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underdeserver··on Guy is banned by OpenAI for cyber abuse, his AI appeals, another AI approves it
Turtles all the way down
underdeserver··on The future of Flipper Zero development
Easy fix: Allow donations, merge updates once donation pool is enough to pay for the maintainers' time.
underdeserver··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
PC games are physical. I have my games right here on this thumb drive in my hand. If I sell it to you, and you plug it in, you can play my games.
underdeserver··on Europe's new climate in seven charts
It can change, if we get to net negative emissions. Not probable but possible.
underdeserver··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Undergraduate degrees are not vocational in any of the leading universities in any field. They are sometimes a prerequisite to vocational training, but aren't one in and of themselves.

There's a pretty good reason for that - the base assumption is that training in fundamentals, methods and ways of thinking is something you won't get anywhere else.

underdeserver··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
Nit - it is not completely free.

You are paying for the extra power draw.

underdeserver··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
My point is that it's easily vibeable for you, because you do game stuff.

I don't - I did large scale web, embedded, data, and security, but no graphics or games. I wouldn't know where to begin.

underdeserver··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
I don't think I could have vibe coded that.

At the very least, he photographed and built models of logs and his own yard.

underdeserver··on PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
This is a remarkably open-source friendly business model. I hope it works out similarly remarkably well for you!
underdeserver··on Dopamine Fracking
Eh, I don't use Lime Scooters or Waymo for the dopamine, I use them to get to where I need to go.
underdeserver··on Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries
These are dudes, likely some of them teenagers, playing Street Fighter and Tekken.

Who signed up for what?

underdeserver··on Zig Zen Update
Nearly impossible in some contexts, where the trade-off makes sense.

There are many scenarios, especially in embedded systems, where it can happen and you want to handle it robustly, e.g. by evicting a cache or flushing a buffer to disk.

underdeserver··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
What do you mean? How did it manipulate you?
underdeserver··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
It's not going to be a particularly expensive product, but a product it can be.
underdeserver··on The worst job interview I ever had
Was this a technical role?
underdeserver··on Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
Um, could it have been the job itself that killed your productivity and not the walks?
underdeserver··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
Is writing the blog post taking longer than the rewrite
underdeserver··on Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
There is a tradeoff between the freedom users have on their devices on one side, and the likelihood less sophisticated users will get their information stolen or their devices pwned and used to DoS innocent websites on the other side.

If you don't address this tradeoff you're not really engaging the issue.

What I think we need is a professional, well-informed advocate of freedom who is willing to seriously discuss the tradeoff and concede that neither extreme is ideal.

underdeserver··on Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
When I was in grad school I graded homework for first year math classes, and the thing about math homework is that the perfect homework takes almost no time to grade.

It's the bad, semi-coherent submissions that eat up your time, because you do want to award some points and tell students where they went wrong. It's the Anna Karenina principle applied to math.

Code review is the same thing. If you're sure Claude wrote your endpoint right, why not review it anyway? It's going to take you two minutes, and you're not going to wonder whether this time it missed a nuance.

underdeserver··on For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day
Okay but that hardware doesn't have to be in Beijing, it can be in a Dutch data centre.
underdeserver··on Waymo in Portland
They didn't mention it was Oregon. Maybe they're rolling out to Portland, Maine?
underdeserver··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Those footnotes - "no, not that outage" - are damning.
underdeserver··on The Joy of Folding Bikes
Did the guy in the grocery video just leave his bike outside? That's so beyond naïve it's rude.
underdeserver··on F-35 is built for the wrong war
It's not VTOL. It has STOVL and CATOBAR variants.
underdeserver··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
Please quote the clause he violated in said contract.
underdeserver··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
I used to hear it called "virtual scroll", and I remember webpages ballooning in RAM when they didn't do it.
underdeserver··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer. This is known as Godwin's law."
underdeserver··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
Thank goodness. Let's hope some peace and quiet comes out of this.
underdeserver··on Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities
I think the system card one should be separate, but this and the Glasswing thread are basically the same story.
underdeserver··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
I would suggest watching Nicholas Carlini's talk and Heather Adkins and Four Flynn's talks from unprompted:

https://youtu.be/1sd26pWhfmg?si=onOai_ocxkZeNWP0

https://youtu.be/B_7RpP90rUk?si=HkRBhw95DbbKX9lL

My takeaway is that fuzzing is not just complementary, it also gives a stronger AI a starting point. But AI is generally faster and better.

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