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1f60con Protecting customers with generative AI indemnification

Who will be the first to type in "Mickey Mouse, digital art" and watch these companies take on $DIS?

1f60con Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started

How is that possible when both outcomes have a probability of exactly 50%?

Ideally, Android wouldn’t have any security vulnerabilities, but that’s not realistic. Rust won’t prevent every bug (and it’s even possible to cause segmentation faults in an ostensibly safe language like Python), but “better” is still a huge leap forward.

1f60con My personal C coding style as of late 2023

Context: Linus Torvalds' announcement of Linux to comp.os.minix: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html

1f60con Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)

I know you're being silly, but I think Harris now works for Segovia Technology, a payment processor geared toward people living in extreme poverty.

1f60con Show HN: I built a Python web framework

chillbill is attempting to perform a prompt injection attack on lemper, insinuating that they are a bot

1f60con Show HN: MonoDevelop

Maybe OP isn't familiar with the Show HN rules, which state that you can only submit something you've personally worked on.

Or maybe OP really has worked on all these things. Without more context, it's hard to say.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

1f60con Bram Moolenaar has died

It seems unthinkable that Dang will not bestow this honor upon him. Given that it's currently early Saturday morning, we just have to wait.

1f60con Bram Moolenaar has died

Rest in peace, sir. My thoughts are with the entire Moolenaar family and his loved ones.

1f60con AmazonBasics Microwave: Accessible for People with Visual Impairments (2019)

Apple recently previewed a feature called "Point and Speak" that does exactly this. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-s...

1f60con WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser

I assume it's this: https://twitch.tv/videos/45877747

1f60con macOS command-line tools you might not know about

APFS isn't case-sensitive, so you can type networkquality if it makes you happy. :-)

1f60con Fark redesign is now live (2007)

Maybe if you're British. :-) Or maybe I'm just one of today's lucky 10,000.

1f60con Fark redesign is now live (2007)

This implies that the website is really called fuck.com (but censored), which is certainly … a choice.

1f60con Illegal Services

You are right to be suspicious. The file gets flagged by 3 out of 70 scanners[0], and there are some "execution parents" (files that create the file being studied upon execution in a sandbox environment, see the relations tab) that are flagged by more scanners.

I first thought this was a honeypot, but it looks like plain old malware.

[0]: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/84dab96a11da002f640ba371...

1f60con Astral

Or "Ruff creators found Astral Software Inc." or something.

1f60con ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete

I would love a breakdown of how they made the incredible header image (https://minimaxir.com/2023/03/new-chatgpt-overlord/featured....)

1f60con Oxidizing bmap-tools: rewriting a Python project in Rust

> The standard lib crypto module uses rust, too.

This couldn't matter less, but I think you're confused with the third-party Cryptography package, which uses Rust.

1f60con EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit

I'm just going to keep saying YOO-luh-tuhr, thank you very much.

1f60con Using GPT3, Supabase and Pinecone to automate a personalized marketing campaign

I'm disappointed that the article doesn’t explain what they ended up doing.

1f60con Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical

Revolut offers free (disposable) virtual debit cards and isn't limited to just the US.

(No affiliation; I'm just a happy customer.)

1f60con Audacium has officially merged with Tenacity

> "destructive" audio editor

I clicked your link, but I'm still unsure what that means. Does that mean it operates on the audio file directly? Or that it has no undo functionality? Or something else entirely?

1f60con MIT No-AI License

That reminds me of this incredibly funny anecdote told by Douglas Crockford: https://youtu.be/-hCimLnIsDA.

1f60con DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer

And 1.1.1.1 + 8.8.8.8 = 9.9.9.9 (https://quad9.net)

1f60con DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer

So this is just NextDNS but without a control panel, and it’s 100% free? That’s nice.

1f60con I wish Asciidoc was more popular

How does that command work?

1f60con Ask HN: EU Bank with Good API?

I assume you’re talking about the “pride flags”? Those are just the bank’s colors.

1f60con 🥺: the best sudo replacement

There’s even a standard (of sorts): https://gitmoji.dev

1f60con A Letter from _why (2005)

This is only tangentially related, but is https://poignant.guide/ missing some chapters?

Chapter 3^ says (among other things)

> Two chapters from now you'll be writing your own Ruby programs. In fact, it's right about there that I'll have you start writing your own role-playing game, your own file-sharing network (a la BitTorrent), as well as a program that will pull genuine random numbers from the Internet.

Which always sounded cool to me (and still does), but it's never brought up again in the book. Were those meant (and I realize no one can say for sure) merely as examples of projects one could do, or did (a version of) the book walk you through their implementations? Or am I missing something?

^ https://poignant.guide/book/chapter-3.html

1f60con Pa – a simple password manager based on age

Both are great points. Thanks!