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I think the benefit is supposed to be the locking feature. Any human that sees [email protected] and wants to circumvent your filters to get to your main inbox (typically for sales purposes) can figure out to email [email protected]. With this product, the email is undeliverable unless they label their emails correctly.
Isn't the majority of AI compute training and not inference? Saying "It doesn't matter if the AI companies fold because I can run models on my computer" is like saying "I don't care if the farm closes because I get my food from the grocery store"
Re:RIP Eric Binnion on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:56AM (#50087869)
Was the .com taken? This feels like a marketing exercise?
Re:RIP Eric Binnion on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:47AM (#50087762)
I think that's a symptom of Matt generating a website for "an Automattician". They had a working relationship. If I died today, my husband would remember my life as someone who laughed and cried, my work might think of me as someone more inquisitive and analytical.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:44PM (#50075686)
Re:Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:57AM (#50072758)
I think they mean rather than acqui-hire, acquiring in order to hire the team. They hired the team they wanted individually to specifically avoid acquiring this company.
Re:Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:26AM (#50071380)
As a Firefox user, I hope this works. As someone who works in IT, people are going to try and install Chrome at all costs and your ticket queues will be clogged with people saying a computer is broken or has no internet access if it doesn't have Chrome on it.
Even then you're watching them from those broadcast stations. The live channel feeds in those apps is from your local station, and if you're watching any local news it's also clips from your station's newscast. You'll be impacted by fewer perspectives as stations consolidate.

Is easy to think about content from a consumer mindset that everything just exists for you, but no the stuff on the internet is made by real people who are impacted by the works around them.

Re:Where every major LLM stands politically on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:32PM (#48680572)
All this debate about how politics are defined or how bias is measured. My question is why should I care? Grok identifying as Mechahitler didn't drag me any further right, why would ChatGPT be able to drag me left? If you vote the way AI tells you, that's already a problem regardless of what it said.
Re:Steam Machine on Monday June 22, 2026 @11:40PM (#48639975)
I'd say about half of Steam players aren't male. The "video games are for boys" thing is kind of a self fulfilling prophecy because anyone who believes that will obviously not play with a woman.
Re:Hacker News but for Independent Blogs on Thursday June 18, 2026 @12:53AM (#48580966)
This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. I've been feeling like HN feels more and more repetitive.
Re:Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @05:23PM (#48300922)
This looks cool, and one of the first posts I've seen on HN in a few months where I genuinely wanted to try it.
> For your specific question: Why is Linux not supported in the BASIC tier?

> This is AMD's marketing decision.

> Kind Regards,

> Anatoli Curran,

> Xilinx/AMD Forum Moderator

I mean, nobody in that forum necessarily knows why. It just came from above.

In my experience, HR is all too willing to explore gray areas for company benefit, so any "problems" created are likely actual laws.
Re:TogetherLoop – Social media minus the nonsense on Thursday May 07, 2026 @05:59PM (#48055699)
Hey I'm sorry for the confusion. This isn't my project, that's why I didn't use a Show HN or anything. I'm not in a position to make changes.
> I used Typst for a few weeks. It already feels much more understandable, consistent, hackable, and customizable. I guess that is the difference between an ad hoc macro system and an actually thought through programming language.

> The only drawback I can see is the ecosystem being smaller and less mature. That is, however, counteracted by being able to do things on your own, without immersing yourself deeply in LaTeX for years. Also, it will improve with time.

Kind of ironic while he as an investor is suing OpenAI right now
A very important note about being charged with something, it's not evidence of guilt but rather an accusation. As an example, of all unsolved murders in the United States, I theorize that you the reader have committed all of them. How does it reflect on your local law enforcement, courts, etc. that you're not sentenced for these crimes?
Re:I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden on Monday May 04, 2026 @06:40AM (#48006922)
This is such a HN blog post it's almost funny. You wanted to selfhost and you can but it wasn't easy or particularly Linux friendly, so you got a Rust server from the community, but you wanted something officially supported, so they made a specifically lightweight self-hostable version but it's in a programming language you don't like. :( Those bastards!
> I'd rather hear "the code is bad" than "the post sounds AI-written".

Of course you would. Reading through and judging the quality of AI output is the largest amount of effort in a world where you can get everything else by prompting. Please internalize this: If you want to be respected you will have to put in effort yourself. There is no way around this.

Re:Phone is about to stop being yours on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @06:53AM (#47946558)
You can absolutely install Linux on a Mac. Back before Apple made custom CPUs they supported and even advertised installing Windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)

Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @09:49AM (#47934573)
Missed opportunity to call it Vopilot
Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @09:48AM (#47934566)
I absolutely do, every single time it comes up.
Let me just say the performance is absolutely incredible, and the persistence is so transparent. I actually was given access to an in-browser video editor that chokes pretty quickly so I'm impressed. The tracks didn't seem to work well for me. I'm on Firefox on Windows and couldn't drag and drop tracks to change the order, there doesn't seem to be any layer transformation tools (position, rotation, scale) that I could find to counteract it not handling footage of different aspect ratios (I.E. portrait and landscape).
Re:Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @08:23AM (#47847789)
I wonder if since IR is invisible you could theoretically, in an intellectual exercise, blast IR light in a room and mass change them surreptitiously if that was your goal.
> You can only use one library card at a time with OverDrive, and don't have access to the audioboks or periodicals on Libby.

I personally was fine with the limitations, after all I'm only one person and I would only ever read books on my ereader.

Re:GitHub's Fake Star Economy on Monday April 20, 2026 @11:55AM (#47836118)
> If a metric or signal matters, there is already an ecosystem built to fake it, and faking it starts to be operational and just another part of doing business.

https://www.xkcd.com/2899/

Here's the thing, you absolutely can do this in exactly the same way: Make the background transparent and draw within the bounds. You can argue about whether or not you should, but that is the argument. There's no technical limitation.

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/custom-windo...

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