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xyzal··on I Quit. The Clankers Won
Generate hundreds repos of plain old spaghetti code and put it on github. Easiest thing you can do.
xyzal··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
Exactly. Pick friends that do not behave like dicks.
xyzal··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
Magical human verification technology is called "your own private forum" in conjunction with "invite your friends"
xyzal··on Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
Exactly. You disobey robots file => we'll make your crawl gain a net negative.
xyzal··on Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
For the lulz
xyzal··on Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
One would assume legit spiders obey robots.txt.
xyzal··on Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
About two years ago, I made up reference to a nonexistent python library and put code "using" it in just 5 GitHub repos. Several months later the free ChatGPT picked it up. So IMO it works.
xyzal··on Warranty Void If Regenerated
Yup. There should be a disclaimer or a "food tag". The implicit assumption in society is some human had written the text you read.
xyzal··on Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
The title says for me 'Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.'

No editorializing guys! :)

xyzal··on LLMs can be exhausting
10k, really? Are you supposed to understand all that code? This is crazy and a one way street to burnout.
xyzal··on Meta acquires Moltbook
Two digital wastelands, a match made in heaven.
xyzal··on Agents that run while I sleep
I guess I'll just wait a year until a best practice emerges.
xyzal··on Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Are training data counted as input?

It would be interesting to see a court ruling that the output of LLMs trained on copyleft code are licensed under the GPL ... and all other viral licenses simultaneously

xyzal··on [dead]
Nah, this account is a psyop.

https://x.com/gergelyorosz/status/2030861262465245688

xyzal··on The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines
>12
xyzal··on The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines
"applied statistics"
xyzal··on I'm Not Consulting an LLM
Incorrect.

i.e. Russian networks flood the Internet with propaganda, aiming to corrupt AI chatbots.

https://thebulletin.org/2025/03/russian-networks-flood-the-i...

xyzal··on I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years
In my eyes, prose is meant to convey the complexity of human experience and emotion. LLMs can't succeed here by definition.
xyzal··on I'm Not Consulting an LLM
"If you can't find a way to make today's tech du jour useful for you, you are the problem".

Hmmmmm.

xyzal··on I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years
Honestly, I enjoyed coding a bit more when I was doing it just as a hobby. Maybe it is time to enjoy it again!

Don't ruminate on the future too much folks, you won't die by hunger.

xyzal··on I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years
No other profession has such a corpus of free training data available.
xyzal··on Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?
Moving to the dark side?
xyzal··on Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?
I don't think so. Programmers profession is uniquely suited to be replaced by LLMS due to the short verificaion cycle of their artifacts and a vast corpus of freely available training data.
xyzal··on German police probe student poster slur against Merz
It is a "probe".

When I report to the police UFO landed in my backyard and I feel my life is threatened, the police are obliged to probe into it. Not that anything may come out of it.

xyzal··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
As an European, I would actually love tariffs on American services. Kick them where it hurts.
xyzal··on System76 on Age Verification Laws
Online discourse is sadly doomed. And if not yet, then tomorrow surely.

https://arxiv.org/html/2506.06299v4

xyzal··on [dead]
Move to Russia, my friend
xyzal··on Advertise to AI Agents with Prompt Injection
This is either satire or pure evil
xyzal··on US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives
Lack of regulation is US' advantage. Which has of course also its downsides, like an extractive healthcare system.
xyzal··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
In case you wished to support legal efforts against Israeli soldiers accused of war crimes. https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/donate
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