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Re:Sonic CD / FTL and Hotline Miami on the Web on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @07:26PM (#50080392)
Neat, Hotline Miami running at 10 FPS with busted shaders. Glad we are crashing the economy for this
Re:Device detection and occupancy monitoring for Airbnb hosts on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:51AM (#49994558)
Do you think that cities exist just for you to travel to? A little insight: these places require _residents_ to run the restaurants and destinations you like to visit. These residents are quickly getting priced out and the deluge of STRs is making the issue worse.

Maybe, just maybe, the STRs could be taxed and that money goes towards building more housing.

Re:Device detection and occupancy monitoring for Airbnb hosts on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:12AM (#49993951)
100%. In less than a decade this so-called innovation went from "I want to host travelers in my spare bedroom to help make rent" to "I want to buy up homes in popular areas during a housing crunch and pimp them out to frat parties". I have lived next to a property by one of these "superhosts" and it's hell on the neighborhood.

STRs are a disgusting and tasteless business and I avoid staying in them at all costs

Re:Modern JavaScript Explained for Dinosaurs on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:28PM (#49983632)
"18 Oct 2017".... at almost 9 years old, this article is a dinosaur.
I would call this a feature, not a bug.
Comments on the article reflect this too, but... in October it starts getting dark at like 7 here in Austin. I'm writing this at 9:30 PM and it's been dark as hell for over an hour now. Even in the middle of summer when the days are longest, it gets dark at 9.

"Visibility" being the reason Robotaxis stop at 10PM vs 11PM is complete bullshit. My guess is, these cars aren't autonomous, are being driven remotely, and the amount of passengers past 10PM just isn't worth it to pay tele-drivers to drive these ugly gold abominations around town. If someone can think of a different reason I'd love to hear it.

Re:Muse Home Link on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:37PM (#49938307)
I would rather die than connect Meta to anything in my house. Holy shit.

Reminds me of that tweet: "Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize."

Re:Show HN: Building a Better Story for Your Brand on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:05PM (#49937973)
hell yeah
Re:Show HN: Dad Joke Archive on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @11:00AM (#49909918)
mmmmmm yummy, I fucking LOVE slop
Re:I made a visual workspace for AI Automations on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:30PM (#49884665)
Man idk the words "I made" in your headline made it really seem like I wasn't just signing up to be notified when something is ready. Can i just have it now please
Re:Rank Anything: convert your income to League of Legends rank on Saturday September 26, 2026 @03:34PM (#49859793)
This rocks, thanks for the update :)
Re:Rank Anything: convert your income to League of Legends rank on Friday September 25, 2026 @05:57PM (#49850485)
Neat tool, needs a demo site. I ain't running a stranger's code on my computer to experience what is basically an amusing curio
Re:I Gave My Life over to Meta's A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:47PM (#49804242)
I handed the wolf a set of keys to my hen-house and was blown away!

Why, in a million years, would I trust Meta with ANY aspect of my life, let alone allow it to drive my whole digital presence?

Re:My Thoughts on AI and LLMs on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:33PM (#49759097)
Riveting
Re:Towards Self-Driving Codebases on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:30PM (#49745453)
Sorry to get hung up on what is probably just flavor text, but the first sentence.. "Agents can oneshot games that are actually fun", uhhh such as?

Would love to be proven wrong here, feels like I've just seen the same basic one-level kart racer in like 3 model announcements. Not even sure if they were one-shotted, I certainly would not describe them as "fun"

Re:Save the Constitution. Ditch the ABA on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:35PM (#49744745)
I'm impressed the author made it as far into the article as he did before crying wolf about liberal brainwashing.

"Abolish [regulatory body] for being an indoctrination engine, so we can do our own indoctrination!" I would expect nothing less from the so-called "university" that asked Peter Thiel to come lecture students about the antichrist [1]. Fascinating stuff, yall. Imagine having this much funding and still being the 5th-worst college in Austin.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/16/civil-war-...

Re:We know what a world without work looks like on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:06PM (#49731475)
If the author wanted to write a purely historical essay she is more than welcome to. Instead she chose a framing device of a post-work society thanks to AI that I think undermines the whole article.

"Aristocrats are (typically) rich, which we certainly will be if we have robots capable of all normal nonrelational labor." ...okay

Re:We know what a world without work looks like on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:50AM (#49728891)
This was posted a week ago and I'll just reiterate what I said there..

As an American why should I believe a word of this, when our country's Overton window ranges from "lip service" to "open contempt" for the unemployed? How can I feel confidence for my economic future when, in less than a decade, the frontier AI labs have abandoned any semblance of caution and are embracing a lobby for fewer guardrails? When "move fast, break things" is applied to the "mass cognition replacement machine"?

Filing this entire article under "I'll believe it when I fucking see it". The pollyannic nonsense is willfully ignorant and only serves to excuse more concentration of wealth and the mass theft of leverage from the average worker.

Re:Palantir Online Shop on Thursday September 10, 2026 @09:22AM (#49643310)
password protected.. I tried "iheartkillingthirdworlders" but it's not working, did something change?
Re:After Work, We'll Have Each Other on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:51PM (#49616838)
It's a nice thought, but as an American why should I believe a word of this, when our country's Overton window ranges from "lip service" to "open contempt" for the unemployed? How can I feel confidence for my economic future when, in less than a decade, the frontier AI labs have abandoned any semblance of caution and are embracing a lobby for fewer guardrails? When "move fast, break things" is applied to the "mass cognition replacement machine"?

Filing this entire article under "I'll believe it when I fucking see it". The pollyannic nonsense is willfully ignorant and only serves to excuse more concentration of wealth and the mass theft of leverage from the average worker.

Re:A Meta engineer's guide to surviving the coming tribulation on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:45PM (#49614846)
It's refreshing getting to read something on HN that's completely utterly insane, but 100% unrelated to AI. Nice change of pace

also.. OP if you're reading this I'm sorry you didn't get raptured

Re:Awed, Scared and Humbled on Saturday September 05, 2026 @12:55PM (#49578373)
Fascinating, an anonymous post about a coding model most of us can't even use. Ends with a direct plea to the reader to subscribe to Codex. Blog has been up for 2 weeks. You cannot convince me this isn't more marketing BS like we saw with Fable just a few months ago.

We were promised cures for cancer and solutions for climate change. Instead, every model announcement has a clone of a kart racer. Great stuff y'all

Not sure why the "launch" event is now... we've had these on the streets for months here in Austin.

Speaking from firsthand experience it is ungodly how awful they look. The matte steel finish of the cybertruck appears even cheaper when it's gold, and the solid hubcaps get dented completely to shit. I'm surprised you don't throw a "sieg heil" to hail one down.

On the other hand, we have a lot of traffic here and it's nice having cars on the road that I don't feel bad about cutting off.