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Re:OccupySaaS on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:12AM (#50337885)
Yup, I forgot to realise the hipocrisy.

Microsoft logo is right on the opening screen, implied to be an enemy.

Does the author even knows Github is not independent?

Re:OccupySaaS on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:04AM (#50337766)
Does the size (below 1GB) and speed of launch (less than minute per day or so) matter that much? It feels like you forgot to mention running utility programs on small embedded computers, microcontrollers even, is your priority.
Re:OccupySaaS on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:58AM (#50337684)
Oh my Dillards-Von Maur-Belk-Boscov-Frasers, you are right. Links for the lazy:

https://github.com/occupysaas/zeroauthy https://github.com/occupysaas/salescompel

Little attempt at reconciling differing ideas of what shape a replacement intented to be default choice should take.

Re:OccupySaaS on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:53AM (#50337621)
<TvTropesLink>Taking You With Me</TvTropesLink>, hmm?

...

Anyway, I immediately noticed the opening graphic is... well, bizzarely wrong.

There is a logo of Salesforce. Yes, a big software company, opposing it fits nicely into the agenda.

Then you see a logo of... AWS?

Not even Amazon per se, AWS.

Amazon Web Services.

A cloud computing subsidiary.

A HARDWARE subsidiary.

Not software, which OccupySaas aims to replicate cheaply, hardware.

Hardware.

Tens of billions of worth in hardware.

How does that fill the software liberation agenda?

Then you see logo, er, favicon of Google. Perhaps entirety of Alphabet is targeted, perhaps not, who knows.

But not only Alphabet is a cloud computing giant - again, hardware, not software, hardware - but Google itself is a huge CONSUMER-facing brand. Not business facing. What does that mean? Is the logo of Google Docs not iconic enough?

Then you see the logo with a letter N in a box. What does that mark?

Yeah, I know.

Notion, a groupworking platform.

I checked it and, yeah, annual revenue of Notion does not exceed $1 billion. Even.

https://getlatka.com/companies/notion

For comparision, Salesforce nears almost $44 billion as of now. Notion is not even visible at this scale. Not even a mini-major, but a independent <scratch off>film company</scratch off> software house. It's not even publicly listed (yet).

(Hacker News should really add buttons to apply basic visual formatting options for comments. Trivial to apply. Seriously)

Why Notion was choosed but not SAP? Why not Workday? Why not Shopify? Autodesk, even?

(There is also logo of Microsoft)

The graphic clearly went "to print" with nary a check.

Re:Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:16AM (#50316929)
I'd really like to see a comprehensive test of all of those 100s of agentic harnesses. Get a billionaire to give a million to crunch through them all within a week or so.
Re:Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:14AM (#50316906)
Try them anyway. Tell your employer about all the principles of freedoms that free, self hosted AI enable. It does not have to dwarf other costs.

Do not worry about vendor lock-in. Standing against big corporations was never easier in this century.

Do it. You know you can.

Re:Duet is the future of chatbot interaction on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:21PM (#50297668)
The first sentence really do reads like trolling.
Re:We Won't "Just Hang Out" on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:15PM (#50295177)
This elementary-school-grade-in-lenght essay ain't got no depth. Next!
Re:PSA: Do not use term "vibe coding" on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:35AM (#50220675)
I hate the term "vibe" anyway. Only appropriate for epilepsy-filled, crowded electronic music dance parties. Using it anything else gives me regurgitation tingling.
Re:PSA: Do not use term "vibe coding" on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:31AM (#50220648)
"Vibe coding" was originally coined by Andrej Karpathy.

I didn't wrote so because it would made me perceive the flow of my prose "clunky". In other words, i didn't want acclaimed scientist's name in my argument as it would made it too complex to me.

PSA: Do not use term "vibe coding"

... because it is hopelessly vague and useless.What does it mean? "Forget that the code even exists AND fully give in to the vibes"? What vibes? How are vibes defined? Are one supposed to dance freestyle on a flat plain? This ain't agentic engineering, that's for sure.It seems the original coinage was connected to a thought of an AI-led WYSIWYG environment; perhaps connected to a new type of...

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How much value per type of data?
The project's primary site should not be GitHub, and I am serious. Playstation 5 is not some historical curiosity and Sony might strike the page down any hour now.

Those projects should default to hosts less geared toward corporate governancy; custom internet domain being the first requirement.

Which models? Of Iranian Army or what? (this was sarcasm)

AI companies tend to discriminate against a lot of data they gather when it comes to training phases, usually for legal reason. Do you have any concrete proof that game decompilation efforts influenced any "mainstream" models?

Re:Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:13PM (#50047349)
Typical "piracy with way too much effort". With modern ML tools, author could at least change all the graphics; but no, generic upscale.

I hope it gets booted off Microsoft-owned Github for blatant copyright infringement. Total Annihilation ain't abandonware, and Xbox division don't need legal boycotts from third party publishers.

Did you seriously meant WARS used to have meaning prior to some point of time?

I hope you simply lost you thoughttrain and did not meant that.

Re:Show HN: Learn to speak everyday Telugu in 60 days on Monday August 10, 2026 @03:38PM (#49248626)
Huh. Login only via Google. No e-mail, no Facebook, no Apple (okay, they seldom figure in indian market share), nothing but Google.

Was there any prior example of a service doing exactly that?

"ticketing and checkout experience is buggy & leaking tons of money"

Care to elaborate? How much money? I'm intrigued.

Re:Data Beads on Saturday August 08, 2026 @06:33PM (#49226538)
The final results of these trinkets are too abstract for me but, anyway, author presented it well. Nice scrolling!
"Bureaucracy wants to regulate everything including how often we fart."

That is "reductio ad absurdum".

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

Re:Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old on Sunday August 02, 2026 @06:26PM (#49149062)
That's piracy.
Linking to an article from behind the paywall while assuming everyone pays for, what the title of publication is, WSJ, is no good.
This is beautiful!
Nice study :) Keep updating!

The title is very misleading - authors openly state the low and slewed sample pool.

Re:Why Fortran Is Still Used on Saturday August 01, 2026 @02:46PM (#49137183)
This post was dated: September 19, 2021

update the title please

Re:Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth on Saturday August 01, 2026 @02:42PM (#49137136)
"I personally am fairly convinced" "It was 100% obvious a few years ago that there was a lot of manipulation going on."

so no proof then

Re:Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth on Saturday August 01, 2026 @02:40PM (#49137121)
I chceked the past price and, yes, the stock is back to what was it back in March this year. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RDDT/?guccounter=1 And there were swings close to as big as today since then. Not really much of news then.
Re:Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth on Saturday August 01, 2026 @02:37PM (#49137092)
proof?