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lkt··on DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
You know exactly what he means.
lkt··on Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
Opencode Go has Qwen 3.8 Max at $10/month
lkt··on Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
I don't think that's a very good comparison. People can drive a car without an expert but they can't build a car. People can use software without being an expert but still require an expert to build software.

AI could provided assistance with building both cars and software, but you still need a decent level of knowledge in either field to get a good result.

lkt··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
American politics often have a blast radius of the entire world, Swedish politics less so
lkt··on Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg
The guy running the twitter account is incompetent but the actual devs are a lot saner I think.

I agree it reflects poorly on them though

lkt··on The circus freaks of open source
Drew should include himself on that list, he’s earned it.
lkt··on GPT‑5.5 Instant
Is it cheap? `chat-latest` on https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing is showing $5/$30 input/output which is the same price as gpt-5.5
lkt··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
Yes I have the "Google AI Pro" plan from here https://gemini.google/subscriptions/ and you can login to the Gemini CLI with oauth
lkt··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
Anyone know if this is available in the Gemini CLI with a subscription (not api key)? Still seeing only Gemini 3 pro preview
lkt··on Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
Is it AI generated though?
lkt··on GPT-5.2-Codex
I've been doing some reverse engineering recently and have found Gemini 3 Pro to be the best model for that, surprisingly much better than Opus 4.5. Maybe it's time to give Codex a try
lkt··on Inside PostHog: SSRF, ClickHouse SQL Escape and Default Postgres Creds to RCE
That's what I thought too, but the article says it was submitted to ZDI and they handled the communication with Posthog
lkt··on Inside PostHog: SSRF, ClickHouse SQL Escape and Default Postgres Creds to RCE
Out of interest, how much does ZDI pay for a bug like this?
lkt··on Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems
They do scan but they miss a lot. The frequency decreased after Github started scanning all repositories but I still report leaked secrets to bug bounty programs pretty often. Unfortunately Home Depot don't have a bug bounty program so I don't scan them.
lkt··on Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
No because it allows you to set the bozo bit on them and completely disregard anything they say in the future
lkt··on Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?
You can find a dozen projects on Github that do this, it's not sensitive information that needs protecting
lkt··on Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I'm back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant)
I think you have a very skewed view of what people interested in cryptocurrency are like.
lkt··on Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax
They're great if you need raw processing power but they have a very backwards, German view of the internet where even a port scan is considered abuse. It's very easy to get your machine nullrouted or account closed.

I use them a lot for backend data processing but anything public facing I host at AWS or Digital Ocean who have a more reasonable approach to the internet.

lkt··on Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription
I looked into swapping to Apple Music before but couldn't find a way to play lossless music on Linux making swapping pointless. Apparently[0] decryption for lossless isn't supported for 3rd party clients.

Anyone know of a way around this?

[0]: https://github.com/ciderapp/Cider/discussions/889

lkt··on Show HN: Creating a Snake game clone with Rust/Bevy
Bevy has a lot of features enabled by default that add to the size. You can get bevy-snake down to 12 MB (3.2 MB gzipped, 1.9 MB brotli'd) if you only enable rendering and sprites, and strip the function names section.

It's still a little bigger than I would like, but it's not terrible.

lkt··on Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC
That's absolutely not the case, HN is mostly people who think they're geniuses because they can program computers. Read the comments on any post about a topic you know a lot about and you'll see it's full of people talking very confidently about things they know very little about. There are of course some very smart people mixed in, but it's hard to pick those people out from the noise.
lkt··on My insulin pump controller has a bug
Here is the safety notification: https://www.omnipod.com/en-gb/fsn-11-2023
lkt··on Moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us $230k per year
Apparently the move in this article is for their EU operations, now they're looking for a US colo provider to do the same there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38280506

lkt··on Omegle 2009-2023
They use "newf*gs" on 4chan, I assume that word is banned here so the above posters are censoring it.
lkt··on Lemmy Instances are already blocking each other
This is fine, that's the point of federation. Beehaw's stated goal is "Aspiring to be(e) a safe, friendly and diverse place." so it's understandable they would want to be more selective with who they federate with to create a "safe space" for those that want that kind of environment.
lkt··on Reddit Strike Has Started
That wasn't the case back then, there was a very strong "if it's legal, it's allowed" sentiment on reddit. It was only after it started getting attention in mainstream media that it was banned.
lkt··on Tokio Console
Looks like they have added a builder for tokio::task[1] that will allow you to set a name. It's unstable at the moment so you would need to set the tokio_unstable cfg flag.

[1]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/blob/master/tokio/src/task...

lkt··on uBlock Origin review
Sadly uTorrent did succumb to darkness a while ago by bundling a bitcoin miner and other dodgy software with the client as installer opt-out checkboxes.