Possessing schedule I controlled substances is illegal. If you grow the substance, you also possess it. Therefore it’s not legal.

I came to the Hacker News comments thinking someone might have more information but I still don’t understand.

This is one of those comments that is so far away from reality that I can’t tell if it’s trolling.

To give an honest answer: Using Macs for serious development is very common. At bigger tech companies most employees choose Mac even when quality Linux options are available.

I’m kind of interested in how someone could reach a point where they thought macs were not used for software development for 20 years.

> Scoped context: Our tests gave models the vulnerable function directly, often with contextual hints (e.g., "consider wraparound behavior"). A real autonomous discovery pipeline starts from a full codebase with no hints

They pointed the models at the known vulnerable functions and gave them a hint. The hint part is what really breaks this comparison because they were basically giving the model the answer.

Self hosting is the way to go if you need to keep monthly services spend as low as possible but you have extra time to spend, such as with a hobby project.

Whenever I’ve worked on real startup projects, self-hosting became a constant source of little tasks for the engineering team to mix into our weekly workload. There were always little tasks to upgrade this service, investigate why that one server was slow, or to migrate something to a bigger server because we were bottlenecked on some resource. Then we had to manage backups and do our recovery drills, along with changing the backup strategy every 6 months because someone had a better idea.

When we started to add up all of the time spent managing everything it starts to look like spending dollars (of engineer time) to save pennies on SaaS bills.

Probably not a popular thing to say on HN, but I now try to stay away from teams that go to extremes to self-host everything because I just want to get my work done, not also be constantly involved in running the underlying services. I do it for my own hobby projects at home but I don’t want to be doing it at work where we have money to spend to lighten the load. If the cost is the occasional migration to a different 3rd party service that’s not a big workload relative to everything involved in self-hosting.

They have an API basically dedicated to this: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/d...

I think you may have been confused about the Manifest V3 API changes, which were controversial because they didn't support every feature of the old API. The mainstream ad blockers all wrote new versions for Manifest V3.

Several hiring managers in the group went all in on AI-assisted interviews because they wanted the interviews to match the tools that engineers can use on their work. Most of them have gone full circle and returned back to no-AI interviews.

The main problem with AI-assisted interviews is that they become a test of how familiar the candidate is with the specific AI tool you're letting them use. They started getting inverted signals because the hardcore vibecoders knew all the tricks to brute force the problem with high token spend. They'd do things like spend the interview trying to spin up parallel subagents to brute force a solution.

Then the careful coders who tried to understand the problem and do it right were penalized because every minute they spent trying to do the problem (instead of offloading all cognitive load to AI) was time lost to letting AI do the work.

There were also simpler problems like when someone was familiar with some visual LLM interface tool but didn't have a familiar workflow for the CLI tool used in the interview.

Most people went back to coding interviews that forbid AI and test coding skills, combined with a discussion about their AI experience.

My takeaway was that it's easy to teach new hires how to use AI tools on the job, but it's much harder to bring someone with weak coding skills up to the level of someone with strong coding skills. It's even harder when that person is leaning on AI so much that they're not learning how to code anything.

A reminder that saying Hacker News is turning into Reddit is explicitly against the rules here, delivered in an unnecessarily condescending manner.

Microsoft did a (very!) bad job of communicating what was happening, but The Register has more information:

> He explained that both deactivations were executed as part of the Windows Hardware Program's account verification procedures.

> The company published a blog in October, giving devs a two-week warning that if their accounts had not been verified since April 2024, Microsoft would issue mandatory account verification notifications.

> "We worked hard to make sure partners understood this was coming, from emails, banners, reminders," said Davuluri.

The debate wasn’t about removing all government controls on parenting.

It’s about where to draw the line.

It’s also getting kind of silly to pretend that these laws are going to stop those other kids’ parents from simply age-verifying their phones for them. These fantasies where the government passes a law and suddenly every parent and child in the country settle into the exact same social norms are just that - fantasy.

Different families can choose to raise their children differently. Please let other parents make their own parenting choices for their own kids.

There are parents who are more strict with their kids than you are in ways you don’t agree with. I guarantee you wouldn’t be happy if they were lobbying to force your kids to obey their chosen set of rules because they didn’t want “inequality”.

An article about the age restrictions should at least have some supporting evidence, or at minimum some screenshots like the article I linked.

I found this Apple Insider page with more information and an actual description of how it works, from someone doing journalism instead of soliciting donations and subscriptions: https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/02/25/how-age-verificat...

It's going to take some more searching to find an article that shows what age verification looks like for newer Apple accounts. According to that article if you have a long-standing Apple account and/or a credit card in your name in Apple Pay it might be enough to confirm you as 18+.

Traditional weddings costs are paid in part or full by the parents. Many well off young people pay their own way. If neither is an option it’s also common to have a smaller or home-grown wedding.

If you know enough people we can all likely think of someone who overspent and regretted it, but I disagree that it’s the common cultural thing to do. It’s a topic where righteous people like to heap scorn on others for doing it, though.

As someone who is not into papercraft I'm intrigued, but it feels like it's not for me. If the app was advertised as having a small selection of simple models to get started with, people in my position might be more interested in trying it out.