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Re:Anthropic orders AI tool Claude to stop remaking video games on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:03PM (#50322103)
And this, gives their competitors the edge in this regard, it doesn't stop it from happening.
Re:Zellij 0.45.0: nested sessions, Kitty graphics, a fresh UI on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:47AM (#49375387)
Switched to Zellij a few years back mostly for the sane defaults, I expected to come crawling back to tmux, but it's actually stuck quite nicely and has become a staple in my workflow. It hasn't been a perfect experience, but I like it a lot and I'm happy to see a new feature-rich release like this.
Re:The Indie Hacker Economy Is a Pyramid Scheme on Monday July 27, 2026 @05:28PM (#49075749)
"`Foo` is destroying the indie web, click here to create an account to login and read the article"
I've had great results doing this, using flakes seem to make the results quite maintainable
Re:Hetzner Price Adjustment (June 15th, 2026) on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:07AM (#48541513)
Wow this is a brutal price increase for a lot of plans, at least it appears old user instance prices are grandfathered unless you rescale them.
Re:Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 on Friday May 22, 2026 @10:24AM (#48236300)
All the engineers get fired but somehow the managers that constantly destroy brand trust just hang around like cockroaches
Re:Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons on Monday April 20, 2026 @11:33AM (#47835824)
Anthropic was pulling ahead of their peers, but if they can't hear their customer's complaints about negatively changing value between releases they're going to undermine their position until no advantage is left.
Re:Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:29AM (#47277113)
Anthropic continues to pull ahead of the other ai companies in terms of 'trustworthiness' If they want to really test their red team I hope they look at CUPS
Re:Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy on Sunday February 08, 2026 @09:41PM (#46940992)
You may not like their analogy but you don't need to be rude.
Re:Nova Launcher Added Facebook and Google Ads Tracking on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:25PM (#46714018)
Octopi doesn't force a search bar, or even a dock. It's actually nice that you can just have icons, widgets, and gestures, I'm really enjoying it.
Re:Nova Launcher Added Facebook and Google Ads Tracking on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:20PM (#46713984)
It's working well here on a pixel 9 pro
Re:Custom Cross Compiler with Nix on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @05:18PM (#46379868)
This is great information, thanks for taking the time to document and explain your process, this is the kind of nix content we need more of.
Re:How I talk to whales on Saturday November 29, 2025 @10:00AM (#46088039)
I know what the whales need, capitalism!
Re:Tehran Is at Risk of Running Out of Water Within Weeks on Sunday November 09, 2025 @12:12PM (#45867115)
Respectfully, please follow the relevant submission guidelines, it keeps things nice here:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

and

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

Re:Gtk4 WhatsApp Client on Saturday September 20, 2025 @09:38AM (#45313300)
I appreciate how Claude is credited under authors, seems like a "classy" way to disclose that ai tools were used.
Re:TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds on Thursday September 11, 2025 @05:07AM (#45209421)
I appreciate your humility, it's hard sometimes to post things online when people are very blunt and unfiltered with their criticism of one's work.
Re:Some therapists are using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @12:05PM (#45104933)
Two big reasons spring to mind, client privacy and trust. This therapist was quite literally dumping confidential medical information to a third party corporation without telling the patient their information was being shared and disclosed with outside entities. The broader issue if patient trust in the ability or professionalism of the therapist are a whole other issue.
Probably hasn't heard of zig either, but I'd sure like to know what he thinks about it.
Re:Google Pixel 10 series review: Don't call it an Android on Sunday August 31, 2025 @10:29AM (#45083396)
Google is really losing the plot lately, like worse than ever before. The changes to sideloading android apps is perhaps the biggest red flag they've ever thrown. But the new UI updates look largely silly and unhelpful, but maybe I'm being unfair.
Re:Are You Tired of AI? on Sunday August 31, 2025 @10:17AM (#45083312)
Absolutely, it seems to create way more problems than it solves, all while undermining human accuracy and expertise. Feels like a net negative for the species as a whole.
At least from the outside, OpenAI's messaging about this seems obnoxiously deluded, maybe some of those employees left because it starts feels like a cult built on foundations of self importance? Or maybe they really do know some things we don't know, but it seems like a lot of people are eager to keep giving them that excuse.

But then again, maybe they have such a menagerie of individuals with their heads in the clouds that they've created something of an echo chamber about the 'pure vision' that only they can manifest.

If that's true then the punishments aren't really needed?
I think it's better to make these decisions in measured ways, rather than broad sweeping generalities, a shopping mall should have multiple motivations to build a wheelchair ramp before 'penalties' are used. I'm not inherently against enforcing accessibility, but it sucks to go for punishments as a first course of action.
Re:No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office on Monday June 30, 2025 @01:21PM (#44425760)
I think writing off everything and everyone on bluesky is intellectually lazy.
Try to express your opinion in a nuanced way that explains your position, there's plenty of yelling online already and it doesn't help.
Punishing groups for failing to implement accessability seems drastic, isn't there some to spurn them to action with incentivization instead? You catch more flies with honey..
Re:Canonical Is Removing Bazaar Support from Launchpad on Thursday June 05, 2025 @01:35PM (#44193847)
I don't agree with so much of what Canonical has done the past decade, I hope they can learn from this mistake and stop trying to reinvent the wheel when trust in their org is falling.

I don't want to contribute to canonical backed forks and projects when they don't have the vision to sustain those things.

Re:Material 3 Expressive: Better, Easier, Emotional UX on Friday May 16, 2025 @10:23AM (#44005891)
These weird pastel heavy color-themes feel like they give me eye fatigue very quickly, is that just me?
Re:Googler... ex-Googler on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:32AM (#43717433)
This is so terrible for their optics, Google used to work to cultivate their image so that an entire generation of young talent would've loved to work there, fast forward to now and that's all burned down and there's no respect left.

Now the best Google can expect from young pragmatic talent is that they'll have no real loyalty or trust in the brand, well respect is a two way street, this will almost certainly just accelerate enshittification across Google products and services.

And if that 56% faster chip didn't exist, or if it were replaced tomorrow by an even better chip that doesn't mean I need it to do my work. I don't see why I should chase benchmarks anymore if it doesn't give me any new real benefits, and the vision and execution behind macOS as an ecosystem doesn't seem to be getting any better

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