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With every passing headline, Windows sounds less and less like an Operating System, and more like a hobbyists revival project for a dead game I’ve never heard of

What the hell is going on at Microsoft?

uhfraidon Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?

Don’t be discouraged. The work that you enjoy doing is still here, and will still be here after you’ve graduated.

My best advice to you would be to learn CS the hard way (without AI).

Ignore the “AI learning tools” see on HN or mentioned by peers. Learning should be challenging so if it feels like a shortcut, it probably is. Don’t fall into that trap and you’ll be a more competent developer as a result, both with and without AI

uhfraidon AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review

Yep. Not just copyright but patents as well

> The Supreme Court previously rejected Thaler's request to hear his argument in a separate case involving prototypes for a beverage holder and a light beacon concerning whether AI-generated inventions should be eligible for U.S. patent protection. His patent applications were rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on similar grounds.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-de...

uhfraidon I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270

on HN in 2026, I’d say it’s never mattered more lol

uhfraidon Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy

> This is the internet. Real offenders will just submit the next PR with a new alt account.

Than it escalates to a platform issue so you just report them in that case. GitHub enforcement staff handles it

“- Creating alternative accounts specifically to evade moderation action taken by GitHub staff or users”

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-polici...

uhfraidon Proton spam and the AI consent problem

This is what’s called a “customer complaint” at real businesses with real paying customers lol

uhfraidon GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

Scale IS a problem, just not the only one.

Consequences are the inevitable solution. Accountability starting with authors, followed by organizations/institutions.

Warning for first offense, ban after

uhfraidon OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027

Strategies such as this would accelerate said endeavor:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577464

uhfraidon Ask HN: Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes?

Whether you or someone/something else wrote it is irrelevant

You’re expected to have self-reviewed and understand the changes made before requesting review. You must to be able to answer questions reviewers have about it. Someone must read the code. If not, why require a human review at all?

Not meeting this expectation = user ban in both kernel and chromium

uhfraidon PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

Microsoft isn’t going to declare death of the PC and pivot to “cloud computers”/virtual desktops (again) just because of temporary RAM/SSD supply shortages lol

> And Amazon CEO just said it out loud about cloud computers.

And Google said Stadia would have “negative latency”

uhfraidon Claude Cowork exfiltrates files

Command/“prompt” injection is correct terminology and what they’re typically mapped to in the CVE

E.g. CVE-2026-22708

uhfraidon Ask HN: Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes?

> How do you review large AI-assisted refactors today?

just like any other patch, by reading it

uhfraidon CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun

During winter outages, do you stick to the heat pump or switch to a backup heat (e.g. furnace)?

I regrettably removed our old furnace/tank when installing the air source heat pump we have now (northeast), but that’s been my biggest concern power wise

uhfraidon CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun

> My spouse and I work at home and after the first couple multi-day power outages we invested in good UPSs and a whole house standby generator.

What setup did you go with for whole house backup power?

uhfraidon Tell HN: Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

uhfraidon Backing up Spotify

> Stealing means you have a thing, I steal it, now I have the thing and you do not.

that seems like an overly narrow definition… what about identity theft, or IP theft?

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/superseding-indictment-...