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Please stop using AI to write it gives a headache. Just go with simple 2 line sentences you can write on your own or even dictacte it if youre lazy.
So a guy who runs worker displacement company tries to say we're not bad? It literally has a page where it shows how much of your company can be automated.
Weren't they just Claude with Computer Agent or browser-use opensource agent in a VM?
Please do. Also try making a newtab page.
Re:bolt-ts: A TypeScript Compiler Implemented in Rust on Friday October 17, 2025 @03:52AM (#45614251)
Is it completed? Can it run all tests?
Re:Show HN: Mute notifications for all subscribed channels on Sunday August 31, 2025 @09:30AM (#45083028)
Made for myself to mass remove notification for all your subscribed channels. Sharing with you all to enjoy the peace of the bell icon showing nothing for the first time.
This is great but I wish CSS output was generated. Anything that can do that?
Re:What Will Become of the CIA? on Monday July 21, 2025 @04:02PM (#44639818)
Nice try, CIA
It says 'for Windows' in brackets for nativeness, what does it mean? What language is it then for all 3 platforms.
So, that's Stable Diffusion without license constraints, is it?
Re:Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @03:28PM (#44119779)
I'm curious how Tauri causes different views on different platforms because Tauri frontends are websites and if websites function same way on platforms so should the apps. If websites use something to hide browser differences so should the app developer on Tauri.
Wouldn't an extension be more suitable that runs on Jetbrains boot?
When Europe tries to do this, many cry as over regulation.
Re:How Kerala got rich on Friday March 28, 2025 @07:18PM (#43510930)
So you are saying the individuals (not affiliated to any corporate) in a field are collectively doing/did more harm to people and environment, on purpose, than all the harm corporates in the same field are collectively doing/did, on purpose?

Corporates have power to sway governments/FDA/X in their personal favor (unlike a common individual for his own personal favor). As bigger the power of entity gets to the power of government, more government looses power over it, more at the discretion of its decision makers its users become. Why would a rational actor not do bad for profits if they can get away with it? Why would an entity, with a power, not exercise it, if net benefit to self is positive?

Re:How Kerala got rich on Friday March 28, 2025 @06:36PM (#43510598)
Yes, they are efficient, obviously as economies of scale. Add in consulting and quants and they'll rise in profitability. But the problem is decision making power lies in hands of select few. When you are a too large a corporate, you basically have no oversight over how much you can optimize in exchange for ill social effects. All corporates had humble beginnings, and over time hyper optimization for profits creep in. Maybe in the beginning, the synthetic preservative they add to optimize profits, was below the threshold, but over the years as need for profit and 'growth' grows and, managements and mindsets change, they could very well go above the threshold and, being big now be profitable enough even after they were caught and they had to deal with the repercussions. Well why would a rational actor not squeeze every dollar out of the customer when they can still be profitable even when accounting for the money they could pay as repercussions for fraud? I'm not saying mom-and-pop are defenders of righteousness or smth, but just from watching the news I can say I trust them over corporates, because they are A) are scared of law as they have more to loose as a percentage of what they have than INDIVIDUALS in the corporate B) feel better moral, idk attitude?, towards the customer, mostly and COMPARATIVELY than the corps. Of the top of my head, I think, cooperatives might be the current best solution or some decentralized frameworks/systems for stores considering efficiency vs power concentration.

> pay taxes to the government

Here, at their turnover local stores are exempt from income tax

Re:How Kerala got rich on Friday March 28, 2025 @05:45PM (#43510113)
You can still live comfortably without depending on private (I meant large private) entities in Kerala. Also there are supermarket chains but they haven't overtaken normal non-chain grocery supermarkets. Not even close. Of the top of my head I can list three chains near me and most of my household lives without needing to buy from them and just going to regular stores.

Edit: To add to it. In Italy, you eat pasta for lunch. To buy cheap pasta you go to Pam/Conad/Carrefour/Aldi/Lidl supermarket chain and buy Pam/Conad/Adli/Lidl branded ones as usually they are the cheapest buy vary in quality. But here getting cheap Rice, for lunch, is different. In Italy, to buy basic milk you do the same and probably the cheap whole fat one is branded by the supermarket. Here, you go to the diary, which gets from a collection of local farmers. To buy eggs, you don't go buy supermarket branded eggs, you could pay someone in your neighborhood with animals to supply. I've never seen supermarket branded eggs until I reached the west to be honest.

Re:How Kerala got rich on Friday March 28, 2025 @04:53PM (#43509715)
Coming from Kerala to Europe for a short Erasmus, I feel here you have to visit a huge chain for buying anything on a discount. What I mean is big supermarket, or electronics or transport chains. Kerala's premature strikes against these were the only reason they didn't grow as Kerala grew. Can't fully say if it's a good thing but it does feel safer not being dependent on a private entities for many basic things.
Re:How Kerala got rich on Friday March 28, 2025 @04:35PM (#43509588)
> famous FOSS photos, 2fa

Ente photos I assume

Re:Advent of Code 2024 on Sunday December 01, 2024 @07:10AM (#42288015)
Other challenges (in advent and not in advent) like advent of code:

https://github.com/NoelJacob/advent-and-other-calandars Compiled by myself.

Ask HN: Any place having all science and maths equations and implementations?

Is there anywhere containing all the standard equations from maths, physics, etc like Pythagoras, Orbital lifetime, etc? I only need the ones that are feasible to compute on a desktop PC without taking more than an hour at most and isn't too specialised.I don't know if it's possible to find but ideally I would like a function for solving each equation (a, b, c) = fn(x, y, z). Even if...

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Re:Zig's (.{}){} Syntax on Sunday November 10, 2024 @01:42AM (#42098835)
Why did they keep the dot in Struct initialisation? Why not the syntax of just using without dot: const c1 = Config{ port = 8000, host = "127.0.0.1", }; Is there some other use with dotless one?
Re:Bypass Paywalls repository is gone on Saturday April 13, 2024 @11:20AM (#40023678)
I think a good idea would be forking Telegram's quick article view feature source code and developing on it.
how does it compare to Spot.io
Re:Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub on Saturday December 05, 2020 @12:44PM (#25316500)
Gooyz, Windows?