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It’s really strange that this is a perfect copy of a comment from reddit (or that comment is copied from here). Bots gone wild these days.
Re:Tell HN: Scribd Breached on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:44AM (#50313278)
You’re saying sribd has actually worked for people? I just ignore it in my searches and just find the pdf elsewhere.
1. Can’t be bothered

2. Never going to visit this site again and I am not going to make an account for it

I am however, okay with turning off the ad blocking if they’re running reasonable ads (not every other paragraph).

Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:24AM (#50270222)
How is using an external provider any better for privacy sensitive issues? European provider does not automatically mean they aren’t logging everything or that they’d nor share that with a bidder?
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:19AM (#50195719)
The gall to write that after using the integer 4 as a private key.
Same, but nonetheless, having more choice for whoever cares can’t be a bad thing.

Chances of my aging parents installing an alt store and getting duped are slim to none.

Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:01AM (#50083021)
I personally have 0 interest in an entirely vibe coded VCS
Re:Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help on Sunday October 11, 2026 @09:21AM (#50043051)
I don’t use it, but some government organizations keep doing it. Why on earth they do that, I will never know, but I’m not making an account to read a tweet.
Re:Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:02PM (#50038731)
I just hate corner stores and take out places expecting tips. I flat out refuse to do that. Please tip only for real service and sit down restaurants, thank you.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:42PM (#50009113)
H1B1 visas are for citizens of Chile and Singapore and is not the same thing as H1B.
Meh, overblown. Very easy to not go looking for that and just enjoy your games.
Re:Burning Man Death Rates – A Short Lesson in Statistics on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:56PM (#49912865)
It’s quite difficult to comment on someone’s camp turning on them with no context. Badly run camps exist and badly behaved people exist too. You can’t expect the org (or a higher power) to police this.
Your reply provides no factual evidence to your claims on Issacman.
Re:Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:10PM (#49873137)
Way of my league here but if it starts with a B and they said sue them, why not go ahead and sue them?

You’re not the only one who want to see this go somewhere.

Re:Apple releases iPhone Duo simulator and Xcode 27.1 beta on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:45PM (#49760040)
I know exactly one person who has a foldable phone and I live in sf. I’ve never even considered getting one and I like new tech.

I’m not doubting that there’s demand for it but I wonder who/where?

It’s 8G of data in memory. You can raw dog that no problem.

(Indexes would be nice though)

Yep, I do the same. There’s no reason for the tv to do anything smart. It exists to display appletv and ps5.
Re:Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root on Sunday August 30, 2026 @03:28PM (#49501953)
Thank you! Sounds horrible.

I don’t know what a DHH is though, probably not important.

Re:Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:59PM (#49500431)
What on earth is an Omarchy
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:49AM (#49459869)
You are being disingenuous.

They worked with studios to optimize games for their hardware. I don’t think they went around sabotaging other companies hardware. They did what was good for them.

Why did competition not do the same?

Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:32AM (#49459733)
I fail to see how this is a problem?

AMD could’ve done the same.

Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:08PM (#49458605)
Nvidia is indeed a terrible company when it comes to open source, etc. however, as someone who has been gaming on desktop hardware since the 6xxx card days, Nvidia hardware has always worked. I switched to Linux full time since the 2XX days (maybe it was the 280 gtx?) and never had a lot of the problems everyone else got on Linux (using only the closed source drivers).
Re:Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B) on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @12:28PM (#49436670)
Very sad. I try not to go below q8.
Re:Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B) on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:38AM (#49434955)
Can I run a fp8 quant with 96gb VRAM?
People who say stuff like that are unhinged chronically online trolls. Best not to feed them.
Not even close to the same level as China.

What’s up with whitewashing China on all online platforms these days? You, on hacker news, should know better.

Re:Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI on Saturday August 15, 2026 @04:16PM (#49313922)
Isn’t the answer just: money?
Re:Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion on Friday July 31, 2026 @08:13PM (#49129929)
This is spectacular marketing.
Re:General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian on Saturday July 25, 2026 @11:29PM (#49054413)
This tracks with what I do too (also a gentoo power user). My personal overlay is much healthier thanks to LLMs, but I don’t use it for writing code for personal use. It’s just not fun.
Re:Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @12:42PM (#48994764)
Yeah I don’t get it. It tells me which model can draw an svg of a pelican riding a bicycle. It does a great job at that and the presentation is good.

But why is this an indication of literally anything else?

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