TrueNAS uses “AI” for customer support, and of course it goes horribly wrong
Let’s check in on TrueNAS, who apparently employ “AI” to handle customer service tickets. Kyle Kingsbury had to have dealings with TrueNAS’ customer support, and it was a complete trashfire of irrelevance and obviously wrong answers, spiraling all the way into utter lies. The “AI” couldn’t generate its way out of a paper bag, and for a paying customer who is entitled to support, tha … ⌘ Read more
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Over the past few weeks I've been experimenting with and doing some deep learning and researching into neutral networks and evolutionary adaptation of them. The thing is I haven't gotten very far. I've been able to build two different approaches so far with limited results. The frustrating part is that these things are so "random" it isn't even funny. Like I can't even get a basic ANN + GA to evolve a network that solves the XOR pattern every time with high levels of accuracy. 😞
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This is one of my attempts: 
$ go build ./cmd/xor/... && ./xor
Generation 95 | Fitness: 0.999964 | Nodes: 9 | Conns: 19
Target reached!
Best network performance:
[0 0] → got=0 exp=0 (raw=0.000) ✅
[0 1] → got=1 exp=1 (raw=0.990) ✅
[1 0] → got=1 exp=1 (raw=0.716) ✅
[1 1] → got=0 exp=0 (raw=0.045) ✅
Overall accuracy: 100.0%
Wrote best.dot – render with `dot -Tpng best.dot -o best.png`
Machinist and Machine
Reading and “accepting/rejecting” so much AI generated code in the last months has made me a bit burned out and have somewhat of an identity crisis.
I have been making more and more time at night to reconnect with the craft.
I think more people in the community might be struggling, so I just wanted to share my way of dealing with it.
Please share how you are dealing with the tokens.
10 Terrifying Facts You Never Wanted to Know
Many people love general knowledge quizzes or even quiz nights. They get to share interesting facts and show off in front of their friends, while having a great time. (Not in a Sheldon Cooper kind of way, mind you). Then you get those who love weird or downright terrifying facts. They revel in reading about […]
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Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
Article URL: https://blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044043
Points: 503
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I Built a Tool to Hack AI Models — Here’s What It Uncovered
A few months ago, I was auditing a chatbot deployed inside a financial services platform. It used a mix of retrieval-augmented generation…
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New Life Hack: Using LLMs to Generate Constraint Solver Programs for Personal Logistics Tasks
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Rust celebrates ten year anniversary with Rust 1.87.0 release
I generally don’t pay attention to the releases of programming languages unless they’re notable for some reason or another, and I think this one qualifies. Rust is celebrating its ten year anniversary with a brand new release, Rust 1.87.0. This release adds anonymous pipes to the standard library, inline assembly can now jump to labeled blocks in Rust code, and support for the i586 Windows target has been rem … ⌘ Read more
Accessibility on Linux sucks, but GNOME and KDE are making progress
Accessibility in the software world is a problem in general, but it’s an even bigger problem on open source desktops, as painfully highlighted by this excellent article detailing the utterly broken state of accessibility on Linux. Reading the article is soul-crushing as it starts to dawn on you just how bad the situation really is for those among us who require accessibility features, making it vir … ⌘ Read more
autogenlib - Python lib for “vibe importing”, generates the code based on its call site
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Silicon Valley developers need to unionise
I don’t know anything about hiring processes in Silicon Valley, or about hiring processes in general since I’ve always worked for myself (and still do, running OSNews, relying on your generous Patreon and Ko-Fi support), so when I ran into this horror story of applying for a position at a Silicon Valley startup, I was horrified. Apparently it’s not unheard of – it might even be common? – to ask applicants for a coding position to develop a comple … ⌘ Read more
static site generators make website-ing so fun like i wanna do so much with my site now
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1 RPM. This is a rather aggressive rate limit actually. This basically makes Github inaccessible and useless for basically anything unless you're logged in. You can basically kiss "pursuing" casually, anonymously goodbye.
@prologic@twtxt.net that will not be a problem; as long as it doesn’t affect authenticated users it wouldn’t make a difference. But we are comparing apples and eggs here. I don’t access GitHub while unauthenticated, but I can see how others might. It comes across as anti-web in general.
that site of mine i mentioned earlier? well it’s now statically generated with astro, AND it automatically builds and deploys after i push changes to my own git instance, with the power of sourcehut builds! this is so cool
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tar and find were written by the devil to make sysadmins even more miserable
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz @prologic@twtxt.net Given that all these programs are super old (tar is from the late 1970ies), while trying to retain backwards-compatibilty, I’m not surprised that the UI isn’t too great. 🤔
find has quite a few pitfalls, that is very true. At work, we don’t even use it anymore in more complex scenarios but write Python scripts instead. find can be fast and efficient, but fewer and fewer people lack the knowledge to use it … The same goes for Shell scripting in general, actually.
i got so emo about my site not being statically generated and instead hand coded but it’s like i don’t even know if i want that because i feel most SSGs are built for blogging and continuous posting and i don’t want that i just want to make my silly pages….
that being said, the one i’d use if i did switch to one would be astro and that one is so flexible i could really do anything with it including keeping my pages as is mostly without doing the blog stuff. idk! something to consider
Avoid #each_with_object (generally)
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SSRF via PDF Generator? Yes, and It Led to EC2 Metadata Access
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Lume 3 was released
After several months of work, I’d like to share with you the release of a new major of Lume, a static site generator for Deno. Apologies for the autopromotion 🙏
LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego
Article URL: https://avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933891
Points: 501
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curl bans “AI” security reports as Zuckerberg claims we’ll all have more “AI” friends than real ones
Daniel Stenberg, creator and maintainer of curl, has had enough of the neverending torrent of “AI”-generated security reports the curl project has to deal with. That’s it. I’ve had it. I’m putting my foot down on this craziness. 1. Every reporter submitting security reports on Hackerone for curl now needs to answer this question: “Did you … ⌘ Read more
AI Agents Unleashed: The Rise of Autonomous Systems Transforming Industries
The emergence of AI agents signifies a transformative shift in generative AI, evolving from simple chatbots to sophisticated … ⌘ Read more
PewDiePie | I installed linux
All I can say is.. what? I’m not even sure why this popped up in my youtube frontpage. I don’t generally watch PewDiePie, but in all honesty, it’s a pretty glowing review of Linux, Arch, Hyprland and more. He points out some warts and things here and there around compatibility, but all in all, “PewDiePie takes aim at Microsoft” was not on my 2025 Bingo card…
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To the parents or teachers: How do you teach kids to program these days? 🤔
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We’re all old farts. When we started, there weren’t a lot of options. But today? I’d be completely overwhelmed, I think.
Hence, I’d recommend to start programming with a console program. As for the language, not sure. But Python is probably a good choice
That’s what I usually do (when we have young people at work who never really programmed before), but it doesn’t really “hit” them. They’ve seen so much, crazy graphics, web pages, it’s all fancy. Just some text output is utterly boring these days. ☹️ And that’s my problem: I have no idea how I could possibly spark some interest in things like pointers or something “low-level” like that. And I truly believe that you need to understand things like pointers in order to program, in general.
10 Fictional Species Designed for Battle
War is generally not something to aspire to. It’s a desperate measure to resolve one’s differences when all other options fail. Fighting forgoes people’s evolutionary intelligence and reduces them to their baser instincts. Such barbarism leaves both sides licking their wounds, coping with the pain and death that their actions have wrought. Granted, combat is […]
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Testing mentions, immediately followed by commas. Let's see: @prologic, this one is local, it might not break. Now, this one @ isn't local. Nor this @ one. Will they break. Let's find out!
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@bender@twtxt.net I can fix and make that work in the parser too. But I’m no longer sure how to cater for the general case. It’s too much to support all punctuation whilst at the same time as other contradicting rules. For example you cannot both support . in nicknames and then expect to be able to to end a mention with a . 🤦♂️
Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue
Article URL: https://github.com/nari-labs/dia
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754124
Points: 500
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So, the Pope died. From my non-religious stand point, I think he has been the best Pope in a generation. Let’s see how the upcoming one does.
10 Psychological Tricks Brands Use to Influence You
You’re not just buying a product—you’re stepping into a carefully crafted psychological trap. Modern brands work with behavioral economists, neuro marketers, and data scientists to make sure everything—from colors to prices to your choices—leads you exactly where they want. These aren’t generic marketing clichés—these are real, specific strategies currently being used to win your attention, […]
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@javivf@adn.org.es Generally speaking if it has been reviewed, discussed and merged, then we accept it as a standard to the set of specs we support. However we might want to document this process and set some guidelines about this to be clear 🤣 We’ve been fairly lax/lose here and I think that’s okay given teh size of our community 👌
Anti-DEI Influencer Robby Starbuck Falsely Takes Credit for IBM Dropping DEI
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IBM unveils z17 mainframe, z/OS 3.2
IBM today announced the IBM z17, the next generation of the company’s iconic mainframe, fully engineered with AI capabilities across hardware, software, and systems operations. Powered by the new IBM Telum II processor, IBM z17 expands the system’s capabilities beyond transactional AI capabilities to enable new workloads. ↫ IBM z17 press release Alongside this brand new behemoth of a computer, IBM also announced z/OS 3.2, the next version of its mainframe opera … ⌘ Read more
hello friends i spent a couple hours today using a random string generator by charm CLI called hotdiva2000 to make a script that 1) generates a static index.html page 2) the page is a prompt generator where all the prompts are from hotdiva2000!!!!!
this makes more sense if you look at it check it out
Found means fixed: Reduce security debt at scale with GitHub security campaigns
Starting today, security campaigns are generally available for all GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Code Security customers—helping organizations take control of their security debt and manage risk by unlocking collaboration between developers and security teams.
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Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot: Agent mode and MCP support rolling out to all VS Code users
In celebration of MSFT’s 50th anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS code users. We are also announcing the new GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan w/ premium requests, the general availability of models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, next edit suggestions for code completions & the Copilot code review agent.
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10 Historical Connections That Don’t Seem Real but Are
Are you ready to have your minds blown? When we look at historical events, we generally like to group them into categories that our brains can handle. Historic happenings in one realm (like war) are often linked to those in similar realms (like politics) in a bid to show cause and effect. Similarly, events are […]
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The seL4 microkernel: an introduction
This whitepaper provides an introduction to and overview of seL4. We explain what seL4 is (and is not) and explore its defining features. We explain what makes seL4 uniquely qualified as the operating-system kernel of choice for security- and safety-critical systems, and generally embedded and cyber-physical systems. In particular, we explain seL4’s assurance story, its security- and safety-relevant features, and its benchmark-setting performance. We also d … ⌘ Read more
10 Non-musical Films with Epic Musical Scenes
Generic conventions exist to signpost the kind of movie we are going to see and ensure we aren’t broadsided with teeny-bopper romance in our body horror or explosions and car chases in our period drama. And yet, plenty of filmmakers find subtle ways to break expectations while maintaining their film’s overarching genre. Only a select […]
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@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Hm, looks correct to me. The image to be displayed is a thumbnail and this links to the full-sized image. The thumbnail (JPG) is auto-generated from the full image (PNG), hence the two extensions.
What does look strange, though, is that your client came up with the hash pqsmcka, while it should have been te5quba. 🤔
10 Amazingly Ancient Jokes That Might Still Make You Laugh
Humor is a deeply subjective thing. What one person finds hilarious leaves another sitting stony-faced. There is often a humor gap between generations, with children laughing at things their parents can barely understand. So it might be surprising that some truly ancient jokes have never gone out of style. Here are ten jokes from history […]
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Yeah. It’s mostly a parser at the moment. But I have extended the calendar.txt to include todo.txt and a repeat syntax to generate future occurances of events and todos.
Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
Article URL: https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-told-me-i-should-learn-coding-instead-of-asking-it-to-generate-it-limit-of-800-locs/61132
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10 Noteworthy Rock Bands That Don’t Have a Drummer
No matter where you are in the world, everyone knows the sound of a rock band: vocals, guitars, bass, and drums. Simple, effective, and easy to recreate in your own living room or garage. But, while drums are generally considered an essential part of the rock band sound—driving the beat, maintaining the rhythm, and providing […]
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Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 10 2025: 10 PRs, 0 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.
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