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It's a productivity boost for the people who have to generate the text that nobody reads. At an organisational level it's a wash caused by requiring that text in the first place
Re:I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it on Saturday October 25, 2025 @09:49PM (#45708468)
The (non-tech) industry I am in generates an enormous amount of text that it's fairly certain nobody reads past the executive summary.

My workmates love it. Amongst the tech community, I see a divide very similar to the crypto one - everybody who has a stake in it succeeding is very optimistic. Everybody working in other areas seems dubious at best.

Re:Engineer restores pay phones for free public use on Saturday August 09, 2025 @05:38AM (#44845215)
Or a high visibility vest and a clipboard.

Really, who is going to catch you in this scenario?

Re:Steve Jobs' Cabinet on Saturday August 02, 2025 @01:15AM (#44765045)
Why not? There are companies dedicated to sprucing up houses for sale. They will even bake bread for you before inspections to give the place a "homey" smell.

Half an hour with a screwdriver seems doable

Re:Steve Jobs' Cabinet on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:52PM (#44690903)
..... aaaaaand another measure just became a target...
Not defending the ratings system here, but there is a big gap between M and R/X or whatever your country uses.

A better question would be if you would be more comfortable with your child being shown porn or snuff movies. For me the answer would be neither, in about an equal measure

Re:WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App on Monday June 16, 2025 @05:02PM (#44293366)
This is really interesting. Can you say how much it costs the user to remove ads?
Re:Binary Wordle on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @09:09AM (#44180368)
The classics are classics for a reason
Re:Show HN: Lazy Tetris on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @06:22AM (#44114475)
The more constructive way of putting this would be to mention which browser you are using. Judging from the comments, it works in plenty of browsers
I found this game from a recommendation here and I have played it every day since. I think it's great. The rules take a bit of getting used to, but the dynamic of never having to guess (and getting penalised for guessing) makes it really interesting. It's just hard enough without being infuriating.

The page says that there are other Sam puzzles which can be played in html5, but the link only goes to the app store. Congrats on this one. Where can I find the browser versions of the others?

Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite daily puzzle games? on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @06:42AM (#43843329)
Looks nice but definitely in the "Why is this an app and not a webpage?" category for me
Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite daily puzzle games? on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @05:53AM (#43843035)
Yeah, that's a good one thanks
Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite daily puzzle games? on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @09:08AM (#43832077)
Fair enough. I would guess that daily games prevent me from bingeing and getting bored. The exception would be https://truncate.town/ - something about that game really clicks with me and I often play a "regular" (non-daily) game against the computer when I have a spare few minutes

Ask HN: What are your favourite daily puzzle games?

I got hooked on daily puzzle games like a lot of people, with Wordle and since then have been collecting them here and there. Most of my faves have been posted here by creators or fans, others I don't remember how I found them. Anyway, it's been a while since we've had a dedicated thread for people to share their favourites, but there are new ones coming out all the time, so I'm curious to know...

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Re:LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @05:46AM (#43830455)
If you are spending 30 minutes on the toilet, language fluency is not your biggest problem
Re:Internet in a Box on Sunday April 27, 2025 @05:51PM (#43815423)
Yes, why does the developing world need an education system when we could be flooding them with AI hallucinations?
Oh how dreary. I was hoping for something fun and whimsical but it's just IP protection...
Beautiful game, but I got stuck on level 3. 5 + 4 = 5

I can't see a solution- am I missing something?

Re:Show HN: Phrase Maze – A daily word puzzle game on Saturday April 26, 2025 @04:43PM (#43807034)
Looks like a fun game but it would be nice to have an undo last word button. Sometimes you hit a dead end and the only way out is to reload the page (unless I misunderstand the UI)

Also "starting playing" could just read start

Nice work, though - the daily puzzle space needs more original ideas like this

I think most platforms have recognised this and now release an episode per week to get that common cultural experience back. I great plenty of discussion about last night's episode of white lotus or last of us.

I wouldn't be getting to nostalgic about the old days of tv. Remember how it was to miss am episode and have to wait for the repeat? Or be sick in bed for days and bored with literally nothing to watch/binge?

Same. Backed out when the loading bar froze. Never got to the cute bit
Re:Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work on Saturday April 19, 2025 @05:41PM (#43739683)
I don't mean to be dismissive (here goes, though) but the whole article boils down to one point, and it's one that frightens me that it needs to be repeated so often: use AI as your intern, not your replacement

Simple.

(paraphrasing from memory because it's a while since I've seen it)

> Your connection is insecure. Information you send could be intercepted by attackers. Accept the risk and continue?

Explains the problem in simple terms. Calls out the website for being lazy and careless. Gives you the option to proceed if you don't care.

Why is this scareware and how would you word it?

That's just a setting, turned on by default annoyingly
Re:Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese? on Thursday April 10, 2025 @05:45PM (#43648331)
Your job looks really easy to an outsider too, regardless of what you do
The other guy checking in here. No problems with FF on Android for me either
Re:Show HN: An Almost Free, Open Source TURN Server on Friday March 28, 2025 @11:59PM (#43512606)
> * Your TURN server should provide APIs that allow you to verify that allocations/permissions are only created for your users.

coturn provides these APIs, they're not covered in the writeup, though

> * Use an auth mechanism that has an expiry time. Like [0]

This is how the credentials server in the write up works

Re:Show HN: An Almost Free, Open Source TURN Server on Friday March 28, 2025 @10:41PM (#43512248)
From what I understand the real ugly hack is NAT tables thanks to the shortsightedness of IPv4.Everything else flows from there.

Mostly, though, what you are describing is the internet

Re:Show HN: An Almost Free, Open Source TURN Server on Friday March 28, 2025 @09:34PM (#43511927)
yes, but you can block cross origin requests to both the credentials server and the PeerJS server which I understand prevents this: "relaying any traffic they want, without any of your own web sites or WebRTC apps involved"

Again, not an expert. This problem only really exists for "ad-hoc" connections where you don't want people to have to set up accounts. coturn has the ability to do standard authentication by checking credentials stored in databases

Re:Show HN: An Almost Free, Open Source TURN Server on Friday March 28, 2025 @09:23PM (#43511852)
oh, no - I am far too lazy to "shop around" for TURN servers and coturn just works and ticks all the open source boxes for me - lots of contributors, recent commits, lots of stars and forks (although these last two aren't as important as the first)

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