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Yeah. Look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321605 — what the hell is this? Why do people click on random links allegedly belonging to no name projects? What are these projects about? Fascinating.
Yes, but it's still nice to have a good UI. HN has many things that one can find inconvenient.
Not only this is clickbait, they want me to solve a captcha in order to open it. What a trash website.
Re:Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:05AM (#50270092)
20% is no joke, no need to downplay potential benefits.
Re:I will no longer upload to NEW on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:39AM (#50260104)
The author wrote so much, but it has so little substance. LLMs can provide valuable feedback, but they can also produce garbage. Given that the author didn't show any bad outputs and built their message around "I don't like reading it", it sounds like a personal problem that should have stayed in their head.
Re:Google's Rust Style Guide on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:24AM (#50191881)
There is already a catch-all option if you don't need exhaustiveness in some part of your code.
Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Friday October 09, 2026 @07:17AM (#50018905)
It depends on the context. If you're a PC user and you got a Mac at your new job, there are likely more important things to learn.
Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:24AM (#49961318)
Because if I'm already using AI, I need and probably have access to something better than a primitive local model. And if I don't use AI, then I don't need it.
Re:New PlayStation 5 Console Jailbreak Released on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:23AM (#49906401)
How so? Not only these restrictions exist for a reason, but you are perfectly aware of these restrictions before you purchase the said hardware.
Instead of starting a meaningless argument about the title, try reading the article. It explains the significance of this discovery.
We aren't talking about a choice between running a mainstream setup or a niche setup though. There is much more to this choice—I'm sure you understand what I mean. I don't want to dive into this discussion, I just want to highlight that it isn't as simple as you suggested.
Inflation isn't accurate variable because salaries of many people are lagging behind inflation.
These streaming services don't even support 4k hdr on linux, leaving people with no choice.
Re:iPhone Duo on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:17AM (#49639147)
Spoiler alert: Silo
In many countries Meta platforms—Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApps—are primary means of communication. If you want to find interesting events happening this weekend, you need to be on Facebook. In this regard, Google and Apple are much easier to leave because they offer personalised services, and you can always move your email and photos elsewhere. But you cannot move other people from Facebook or Instagram.
The age verification requirement wasn't dropped, what are you talking about? Linux getting an exemption isn't a win.
This article is an example of a rather poor piece of writing. You can't blame people for skimming through it.
I agree with you. It's just an attention bite as nobody would care about this article if it wasn't focused on something as big and popular as Khan Academy. It's clear that the author has never used it as a place to learn something.
Re:Amodei Re. Regulation on Monday August 17, 2026 @05:47AM (#49328499)
> coding tasks

Exactly. There are common coding tasks that these models can adequately do. They are absolute trash for anything that isn't coding. And even with coding, they are so, so far behind frontier models.

> Once I was as proficient at Rust as I was at Go

That's a big time investment for many people though. The one they—or rather their employers—cannot really afford.

Re:ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux on Thursday August 13, 2026 @03:30AM (#49282771)
It's easier to use for most people. I don't think CLI and GUI programs target the same audience.
Re:Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @05:18AM (#49269704)
And by that point a program written in go has been deployed and making money for months. These are two wildly different languages, people should stop comparing them as if they're targetting the same niche. Checks and protections that rust has aren't necessary in most cases, but increase development and maintenance time.
Re:How Claude marks AI-generated content on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @12:00PM (#49260328)
I assure you, this is one of the mildest things they do after training before the model reaches you.
Re:All memory manufactured in 2027 has been sold out on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:12PM (#49215633)
Can you blame them? Users didn't care. Heck, developers didn't care - look at how popular vscode is.
Re:Zed DeltaDB on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:19PM (#49188422)
Because it's not broken, the issues you're describing are far from universal. Also, fixing them won't bring any money.
Re:Back to Kagi on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:29AM (#49020528)
$10 is nothing when it's $10, but everything is a $10 subscription these days - and you end up spending a lot of money.
Back then developers didn't have tools to create websites that look good on both desktop and mobile devices. So websites back then were hardly usable. Apps solved this issue.
Re:Why Write Code in 2026 on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:06AM (#48889804)
> The relevant question is who is going to pay you to write code manually.

Hopefully companies in the industries where software quality matters and is regulated, e.g.: medicine, aviation, nuclear, etc.

Although this market is relatively small.

AUR has always been a risk and that wasn't the first attack of that kind. And here... Well, if it was coordinated, they would've picked a distro that doesn't prompt responses like: "Oh, mandriva still exists?"

Nah. Microsoft has better means to sell Windows.

Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Thursday June 11, 2026 @05:24AM (#48488114)
These are two very different devices that serve two very different purposes. The comparison is flawed.

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