aj_g · HackerTrans

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

I remember some proto-memes about translation of some text between English and Chinese 100 times and the results being hilarious...modern parallel would be to ask a LLM to read the article, and generate the prompt that constructed the article. Then generate an article based on that prompt. Repeat x100.

aj_g

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

The answer is in the name. The word 'hacker' used to more refer to someone who is a tinkerer, diy engineer, curious about how systems, components, etc work. Hacker News is still somewhat true to this ethos, what's popular here aligns with this old-school curiosity mindset. Of course the exact interests of the userbase has changed over the years, but if you spend a lot of time on this forum you eventually understand some of the common themes that get the minds of the hackers turning.

Unfortunately due to the enshittification of things people are conditioned to see HN as something to be gamed and leveraged for personal gain now, but in general it's algorithm-less enough, the the mods are strict enough, (thank god) that the type of content here stays pointed towards the original 'hacker' ideals.

aj_g

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

For several thousand repos? Ensuring none of the 451 package versions have been installed on any branch in any repo? I don't think it's so simple.

aj_g

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

Anyone have a good solution to scan all code in our Github org for uses of the affected packages? Many of the methods we've tried have dead ended. Inability to reliably search branches is quite annoying here.

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