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Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:57PM (#50263166)
Wow what a nuanced take from Wikipedia. Despite taking such strong efforts to protect human input, still admitting it has a place on the platform:

> Yesterday, AI was something to clean up. Today, it’s a tool to help us with the cleanup. Tomorrow, it will be the air we breathe.

Re:Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:41PM (#50198631)
Is hammurabi's code moral? I don't know if I think that someone who takes out a person's eye deserves to have their own eye taken out also
Re:SimCity, but with Permits on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:13PM (#50171253)
A little too much going on all at once in the beginning. For a complex game like this I think you have to start small and slowly introduce functionality. Why are so many buttons available to me from minute 1? I'm not using them.
Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:55PM (#50106574)
This sounds super interesting but 477 pages is a beast. Would you recommend anything about this subject thats a bit more approachable?
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:50PM (#49804293)
kinda disingenuous. They include a whole section on pacing later on
Difference is that it was free to google/bing search. Ai prompting costs money.

If I run out of tokens on ChatGPT of course I will try Claude. I never ran out of Google searches so no reason to try Bing

How are these animations being made? I'd love to get a blog post on them. If its AI I'd love to know the workflow, but something tells me there is a lot of human creative input
Would love a way to get this on my tv! Casting from a browser would be too much
Re:Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized on Monday July 14, 2025 @02:08PM (#44563339)
10 days in antarctica? Why were you there? Were these all treadmill days?
Re:20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @07:35PM (#42957469)
needs 60 votes to pass senate, not just a majority
Re:Ask HN: Is there an Anti-EU sentiment from big tech? on Monday December 30, 2024 @02:54PM (#42552776)
I can't help but think there is an alternative to this dichotomy. If, for example, US were to institute a high-percentage income tax bracket for the wealthy (maybe 65% over $1m) and used that to pay for national healthcare, would that really impact start-up culture? Maybe it affects some business at large, but it means the average joe can get laid off and not stress about hospital bills, while still encouraging a "risk-hungry sector".

Tl;Dr: Europe could have trillion dollar companies and still lean heavily towards labor, just like we could

Re:The Deep Sea on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @02:28PM (#42187161)
Thought the sub was gonna explode
Re:MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia on Thursday November 14, 2024 @04:49PM (#42141598)
>Since the physical device was satisfactory, the next step was writing a simple website that could drive the display.

>A Compose page my siblings and I write messages and save them to be displayed.

Is there a risk of a malicious actor discovering the website and writing in their own messages? I would think building user authentication in to the MomBoard website might be a bit heavyweight. Whats the best way to do this?

Re:How the psychiatric narrative hinders those who hear voices on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @06:13PM (#41439849)
Would love to see a data visualization of the voice's predictions and their results. Every day, you could keep track of each prediction made, and also go back to old predicitons and write down whether they came true or not. Over a six month span I think you could make a cool chart and those results would be very interesting.

For fun you could also keep track of other related data. How far fetched the prediction is. How confident the voice is. The time frame of the prediction. Just an idea...

Re:Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @04:27PM (#41250144)
Ported my java game to Cheerp and it was the easiest thing ever. I highly recommend and you can see the results here: http://liarsdiceonline.com

Only criticism is that it can take a few MINUTES to initially load the game and there isn't a loading bar or anything

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024) on Friday August 02, 2024 @12:53PM (#41140485)
resume and linkedin page both are broken links
I don't understand how you could not believe this under the majority opinion. The constitution is very clear that supreme command of the armed forces falls to the Commander-in-Chief. The President. It must follow that when the president directs the armed forces he is performing an official action that is exclusively given to him via the constitution. If that is not an official action, then what is? There is nothing in the constitution directing how the president should direct the armed forces. And it follows from that if its an official action then he is immune.
I thought the strict constructionist arguments fell apart when the dissent quoted the Constitution which says even if a president is impeached, they “shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.” Art. I, §3, cl. 7

I don't see how any interpretation of this text could imply that the president is immune from criminal prosecution. It clearly says a president is not immune from criminal penalties, how could they write this while also considering the president immune for offical acts?

Its fair to approach arguments like this with skepticism because they sound so ridiculous, but I think they're lent more credence when referenced as a concern in the dissent from the Supreme Court itself. Sotomayor said: "When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune."

If you want to say she is worried over impossibilities too that's fine but based on the facts of the case and how it was ruled, I don't see why its not a realistic concern.

What do you guys mean by infantilization of the industry? Are you talking about managers and leadership talking down to engineers as "coding-monkeys" or similar? Treating coders with baby gloves because of stigma of social awkwardness?
Re:Climate Zones on Friday June 21, 2024 @05:01PM (#40753762)
Feels like not many discuss how Climate Change would effect Geopolitical tensions. This page makes it obvious how Western enemies like China and Russia may benefit from land now frigid becoming more temperate
Re:An infinite canvas for code exploration on Monday May 06, 2024 @07:36PM (#40280700)
Love this app, this is something I've had rolling around in my head for a while and I think it can massively improve developer productivity. Excited to try it when I can use my own code!
Re:I keep a WTF notebook (2021) on Thursday April 18, 2024 @02:31PM (#40079267)
The article is good, but as an aside, wow thank you for the introduction to "the bullet journal". Seems like an awesome time management tool.
Saw this too. The multiplayer game seemed impressive though
They pay sales taxes
Re:How to Add 10 Years to Your Life on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @04:57PM (#39196439)
You can only do so many productive things in a day
Re:"The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" – Irwin Shaw (1939) on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @07:07PM (#39021092)
Don't you want to be with a partner that "wants you to have everything" also? Even if we don't take that literally, I think a healthy relationship has both parties honestly sharing their desires with each other. If you "just do something to make your partner happy," knowing it makes you less happy, isn't that being dishonest? I just struggle to understand how you don't see the relationship as one sided if one person is making sacrifices for the other and that value isn't reciprocated. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to say.
Is WiGLE a thing people know about? How does that work, its a service that listens to all publicly available wifis in the country? I understand how it could be possible in theory but how is it actually practical?
And the application was called "logger" lol

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