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Re:Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 10...
on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:47PM (#50215098)
Who's to say they won't? It took Google quite a while to become Alphabet.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:41PM (#50215036)
Try going back to thumb typing, no long press symbols , and no cursor movement from your spacebar. I've almost thrown my test iPhone at work across a room more times than I'd like to admit (since it doesn't belong to me)...
Re:Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:16PM (#50188969)
Nice try, Diddario...
Re:Documents: Police officer gave her Flock login to her ICE agent hus...
on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:03PM (#50154879)
You're assuming that politicians aren't aligned with mass surveillance of the populous to the point that they don't care whether allowing it to be in the hands of those that will abuse it is granted.
Re:Hang on to Your Firefox
on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:39PM (#49531099)
But how could it possibly? For work, sure, this kind of minor efficiency means something, so I'll stick with Chromium-base. But for my own phone? This is like the exact type of thing that proves the monopolistic dark patterning. Personally, the modicum of convenience feels super short-sighted compared to the ethical/privacy hangover, not to mention the risk to future availability of a viable competitor.
Re:It's getting harder to focus every day
on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:43PM (#49042970)
My vicious cycle is that the optimal time to work is overnight, when the world is asleep and the notifications and the chatter finally cease. Then, of course if I'm able to keep myself awake through the early evening I'm up hard-focused all night. Then you wake up exhausted and the focal deficiency during the day is even more pronounced per the above discussion re: lack of sleep, etc. Rinse and repeat.
Re:It's getting harder to focus every day
on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:34PM (#49042915)
Bruh, you're not using ChatGLP?
Re:Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on y...
on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:49PM (#47434284)
I mean... Sounds pretty clearly vibed from this description. Funnily enough this is touted as a feature, not a bug:
> Single binary > ffmpeg, Python, PyTorch, and the ML models are all bootstrapped on first launch. Nothing to install.
Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
on Thursday February 19, 2026 @10:38AM (#47074969)
But they could charge the third-party client for access to the API.
Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
on Thursday February 19, 2026 @10:37AM (#47074952)
You're not wrong. Reddit & Elon started it and everyone laughed at them and made a stink. But my guess is the "last dying gasp of the freeloader" /s wasn't enough to dissuade other companies from jumping on the bandwagon, cause fiduciary responsibility to shareholders reigns supreme at the end of the day.
Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
on Thursday February 19, 2026 @10:32AM (#47074891)
This move feels poorly timed. Their latest ad campaigns about not having ads, and the goodwill they'd earned lately in my book was just decimated by this. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's still just dipping their toes into the AI pool. And am very much a user that under utilizes what I pay for because of that. I have several clients who are scrambling to get on board with cowork. Eliminating API usage for subscription members right before a potentially large wave of turnover not only chills that motivation it signals a lack of faith in their marketing, which from my POV, put out the only AI super bowl campaign to escape virtually unscathed.
Re:Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @02:44PM (#46800562)
I'm sure there's a million reasons not to, but they could even just open-source Windows 10. Leave you alone with the hardware that you rightfully purchased, and let the community police the security gaps that arise. It's beyond me how planned obsolescence especially on perfectly sufficient hardware is even legal.
Re:Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
on Friday January 23, 2026 @09:26AM (#46732865)
Am I missing something? This isn't what ssh's purpose is. Why should anyone care? We're talking about a game built to run over an encryption protocol? What are we even doing anymore? Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but client-side option existing is secure design, really feels like it shouldn't be circumvented server-side without giving the client the choice to do so or not by default. Don't lobby for watering down security for convenience, especially for trivially important objectives, please?
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain...
on Saturday July 19, 2025 @10:31AM (#44615769)
Aside from the moral clamor, if something has a higher likelihood of fraud, there's a direct relationship with the increase of its cost. Both legal fees and labor cost to deal with these claims could add up more than we outsiders may realize. It's very possible that some risk-averse analyst "ran the numbers", and decided this wasn't worth it. I would also speculate that there may be a certain hidden coat of false fraud claims. Certain folks buying something in the moment, then shamefully claiming they didn't after the fact, which in turn could carry the costs associated with processing a new card & number or conversely fighting false claims.
As for the morality angle though, while I definitely agree that these companies' main motivation has to be increasing revenue and profit, and that their only reason for doing anything is cost-driven; you never know what middle-manager who is swayed by what belief is actually making these decisions. So as much as the monolithic goal of the organization is more money, there are still emotional (and financially fallible) people pulling the levers.
Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending
on Friday September 06, 2024 @01:52AM (#41463252)
Funnily enough, the courts are the best place to change/challenge that law without a literal act of Congress. (Apologies for any snark, but this is somewhat fueled by another, similar debate had previously) In America there should be no such debate regarding defying law being bandied about as infallible or intransigent.
Re:All of Earth's water in a single sphere
on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @09:02AM (#41245603)
An interesting point, perhaps it's just me, but my initial reaction to this was that, for purposes of comparison, the volume of "usable" or maybe inhabitable land be measured instead, as opposed to the volume of the entire planet including mantle, core, etc. this graphic seems very prone to misinterpretation and usage as a memetic weapon against globalization, as it is.
Re:Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix
on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:04AM (#13939012)
>For video, people don't download it and take it with them
If this is so, why would Netflix have JUST added the download feature last quarter? Obviously there's some demand for storage-based playback.