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My point was not aimed at the documentary itself, but rather the over glorification of things, in this case typefaces as the OP was referring to.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi was a beautiful documentary as well, but clearly sushi was being put on some divine pedestal. That is the 'over-the-top' part I am referring to.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:52PM (#50112843)
So Elon's entities are really using SI instead of AI? Interesting. Or was he the one who actually suggested the name change to POTUS?
I remember watching a whole documentary about Helvetica.

Font people, logo designers and sushi makers.

Re:Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:46AM (#50073574)
it's people just trying to be smart here. You are either acquired (bought for mostly the product, whoever wants to leave is inconsequential), or acquihired (bought also to absorb the talent pool, so it is contingent on some personnel staying on).

All this other stuff people are trying to make up falls under those two when a company buys another.

Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:40AM (#50073468)
So what was the furore about when that Ring/Amazon superbowl ad happened. They have to promise and they should be able to be held liable if that promise is not kept.
Re:Triple-A Minesweeper on Saturday October 10, 2026 @12:00AM (#50029425)
Intro is too long
Any guesses what Grok will be pushing people towards?
Re:Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:58PM (#49947235)
I know right? As soon as I saw the page, I had a rough idea of how to control things already. lol
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:01AM (#49765036)
I looked up onions, lettuce and tomatoes (because burgers), and the volatility actually looks very similar. Am I missing something or looking at the wrong things?

Tomato: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU01130217 Onion: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU01130216 Lettuce: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU01130215

Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:12AM (#49763521)
In an onion related note... is the "I sell onions on the internet" guy still around? I believe he was selling Vidalia onions.
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:11AM (#49763511)
Because Vincent Kosuga.
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:35AM (#49623723)
Are you sure they were using "chat" to refer to ChatGPT? I have noticed many kids now use chat to refer to the collective audience/chat participants, and then gets used rhetorically even when no literal chatroom exists. A streamer says things like “Chat, what do you think?” or “Chat, are we cooked?” That usage has spread well beyond literal livestream chats, particularly among younger people.

Ask HN: How do I make sure ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini forget all prior conversations?

I am referring to the regular chat, not the API. I want to make sure that every time I start a new chat, it is a completely clean slate with no recall from other chats. I have tried turning off memory, I have also tried prompting it to forget everything, which it claims it has done but hasn't.Later in the conversation I will see something like, "Given your expertise in..." or "This ties in...

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Re:Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:45AM (#49474798)
"No app uses PayPal"

You have already lost your plot with that claim. Just because you don't use it doesn't mean it is not widespread.

Decoys. Have them celebrate the win while doing other stuff. It is the same tactic used by cartels. They have small time mules run around vulnerable on interstates and getting caught by cops to occupy their time while they move larger loads conspicuosly.
Re:Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:50AM (#49446791)
On visiting the actual oldinsurancemaps.net, I was met with:

"OldInsuranceMaps.net is a Charter Project of OpenStreetMap US that provides an open, online workflow for creating georeferenced layers of historical maps, with a special focus on making seamless mosaics from multi-page atlases in the Sanborn map collection at the Library of Congress."

What the hell does that mean? Anyone to ELI5?

Re:Thinking in Python by Bruce Eckel on Sunday August 23, 2026 @10:51AM (#49409304)
I can see why you chose to use a burner account.
Re:Blog about things you don't understand yet on Friday August 14, 2026 @10:08PM (#49306935)
I think that would make her very good at learning (not the things she is learning) and that is why she talks about things from a learning perspective. That would qualify her for the other commentor's bar.

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