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tom-blkon A perfectable programming language

Very intersting, never heard of lean before tbh

tom-blkon Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found

Interesting comparison, cool article!

tom-blkon 1D Chess

Hehe cool idea, approved!

tom-blkon France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

Got my full support, go go go!!!

tom-blkon I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

Hehe that's so cool, I didn't know that it was a thing to port OSes to the Wii :D

tom-blkon Git commands I run before reading any code

Nice! Will probably adopt this, seems to give a great overview!

tom-blkon AI may be making us think and write more alike

This is undoubtedly the case and imo quite concerning. Hard to minimize the effects as well, personally speaking.

tom-blkon Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure

There have been pushes to implement similar instances of this for a while now. If this turns out to not be successful, expect futher efforts in a similar guise

tom-blkon The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing

Strongly agree,we see this almost everywhere now

tom-blkon Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

Very cool

tom-blkon Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps

Let's see about privacy, we're not out of the woods yet with chat control

tom-blkon Gone (Almost) Phishin'

This is actually quite impressive and concerning

tom-blkon CERN levels up with new superconducting karts

Exactly

tom-blkon ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

Wild insight

tom-blkon Copilot edited an ad into my PR

This seems to be happening a lot, not sure it is actually intentional

tom-blkon Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

Very cool, first time reading about the specifics of voyager 1, this is super impressive!

tom-blkon AI chatbots are "Yes-Men" that reinforce bad relationship decisions, study finds

Not surprising, but nice that we have actual data now

tom-blkon Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people

Interesting insight, was going to look into migrating some stuff there anyway, but didn't get around to it yet. Thanks for the push!

tom-blkon Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars

Prime example of free will

tom-blkon I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced

This is going to cause big trouble in the future

tom-blkon Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised

Stuff like is happening too much recently. Seems like the more fast paced areas of development would benefit from a paradigm shift

tom-blkon Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs

Very cool stuff, will apply this to my next project

tom-blkon Brute-Forcing My Algorithmic Ignorance with an LLM in 7 Days

Very cool, I have personally been studying zk-cryptography with a similar approach, works really well with some caveats. Will save this article and try this version as well when the time comes!

tom-blkon Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars

Only rich people get to drive now

tom-blkon Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

First time hearing about this, have been terminal-bound for a while for most of my workflow, but am curious to try it

tom-blkon The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere

Good read but as others have already mentioned, I would have loved to see some actual math