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Oh the irony.

hurfdurfon Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"

Swifties are everywhere

hurfdurfon Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning

Proton to 'Re-Interview' Staff About AI to See Who Gets to Keep Their Job ( https://www.404media.co/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-a... ) 85 points | 3 days ago | 42 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251062

hurfdurfon Harvey raised 500M for legal AI, I built the same and open sourced it

Harvey, Mike, but no Donna!?

hurfdurfon New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

  And it's still $1999.

Because the price hike happened in June, in this case from 1699 to 1999.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672732 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/apple-raises-pric...

hurfdurfon New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

Apple has had release-weeks in spring and fall, with some variance, for a while now:

https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#mac https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#ipad

hurfdurfon The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]

Didn't Anthropic also come out with a paper just hours after OpenAI did, a couple weeks ago during that Navier-Stokes thing? Once is coincidence...

hurfdurfon iPhone Duo Teardown

   The PS5 is, quite literally, a bargain bin product.

Which is why they are being sold like 50% over MSRP on the secondary market and Sony cannot ship them fast enough?

hurfdurfon Root shell on Samsung TV

https://mrbruh.com/asusrouter/

  If you avoided downloading the app for whatever reason, you can be proud because it just saved you from potentially getting hacked.

Nice.

hurfdurfon Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

Only applies to Google-sanctioned Android systems.

hurfdurfon Caffeine-like utility to keep you MacBook awake with its lid closed

"Active Hours"? Who comes up with that kind of stuff? And you cannot even disable it, only out"smart" it. Unbelievable.

hurfdurfon PHP 8.2.35

"Four diffs and seven lines ago..."

hurfdurfon Secret trigger words could make AI-powered robots dangerous

Well... https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=binghamton.edu

hurfdurfon Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman

That's what snap elections are for, except in the US.

hurfdurfon Android apps running native on macOS

Niantic plans a “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data | https://nianticlabs.com/news/largegeospatialmodel | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187494

430 points | 2 years ago | 338 comments

hurfdurfon Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher

The switch from IE/Trident to Chromium happened in 2010 alongside launching support for Macs.

hurfdurfon How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

Amazon does (or did[0]) the commingling, not the seller. Wild practice, really.

[0] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t...

hurfdurfon How the Military Will Hack the Election

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864642

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50082367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50087140

hurfdurfon Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI

Prominent screen in the kitchen used as recipe stand showing ingredients etc.? The possibilities are endless, and I think we're going to love it.

hurfdurfon Show HN: I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090011

hurfdurfon Show HN: I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change

  Palantir CTO:Some AI researchers taking up smoking;they expect AI to cure cancer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072094 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073279

hurfdurfon How many shots are in the average movie today?

  Also, the main actor has also done a tv show with a similar "single shot" for whole episode you may wanna check out.

Which one of the 50 entries in the "Television"-section of his Wikipedia-article is it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Graham#Television

hurfdurfon New Apple TV 4K

No, HW AV1 decoding came with A17 Pro, previous ATV4K (3rd Gen.) used A15.

hurfdurfon New Apple TV 4K

Apple TV 4K 3rd Gen was $129 (4GB/64GB) resp. $179 (4GB/128GB) up until four months ago.

hurfdurfon Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

What is it called?

hurfdurfon Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are 'compromised'

  Here's a video of Nadella speaking about AI a year ago.

Where?

hurfdurfon Choose Europe: Advance your research career in the EU

Algo being funny, this submission was just below this one:

   US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work (nature.com)  62 points by bluenose69 3 hours ago | 92 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019090

hurfdurfon Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage

Democracy only working in the weeks and some months before an election is a major bug, though.

hurfdurfon Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

When you step on the loud paddle but computer says "No" although there is no reason to say "No", that's too much technology.

If you cannot drive in wet conditions without computer intervention because your electric engine applies too much torque for mortal humans to control, that's too much technology.