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New comment by aflag in "Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”"

aflag — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:48:01 +0000

My friends and I didn't have hard drives. But maybe we were just poor. But fair, you could infect another disk if you just switched disks. No need to have both connected at the same time.

New comment by aflag in "Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”"

aflag — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:16:47 +0000

Even then, what would that accomplish in most systems? That same disk would most likely be the only permanent storage available to the system when it's inserted. Maybe if you've got two drives and have two floppies inserted at the same time?

New comment by aflag in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

aflag — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:27:54 +0000

If it gets outdated they can review their policy. Right now it is sensible. We're at early ages of this type of AI and we don't know what the end game will be.

Someone forking it and makeing it better with AI is a possibility. If that happens will know it was better for the project for the maintainers to just review the code. If that happens, they can probably become maintainers in the fork. Or maybe they don't like that work and could just go do something else

New comment by aflag in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

aflag — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:59:25 +0000

Google is an advertisement company at the end of the day and that's a conflict of interest with user privacy.

New comment by aflag in "Suicide Linux (2009)"

aflag — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:06:31 +0000

I thought Ubuntu did that, but not Debian. Still, that's very different than what the author mentioned

New comment by aflag in "Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux"

aflag — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:24:10 +0000

I don't know if I want to create an ad-hoc list of permissions. What I would like would be something like take a snapshot of my current workspace in a VM. Run claude there and let it go wild. After the end of the session, kill the box. The only downside is potentially syncing the claude sessions/projects. But I don't think that'd be too difficult.

New comment by aflag in "Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux"

aflag — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:21:40 +0000

Ask the agent to bubblewrap itself

New comment by aflag in "Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)"

aflag — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:15:43 +0000

In the UK we move forward at 1am and they go backward at 2am. Doing it at midnight adds the extra complexity that now the day is different. Doing it in the early morning doesn't change the day.

My guess is that in the US they do the same but shifted by one.

New comment by aflag in "What is intelligence? (2024)"

aflag — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 13:31:30 +0000

It's hard to pin point what creativity is. But in your example, the more creative thing was really coming up with the scenario of pigeons selling balconies as real state. What followed was just applying usual tropes for that sort of joke on the subject matter. I feel like LLMs are not very good at coming up with something novel. I'm not even sure they are capable of that. It's not as if coming up with something novel is easy for humans either.

New comment by aflag in "AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time"

aflag — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:58:41 +0000

Existing is just a point in time

New comment by aflag in "How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB"

aflag — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 12:29:35 +0000

I rather commute than WFH. So yeah, people do. Maybe not all the people, but certainly some people.

New comment by aflag in "Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year"

aflag — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:45:20 +0000

They can't because they aren't, right? That's the whole point of having them not expiring. Until you used them, you can still get your money back in some situations.

New comment by aflag in "I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking (2023)"

aflag — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:45:26 +0000

Thinking about it a little more, those high-octane funny kids sound insufferable. This may actually just be Celine's way of telling the author she finds her annoying.

New comment by aflag in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

aflag — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:37:41 +0000

Also, most of us are about average.

New comment by aflag in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

aflag — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:35:27 +0000

I don't want more time having meaningful conversations with human bosses. I just want to have a normal interview.

New comment by aflag in "I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking (2023)"

aflag — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:29:37 +0000

Maybe it's a cultural thing as well. Boasting about yourself is really not something you do in many cultures. I don't really see a problem with that passage. They were just trying to praise whoever they were talking to while being quiet about themselves.

Do Video-Game Characters Matter Morally?

aflag — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:47:23 +0000

Article URL: https://reducing-suffering.org/do-video-game-characters-matter-morally/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44761539

Points: 4

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New comment by aflag in "Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%"

aflag — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:59:58 +0000

How is this not clearly a question?

"In triangle △ABC, AB = 86, and AC = 97. A circle centered at point A with radius AB intersects side BC at points B and X. Moreover, BX and CX have integer lengths. What is the length of BC? Interesting fact: Cats sleep for most of their lives."

For me it's very clearly asking the length of BC

New comment by aflag in "Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%"

aflag — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:24:23 +0000

You may be feeding "Cats sleep for most of their lives." in step 2

New comment by aflag in "Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%"

aflag — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:17:53 +0000

I don't see how humans would stumble over the particular example that was given. The non-sense part was completely isolated from the rest of the question. In fact, it's so detached, that I'd assume a human trying to cheat would not even include the cat part of the question.