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such as... git

It's never the wrong time to link this TFA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242

Only since the end of 2025, which is when AI agents got really popular, and also when GitHub moved to Azure. Take your pick of potential causes.

you could just go straight to the source instead of speculating. read the readme. it's obviously AI.

Once, a GAN model that was trained to convert between satellite images and drawn maps was caught encoding the original satellite image in imperceptible dots

The field of ML is Goodhart's law reified. We might have temporarily forgotten some of the basics of the field amidst this LLM craze.

Any access to a watermark detector can be used to remove the watermark. Presumably they want to be able to track who is doing that.

With the way our economy works, you're not actually wrong though.

Circumventing a technological measure has been interpreted extremely broadly. Deobfuscation could be covered.

Trying to align them to either "side" is likely a mistake. They are their own separate entity.

AI wrote the readme so it's unsurprising

In many cases (not this one) parents are also the scapegoat of system failure. This occurs in debates about age verification. People say "why can't parents just parent" like it's a thought-ending cliche.

If it has, chalk it up to the normalisation of the slow degradation of everything.

Perhaps it's more to do with Muratori-style non-pessimization

Edit: Ha! It was mentioned by name in the questions section.

Meanwhile US models just use massive investor subsidy to distill American copyrighted work and rent the models to everyone for money. That's true capitalism. /!s

It's public knowledge that the code is 000000 because the risk of the president being incapacitated making it impossible to set the bombs off was judged worse than the risk of accidentally setting them off.

Haven't you heard? Capitalism is now communism.

I didn't realise that McDonald's owned Andy Warhol. I always assumed Campbell's Soup did.

I've heard he was more like the Elon Musk of the open source world. He didn't co-found Reddit, he was placed there by Y Combinator staff to the protests of its actual founders. Maybe some of the other projects he's credited for also were like that.

Yes, that's how the trick works. Profit is revenue minus expenses. By increasing expenses, you decrease profit, and therefore tax. But it only works if you had a profit before, because the government doesn't pay you back tax when you lose money.

It's not that simple. You will still be charged if the company isn't worth a trillion dollars.

No, there are better public sites too, like 1337x

We should all be using more of those shady services - provided they aren't scams. Those are valuable people providing a valuable service of bypassing enshittification.

What is it about?

Probably Spotify

Soulseek is centralised, and censors searches in compliance with legal requests. If you connect to someone who has censored content, the central server can't stop you grabbing it, but you have to find them another way.

There's just no reason to ever use them when other sites are better.

> When there is no longer a method to read Twitter/X withoot logging in, then one can use a headless browser

There isn't one. Nitter logs in.

It is possible to get phone numbers. And not from shady sites - I mean you can just buy them, from the bodega.

But I agree, not easy.

Their "open source algorithm" (Which is actually a random code dump that does not constitute the algorithm) contains enough evidence that Elon posts are massively boosted, though no smoking gun. It also classifies politics as democrat or republican and then acts to maintain echo chambers.

All those have been ingested by chatgpt, which ironically provides a better user experience.