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That's interesting, good find. Those stats from W3Techs would be much more useful if they just admitted how much of their sample they are discarding! Maybe if somebody paid

They do also say they don't count subdomains separately, so wordpress.com is one site.

I think you are interpreting the data on httparchive wrong. 'All technologies' does say 8.74m, but again I think that is only successfully fingerprinted sites? If we filter to top 10m ranked sites, it goes down to 6.47m, with PHP at 3.19m (so 32%). Desktop is even lower for some reason.

This article is complete slop and not worth looking at, but it's an issue worth discussing.

One of the original php2shell announcement posts (which was clearly AI written) claimed that 70% of websites use PHP. This number has now been repeated by every single article about php2shell, including in the most trusted tech news outlets.

I think it could have been approximately true in 2008, but not in 2026. The number is too round anyway. Trying to search for a source to the claim is now impossible.

If the basis of a reliable fact is consensus, then every AI model should now consider this fact to be true. In reality consensus is not useful of course, offhand facts are frequently generated by citogenesis. An article mentioning a stat offhand is not a source. A source should take some amount of epistemic responsibility for a claim.

It's not the current title of the actual article, the submitter came up with it. Would be nice if it were changed to the original.

The article isn't really about the eMudhra incident anyway. I thought it was very much worth reading, certified Not Slop

Well yes, that's exactly the sort of the thing banking apps would want to prevent. Android also blocks overlays on banking apps to prevent a whole class of attacks.

The vulnerability could have been independently discovered. Organizations involved have said that's not unlikely

Does the L stand for lossy, or lossless? Or large, as in this case?

I think it might just be diffraction artifacts animated by the interpolation (I hereby invoke cunnignhams law)

And a Mitchell and Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zj50DmBFp0

>Show that an AI can take the kinds of computer resources an academic has access

I don't know how this can be verified, but I'm not convinced by the evidence in the post. It sounds like the final solution can be ran in a week on 96 cores. But how much compute was used attempting the problem? How much inference? 'Trust me bro?'

I think these solutions are worth millions to these labs, and I think that's what they're spending on them. Far more resources than have been directed at mathematicians and physicists to solve the same problems.

How could this patent application have any chance of being accepted? This exact system has been used in mobile games for 15 years at least

Leaving aside the quality of the different posters here, I think the interesting question is where did the default AI generated style come from? It's certainly not one of the styles listed if you interrogate chatgpt, it's not something it seems to be choosing to do.

I think the signature noisy, crowded, HDR-y look shows these posters are being spat right out of a diffusion model. They always have an image background with the classic light halos around text.

When I one-shot a poster out of Gemini or whatever, I can't make anything nearly as bad as the ones I see every day. What on earth are people even using to make stuff that bad?

I find it quite shocking that orgs with some great designers like cloudflare are doing this. Broken layouts, trios of random uppercase words sprinkled around. It's crazy. How does it inspire confidence in a product, knowing that the landing page was created in 10 seconds?

Germany does not have public shrines to the perpetrators of genocide which heads of state pay respects at.

There was no Kniefall von Warschau for Japan.

Russia has been using nuclear icebreakers for civilian purposes since the 50s, and has also used nuclear propulsion for other vessel types, as has the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker

Why are they doing this? To try head off accusations about distillation?

I didn't even realise Simon W did YC

I have a friend who got a Nielson device recently and they were told it relies on watermarks. Their website says a combination is used: https://www.nielsen.com/insights/2023/how-to-measure-tv-audi...

Looking forward to the update where his vibe-coded site has been compromised and is being used as a C&C server

True for now, but here in the UK I still see 'Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)'

This means giving up all the advantages of central banking and is generally only done informally by countries experiencing hyperinflation without capital controls. It's a marker of a failed state.

I remember in live TV debates for the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the Yes leader insisted that Scotland could not be prevented from using the Pound sterling. It's technically true, but a very, very bad idea.

And yet here we are, still subsidizing steelworks in England, and Scottish people are paying the cost in their electricity bills.

Scotland's abundant local energy resources should be spent on things that actually benefit Scotland and provide jobs.

I have friends that still play with him, he's still active on the same servers with a different username. He's currently working on an AI-free artist marketplace:

https://artistalley.org/

For context, 15 was some brony tf2 player who cracked deep voice synthesis in order to make My Little Pony characters say funny things. He then offered this for free on his site. It was never a clever branding thing, it was just his username.

It's funny seeing HN types being genuinely confused as to why someone would just make interesting things for the sake of making them, and then offer them freely for the good of others. He used to be on HN, there's good insights in his posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=15ai

Better than having to go down a salt mine, I suppose

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/29/respiratory-cl...

I think the point with those supermarket cameras is to influence behaviour, not to surveil, I doubt they are even recording. When I was a kid (maybe in a worse area than you) there were CRT TVs by entrances of supermarkets showing a live feed of you walking in. People behave differently when they feel they are being watched, it's why they have creepy CCTV posters with big eyes on them. Probably the same reason for evil eye charms too.

One of the most annoying quirks of LLMs for me is the insistence on, after being corrected, loudly noting what wasn't done. After getting it to change something stupid in code, it will leave a comment in the code boasting about how it doesn't do the stupid thing, which to future readers reads like an 'asbestos free!' label on a cereal box.

In Scotland in the early 2000s, there was a moral panic over a tonic wine called Buckfast, made in Buckfast Abbey by an order of Benedictine monks.

It's the kind of thing meant for your granny to have when sick. It contains caffeine and alcohol, and neds started drinking it because caffeine and alcohol both feel good (humans have known this for thousands of years).

It quickly became part of the local youth culture, and was quickly blamed for all the deep-seated anti-social behaviour issues prevalent in the region. It was known as 'wreck the hoose juice'. Breathless tabloid headlines were written, schlocky documentaries were made (I was made to watch one in school), and politicians started laying the blame at supermarkets for selling the stuff.

The big supermarkets stopped selling it of their own accord, and still don't to this day. They were hurt by the bad PR and like to get ahead of regulation, which is not toothless in the UK. Buckie, with it's now notorious reputation, started to be drank by artsy pretentious students instead of violent neds. And would you believe it, when it was drank by this different demographic, the problems magically disappeared!

My point being, observational studies are useless here because only a certain kind of person is consuming a drink called 'FCKED UP'. Caffeine is one of the most well-studied drugs in medicine, and we know it's safe. Evidence to the contrary would have to be strong, not be anecdotal or observational.

Britain has a strange relationship with metric units, and there are certain things particular imperial units are still used for. Beer and milk is in pints (but nothing else), people are in stones, and how far you can sling something (a golf drive, a rugby ball, or a bullet) would be yards.

The experience we have of sports betting shows that even extraordinarily well compensated sportspeople will cheat to influence events due to greed. That's not such a big problem for something that fundamentally does not matter (sports outcomes). As you apply it to things that do matter, like political appointments, actions in warzones, and even weather measurements, people will and have changed these outcomes to make money.

I am looking at their county level distance-to-power-plant map and it's literally xkcd 1138.