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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: The Threat to US Citizen's ID / Voting Is Private Services

Tell HN: The Threat to US Citizen's ID / Voting Is Private Services 2 by m3047 | 4 comments on Hacker News. THE REAL RISK AROUND VOTER ID NOW COMES FROM PRIVATE ENTERPRISE This post has been condensed due to character limitations on HN posts. [...] What's happening is that private entities are curating the databases and operating automated adjudication services which the government contracts to utilize. "But it's little things, administrative things." Yeah maybe, but look where they are in the kill chain. During approximately the week surrounding 15-May-2026 I was denied the "privilege" of scheduling an appointment at the United States Post Office by one of these "administrative things" and there is no particular reason to think that the government runs this service themselves, relying entirely on compute and data which they control. So THIS is how the woodpecker destroys civilization; or at least our representative democracy. There is no ap...
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers 46 by theorchid | 20 comments on Hacker News. I found GitHub repositories that were spreading malware. I asked AI what I should do about it, but it gave me nothing useful. So I opened a discussion on GitHub. Someone replied. It was literally the exact same text the AI had given me. I called it out and the comment was deleted. Then another person replied. Same exact AI response again. I worked as a developer in a company. I asked the business owner a question about a business task. He sent me a ChatGPT screenshot with the answer. I replied that it had nothing to do with the question and everything there was wrong. A minute later he sent me another ChatGPT screenshot. He didn't even read the AI's answer. He just screenshots and forwards it. Recently someone sent me a DM on Reddit about my post. I replied. He wrote again, I replied again. After a few messages I realized I was talking to an AI agent. I'm tired of talking to AI. ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Debatable but likely not insane: there MAY be an issue with SpaceX' hiring

Debatable but likely not insane: there MAY be an issue with SpaceX' hiring 2 by adinhitlore | 0 comments on Hacker News. OK, this is just social science but note this: Musk posted today for people to give 3 proofs of exceptional ability if they want to join the most expensive and "most innovative" company ever - Spacex. But how can you innovate when you follow the rules? what if you send 1, 2 or 4 reasons? and why would anyone work for someone with very questionable and controversial views? It doesn't seem possible for Spacex to revolutionize the world, change it: sure they do...for 20+ years but they fail to revolutionize for 20+ years. And the reasons are obvious.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 21)

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 21) 3 by Armonsrer | 10 comments on Hacker News. Comment below :]
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New ask Hacker News story: Do you enjoy reading any type of AI written text?

Do you enjoy reading any type of AI written text? 4 by reed1234 | 8 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available

Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available 3 by paulf38 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just a minor point release, mainly for a regression that I introduced :-( The following bugs have been fixed or resolved in this point release. 519574 valgrind 3.27 "--fair-sched=yes" does not work 519613 Valgrind incorrectly unpacks the result of sys_port (port_getn) on error, leading to a ~60s wallclock time delay on every call n-i-bz Update vg-lifespan (copyright) years n-i-bz Use SSizeT for VG_(readlink) result in VG_(realpath)
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New ask Hacker News story: Can one run AI on source code with the prompt "Find below-avg swear rate files"?

Can one run AI on source code with the prompt "Find below-avg swear rate files"? 2 by pcwir | 1 comments on Hacker News. Because “code with more swear words is higher quality”, meaning lots of humans looked at that code and the more humans look at that code, the more swear words could be found on average. If this is true, then why not put it to the test by running an A.I. on open source code and giving it the prompt of “Find below-avg swear rate files” (This prompt was shortened to save on tokens.) Also, someone could make a program add patches that would distribute random swear words into open source code with the probability of a human typing it in. Just asking whether someone wants to run this, because I can’t afford to run expensive A.I. or add these randomized swear word comments to all open source code projects and then wait as many might refuse my patches. I’d like for someone else to do this if they want to, because if you want to, then cool. Yes, this is “security...
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