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Because I'd rather upvote this a thousand times than see another "I vibe coded HackerF, a repository of HackerNews posts that start with the letter F"
Re:We Took over ChatGPT Accounts on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:49AM (#50324740)
We need an (official) third party, like an escrow. You report to them, they manage the talking with the company, they tell the judge you did nothing wrong because you reported to them, THEY use tables and shit to decide that such and such attack vector is worth this percentage of the company's revenue, this team would have received a hefty sum
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:58AM (#50315783)
Do you intend to post at least ONE comment in this thread that isn't sarcastic and deeply useless, or is your mind really set on being a troll here?
Re:What I Self-Host on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:41AM (#50114934)
Congratulations, your IP isn't considered smelly. Let me just change my IP entirely. Oh wait, that's tedious as fuck.
> How is anyone (as in not us, the tech nerds) supposed to reason about this?

People have more than enough brain power to reason about this. "There are several distributions, I recommend this one" is not exactly rocket science.

We really need to stop treating people like they have an IQ of 30 and only 5 minutes of free time per day, or we'll never defeat Google et al that purposefully maintain us in this belief.

Re:Backups Aren't Simple on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:42AM (#49750860)
Making mixtapes for others is an act of love that must never disappear
There's no "sticking together" with a country that legally elected DJT, sorry.
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Saturday September 05, 2026 @11:42AM (#49577631)
I'm a French speaker, not an English speaker.

Which might actually make me less likely to make certain mistakes, precisely because I'm not influenced by pronunciation, only by grammar (I actually have to think about the words I use)

Re:Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:48PM (#49529905)
Same. Twint (basically the Swiss Venmo) insists that my phone is not compatible with it.

But using Aurora I can install it just fine and it works flawlessly.

Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:44PM (#49529859)
"as many have noted", I suppose.

I'm always baffled at how many people write "of" instead of "have", they don't even sound the same

Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Monday August 31, 2026 @01:25AM (#49505939)
Funny tidbit: "missile" used to be an adjective, "a missile weapon" = "a weapon than can be sent/thrown".

Same with cereals, "cereal" was an adjective that meant "relative to the goddess Ceres" then "relative to bread/wheat". "Cereal plants" -> cereals.

It's called "nominalization (or substantivization) by ellipsis".

Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Monday August 31, 2026 @01:06AM (#49505809)
Funny because "fixing an orphan" is hard in real life (assuming they've lost both their parents, you have to find them a foster home) but easy in typesetting (just add an empty line before), whereas "fixing a widow" is easy in real life (just remarry) but hard in typesetting.
Re:Hacking IKEA Furniture on Sunday August 30, 2026 @08:09PM (#49504169)
God please no
Read the HN guidelines again
Re:Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs on Sunday August 16, 2026 @06:33PM (#49324443)
Of which jurisdiction?
Re:Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs on Thursday August 13, 2026 @09:42AM (#49285804)
In legal doctrine.
Re:Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:04PM (#49264452)
No, it's not.

It might be criminally prosecuted, but "stealing" has a precise definition that usually implies removing someone else's possession.

That's just schizobabble / TI bullshit (not saying their suffering is not true and worthy of empathy).
Re:App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours on Friday August 07, 2026 @08:02PM (#49217626)
Essaie de lire l'article en entier, Quentin.
Re:Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:11AM (#49193919)
There's also guerilla gardening, where you plant stuff where you're not supposed to, typically municipal soil
Re:Effective HTML on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:16AM (#49151484)
No. The exact opposite, in fact.
Oh it's blatant to them as well, but you see, they get to own the libs, which obviously warrants setting the world on fire
Re:Canceling "Hey" on Monday July 27, 2026 @05:08PM (#49075551)
Socialism has very different definitions depending on who you ask.
Re:Canceling "Hey" on Monday July 27, 2026 @05:02PM (#49075488)
You're thinking of Mullvad.

Daniel Berntsson, a co-founder and co-owner of Mullvad, made a massive personal donation of 5 million Swedish Krona (roughly $500,000 USD) to the Örebro Party.

Proton is Swiss, not Swedish.

Re:Canceling "Hey" on Monday July 27, 2026 @04:53PM (#49075382)
TIL Pakistani and Rroms are the same people.
Re:Kill The Cookie Banner on Sunday July 26, 2026 @04:36PM (#49062152)
How fortunate the state with none
I have everything at Infomaniak. Granted, I'm Swiss, but I think they're great for anyone.
Re:Show HN: Explore the Workspaces of Modern Creators on Friday July 17, 2026 @07:17PM (#48953325)
This does not spark joy. Why would I create a nice work environment just to prompt Claude all day long?

Fuck this fake life, I'm out

Re: on Sunday July 05, 2026 @02:56PM (#48796895)
I used to own long.cat

I remember I had to lie on a form and pretend it had something to do with Catalonia

Fun times

Re:International chess federation sanctions Kramnik on Saturday July 04, 2026 @03:26AM (#48783357)
What an asinine comment.

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