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Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:13AM (#50258707)
But he's edited a "third" of en.wikipedia according to his article which is genuinely astounding to me. Surely much of that has to have been automated?
Re:Where the Romans Fought (interactive map) on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:53AM (#50242196)
Yes it's Claudeslop but it renders beautifully on iOS Safari for me.
Re:I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018) on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:32AM (#50219909)
This piece looks great, adding to my ever-growing "to read" collection on Zotero.

If anyone is interested in self-studying quantum physics, QFT for the Gifted Amateur [1] is very well regarded.

1: https://academic.oup.com/book/36442?login=false

Re:Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:59AM (#50179442)
I'm glad others are still saying this. Split view plus slide over was, IMO, peak iPad multitasking. It was beautifully smooth and convenient and covered 99% of use cases I ever have for doing more than one thing at a time on an iPad.

Having a full windowing system just adds a bunch of overhead, weird edges cases when apps have multiple windows open, and slows me way down.

Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:35AM (#49892138)
16% is so far removed from "most" that it undermines your entire argument, whatever it is.
Re:Googlebook on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @07:58AM (#48120766)
Not for human consumption
A fully conscious one. :)
Re:Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @08:16AM (#47136743)
So we're just using "vibe coded" as a generic insult now for project we don't like?
Re:I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams on Saturday February 07, 2026 @08:46AM (#46923837)
> They are just everywhere, the web was never like this in the beginning.

Maybe briefly. I've been on the web since the late 90s and horrible banner ads (and for a while, shudder, flash ads) have been a thing for as long as I can remember. At least now we have good content blockers!

>John Smith hits you -> you seek relief from John's insurance company. John's insurance premium goes up. He can't afford that. Thus, effective financial feedback loop. Real skin in the game.

Ah great, so there's a lower chance of that specific John Smith hitting me again in the future!

An all-TTS audiobook offering is just about as appealing as an all-stable-diffusion picture gallery (that is, not at all).
Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:33AM (#46586571)
This bug isn't that. It's the frontmost app losing focus to nothing.
Re:Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s? on Saturday January 03, 2026 @06:57AM (#46475581)
Are you suggesting they carry around a Starlink dish in a backpack and deploy it on the go whenever they want to stream some music?
It's a pop sci magazine, of course they use language like that. Actual academic papers are different.
He's the Stephen Wolfram of game dev.
Re:The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian on Thursday September 04, 2025 @11:50AM (#45128633)
They did well to get acquired before the AI bubble pops.
Re:Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof on Friday March 07, 2025 @08:08AM (#43289860)
Schild's Ladder is my personal favourite.
This is on the order of the "descartes before the whores" joke on reddit years ago. Generational stuff
Re:WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops on Monday February 24, 2025 @03:18AM (#43156994)
GTK theming was a mess long before libadwaita came along.
Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life on Friday February 21, 2025 @11:36AM (#43129559)
Trust me, I do understand all that. My personal set of trade-offs is such that I really can't be bothered with self-hosting.

Capacities has one-click export of all of your objects (notes/pages) with a sensible folder structure that produces markdown with frontmatter and includes all media attachments. That's good enough for me.

Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life on Friday February 21, 2025 @11:11AM (#43129178)
capacities.io
Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life on Friday February 21, 2025 @11:06AM (#43129120)
This is why I love Capacities. It's object oriented with properties and tags. No folders.
I watched Threads for the first time recently and it really did ruin the rest of my day. I still think about it regularly. It influenced my thinking on the threat of nuclear annihilation a lot.

If you don't feel like watching the whole film (and you definitely should, the first third is all lead-up and it's masterfully done - and the aftermath part is the most believable post-apocalypse I've ever seen in a movie) you should at least watch the bombing scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHoMSRZOS4

Re:Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine on Monday June 17, 2024 @10:36AM (#40706036)
I haven’t read the book, but in TFA it’s described as a “lavishly visual book” so I’m not sure it would translate well to audio.
No clue what would give you that idea.
Re:Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system on Saturday June 08, 2024 @07:09AM (#40616806)
Bracing myself for the next generation of self-important monochrome tech ‘zines coming out of Spain
I'm still upset that Markdown ended up getting all the mindshare. AsciiDoc is so much nicer.
Re:Drone footage of baby penguins jumping off cliff on Sunday April 21, 2024 @11:26AM (#40106478)
Wow. Phrasing!

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