armchairhacker

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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
> Taking advantage of someone's ignorance of potential consequences is as bad as malware in my opinion. If you're outlining all the potential bad outcomes before signing up a 'mark', then that's slightly more OK.
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
It would be acceptable iff the author prefixed it with Show HN. My suggestion to mods if the post is worth keeping up is to do that.
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
Residential proxies are necessary to access services that try to ban VPNs without compromising anonymity. If they’re banned, it’s easier for websites to require information that can be used to track you (IP address), since most people don’t
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
The key is to structure the program so that only a tiny trusted core is verified but the properties extend to untrusted code. For example, the sel4 microkernel is formally proven to not crash (barring hardware), so any program running on it
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
If an LLM actually does think like a human, humans benefit from good programming languages, why wouldn’t an LLM? Programming languages allow LLMs to build invariants they can’t enforce themselves (type systems), reduce context window (synta
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
You're visiting boring websites. I only saw one barely skeuomorphic button
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
Why isn’t all the text in the Microsoft font?
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
A lot of “advanced” concepts are simple once you find the right way to frame them.
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
They can guarantee that certain small changes won't create a big change in performance (provably, verified through tests, or trivially). An LLM can't.
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
AI could be deterministic, only it requires sacrificing performance and nobody cares enough. Although algorithms are more predictable , and you can follow an algorithm's steps (even a complex algorithm can be broken into large sequenc
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
In a production-grade compiler like LLVM they are rare enough that it compiles giant projects like Linux and Chromium without detectable issues. Maybe eventually Claude can, since it can write tests, but compilers / (deductive) algorit
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
Those are the exact concepts I was looking for.
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
A compiler is an algorithm and Claude isn't*. A compiler almost never produces a wrong output, even when compiling an extremely complicated program. But a compiler must be clearly defined and is limited to input/commands it's
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
Many Democrats support surveillance bills, like the KIDS act ( https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2026/h228 ) 104 Democrats supported and only 85 opposed (and 23 abstained).
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
Combine with liquid glass and add a hover effect and raytraced lighting for, finally, a decent UI.
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
Actually, I benefited from a school-issued Chromebook. I mostly used it for note-taking (I'm bad at handwriting) and homework. Even though it allowed some simple browser games, I suspect it was less distracting, and the browser games c
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
They’re limiting freedom of children in school, who already don’t have the freedom to ignore other school policies. Studies show phone bans help school performance, albeit not by much immediately, but there’s not much upside.
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
Seriously, why isn’t this implemented everywhere?
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
You're right. I don't see why a device would be age restricted by default, when practically always an adult has first access (too expensive)
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
> What about your family? Are they ok with that? I'm single without kids so yes > And we both know that the involved museum employees do "not het enough pay", this is 2026 we're talking about Context from the paren
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
I’d work a museum at 2 A.M. for enough pay and time off.
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
An analogous good implementation of age restriction is that one must show their ID to buy an unrestricted device if they look too young. They can't be tracked, as long as the devices are in randomly sorted identical boxes. Of course so
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
"Age restriction" can be implemented where stock devices are completely unrestricted. For example, just with better parental controls and education: children don't have access to property, so the parent takes their device and
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
This conflates 1.0 and 2.0. 1.0 (passed) means just don't expect encryption on big tech cloud and messaging apps, which you shouldn't expect anyway. Signal is fine. 2.0 hasn't been passed.
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
"Banana" and "Extra Fancy Unsalted Mixed Nuts" only occurred once? They go together.
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
The graph starts falling shortly after 2020. AI certainly contributed but Stack Overflow was dying without it.
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
Hackathons were unfair long before AI. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468766 The solution is to host and join hackathons without prizes. The point isn't to win, but to create and present something cool and
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
I think the appropriate solution here is a generous, well-advertised refund policy. People aren't allowed to (not even defame) write about others? Amazon doesn't allow certain books? No, but I imagine most people who actually buy
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
> How old did you have in mind? Somewhere between 70 and 80 > All of my colleagues who have died in old age (at least late seventies) did so in full command of their senses, one of them still contributing to international technical co
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by armchairhacker 3mo ago
I’m saying that old people should also be differentiated by age: once you reach some age (maybe 70 or 80, the same age for everyone) you lose certain rights. This is separate from the existing system.

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