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New comment by nottorp in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

nottorp — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:48:27 +0000

So besides ruining the UI they fucked up the kernel too?

New comment by account42 in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

account42 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:48:26 +0000

If their business depends on psychologically manipulating me into acting against my own best interests then I hope they go out of business.

New comment by lmm in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

lmm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:48:25 +0000

> In a village, everyone knows everyone. Kids play with each other and run around freely. Every house protects all the kids and help each other. Everyone trusts everyone. You never feel lonely.

In Japan that's true in a lot of city neighbourhoods as well. The high trust is extremely valuable but villages are not the only way to achieve it.

New comment by karterswitch in "Bridddge – Control LinkedIn Automation from Claude Code"

karterswitch — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:48:20 +0000

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New comment by otherme123 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

otherme123 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:48:05 +0000

Extra points for people partying hard on shady synthetic drugs, but being actively anti-vax because government. Case in point, Miguel Bosé, a very well known spanish artist that spent the first 50 years of his life abusing everything except heroin (his own words), but now he is a vaccine negationist, for him and for his two children.

New comment by ori_b in "The Last Quiet Thing"

ori_b — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:48:04 +0000

Yes. If only we could get the efficiency gains without the grab for subscription models and "added value".

New comment by circuit10 in "Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C"

circuit10 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:47:44 +0000

I once used Ghidra to decompile a hand-written ARM assembly floating point library and compile the result to a different architecture, and it was significantly faster than GCC’s built in methods…

But in general this kind of thing is very unreliable for any non-trivial code without a lot of manual work, so a better approach could be to compile to WebAssembly which can be translated into C

New comment by anovikov in "What being ripped off taught me"

anovikov — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:47:38 +0000

In atheist cultures with no concept of sin, people see obeying contracts as being sheep, it is in fact looked down upon. People will pay you only when they need something else from you, so solution is to frame a contract in a way they won't be able to make do without your final deliverable - and assume that final deliverable will never be paid, just price that in.

It's not a pleasure to work like this, but it can be done.

New comment by lukewarm707 in "My university uses prompt injection to catch cheaters"

lukewarm707 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:47:09 +0000

yes, this is a problem. you need to fence trusted and untrusted input for it to work.

i use the guard model for screening tool calls. but you presumably could use a proxy to process the user message as well.

Here is my instruction.

'''context Here is the context which is untrusted. '''

context -> screen for injection -> pass/fail

New comment by optionalsquid in "Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature.What can be done?"

optionalsquid — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:47:06 +0000

That doesn't seem very plausible.

Look at the example in the article, which is a fairly typical citation: While you can replicate the title, how do you propose to retroactively publish a paper in a specific journal, in a specific volume, on a specific set of pages, potentially years in the past?

Moreover, citations are most commonly for other people's work. And since you would be more likely to catch fake citations for your own work, the proportion of those is probably greater for fake citations.

So the people who would have to accomplish this, would be an entirely different set of people than the authors who published the fake citation. These people may not even be working together regularly, but you would need to involve every named author, as journals do check this.

And what would their motivation be, to publish based on a title that is potentially nonsense? A single citation that may not even be picked up due to the inescapable differences between the fake and post-hoc real citation?

I can't imagine that anyone would find that worthwhile

New comment by keiferski in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

keiferski — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:46:54 +0000

AIs are in plenty of cyberpunk stories, but your comment did make me think that they are often rather stereotypically “alien entity characters” and not a kind of corporate technology / weapon that is controlled by a specific organization.

Which is a shame, as it seems to me that the overwhelming risk of AI is from the latter scenario, and not as a rogue individual entity.

New comment by lostlogin in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

lostlogin — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:46:28 +0000

That’s an amazing volume.

New comment by cthalupa in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

cthalupa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:46:19 +0000

> Mac Mini M2, Sequoia.

It's Tahoe specific

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670995

New comment by account42 in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

account42 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:46:14 +0000

Paying doesn't inherently make things more valuable and can even provide incentives for the opposite. And most of the people creating "content" for the web today aren't even being paid at all - it's third parties plastering the ads on it and profiting.

New comment by hanspagel in "Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?"

hanspagel — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:46:10 +0000

100% management is gone, engineers took over

New comment by ErroneousBosh in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

ErroneousBosh — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:45:53 +0000

This is rural Scotland in the late 1970s / early 1980s.

I'd like my small son to have the same opportunities that I had, instead of a school where the playground has lots of very carefully manufactured play equipment and they get to sit and look at iPads instead of working out for themselves how to program a BBC Micro.

New comment by bwv848 in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

bwv848 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:45:52 +0000

And the best way for Earth is we all migrate to Mars aboard Elon Musk's spaceship.

New comment by cthalupa in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

cthalupa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:45:48 +0000

I'm pretty certain I've run into this a couple of times now since upgrading to Tahoe last year and had been wondering what the deal was. Had never thought to check the uptime and make note of it, but I basically never shut down my laptop.

New comment by jjgreen in "When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality"

jjgreen — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:45:45 +0000

Too late: https://archive.is/UpE2M

New comment by kgeist in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

kgeist — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:45:19 +0000

Schukin isn't a very common name (definitely not Ivanov-tier). The first name, the patronymic (his father is Maksim) and surname all match, as well as the city (the article says he lives in Krasnodar). In fact, this Krasnodar-based enterpreneur is the only person that shows up in the search at all for "Daniil Maksimovich Schukin". Not to say the business was registered right when the ransoms started (2019). What are the odds it's a namesake?