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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:15PM (#50342062)
s/Never trust a man with two first names/Never trust a man with two last names/.
Re:French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:31PM (#50309751)
Wait, why is VideoLan hit by this? Do they stream content themselves?
Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:21PM (#50263519)
Man, still does not fix the one bug I care about: being able to quickly `⌘+F, ⌘+V` - the find textbox does not respect keyboard shortcuts: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/11159
Re:Railway Security Disclosure on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:33PM (#50190470)
"aviate, navigate, then communicate" only matters if you are the one in control of outcomes.

Customers could have simply revoked keys and not re-launched services with rolled credentials (that from your post, may have been re-stolen), but instead you let this fester.

What a disaster for Railway. I hope you get through this stressful moment, but this should be the end of Railway.

Re:Railway Security Disclosure on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:19PM (#50190366)
Link?
Re:Railway Security Disclosure on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:16PM (#50190349)
Which secrets were they using?
Re:Learning to live with Waymos on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:42PM (#50175427)
My only question on interactions like this: who the heck is on the other side of these calls, and are they on the phone 24-7?!
Re:The reverts will continue until morale improves on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:25PM (#50159812)
We can thank Google for that.
Future output from an agent:

> The Trolley Problem has been solved. The Trolley can run on both tracks as the number of individuals tied to the tracks is less than 50. An independent agent verified that at up to 49 impacted individuals, their damages total only $695.8 million in potential damages, using the most recently available Value of a Statistical Life.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:13PM (#50113038)
Same; there are stylish super cars... this again looks like a 5 year old kid drawing like the Cybertruck does.
Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:57AM (#50099346)
Still paying the price, 30 years on, for my old small town dentist blasting giant silver fillings into my new (at the time) adult teeth that almost certainly did not have deep cavities. No pain, but I know when they fail (my friends' fillings have already started to fail) it'll be a world of pain as there is not enough tooth left to fill, and the silver filling is so poorly done a cosmetic crown is unlikely.

I looked him up again later in life, wondering if anyone had dug into his fraud, and only found a sad/lonely obituary which seems fitting for a scam artist defrauding a small town.

F' that dude and the industry that trained and supported him, and I see no call out of dentists against their con-artist colleagues, so they must all be complicit.

Needs more strawberries and oranges.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:42PM (#50008130)
They've been limited in what changes to H1-b they can make without legislative support, so they will take any other option to make H1-b less desirable and harder.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:41PM (#50008098)
Rather surprised MS didn't kiss the ring enough to avoid this or offer to fund the renovations to the Trump Kennedy Center.
Re:So You Think You Could Be an Electrician? on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:13PM (#49950266)
No, I do not, but thank you for asking. This is one thing I'm happy to pay professionals for!
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:13PM (#49706880)
Did you fix any of the underlying numeric limits in the original game?

There's a hard cap to 127 instances of commercial spaces. 128 onward won't get any visitors. Too many office workers will overwhelm your limited commercial spaces and thus leave the tower for lunch, over-taxing your elevators.

And yes - elevators are hard!

Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:52PM (#49703825)
I just want a Siri that doesn't trigger when my partner says "Siri set a timer for 20 minutes" on a completely different floor of the house.
Re:Apple iPod Engraver (2019) on Saturday September 12, 2026 @08:36PM (#49678718)
The article mentions the 'yellow fade' or 'yellow flash' to highlight when elements change -- I miss that!
Re:The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle on Saturday September 12, 2026 @06:39PM (#49677947)
Huh? Citizens cannot sue for damages under CAN-SPAM, only the FTC and DOJ can.
I'm just glad to have my last projects off of Wordpress to get to no longer care about drama at Automattic that seems to never end.
Maybe he forgot to submit his PTO into Workday.
Re:No Man's Sky Cosmos on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:42PM (#49633942)
My hot take on why these games get popular (including some like PowerWash Simulator that are 'press x, then x again' type games): it gives people satisfaction of completing something in a world that it is increasingly harder to accomplish what the prior generation did.
Re:Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @11:17PM (#49620444)
Don't pick the wrong side of the merge or your save game might be completely broken 40 hours from now!
Re:ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:00PM (#49616144)
My secret hope is that this kills the influencer industry and gets things back to just ads. Just the ads happen to be fake people, instead of real people pretending to be ads.
Now the propaganda is that the anti data center movement is a fake campaign by China.

Which, sure, maybe it's amplified by them but go visit any of these cities public council meetings. People are legit mad about them. Energy prices are already through the roof, they are massive facilities that don't provide much local employment after being built (even the construction crews are contracted in from elsewhere), they get massive tax breaks in exchange for 1 time local development fees, get exempted from noise ordinances, pollution laws, and crammed down communities in backroom deals.

Not hard for foreign adversaries to escalate what's already a terrible deal for the citizens of most cities.

Re:Google WeatherNext 3 on Monday September 07, 2026 @09:13PM (#49604611)
> It is built into Apple Weather after Apple purchased them.

Did Apple lobotomize the tech when they integrated it, or lose access to whatever upstream data Dark Sky had access to? Apple Weather is comically bad (though not nearly as bad as Google's weather searches).

Re:No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:31PM (#49602044)
What ordinary law requires officials to issue truthful statements? We're living in the era of unrestrained executive power.
Re:Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes on Sunday September 06, 2026 @11:09PM (#49593436)
> This was my first attempt at obfuscated C and I feel it's pretty amateurish

I love feelings of inadequacy at 11:07pm on a Sunday.

Here's the judges' remarks and author commentary on the second edition of this from the 2006 results: https://www.ioccc.org/2006/sloane/index.html

Bonus: they might not be able to fund the anti-user behavior like sunsetting MV2, all of the "anonymous audience tracking" that prevents any other advertiser from identifying you (but Google's scale still can), aggressively pushing 'sign in with Google', retracting their stance on blocking third party cookies, continually removing settings that drive user control, and more.
> energy companies giving up wind leases and switching to fossil fuels

If only it were them "giving up" leases -- we *paid them billions* to halt developments.

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