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Re:Scientists debunk claims of seed oil health risks on Sunday October 05, 2025 @02:19AM (#45479233)
The lack of any citations or scientific rigour makes me question what business Harvard has in publishing this type of crap. If you are publishing something with the supposed goal of appeasing industry donors... why not at least dress it up and pretend it is real science?
Re:A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane on Sunday April 13, 2025 @08:57AM (#43672478)
what is stopping hackernews from following closely behind?
Mainly agree, but defining "open format" seems problematic, and isn't always practical if you have some feature that the competition doesn't have
> You'd think ... people would be just a wee bit less credulous.

Like the Crypto scams - irrelevant.

As long as the publicity is bringing in users, investors WILL throw in more money.

feels like a very clever marketing ploy

any publicity…

and just following some major feature releases

premium service has been v slow since the news began. suggesting a massive influx of users

well played(?) Sam

Re:Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:08AM (#38085993)
feedback: - I want to repeat just the word, lots of times, without waiting, so a "rapid repeat" button would be nice. - Context is good, but the player keeps going, well beyond the initial useful section. My attention span struggles with this. - I want it for Chinese!!! I would pay for this.

Great app, thanks!

Re:How Microsoft names threat actors on Thursday April 27, 2023 @01:06AM (#35723532)
someone at msft has way too much time on their hands
Re:How Microsoft names threat actors on Thursday April 27, 2023 @01:06AM (#35723529)
why
Re:Ask HN: Do you trust solo entrepreneurs? on Thursday June 30, 2022 @11:08AM (#31933393)
You're looking at the wrong metrics. The risk of using a solo-dev product is them losing interest and stopping support (or as someone else pointed out, not being able to deliver the required level of support).

Both types of products also have a chance of being bought for cheap when they are failing, and at least kept alive on life support.

Are you allowed to look at it?

Yes.

Are you allowed to remember it?

Yes.

Are you allowed to use similar patterns / naming conventions / algorithms when your are trying to solve your own unique problems?

…I hope so, or you won’t be much value to your employer.

That’s all an AI does. Same thing as you, it’s just more efficient (in some ways).

I take it you write all of your code in notepad with no linting, formatting, or any of the other cheater plugins that incompetent devs use?
Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @03:50AM (#31833137)
At worst, it helps me type fast by finishing my lines of code for me, as pressing `tab` is faster than typing boilerplate.

At best, it is scary in it's ability to pre-emptively suggest context-specific implementations of functions before I have even considered what I might need to do. It probably helps that I am very particular about how I name variables, which seems to help copilot infer my needs.

But at least a couple of times a day, I am blown away by it.

Re:WordPress’ market share is shrinking on Thursday May 12, 2022 @01:38AM (#31349686)
> this is, after all, a zero sum game.

No it isn't. Lost me here.

> currently federal law enforcement can hack online accounts, remove, add, or modify data

Terrifying -- we are trusting officers who are incentivised to make convictions with the power to remove, add and modify data which could be used as evidence in determining the outcome of criminal cases.

Would love for someone to tell me that I am missing something here that makes this acceptable.

Re:Ask HN: Feature requests? (Any Microsoft-owned product) on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:13PM (#28795342)
>You can type anything in the terminal, and it displays all the matching commands (with help snippets) in real-time

Like when you start typing something and press tab for autocomplete options (on a Mac at the moment but PowerShell does this too IIRC)?

> Then, if you type a command, it displays its help (snippets around the words after the command).

If I understood correctly: I'm imagining something similar to many code editors when you type `someFunction(` a popup appears with the arguments, their types, and a docstring if the function has one.

Re:Ask HN: Feature requests? (Any Microsoft-owned product) on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:08PM (#28795315)
Anything you want to, do it Want to change the world? There's nothing to it

Ask HN: Feature requests? (Any Microsoft-owned product)

Next week is Fix-Hack-Learn week at Microsoft. Basically a whole week where you can work on whatever you want on any product across the whole company. Want to add some new feature to Github? Add VR support to MS Teams video chat? Mess around with Minecraft? Add a missing hotkey into Excel? Literally anything is on the table for anyone at the company so if your request sounds interesting enough...

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Ask HN: Evolving practices (10M – 1B users)?

Our online video editor has been acquired by a big tech co. The ~80 org will need to start doing things a bit differently as a tsunami of new users comes.Surely a lot has been written about engineering and management practices need to evolve to cope and stay ahead?Please share.

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Re:Hacker News Disease on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:08AM (#28509555)
> the author wants to paint this as essentially the arrogance of the tech elites.

Clearly you didn't read the second paragraph of the article:

> In fairness, this particular problem isn’t by any means endemic to Hacker News. It occurs at the crossroads where a bunch of smart people meet general tech industry discussion. I’m sure there are plenty of places that suffer from Hacker News Disease (and they probably had it first, have a terminal case of it, and are much less civil about it too) but HN is just the only one I’ve participated in, so they have the misfortune of being the community I’ve named it after.

Re:Back Orifice (1998) on Saturday September 04, 2021 @10:34PM (#28421224)
Isolde?
Re:Mastershot – Web based video editor on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:32AM (#27419653)
Complete crap. Anyone who makes statements about solar energy costing 2c a kwhr is either a fool or a liar. I'd suggest the latter in this case.

There's nothing independent about this clown

I don't know what it means to define self-awareness without consciousness. Sounds like just emergent behaviors.
Or, from an insects perspective:

"The swarm doesn't think humans are swarm-aware. Swarm still thinks they have some form of consciousness"

Excellent tool. How is WPM calculated? There are a few things to consider -- time spent not typing when taking a mid-chapter break, number of characters in a word (unless a words are counted literally by splitting at space characters), or if characters are counted instead of words, average number of characters per word...
Re:How I submit my startup website here? on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:03AM (#23624597)
I see what you did there. I like it.
Re:Why Communism Is Winning America (in 3 photos) on Monday June 22, 2020 @01:48AM (#23597584)
Low quality contribution
Description too general. Hard to comment
How can I bypass the paywall?

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