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Re:REI Labs Reasoning Approach on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:00PM (#49482909)
Looks like the name is actually "Rei Labs" not "REI Labs". HN title needs to be fixed.
How does one vacate a sentence that was already served?
Re:Kill The Cookie Banner on Sunday July 26, 2026 @11:24AM (#49059062)
You would presumably be logged in to your favorite store site, and they would be using your identifying session to make recommendations, not anonymous tracking cookies.
Re:Collection of Digital Clock Designs on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:56PM (#48926906)
It's splitting the digits into four-bits per decimal digit.

       2       3
    0010    0011

    23 -> 2 3 -> 0010 0011 -> 00100011
I think this thread is a good indicator of llm bots vs human accounts on HN. The bots couldn't identify satire.
Most mobile keyboards will do autocorrect as you describe it, and show top-N alternatives when you go back and tap on the autocorrected word. I prefer this to it mocking my mistakes and making me pay penance by manually accepting the correction.
Are you _trying_ to get your entire Google account and all its linked accounts banned and nuked at Google's whims when they flag one of your mp3s as being pirated?
Re:Multi-stroke text effect in CSS on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @01:36PM (#48039051)
When I modified your fiddle to use the Apple logo and colors, the first ring is eating part of the apple. The top of the apple is cut off. Any idea why that is?

      --c: #5EBD3E,#FFB900,#F78200,#E23838,#973999,#009CDF;
      @content: '';
Police departments have already moved on from traffic enforcement to civil forfeiture. Like, a decade ago.
Re:It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths on Sunday April 19, 2026 @10:13AM (#47824457)
The "why would you want to do that?" section ought to be the very first paragraph. I spent half the article thinking, who the hell is collapsing `http://` into `http:/` until I had to deduce from context what this article even was about. The article starts in media res.
Re:Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @01:16AM (#47774947)
> Python has multiple package managers at this point (how many now? 8?). All must implement dependency cooldowns.

No, nobody _has to_ implement it, and if only one did, then users who wanted cooldowns can migrate to that package manager.

Re:Replace axios with a simple custom fetch wrapper on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @10:17AM (#47601253)
In the case of authentication redirect, any inflight request is going to fail and you're about to navigate in a few milliseconds, so I don't resolve those promises. Return new Promise(() => {}).
I figured out why it wouldn't work on my machine:

    @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
        *, *::before, *::after {
            animation-duration: 0.01ms !important;
            animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
            transition-duration: 0.01ms !important;
        }
    }
With reduced-motion enabled (which is basically required in Tahoe :eyeroll:), animations complete immediately and there is no chance to click the salt/water.
I've been involved in so many CRs where I've given feedback over 10 revs, then the submitter cancels the CR and files a new one, for the metrics.
The fact that there is an entire _industry_ of tools to patch every little shortcoming speaks volumes of Apple's usability.
Nah, I installed karabiner and set up command+q to require a three-second holddown to activate.
Is this where I can complain about command+q? All day every day I use command+tab/tilde/w/a/s, and smack in the middle of that is command q. It's like if automobile manufacturers decided to put a third pedal between the accelerator and the brake that immediately shuts off your car in the middle of the highway. And you can't disable it, instead you can map it to such helpful things like... invert colors.
I'm of the opinion that over-hiring was a strategic move to make hiring more expensive for competitors. Look up those popular profit-per-employee lists that circulate now and then. Spending $1 to make hiring $1 more expensive for your competition makes business sense. And even if Bob and Sue and Jim and Alice have redundant roles in the company, that's three competitors who couldn't fill that role. Does Google _really_ need a South Lake Union office location? Probably not, the entire building is likely redundant. But it siphons talent from the neighbors.
Re:A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @03:21PM (#46800988)
Did you forget to change accounts?
Re:A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @01:41PM (#46799753)
You realize you are responding to a brand new account posting an obviously AI-generated response?
Re:A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @10:21AM (#46796505)
Does the browser expose its accessibility tree instead of the raw dom element tree? The accessibility tree should be enough, I mean, it's all that's needed for vision impaired customers, and technically the ai agent _is_ a vision impaired customer. For a fair usage, try the accessibility tree.
Re:Bugs Apple Loves on Saturday January 24, 2026 @09:49AM (#46744041)
esc is the dismiss-the-modal-and-lose-all-your-work key.
Re:Bugs Apple Loves on Thursday January 22, 2026 @10:19PM (#46727968)
Yes, every time you send a message from an iPhone you MUST append a trailing space, just to be sure it won't fuck up the last word when it sends.
This concept is a duplicate :) we already had r9k
Re: on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:12PM (#46278930)
Please consider improving the color contrast. The text is gray-on-gray and impossible to read.
So, the Powerbook Duo Dock?
Print out the invoice, write a check, and mail it in?
Re:Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @10:41AM (#46122326)
It probably wasn't the rmdir command that deleted the parent folder by itself, but the LLM did the traversal. The LLM probably did this:

    rmdir D:\dir one\dir two\file
Detected that it failed, then the LLM issued the traversal command

    rmdir D:\dir one\dir two
And so on...

    rmdir D:\dir one
And then that failed, so...

    rmdir D:\
Re:Fluid Glass on Friday October 03, 2025 @07:17PM (#45468904)
I have accidentally swipe-navigated far more times than I have ever purposefully swipe-navigated (zero times), so I am astounded to see someone who hasn't rage-disabled that misfeature upon installation of the OS.

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