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Re:Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death
on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:30AM (#50149822)
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.
Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dolla...
on Saturday August 22, 2026 @12:25PM (#49401261)
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.
Re:Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You
on Sunday June 21, 2026 @11:11AM (#48619620)
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?
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
Re:Google announces passwordless by default: Make the switch to passkeys
on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:17AM (#37833171)
"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.
Re:Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be pate...
on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:27AM (#33507956)
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
The Filecoin Energy Dashboard
Jim Browning scammed into deleting his own YouTube channel
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:The Idempotency-Key HTTP header field
on Sunday July 04, 2021 @09:31PM (#27733974)
Yes, see here https://www.rfc-editor.org/pubprocess/tools/
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.
Re:Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam
on Friday May 28, 2021 @07:31PM (#27321722)
Elder Scrolls Online is primarily content led
Re:The rise of crypto laundries: how criminals cash out of Bitcoin
on Friday May 28, 2021 @09:38AM (#27315166)
It doesn't defeat the point of cryptocurrencies which is to create a currency free from a single point of control.
Re:Bitcoin rival Chia 'destroyed' hard disc supply chains, says its boss
on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:30PM (#27309392)
No, Bram Cohen has said that will never happen.
Re:Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
on Monday May 24, 2021 @07:11AM (#27263049)
The implication is that police are routinely scanning all Encrochat photographs to extract fingerprints and other biometric details to match with existing databases.
Coinbase outages
Re:Brian Armstrong sold $291.8M in Coinbase shares on opening day
on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:01AM (#26860500)
> 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.