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I think HN takes issue with the hypocrisy of the matter. Copyright law was used to punish regular people for consuming illegal media, but AI tech companies are forgiven for using the same illegal methods to run a business.
Re:Elevators on Friday July 31, 2026 @05:19PM (#49128649)
I had the idea to build something like it but for traffic lights. Never got around to actually do it. I have a feeling it probably exists.
Re:Our approach to advertising on Saturday January 17, 2026 @01:45AM (#46655883)
Do they offer a large part of their services for free?
They can just print more money.
Re:Let's Ban Billboards on Monday April 07, 2025 @05:57PM (#43616387)
How would this be enacted in a free society?
Re:The number pi has an evil twin on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @05:50PM (#42505515)
There are East European languages, mostly Slavic ones, that have these weird double negatives which are grammatically correct and mean the opposite. A sentance such as: "I haven't never been there" means you've never been there.
Re: on Friday November 29, 2024 @06:19PM (#42277995)
Javascript can do browser redirects, but those are not actual 301 HTTP redirects.
Re:I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @06:48PM (#42260997)
I wish Docker Swarm would get more attention. It could be the perfect Kubernetes lightweight alternative. Instead it seems like it could get deprecated any day now.
Re:I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @06:43PM (#42260966)
OS upgrades are a pain. Even just package updates could break everything. Having everything in containers makes migrating to another system much easier.
Re:Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @05:09PM (#41505598)
Guess they want to avoid any political backlash that could arise from topics like that, which will happen inevitably.
Re:Llms.txt on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @11:36PM (#41441669)
Also "well-known" was always such an awkward name to me.
Re:GitHub Spam on Sunday January 28, 2024 @06:46PM (#39171122)
Even though this post is about cryptocurrency spam, decentralized cryptocurrency networks could have a solution to this spam problem with so called Soulbound Tokens.
Re:Beeper Mini is back on Monday December 11, 2023 @05:49PM (#38606551)
Also from NL, was using ICQ at first then everyone switched to MSN. I do remember using AIM a little bit to chat with some Americans. This was the late 90's.
Re:Happy 1700M Epoch Second on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @06:08PM (#38271128)
Fun fact: setInterval() might not be the most accurate timer, as it might drift after a while.
Switching to Docker in production would probably reveal some edge cases, if not outright incompatibilities, at some point.
Re:Internet Archive expands Flash support on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:52PM (#36731022)
Yes, the generated brush strokes were really good. I was at one point just making static comics in Flash, using just a mouse because the brush strokes looked like they were drawn by someone way more skilled than myself.