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UK adopts SpaceX's Starshield for military operations, sources say

reuters.com
4 points·by user142·last month·0 comments

Pavona: Open-Source Silicon Distribution with Post-Quantum Cryptography

pavona.org
8 points·by user142·2 months ago·0 comments

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user142
·10 days ago·discuss
Judging by the enthusiasm for hosted AI models and tools like Claude Code on Hacker News, I don't think people care much about surveillance anymore.
user142
·19 days ago·discuss
> scalpers and their bots would claim a large share of them

Is there any actual data on this? I know people don't like scalpers but I wonder what the actual percentage is.
user142
·2 months ago·discuss
Tests can only prove the presence of bugs, but not their absence. If the AI can access the tests, it can easily make them pass by just adding additional if statements. It doesn't mean the code is actually correct.
user142
·4 months ago·discuss
Surely programs can know where the pointer is as long as it is over a window that belongs to the program. Otherwise hover wouldn't work.
user142
·4 months ago·discuss
I heard the desktop environmentalists are working on such a project.
user142
·4 months ago·discuss
The first question should have been "Was this ticket AI-generated?".
user142
·4 months ago·discuss
> the ability to start a program with restricted access to files, network or OS calls (on Windows and on Linux)

Bubblewrap allows you to do that on Linux.
user142
·5 months ago·discuss
I just realized that you can run sudo apt install nyancat on Ubuntu. It even includes a man page.