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99112000··on Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store
Docker
99112000··on Sony, Ubisoft scandals lead to California ban on deceptive digital goods sales
Did they have to add a label that the goods may give them cancer?
99112000··on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This
Humans try to replicate the human brain in software and are surprised it sometimes spits out dumb things a human could have said.
99112000··on Launch HN: Deepsilicon (YC S24) – Software and hardware for ternary transformers
An area worth exploring are IP cameras imho

1. They are everywhere and aren't going anywhere.. 2. Network infrastructure to ingest and analyze thousands of cameras producing video footage is very demanding.. 3. Low power and low latency scream asic to me

99112000··on Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now?
Any other creative pursuit that involves some level of engineering.

Buy a 3D printer, start some woodworking/furniture stuff, learn to weld. Dig a pond and breed koi fish.

99112000··on U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS
Fair enough, at least the limits they proposed are among the best in the world. Credit where credit is due!
99112000··on U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS
"First ever" has been used very leniently here. Maybe it's the first ever for any state in America but the rest of the world definitely already has limits on it.
99112000··on Deep Bug
One word: fuzzing.
99112000··on Adventures Making Vegemite
The best vegemite I ever had was from a 6 foor 4 muscular man in Brussels
99112000··on Wireproxy: WireGuard client that exposes itself as a HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy
Does it support OpenVPN?
99112000··on Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal
Did they get consent?
99112000··on FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
I got some FreeStyle Abotts for anyone who wants to hack away at them. Rumor has it Dexcom is cheaper in bulk than Abotts and they are losing hospitals as customers.
99112000··on Herbgrind analyzes binaries to find inaccurate floating point expressions
I've tried out HerbGrind but it often gets stuck and reports an error E_STONED.
99112000··on Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
Breaking News, BuzzFeed man can take a joke amd fires back.

I appreciate defining a clear hypothesis and the exploring an LLM using statistics. I feel like the analysis could benefit from prompts that contain neutral consequenses as well. You have given it clear positive rewards, clear negative ones and no reward. Neutral consequences may be a better baseline than no reward.

99112000··on Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
TL;DR BuzzFeed man performs statistical analysis on LLM output, in an attempt to determine hidden internally encoded motives.

Next up, for a more clickbaity titel, BuzzFeed man pretends to be therapist to uncover LLM's dark secret.

I only wrote this snarky comment because 90% of the authors job is to evaluate the effectiveness of their clickbaity titles, or am I wrong?

99112000··on Show HN: Franz – A desktop client for Apache Kafka
O hey WinRAR!

On a more serious note, cool app. The iconic WinRAR notice to purchase a license would be a nice easteregg.

99112000··on Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
I wish him all the best, fighting cancer is a tough battle. After he beats his own cancer, perhaps he has energy to defeat the cancer that is FSF.
99112000··on Ask HN: Are there any fulfilling careers in tech anymore?
I think everyone struggles with this at a certain point in life and this extends beyond the tech sector.

Understanding the impact of your work is not always easy, but it is a necessity to feel like you are performing meaningful work.

What helps me is talking to customers and understand how our product makes their life better and what my role is in building the product.

Whether you are picking fruit, flipping burgers or building tech, you are a little cog in a system that hopefully produces a net positive to humanity.

99112000··on Hackers can get your IP through Skype by just sending a link, no click required
IIRC you can even spoof the URL, so the URL on screen is not what you will be directed to. It is a perfect ground for phishing attacks. PS: Skype and Teams share parts of the same XML message format, you can have some fun there too :)
99112000··on BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data
Typical extortionist behavior.

Their first attempt failed, so they just try and piggy back on this media hype wrt to api changes eve tho they dont give a damn, just to blow up this supposed breach and add fuel to the existing fire.

99112000··on Show HN: Hacker News user experience enhancement browser extension
Please add an automatic archive.ph checker pls for adblocked/paywalled sites, and rewrite urls to automatically go to the archive
99112000··on Ask HN: What tools would make your Kubernetes development experience better?
rm -rf /

Best way to deal with Kubernetes

99112000··on Bank Failures Visualized
Now plot it relative to the money supply :D
99112000··on The emotional roller coaster of changing requirements
I was once tasked to build an integration while working directly under the CTO. They designed their own API and claimed there was no specification in the ecosystem that we needed to follow.

I noticed that there was a specification and I informed them that we might want to change our system to match it. The request was ignored and instead I tried to make incremental suggestions to their design to make it more compliant with the existing specification.

We release the system and the first feedback we got was backlash for not following the spec.

We are now 9 months later and the CEO has requested that we follow the specification and I now get to rewrite the system.

I hardly find any motivation to rewrite the system, I haven't talked to the CTO for a few months and now suddenly they offload a bunch of their tasks on us by personally assigning us work and just invites our manager to listen in lol

99112000··on Linus Tech Tips channel hacked
Aaand it got suspended.
99112000··on KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop
I'm almost sure this is an excerpt straight from https://youtu.be/7Nj9ZjwOdFQ
99112000··on SBF Caught Using VPN While Awaiting Criminal Trial [pdf]
Let the man watch porn.
99112000··on Worst interview questions for software developers
> How many ping pong balls do you need to lift a Ferrari from the bottom of a lake?

I estimate about 55,000?

Ferarri is 1300kg, needs 1300 liters, 1.3m^3 of air to be buoyant, and assuming square pingpong ball of 3cm, that be ballpark 46k. Add some extra for current, drag, mud

99112000··on Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?
You should contribute to open source project that has reviewers, it's like doing a test and having it graded by teachers.
99112000··on Bitcoin Post-Mortem
"P.S. Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto."

Up until that point, you weren't an idiot and just a frustrated developer.

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