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Re:If you love a website, back it up on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:35PM (#50345000)
By default it only keeps the latest copy of sites so I'm not sure how that prevents replacing with 404?
Re:Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:41PM (#49924716)
Ironically rewriting git history is a perfect opportunity for a supply chain attack.
Re:Kagi Translate Is Back on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:54PM (#49651220)
I have to imagine assistant (AI usage) will be next, and swap to pay as you go. And search won't get cheaper because I imagine they've made the mistake of treating the unused AI credit as a subsidy for other services
Re:Kagi Translate Is Back on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:51PM (#49651201)
Why can't the AI budget be shared with translate?

I definitely don't use all of it from my duo plan, and it's passing through external costs.

Just charge the translate usage to that budget!?

Edit: and why am I reading about this on hacker news not in an email several months ago?

Re:100s of flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @05:42PM (#49617516)
NATS had failed once, so it failing again doesn't seem extraordinary to me.
Re:Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:46AM (#49475609)
> Unions are very much an in-group vs out-group phenomenon (and in many cases, the benefits are specifically to the more senior union members vis a vis the less senior

In the US. In the UK all the major unions I know don't require membership and fight for all employees in the industries they represent. E.g. as a software developer on a research project at a University I got all the negotiated benefits of the academic Union.

Absolutely not. I don't feel it's necessary to pay the sacrifices needed for a trustless society.

I would much rather be able to have things like personalised searches (which are identifying).

Re:How Compaction Works in Pi on Friday August 14, 2026 @01:43AM (#49295100)
I'm frequently idle for five minutes while I review, at which point the cache has expired
Re:Manus will return to operating as an independent company on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @02:50AM (#49268681)
All, enterprice chatgpt has flat pricing. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11481834-chatgpt-rate-ca...
Re:Manus will return to operating as an independent company on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @02:48AM (#49268676)
Enterprise pricing: 10 credits per message if not "Instant". Our monthly charge for 30k credits makes that around $2.

I might be out by a factor of 2/3 (automatically applied promo deals/credits make it very hard to be sure), but we get 3k messages per month for a seat count of ~60, and finance are concerned about cost.

$2 is probably a good deal for the Extra High 8 minutes of agentic searching/coding/etc when it one-shots a whole project.

$2 is a terrible deal for a 5 second instant retrieval.

Re:Manus will return to operating as an independent company on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @01:37PM (#49261699)
How much does it cost? ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message; if Anthropic have a similar pricing model don't you find lots of small changes and up fast?
Re:Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @01:08PM (#49185734)
I just have an always on VPN so can tunnel back to my home assistant server; which can handle todos/reminders/calendar events. Quick messages to contacts I haven't considered.
Re:Pebble Mega Update – July 2026 on Friday July 17, 2026 @05:16PM (#48952405)
A phone has 10-20x if not more weight of electronics.

I assume you will use your phone for 20-40 years?

Re:GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @05:02PM (#48651392)
I'm not sure how I'm supposed to get $200 of value out of personal use!
Staleness of what though?

LSPs only really pro-actively send diagnostics (error/warning/info/suggest[/code action]).

Everything else is responsive; the client asks for symbols in this document, or completion on this line, etc. And if the client is aware of document changes (which are versioned), it should notify of those before requesting new symbols/etc, but that's not difficult.

I don't know that it's mandatory, but I definitely implemented servers so that they would complete processing changed documents before responding to any later requests.

And if it's just the client re-using cached symbols without asking for an update (which should be very fast if nothing has changed); well, that's foolish.

Re:No More JetBrains Products for Me on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:19PM (#48185814)
Is it? For the three languages I tried to use it for it was terrible.

It was like it only had the basic language support plugin I wrote for myself at uni: basic syntax and current file/directory only source files loaded into context.

So any referenced projects, tooling, even packages in one language, and you have false positive errors everywhere.

What's wrong with piper?
Then why are these labelled as "production" ready?

And surely redis is a runtime image?

Re:Sometimes Your Job Is to Stay the Hell Out of the Way on Sunday February 01, 2026 @04:05AM (#46844689)
The argument seems to be: don't promote/support good ideas or projects because if they're good they'll likely succeed without you, and then the initiator will be slightly more confident.

Which is phrased as "not my job" for some reason.

Why does this not use chisel? I assume you at least drop the bin dir? Although the presence of ncurses is super weird

I don't understand why one would go halfway and leave packages which are unneeded for services. The only executable in a hardened container image should be your application.

Re:Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires on Saturday January 24, 2026 @08:18AM (#46743278)
It's for the TVs, to provide network for live TV boxes.
Re:Claude Code gets native LSP support on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:48AM (#46364247)
Zed is snappy in the same way that notepad ++ is snappy: If you don't support 10% of language features you can avoid the hard work. Unfortunately this means that non trivial projects have false positive errors everywhere.
Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them on Thursday December 18, 2025 @07:34AM (#46311900)
Except a job offer is generally non binding, so they could interview you, offer the job, then withdraw it.

So never being offered a job because it doesn't exist doesn't lose you anything.

Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @01:52PM (#46303806)
I just checked UK stats and from my reading of ONS's homicide data it's entirely possible it's around zero from burglary gone wrong.

The us is only 5 times bigger

That's not how casting works. It's actually super locked down: the TV loads a netflix website and you can't create your own Chromecast receivers.
So that they have the flexibility to run it as a staff service with substantial delay by slotting it in later gaps in the schedule.

No passenger would accept 30 mins delays every day.

Re:Why top firms paradoxically fire good workers on Saturday November 22, 2025 @10:21AM (#46015442)
None of the things you mention are things I've seen in my union covered jobs in the UK.

I've never heard of union rules here. Employees are not required to be part of the union in order to get their benefits, the unions just negotiate with employers on behalf of all employees. I've also never heard of credentials/gatekeeping for unions in the companies I've worked in.

For reference, I was working as a software developer at a University on a research project: I got the benefits of the higher education university (nationally negotiated pay scales, holiday benefits, etc) but was not a member.

Pay was lower, yes, but that wasn't mandatory; that was just the budget of a research project.

Re:Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @02:57PM (#45971202)
Scraping is about harvesting data. Just using the API like any other user is clearly not scraping.

Is browsing linkedin scraping? Is browsing hacker news through an alternate client scraping?

No, scraping is rehosting hacker news.

> Warranty Included

> Every purchase is covered by a 1-year warranty for peace of mind protection.

Uh, why are you marketing a bare minimum (often legally required) warranty as a pro? It kinda conflicts with "built to last"!

You'd be better off not even mentioning it.

Image data is just encapsulated: you just take a jpeg file and write it to bytes and wrap it a little.

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