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Probably none, just got into HN's spam filter. When you have enough points you can vouche for it and if enough people do it gets reinstated, which is exactly what happened.
Re:Spying on kids to save kids from spying is stupid on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:54AM (#48647015)
Cryptographically blinded age verification with a government signed digital ID
Re:U.S. kids no longer reading for pleasure on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:09AM (#48503670)
I don't know how old your kids are and if they play video games with friends, so maybe they're too young for this to begin with.

Do you give them some kind of additional time budget that they can manage themselves over a longer period? There are things that you can do on a screen that just take more time than one hour at once, especially when you're playing with friends (or even learning something by programming etc.).

Re:U.S. kids no longer reading for pleasure on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:03AM (#48503618)
Most screens have distractions just one tap away.

Personally I also like the physics of a book a lot more for reading. Every book is a physically different object. You physically turn the page. You can physically see how far you are in the book. It's just all much less abstract and tangible.

I started reading it and found it to reek of AI slop. I couldn't figure out what I'm even reading about and found the text to be unstructured or mis-structured. It also seems to contain a lot of formatting mistakes making me believe that you didn't even care to proofread it.

Sorry to be so blunt, but I have no tolerance for AI a slop. ShowHN is for showing something you built with a lot of care, that people can try out. That can be an AI product. But it cannot be an AI slopped text post pitching your product.

> this is not how the model should behave

It's exactly how it should behave, without any prior overriding of system prompts.

If you didn't write it, why should I or anyone read it?

This is AI slop. Opposed to your claim there is nothing clear about that page. It's really sad how ShowHN is spammed with slop that drowns out people's work. Please stop being part of that problem.

How much of this page did you write yourself?
Re:The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text on Sunday March 01, 2026 @09:08AM (#47206808)
The models are designed to be these fake positive corpospeak yes man assholes by fake positive asshole corporations.

Mirroring real human text is only the basis of training. Afterwards they get aligned a.k.a. lobotomized.

Re:Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today? on Saturday February 28, 2026 @09:22PM (#47202954)
I just found out that in Marshallese hello, bye and love are all the same word: iọkwe

It literally translates to iọ from iia – rainbow and kwe – you: you are a rainbow.

iọkwe

Re:GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @05:06PM (#47054079)
So it's not about labels, but you want the ability to restrict the fields an app has access to rather than an all or nothing – full access to a contact or none at all?
Re:GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:52AM (#47048109)
You can use labels for contact scope.
Re:Privilege is bad grammar on Monday February 16, 2026 @08:51PM (#47042731)
I think the key is whether they expect their underlings to be more formal or if it actually goes both ways.
Just an anti recommendation: Do not use Lastpass. Reading the security breach section of their Wikipedia article should be enough reason.

For anyone reading this who uses LastPass: Switch away!

You can do the same yourself here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse
Re:Is End-to-End Encryption Optional for Large Groups? on Monday February 16, 2026 @08:05PM (#47042423)
Large groups ≠ Multi Party

Encryption should be the default for anything private. But something that is configured to be public from the beginning like an open Discord server does not need E2E encryption.

Re:Hackers (1995) Animated Experience on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:47PM (#46916551)
i feel you
Re:Hackers (1995) Animated Experience on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:36PM (#46916424)
Sorry for your loss.

"This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...

after all, we're all alike.

Re:East Germany balloon escape on Saturday January 17, 2026 @01:23PM (#46660485)
North Korea is an extremely class based society. About as far away from left as it gets.
Re:Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @05:02PM (#46639993)
That doesn't work for everyone and everywhere.
That is a Cloudflare IP address.

Have a look at the request HTTP headers and see what they say.

Re:Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @10:12AM (#46633629)
Happy Birthday
Re:Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:58PM (#46619558)
I found out today that the location header of an HTTP redirect can be a tel:+ URI and phone's will actually ask you whether you want to call that number.
That's just not how humans work. Love can fade. People change. It's the natural course of things. Sometimes there is just no one at fault for love being lost and no way to prevent that. We just gave up the illusion that love in marriage is always forever.

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