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New ask Hacker News story: We need to deobligate humans from reading generated content

We need to deobligate humans from reading generated content 4 by retetr | 0 comments on Hacker News. Contract law is currently being abused in the U.S. see (Disney says man can't sue over wife's death because he agreed to Disney+ terms of service)[https://ift.tt/SFgwfLZ] If the average individual can't even keep up with current (regional laws)[https://ift.tt/RoNlcp6] why should they also be subjected to generated agreements?

New ask Hacker News story: GitHub mutuals on AI in life sciences or bioinformatics

GitHub mutuals on AI in life sciences or bioinformatics 2 by arli_ap | 0 comments on Hacker News. Dear all. Does anybody here build applications for AI in life sciences or bioinformatics? I would love to be mutuals and connected on my github account here: https://ift.tt/sO0Ye5E Here are some examples on what I built with my team: Protein domain annotation pipeline from my dissertation: https://ift.tt/49zuU8H Alzheimer Epigenetics annotation pipeline: https://ift.tt/AkUcYtg Camcer Epigenetics annotation pipeline: https://ift.tt/kxfYvlu Please don't hesitate to ask or discuss anything about this field. I also welcome any interest for this field, if you want to know more. Thank you for your attention.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is anybody producing good code with coding agents?

Ask HN: Is anybody producing good code with coding agents? 4 by ruffrey | 4 comments on Hacker News. This is a genuine problem that I hear from senior engineers. I'm looking for a solution. -- The quality of ai-generated code is (claude, agy, copilot, codex a little better). It's exhausting to read. I used to love learning from my experienced colleagues and taking pride in what we made. We spent time on elegance and craftsmanship. Now I spend nearly the whole workday slogging through convoluted code riddled with footguns. I ride on hopes and dreams I might understand a changeset. It takes 5x longer to review Claude merge requests and I barely understand what I approve. Each day I drift further from understanding as I shovel the same into the codebase. The solution seems to be, reach "level 4 autonomy" and don't read or write code anymore. -- WHO HAS SOLVED THIS PROBLEM? PLEASE HELP!

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers

Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers 2 by esher | 2 comments on Hacker News. Since October 1 the OVH price increase also applies to running dedicated servers, at next renewal. A Reddit user posted that their two servers went up 54% in 11 months, no grandfathering. OVH's own post: an Advance-1 Gen 2024 renews at $114.99 instead of $89.99 (+28%). RAM options on new orders are up 68% to 652%, the Game range up to 87%. The stated reason is DDR5 costing six times what it did a year ago. Hetzner did the same in February and June, both threads had 500+ points here. I run a small PHP hosting company, so I am biased. But I wonder: Who here still runs OVH or Hetzner dedicated boxes? Sources: https://ift.tt/ifuGEVj https://ift.tt/OeLIQca https://ift.tt/zhitPsV https://ift.tt/EDxGvLw https://ift.tt/vExjIkX

New ask Hacker News story: GitHub can f..k you and you are forced to love it. or live with it...

GitHub can f..k you and you are forced to love it. or live with it... 5 by anonymous_frust | 1 comments on Hacker News. In January, Hytale launched in alpha. The owner said: “We officialy support mod” and “As long as the code isnt obfuscated you can decompile it.” Those were his words. I was on the official Discord, among thousands of players wanting to create servers and mods. Everyone wanted to move fast. I saw an opportunity. A huge wave I could surf. So I decompiled the server JAR and started creating comprehensive modding documentation. Three sleepless nights. Two more days. Twenty coffees. My reverse-engineering skills, boosted by AI, working overtime. Finally, it was ready. I published it on GitHub and shared it with the community. Developers thanked me. Two people joined the project. Then I woke up on Sunday morning. Account suspended. Both collaborators? Suspended too. GitHub said my account had been suspended for violating the rules. No specific rule. No explanation. I’m a...

New ask Hacker News story: Commadore64 vs. Nvidia GB10

Commadore64 vs. Nvidia GB10 2 by spottedmarley | 0 comments on Hacker News. One of my first PCs was a C64 (my very first was a TRS80) Today I have a Dell Pro Max GB10 (2, actually) I started thinking about how far tech has come since those days so I asked Grok to try and calculate for me how many C64s would be required to match the processing power of one GB10. Grok's answer: Between 10- and 50-billion C64s (depending on how you compare them, they are not strictly comparable) Anyway, that's quite a 40yr leap!

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?

Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now? 2 by type4 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Going with the premise that "software engineer" or "developer" is a dead-end because code is very cheap to produce now, I need something to market myself as.