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Re:We Write Code by Hand on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:49PM (#49789785)
Self-plug but Handmade Cities [0] is grassroots organizing that prefers not to spend its time with stuff like this.

Join a local meetup!

[0] https://handmadecities.com

Re:Proton Global Outage on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:17PM (#49457715)
Back online for me ~2 hours later. Jesus.
Re:Proton Global Outage on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:41PM (#49456899)
UPDATE: "We have identified a critical cooling failure in our Frankfurt datacenter. We are currently in the process of shifting traffic to our backups sites."
Re:Proton Global Outage on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:14PM (#49456646)
I can't access anything right now. Blocked from my files in Proton Drive. No emails. Nothing. Can't work at all.
Re:AI is removing the middle class of software engineering on Thursday August 13, 2026 @02:08PM (#49289818)
Huh, I stand corrected too!
Re:AI is removing the middle class of software engineering on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @07:50PM (#49280100)
Can't believe I'm correcting you on HN, but MILFs and DILFs are a thing. (Granted you'll need the appropriate genes and gym fitness.)
Re:AI is removing the middle class of software engineering on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @07:34PM (#49279981)
> It's had a huge impact on the petit bourgeoisie.

I always heard it as "petty" bourgeoisie and was a bit confused. Now I get it.

Re:YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is 'not healthy' on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @03:59PM (#49277777)
Interesting, thanks for the additional context!
Yeah I didn’t think twice about clicking the header to read the docs. Standard practice.
Re:Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? on Monday August 03, 2026 @12:23PM (#49157880)
Paying for Kagi Ultimate. Never going back to "free" search engines.
Re:Read the Novels and Forget Everything Else on Monday August 03, 2026 @02:21AM (#49151896)
I drink it all in. It enhances the art for me while making sure I sharpen my own ethics (“don’t ever wanna believe the B.S. this person did.”)
Re:GoatCounter on Monday July 27, 2026 @04:01PM (#49074846)
Nice! I've been shopping around lately. Landed on GoAccess [0] although one could argue they're not necessarily the same thing.

[0] https://goaccess.io/

Also why is he putting the company on blast but also sounding super duper grateful to them?
Well that's no different than vegans. We "need them" to preach obnoxiously because cars are presumed indispensable.

Vegans gave us the Impossible Burger, which I'll eat instead of regular burgers when available. What might anti-car people trigger as a positive?

Re:Ethics Is the Skill That Matters Most Now on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:43PM (#49011489)
Someone paid a chef to make a fancy pizza, then told his friend "look what I made!"

The author's message would've landed if he demonstrated human authorship. Like this blog post [0] attaching a notebook page or my own [1] video proof.

[0] https://vinxis.moe/posts/writing-2026-07-15

[1] https://abner.page/post/are-we-harold-bloom/

Re:Ethics Is the Skill That Matters Most Now on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @12:07PM (#49008980)
And this article is largely LLM-generated. Is that ethical?
Re:Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:17AM (#48989104)
Tell me more about Emby. Solid replacement?
Re:Eliminating Go bounds checks with unsafe on Monday July 20, 2026 @09:09PM (#48986937)
Yeah that’s the infamous curse of knowledge.. it’s quite hard to imagine oneself as a beginner again (although the skill can be learned.)
Re:Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:06PM (#48895661)
Imagine the cost involved for this though: I know you know my proof is genuine. Are we saying we’ll soon efficiently automate the generation of believable video evidence… for blog posts?!
Re:Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:59AM (#48888106)
> This has the happy flipside that anyone who would like readers to classify their article as high-status rather than low-status can apply the judo move of simply writing it themselves.

I really really hope more people take up pen and paper! My last blog post [0] came with proof-of-work attached.

[0] https://abner.page/post/are-we-harold-bloom/

Goes the other way around too: many many employees didn't care about layoffs or the less fortunate until [complete this sentence].

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