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throw_m239339··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

That ship has sailed a long time ago, with the approval of the moderation itself.

throw_m239339··on Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition
> they don't know how to use than the tools themselves.

No, the tools work perfectly as they were design to work. The problem is that the tools are flawed.

Ultimately, every single of these decisions should be approved by a human, which should be responsible for the fuck up no matter what the consequences are.

> _Some_ of the blame lies on the UX here. It must.

No, the blame lies with the person or the group who approve the usage of these tools, without understanding their shortcomings.

throw_m239339··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Juniors don't set up these policies or even chose the tools they have to use professionally. If the higher ups are panicking it's fully of their own doing.
throw_m239339··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Aren't these companies mandating the use of these tools at first place? Juniors aren't the problem.
throw_m239339··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Yet another example of vibe coding at scale. You'll have to hire a lot of seniors out of retirement to fix that mess of gigantic proportions... and don't blame "the juniors" for that, they didn't make the decision to allow those tools at first place.
throw_m239339··on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down
The difference is diversity of opinions. There is none on Bluesky. Anybody can voice their opinion on Twitter/X. On Bluesky you'll be quickly shun by the entire community or straight out banned for not agreeing with specific partisan talking points, no need to list them, it's similar to reddit editorial policies. If you deem Twitter an extremist social media, then Bluesky is even worse,as it just only allows one sort of extremism, one kind of ideology.
throw_m239339··on Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
HN has mostly turned into a reddit bis since 2023, with tons of topics that have absolutely nothing to do with startup, tech or programming but are directly taken from of r/news ... I'll take bots spamming fake projects over petty divise partisan politics.
throw_m239339··on RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
> Doesn’t the EU have an excellent education system?

Well, the EU has not manufactured a whole lot of chips in the last 30 years, where do you get the people with the professional experience to teach new engineers... Oh you mean you have to import the teachers from South Asia too? /s and it takes what, 5 years at the minimum to train an engineer? France and UK used to produce entire home computers... in the 80's...

throw_m239339··on RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
> I think Europe should invest into manufacturing RAM. RAM isn't going anywhere, all of modern compute uses it. This would be an opportunity to create domestic supply of it.

It's easy to build factories, much more difficult to train the engineers required to run them... and let's not even talk about all the crazy regulations & environmental rules at the EU level that make that task even more difficult, because yes, chip factories do pollute... a lot.

Countries like South Korea or Taiwan have adapted all their legislations and tax, environmental regulations to allow such factories to operate easily. The EU and EU countries will never do that... better outsource pollution and claim they care about the planet...

throw_m239339··on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
The only absurd thing here is you linking chess to billion dollar US corporation social media dark patterns.
throw_m239339··on Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?
I find the idea that reality might be quantized fascinating, so that all information that exists could be stored in a storage medium big enough.

It's also kind of interesting how causality allegedly has a speed limit and it's rather slow all things considered.

Anyway, in 150 years we absolutely came a long way, we'll figure it that out eventually, but as always, figuring it out might lead even bigger questions and mysteries...

throw_m239339··on GitHub is down again
Wait a minute, isn't Git supposed to be... distributed?
throw_m239339··on Dave Farber has died
RIP.
throw_m239339··on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
At least one can quicly hide that filth. Unbearable, in every language...
throw_m239339··on Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce
I'm well aware of Libya and its open air black slave markets, don't worry, an absolute disgrace what happened in Libya, and we could talk about Syria too and how The Yasidi were enslaved by Daesh...
throw_m239339··on Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce
Slavery is alive and well in most part of the world, especially south asia, middle east, Russia and Africa,where children with no papers are trafficked all the time for the worse things you could imagine. I'm not sure what convinced you otherwise.
throw_m239339··on Videogame stocks slide after Google's Project Genie AI model release
Most gamers don't care about AI use provided it's not too egregious (like the latest call of duty). Only a vocal minority on Bluesky and Reddit.

Arc Raiders uses AI in various ways yet it's one of the biggest success of 2025.

throw_m239339··on Is coding dead because AI has taken over it?
Yes coding is dead, and the whole windows 11 patch fiasco is a demonstration of it...
throw_m239339··on Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse
Vibe-coding at scale.
throw_m239339··on Elasticsearch was never a database
It has an index? It has data that can be queried with indexes? it is a database. PERIOD. Let's not turn the word database into a buzzword.

It should obviously NOT be a "main" database but part of an ETL pipeline for search purposes for instance.

throw_m239339··on Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year
It slashed a lot of birds too...
throw_m239339··on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
> its just creative prompting,

Sure, you just can't upload the resulting track directly on Bandcamp, but you're free to "creatively prompt" on SUNO all you want, they'll even host your "music".

It's also a matter of resources. People uploading gigabites of AI generated slop a day isn't really what Bandcamp is about.

throw_m239339··on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
Good. Although It's gonna be tough to enforce.

> Our guidelines for generative AI in music and audio are as follows:

> Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp.

> Any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles is strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.

Which is balanced. It means that you can still use Illugen to generate a drum sample for instance, but you can't just generate a whole track on SUNO and just upload it on Bandcamp.

throw_m239339··on JavaScript's For-Of Loops Are Fast
OP forgot to mention that speed is relative ;)
throw_m239339··on France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
> Reddit still has the capacity to show you what you're actually looking for.

Reddit has the capacity to manipulate minors and groom them into believing all kind of sick "fictions", endorsed by the admins. It should absolutely be banned for minors.

throw_m239339··on France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
None. HN is a social media since it's an online forum. In fact HN runs afoul of many EU regulations already, GDPR, cookie law, ...
throw_m239339··on AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos
> Do you believe we can automatically detect AI generated videos

Of course they can detect enough of these, Google literally has a AI video generator in Gemini. It's not a matter of detecting every single ones, but enough to weed out the most egregious use of AI.

> It's not possible and it's not economically viable.

It's absolutely possible and it's about the very future of Youtube as a platform, what isn't economically viable is letting people upload tons of AI generated garbage on their platforms.

throw_m239339··on AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos
How can I block AI generated videos (especially AI generated scripts) in my browser? Youtube has to give the viewer an option or the website is going suffer greatly from AI slop...

Why is youtube in general making it so hard to block content or channels? and now they made it harder to clean up the user's own viewing history, it just doesn't make sense...

throw_m239339··on I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
It's an eco-disaster but on the other hand there is Linux... at some point people need to take a stand, especially given how crappy W11 is...
throw_m239339··on Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals
Good. How could these "disruptive" american companies get away with violating local laws that long remains a mystery to me. If I started running an illegal hotel in Barcelona, or a website advertising for illegal rentals in the same city, myself, from Spain, I'd be quickly arrested and thrown in jail as an individual...
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