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it doesn't remove any choice for users . users don't get a choice on the offending sites currently. they only get infinite scroll. so the eventual infinite scroll replacement will be just t…

people have done regex-filtering hn clones, ai to detect the ai, etc. been a few show hns. but threads like this would get caught up in that (no perfect solution). i just manually hide anything ai rel…

> I don't think self-hosting gitlab is enough to claim ISO/IEC 27001 probably not. but it does mean you can focus on the rest of your stack rather than having to go through every single p…

i learned the SCRAP mnemonic a long while ago: Situation; Complication; Resolution; Actions; Politeness. works when the recipient is attuned to it. when the recipient is attuned to flowery/over-p…

one reason (among others) — compliance. a corporate/b2b saas environment without stuff like this is often a non starter. - SOC2 - ISO/IEC 27001:2022 - ISO/IEC 27017:2015 - ISO/IEC …

non-deterministic system behaves non deterministically. in other news, water is wet.

> But are they problems worth spending time? They're not problems people need solved. They're problems people think they want solved. need != want. the high street bakers needed rel…

yeah i'd agree with you there with lack of experience. and that was definitely a thing at my place. i think it plays a part in the research stuff too. cos if without relevant experience a lot of …

> Where did the story go sideways? At what point what character could have prevented the disaster? for me the company should never have existed in the first place. and that lies with the founder. s…

learned a similar lesson at last company. should have left after six months as "lead" engineer (of two people, not really much to lead there... which is related to why i crashed and burned o…

original title too long: > Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage

when i was reading this i thought of writing some quick and dirty cli tool that checks commit co-authors. wouldn't be perfect, but would eliminate a good chunk of low hanging fruit.

previous Show HNs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496242 -- 11 points | 20 days ago | 7 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174724 -- 64 points…

without knowing the people involved, or any further nuance/context -- i had a PhD supervisor like this. he was always looking for holes. always disliked the way i was proposing something. always …

it's still weird. if i'm talking about something i wrote 10 months ago i'd say something like, "when i originally wrote this i was trying to say ...". not "when the autho…

> I've found real and significant bugs doing code review. In large part because I understand the codebase better than the author. That's finding and preventing bugs. this. was a lead in s…

> A lot of rewrites could be avoided if people spent some time to actually understand what was done before. It’s a pretty safe assumption that the people who worked on the codebase before were as s…

good rewrites are good. bad rewrites are bad. you’ll only find out which kind of rewrite you’re doing once you start it.

previously a show hn submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42049940 > Carbon Emissions of GitHub/Gitlab Pipelines (Eco-CI)…

> Just like engineers thought all sales did was bother people, and all marketing did was send emails i mean, sure, the marketing one may be a bit simplified as the emails also need to have pretty p…

> who are worried that power tools will replace them maybe, just maybe, it would have been a better idea to engage with employees first rather than posting on linkedin about how everyone is going t…