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Steam is not a monopoly.

Other competitors have made attempts, but they were so poor quality and terribly made, it was no wonder they bowed out.

Want to complete? Compete.

Re:Anthropic's growth just flattened (really) on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:57AM (#50350897)
It's like people saying Bitcoin will become a universal currency adopted by all.
Re:uBlock Origin filter to block autoplay videos in TechCrunch on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:55AM (#50350875)
This is unnecessary. Use the built in browser autoplay block.

And if that doesn't work, use reader view (as you always should)

Re:It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:41PM (#50329631)
The company is cooked due to the CEO being a complete a-hole. AI or not, his behavior is unacceptable for ANY organization. Behavior like that is to be severely punished.
> Who decides what gets to be reverse engineered and what doesn't?

Laws, ideally.

The panic and delusion is reaching a fever pitch with these thieves (AI companies). Typical paranoid criminal behavior.
Re:Is It EDT or EST? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:06AM (#50325829)
You do realize single purpose websites have existed for over 20 years, yes?

isitchristmas.com? something.com?

Re:I post trained a model on Demoscenes on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:57PM (#50320645)
You miss the point.

Demoscenes are for human creations.

Leave AI out of it. Don't ruin yet another hobby.

The community will never accept what you made.

This scam website had it coming.
Re:My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:05PM (#50310126)
There's no point.
Re:Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:03PM (#50310109)
This guy is crashing out on reddit. What an imbecile.
Re:I Returned My iPhone Duo on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:20PM (#50306132)
It's a first gen product.

Author should have known better. They got what they deserved.

Re:Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era? on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:19PM (#50306111)
Yes. Everyone is forcing AI everywhere and nobody uses AI well.

AI is a net negative in terms of mental health.

It also creeps into hobbies, especially video games where it's absolutely ruined the decomp/recomp scene. AI slop recomps are a cancer on what used to be an incredible revolution in coding.

Being outside alone isn't enough Vitamin D. In the UK there isn't much sun either.
That was due to antitrust pressure such that they did not self-prefer their own apps.
Re:Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:39AM (#50289839)
The Compuserve and Netscape ISP website husks also feature no-nonsense text-only news pages with 2000s-style renderings that are near-instant on any device.

68k.news also exists but has been broken for a long time. It's maintained by a retro computing youtuber who seems to have abandoned it or isn't paying attention to its brokenness.

Re:Get Ready for Touch on Mac on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:18AM (#50289503)
This was 16 years overdue.

Steve Jobs going on that weird unhinged rant about touch being "unergonomic" in 2010 when introducing the revamped Macbook Air was one the most misguided speeches I've ever seen.

Touch on computers (laptops, namely), is a net good. I loved my Surface, and will love it on a Macbook.

Re:We Won't "Just Hang Out" on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:44AM (#50288943)
Seems like a very incel-coded article. Not a fan of the wording and bizarre tangents.
Re:If IPv4 Were Land on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:07AM (#50288377)
IPv4 is perfectly and objectively fine on internal networks. IPv6 is overkill and way too complicated for most.

IPv6 can be selectively applied to say, NAT addresses, but other than that, IPv4 is just fine and your statement is incorrect.

Re:I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here's What Happened on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:05AM (#50288334)
Please, even if it is an experiment, don't do this. We don't need more AI slop in the world.
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:15PM (#50279310)
Always have and always will love having a touchscreen on a laptop.

At this point it's a huge loss to not have it on a display. Don't like it? Then shut up and don't use it. Don't yuck others' yum.

Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:13PM (#50279285)
You are an outliner. Touch is standard across every device. To not have it just feels like a deduction.

Even now, I find myself resisting the urge to tap things on my Macbook display as it is.

The world moved on. Touch is standard, and Steve Jobs was incredibly wrong with his weird opinions.

This is like people arguing that a computer mouse is not necessary in 1990.

Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:12PM (#50279266)
Explain further what you mean. The displays are still best in class. What metrics do you have suggesting otherwise?
Re:Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @12:20PM (#50276175)
What a bunch of nothing and hand-waivey statements. Valve has issues with cracking down on bad behavior, and this response is rather immature and poorly planned.
Do you even use Discord? Is this comment satire? Discord is loaded with ads, upsells, spyware, and straight scams all throughout its UI.
Re:Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:18PM (#50266645)
More people use Mastodon than Bluesky. To rely on Bluesky for metrics is a fool's errand.
A Phoenix link is almonst never the "original article." It barely contains half the info OP's link does.
He seems oblivious that midterms are next week + he will be in a lot of trouble past that point.
In my experience Copilot is competing with Grok for being the absolute dumbest LLM out there. It consistently forgets things, loses context, suggests irrelevant garbage, can't parse MS Docs correctly, and can't even spot easy things like files on your system that it objectively has permissions to read.

MS must be losing mountains of money over this.

Re:Everything on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:01PM (#50251691)
Bad name. Everything Search is widely known and taken.

Also what even is this? Just looks like a fever dream of AI slop.

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