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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Mined crypto on Azure when I was 13, after 12y still cannot open account

Ask HN: Mined crypto on Azure when I was 13, after 12y still cannot open account 2 by realaccfromPL | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey all, I have a very stupid confession, back when DOGE was first introduced, I didn't think much of it and followed a bunch of tutorials on how to mine it on free (and much less limited) Azure account. I used up all of the credits and didn't think much of it... Now, I am infra engineer with about 5 years of experience, I have multiple Azure certs, I use it everyday at work but I still cannot get MSFT to unlock my personal account or allow me to create a new one, citing fraud. At the beginning of my career I even got to be a part of the terrible Azure technical customer service and internal requests to lift it off of me didn't help. Please advice is there any way to get to be a legitimate user of service again. Thank you.

New ask Hacker News story: I'm creating my own OS, check it out, LimonOs no Unix no Linux

I'm creating my own OS, check it out, LimonOs no Unix no Linux 3 by Drfoxi | 0 comments on Hacker News. So, I've created my own OS called LimonOS. It is currently in the early stages of development. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it is neither Linux nor Unix—in short, the kernel is unique and 98% written in C. Yes, I used an AI assistant for help because I had a headache and encountered many errors and problems since I was working on it and thinking through it alone. Development has been ongoing for 4 days. Here is the link to the OS itself—we recently added a browser and internet connection: https://ift.tt/2nt8bUQ The code and the entire OS system are there. There is a catch: if you are on Windows, you need to click on the batch file, and everything will compile using WSL Linux and Limine for implementation. Everything is on GitHub, including all instructions, and it will probably be easiest for you to check it out in a virtual machine. I'm writing this because I ...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia

Ask HN: Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia 4 by justforfunhere | 3 comments on Hacker News. There have been, increasingly, a large number of posts [1] on HN in the past few weeks, where developers are slowly coming to terms with the breakneck speed with which Agentic Coding has advanced in the past few months. We all agree that an average software developer today is closely resembling the horse-carriage just when automobiles were becoming mainstream around 120 years ago. And coming to HN daily and finding at least one such lament from a software engineer is becoming quite tiresome. We are all, mostly, rational thinkers and worship logic and reasoning even more than our respective gods. With the context built-up enough, I would like to challenge the community to come up with ways to counter this death march that we find ourselves on. We are now, with every passing day, becoming more and more dependent on Agentic Coding. This is bringing the inevitable end to our pro...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead?

Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead? 2 by sandruso | 0 comments on Hacker News. I think there is still place for this type of coding where you autocomplete predictable chunks and review it as you go. But I haven't seen much development in this space. Are there any notable models optimized for this task or full/semi-autonomous coding has taken over?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are people aware OpenAI Dots intercept SSL?

Ask HN: Are people aware OpenAI Dots intercept SSL? 2 by Benjamin_Dobell | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've already cancelled my OpenAI subscription due to all their recent shenanigans. But before my month ends I thought I'd see what this Dot thing is all about. First thing I did was install Firefox to test out a project of mine (wouldn't work in Chrome). It failed to connect: > The cloud proxy uses an OpenAI certificate authority that the operating system already trusts, but the fresh Firefox profile doesn’t. The game’s connection verifies successfully against that existing authority. > May I add that same cloud certificate authority to this isolated Firefox test profile? Certificate validation stays enabled, but Firefox would then trust certificates issued by the cloud proxy. Wait. What? No. Of course not. Aren't Dots ostensibly designed for personal use? Accessing your email and the like. With this thing intercepting web traffic, I imagine almost everyone...

New ask Hacker News story: Auto-exist – Flow-state induction via raw mouse input (a biohacking experiment)

Auto-exist – Flow-state induction via raw mouse input (a biohacking experiment) 2 by rejabusafint | 0 comments on Hacker News. I spent a lot of time analyzing motor execution, hand tension, and focus degradation during continuous mouse work and gaming. I realized that conscious micro-adjustments cause fatigue and pull you out of focus. To solve this, I developed a technique called "auto-exist" to minimize conscious intervention during mouse usage. I built Intend System to test whether pointer movement could become completely subconscious right from the start. It worked—the core click task is driven by the subconscious from the very beginning, making the movement feel mostly automated. The best part is that you feel the game is being auto-played by the app, effortlessly locking you into a deep flow-state. (For those unfamiliar: Flow-state is a mental zone of peak focus where overthinking stops, reactions become effortless reflexes, and complex actions no longer drain your m...