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This contradicts the article.
Re:IPFS Maintainers Winding Down on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:09PM (#49425876)
Except no-one knows what shipyard is and it could more easily be mistaken for the end of IPFS.

Maintainers of IPFS are winding down is much more informative for those not in the space.

But this was the neoliberal globalist agenda for the past thirty years. Lower trade barriers, export manufacturing to low wage workers with poorer conditions. The result is lower automobile costs for American consumers at the expense of blue collar jobs evaporating.
How is the fediverse different. Can't the owner of an instance post as you? Can they read all your data stored on their instance and pass it to anyone they want to?
Re:Iroh 1.0 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:48AM (#48553252)
The site is referring to Iroh's preference for using IETF standards rather than rolling their own.
Re:Why I gave the world wide web away for free on Sunday September 28, 2025 @08:51AM (#45403971)
And yet at that time we already had a stranglehold of Compuserve and AOL. The talk was of walled gardens, safe spaces compared to the horrific wilds of the open Internet. The web broke down those walls.
Re:Introducing Our New Name on Monday October 14, 2024 @10:12AM (#41837723)
Lu-anti seems like two syllables to me
Re:Go automatically downloads a newer toolchain if needed on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @07:41AM (#41299066)
Imagine if Python had as strong a compatibility promise as Go
Re:Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind on Saturday June 22, 2024 @07:04AM (#40758062)
It's real and I have it. I was astonished when I discovered other people see pictures in their head. It doesn't restrict my creative thinking but I am a spatial thinker.

When I solve an imaginary logic problem such as advancing the hands on a clock I can't see the before and after states but I can infer their positions by the directions they must point and then read the new time from that.

Re:Show HN: AIHairstylist – Try Hairstyles Instantly on Friday November 24, 2023 @07:55AM (#38403498)
I tried it but the two images it generated looked nothing like me and were of the wrong gender and ethnicity
"To use passkeys, you just use a fingerprint, face scan or pin to unlock your device, and they are 40% faster than passwords — and rely on a type of cryptography that makes them more secure. "

Who wrote this sentence? It's just a mess.

Re:Asus Chromebox 5 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @09:39AM (#36403803)
It's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebox which is a class of small computer that run ChromeOS
Re:Midjourney AI Guide on Thursday April 13, 2023 @07:22AM (#35553778)
I have done this too. How did you get the bot to use your MJ credits? I found that the bot still uses the credits of each person who invokes the command.
Automatically grant every patent application but equally allow every granted patent to be challenged at no cost causing the patent rights to be suspended. The patent owner then has 5 years to prove the claims in court at their own cost.
Re:Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:44PM (#29477983)
As if Hacker News is a single homogeneous unit
Re:Alphafold on Thursday July 15, 2021 @07:27PM (#27851283)
It means that the conversation isn't producing much of value despite lots of activity, like an inefficient lightbulb that wastes energy by emitting heat instead of light.
Re:On the evilness of feature branching on Thursday July 15, 2021 @07:19PM (#27851227)
A question for people practising trunk based development: how do you perform code reviews?
Re:Why Can’t I Sleep? on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:40AM (#27474017)
I just put on a twitch stream and listen along until I fall asleep. As you say it just allows my brain to switch off and allow me to sleep.
Elder Scrolls Online is primarily content led
It doesn't defeat the point of cryptocurrencies which is to create a currency free from a single point of control.
No, Bram Cohen has said that will never happen.
The implication is that police are routinely scanning all Encrochat photographs to extract fingerprints and other biometric details to match with existing databases.
> What is the rationale for taking a profitable company that does not need additional funding public?

Liquidity for investors

Re:Is Spacetime Real? on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:10AM (#26155247)
Those aren't explanations, they are analogies to help the human mind picture the effect.
Re:Is Spacetime Real? on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:09AM (#26155225)
The parent was referring to the perceived physicality of atoms which you cannot touch or understand except in terms of the forces between your instrument and the bundle of quanta we call an atom.

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