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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:30PM (#50321626)
Hehe, longs. I'd love to see this iterated on to keep adding new content that's in line with this kind of thing!
I'm not sure if the comment above you is correct, but if it is (meaning Signal would benefit from the anonymity of every client being the same/similar, like TOR), then this would go against that.

That being said, I've never heard this mentioned as a benefit of Signal, and I figured the main benefit was y'know robust and proven E2E encryption.

I knew something was up!
In California, around 9,000 a year according to the article
Ah yes, let's make our poorest citizens even more poor. Means testing doesn't work, read a book.
Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:03PM (#49903892)
Okay, but most AI agents are so keen to get you an answer that they will give a bad one rather than saying "I'm not sure", which means giving links to malware or untrustworthy software.
Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 on Saturday June 27, 2026 @01:16AM (#48695362)
"Given how the WH operates these days" I've got bad news for you...
Re:Half-Life 2 in a Browser on Thursday June 25, 2026 @02:20AM (#48669685)
It works on chromium-based browsers at least
Re:Half-Life 2 in a Browser on Thursday June 25, 2026 @02:16AM (#48669652)
This is cool, and also probably illegal, since you don't own any of this and don't have the right to redistribute it.
And firefox stores them unencrypted by default
As a rule: don't bother with trying to "opt out" of data collection. Reject the collection entirely either by forcefully blocking it (ublock Origin for instance) or straight up not using the service.
If I try and run an unsigned program, the UAC window will be yellow, but I can run it with zero issue.

I cannot do the same thing on MacOS with the same ease, and that's the issue.

A bet against Nvidia is smart. A bet against Palantir is not. Palantir has become deeply integrated into the surveillance states of America, and won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
Where does "most moral" come from?
Re:PureVPN IPv6 Leak on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @12:54PM (#45278345)
Trustworthy enough to shitpost behind? Sure.

Trustworthy to break some actual laws behind? Absolutely not.

This is really cool, but also totally something you'd think existing AI agents should have zero issues with. _Especially_ if they're supposed to be for coding, I'd expect loads of documentation to be baked-in, so to speak
On the consumer side...

Smart people know to choose AMD. OEMs heavily favor Intel for the brand recognition. It's the same on the workstation side, though AMD's market share has been rising quite fast (it's apparently at a 36.5% share) so I'm unsure if system integrators will keep pushing their Intel SKUs so heavily.

So they're not cooked, but they're certainly not doing well and barring a massive jump in performance or efficiency, they're not going to be making a recovery any time soon.

Re:How Anthropic teams use Claude Code on Thursday July 24, 2025 @10:58PM (#44679104)
Not to mention, if an employee could usually write pretty good code but maybe 30% of the time they wrote something so non-functional it had to be entirely scrapped, they'd be fired.
Lobbying, probably
Considering the DoD's budget, $200M is chump change
What's the commercial use of having this data though? Or even law enforcement use? We all have our phones on us most of the time anyways, knowing where in my house I'm at doesn't really... change anything...
People really like the Arris S33 and the motorola... god I think it's the SB8200? something like that.
If you want to remove the 1.2TB data cap, you can either pay $25/mo and get Xfinity's gateway router "included" OR pay $30/mo to use your own modem/router.
Re:Touching the back wall of the Apple store on Monday June 30, 2025 @12:05AM (#44419251)
I mean, yeah, an Apple store in the heart of downtown full of tourists is bound to be pretty busy
On the consumer side, almost certainly not. Nvidia is a HUGE brand name, it doesn't matter how good and cheap AMD makes their consumer GPUs, people will buy Nvidia GPUs for the brand and prebuilts will stick with Nvidia for the name.

For AI chips... also probably not, unless AMD can compete with CUDA (or CUDA becomes irrelevant)

Yes, but for most people (I'd guess 99% or more), they would never know to use the above, and I'm those who did find a guide might have issues using adb on their likely Windows or MacOS machine.
Who needs unit tests? Push it to prod!
Re:Estrogen: A Trip Report on Thursday June 19, 2025 @05:20PM (#44322627)
I'm pretty sure you're being transphobic, but for the life of me I can't understand what this statement is supposed to mean.
Think about how many other programs are written in not-rust. You're worrying over nothing (or, alternatively, you should be worried about just about everything)
It's unlikely, but not impossible. What's more likely is that they'll start to expand

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