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tasuki··on Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
Me three. I was surprised how same it all was. Except for the snaps! Debian doesn't force you to use snaps. This was perhaps the top reason I switched.
tasuki··on Have I befriended a murderer?
Link?
tasuki··on MCP Explained
> It is not technically REST, but it is basically REST.

What does that even mean?

> the same request/response format as REST

What request/response format does REST have?

Do you even know what HATEOAS means?

tasuki··on Sshole
Oh. Thank you!
tasuki··on sshole
Maybe that's on you though. I enjoyed it, though the discrepancy between the `*sshole` name and the `sshhole.com` domain made me twitch. How is anyone[0] obsessive enough to find this and write it up and yet not obsessive enough to make the amount of `h` consistent?

[0]: Be they human or LLM. Or an entity with any proportion of the two. I do not judge nor discriminate.

tasuki··on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
> Binance’s endpoint security tools did not immediately detect the malware.

Yes of course they didn't. The whole "endpoint security" industry is a scam. They're attempting to (or attempting to appear to) solve an impossible problem. All they do is install spyware and backdoors, reducing security rather than enhancing it.

tasuki··on Kitty 0.50
> I spawn and kill a lot of instances for quick tasks.

Why? Do you open a new browser window when you want to visit a website?

tasuki··on Kitty 0.50
I don't understand translucent backgrounds. Can you explain to me why one'd want a translucent bg?
tasuki··on Kitty 0.50
When reading your comment I thought "how silly". Then I looked at my kitty icon and yup, this is the one I'm using. Heh.
tasuki··on Kitty 0.50
Hiring designers isn't the mainstream for people who develop a thing for free in their spare time for everyone to use.
tasuki··on Private Jet plane crashes in Florida
I have not and did not intend to, but you made me curious. Why should I not listen to it?
tasuki··on UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power
I suspect it's coal lobby sponsoring "green" iniviatives. Then the "green" initiatives sponsored by coal are anti-nuclear.
tasuki··on Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4
Why did you pay Aphyr to find all these holes in ParticleDB? Didn't you know about them before? I wish you the best, but this doesn't sound reassuring.
tasuki··on Pico CSS is no longer maintained
Yes it is a pain. But the whole thing is like two pages, so I^H my LLM just reads it. I used to read it. It was ok readable (and I'm not very good at CSS).
tasuki··on Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?
I don't use Claude but this is the first time I hear someone say it's combative. People usually joke about it being too sycophantic.
tasuki··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
That's a problem with everything (apart from firearms perhaps). I think backyard gold is a solid idea, just make sure no one's watching you dig.
tasuki··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
The whole idea behind Bitcoin is that you can be your own bank. Binance is just an exchange. You cannot be JP Morgan Chase.
tasuki··on Pico CSS is no longer maintained
Despite its idiotic naming, I still use PureCSS[0]. Not sure why they keep maintaining it. I don't mind, nothing ever seems to change anyway.

How's your ten second evaluation of it?

[0]: https://pure-css.github.io/

tasuki··on Pico CSS is no longer maintained
I'm pretty sure I'd hate Tailwind, but please leave OKLCH alone. It is actually ok (as opposed to RGB and HSL which very much aren't ok).
tasuki··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
> Does anyone use/like touch on their windows (linux?) laptops?

Sometimes I use it in Linux. Sometimes it makes my system freeze, requiring a hard restart. Perhaps it would be wise to disable it in BIOS.

tasuki··on Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain
It is a tragedy that 60+ people died. Laughs can be a coping mechanism.

> Distasteful and totally crass.

That's culture-dependent. In some cultures it's not unusual to joke about tragedies (even when they are one's own).

tasuki··on JetBrains Thinkrail
> I refuse to take a repo with an AI-generated readme seriously. If you haven't bothered to write a readme, what else have you not bothered to do?

I care whether the readme is any good, not who wrote it. If you haven't bothered to critique the readme and instead critique its suspected creator — something entirely in your head — what else have you not bothered to do?

> (100% AI according to Pangram btw)

So what? Who cares about Pangram? I certainly don't! You cannot detect AI — it's impossible. Perhaps it's just Kenyans?[0]

[0]: https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-li...

tasuki··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
> I compared to a 10-year old CNN and to my surprise found that this was superior.

I'm surprised he's surprised.

> A small, old, specialised network using an outdated architecture recognises skin lesions far better than two frontier LLMs.

Yes of course. A 30m params Katago network with one playout is superhuman in playing go, while frontier LLMs have over 10,000 times more parameters and aren't any good at playing go. They're good at other things (such as helping you create a network that's good at playing go).

tasuki··on Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions
This is why I read https://hckrnews.com/ top 20 - things like this stick there. Also feeds me less noise and requires less F5 than the ever-changing HN homepage :)
tasuki··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
> Have a look at your log file

Surely it doesn't take a very sophisticated attacker to clean up after themselves at least a little bit?

tasuki··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
> from attacks powered by every single mainstream agentic AI

Is it so bad? Have you measured the number of attacks?

> So without the HN discussion I wouldn't have found enough people pointing at possible mitigations and I would have lost a server to this

I run a tiny server. I like this server a lot. I only patched an hour after the Debian package was ready and didn't think about it again. Do you mean to imply there's a real chance my little server has been compromised?

[Edit:] My server is quite public too. It hosts four SLDs and many subdomains and receives both human and bot traffic. Only one or two subdomains use PHP, but a reasonable attacker surely tries all of them.

tasuki··on The compiler was supposed to end programming too
> my guess at a developer's Tuesday in 2031

Hey that was about my last Tuesday.

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In 2031 you single-handedly maintain 173 million lines of code making up a simple crud app. You're a good programmer, but the previous guy wasn't, and now there's too much code to make it any smaller. Not even your vastly superhuman LLM feels confident to delete any of the code. So the two of you slog along, keeping the thing alive.

tasuki··on PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out
Debian package 20 minutes before your post: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00...
tasuki··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
As much as I agree climate change is an important topic, I hate the rhetoric of "irreversible changes". Of course they're irreversible! Change is the only constant.
tasuki··on What shall I teach my son?
> the tension between open to everyone, not seeing people as "bad" or enemies, versus the reality that some people can be mean, heartless, etc., and it's ok to avoid them.

I don't think there's tension in what you're saying: Yes it's very much ok to avoid people when they're being mean, heartless, etc. At the same time that doesn't mean they're "bad" or enemies.

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