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Re:Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:10PM (#50305978)
Oh the irony.
Swifties are everywhere
Proton to 'Re-Interview' Staff About AI to See Who Gets to Keep Their Job ( https://www.404media.co/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-a... ) 85 points | 3 days ago | 42 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251062
Harvey, Mike, but no Donna!?
Re:Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:10AM (#50260540)

  And it's still $1999. 
Because the price hike happened in June, in this case from 1699 to 1999.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672732 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/apple-raises-pric...

Re:Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:34AM (#50259065)
Apple has had release-weeks in spring and fall, with some variance, for a while now:

https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#mac https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#ipad

Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:51AM (#50257747)
Didn't Anthropic also come out with a paper just hours after OpenAI did, a couple weeks ago during that Navier-Stokes thing? Once is coincidence...
Re:iPhone Duo Teardown on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:45AM (#50241328)

   The PS5 is, quite literally, a bargain bin product.
Which is why they are being sold like 50% over MSRP on the secondary market and Sony cannot ship them fast enough?
https://mrbruh.com/asusrouter/

  If you avoided downloading the app for whatever reason, you can be proud because it just saved you from potentially getting hacked.
Nice.
Only applies to Google-sanctioned Android systems.
"Active Hours"? Who comes up with that kind of stuff? And you cannot even disable it, only out"smart" it. Unbelievable.
Re:PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:55AM (#50182110)
"Four diffs and seven lines ago..."
Re:Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:28AM (#50163987)
That's what snap elections are for, except in the US.
Re:Android apps running native on macOS on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:25AM (#50162923)
Niantic plans a “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data | https://nianticlabs.com/news/largegeospatialmodel | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187494

430 points | 2 years ago | 338 comments

The switch from IE/Trident to Chromium happened in 2010 alongside launching support for Macs.
Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:10AM (#50100746)
Amazon does (or did[0]) the commingling, not the seller. Wild practice, really.

[0] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t...

Re:Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:35PM (#50090499)
Prominent screen in the kitchen used as recipe stand showing ingredients etc.? The possibilities are endless, and I think we're going to love it.
Re:How many shots are in the average movie today? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @03:19AM (#50083659)

  Also, the main actor has also done a tv show with a similar "single shot" for whole episode you may wanna check out.
Which one of the 50 entries in the "Television"-section of his Wikipedia-article is it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Graham#Television
Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:25PM (#50078158)
No, HW AV1 decoding came with A17 Pro, previous ATV4K (3rd Gen.) used A15.
Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:09PM (#50077924)
Apple TV 4K 3rd Gen was $129 (4GB/64GB) resp. $179 (4GB/128GB) up until four months ago.
Re:Making big downloads resumable in Firefox on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:44AM (#50069099)
What is it called?

  Here's a video of Nadella speaking about AI a year ago.
Where?
Re:Choose Europe: Advance your research career in the EU on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:17AM (#50021740)
Algo being funny, this submission was just below this one:

   US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work (nature.com)  62 points by bluenose69 3 hours ago | 92 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019090
Democracy only working in the weeks and some months before an election is a major bug, though.
When you step on the loud paddle but computer says "No" although there is no reason to say "No", that's too much technology.

If you cannot drive in wet conditions without computer intervention because your electric engine applies too much torque for mortal humans to control, that's too much technology.

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