is littered with bugs and security vulnerabilities. This one is clearly a race condition, not unheard of.
HackerThemAll··on Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server
All software from ISC was/is littered with security vulnerabilities. BIND is in the same hall of shame as Sendmail.
HackerThemAll··on Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server
https://github.com/bluecatengineering/dora
HackerThemAll··on [dead]
Since when Hacker News spreads antivaxx FUD?
HackerThemAll··on SmartTube Compromised
Ask your president. I suppose republicans will soon block VPN apps, adult apps and whatever comes to their minds as non-compliant with their medieval mindset.
HackerThemAll··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
Soon in U.S.

For the safety and security of children, of course.

HackerThemAll··on You want microservices, but do you need them?
Oh no, that is blasphemy! What else they'll gonna belittle? OO design patterns?

/s

HackerThemAll··on SmartTube Compromised
Blocking file-based installations was never planned. It's fake news and always has been. It's all about requiring code signing for all code so that malware-spreading authors can be easily blocked by adding their signing key fingerprint to the blocklist.

It doesn't matter whether the app is installed via Play Store, Huawei's or Samsung's store etc., or from APK.

HackerThemAll··on Why xor eax, eax?
If I remember correctly, sub used to be slower than xor on some ancient architectures.
HackerThemAll··on Why xor eax, eax?
> Interestingly, when zeroing the “extended” numbered registers (like r8), GCC still uses the d (double width, ie 32-bit) variant.

Of course. I might have some data stored in the higher dword of that register.

HackerThemAll··on Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code
At this stage you'd need to contribute to it, not treat it as a finished product.
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