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That doesn't help someone that invested in pets.com: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com
Re:Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:50AM (#49980286)
I mean, if you're just going to come in and say that the person is lying (or, charitably, deluded), there's really no point in having a conversation.
Re:Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:48AM (#49980263)
For whatever reason, I've found that people who use AI to code tend to be quite defensive about it.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:00PM (#49914382)
OpenAI said they dropped Astra 6.1 over safety concerns: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatgpt-model-release-can...
Re:Coding Is Not Solved on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:28PM (#49880548)
You haven't run into cases where the documentation is missing or incomplete? You must be dealing with different libraries than I am.
Re:Grok 4.5 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @04:43PM (#48837186)
Pre-Musk twitter isn't the comparison point here. Anthropic/Google are.
Re:Resetting Xbox on Monday July 06, 2026 @01:51PM (#48808085)
There's no sourcing for that South of Midnight number. You should treat it as fictional.
Sure, and if depressed people weren't sad, they'd be happier. 'Just don't get frustrated' isn't actionable advice.
The one that doesn't have a monopoly on the market.
Slippery slope is famously a fallacious argument. My first exposure to it was people insisting that legalizing gay marriage would end up legalizing marriage to animals.
Because he has power. Putting aside all the people who admire him who he could direct to boycott or harass some company, he can also direct increased scrutiny to companies that don't pander to him.
Re:AI doesn't replace white collar work on Sunday March 08, 2026 @07:18PM (#47302688)
Sure, you could go to an educational institution for 2-4 years and hope that your new job doesn't get automated away before you graduate.
The thing about building fulling automated kill bots is then you've built fully automated kill bots.
Seems like it's only when adding 1 + 4, 6, or 8 in a place value or where one of them is 0. It doesn't seem like it'd ever hold across a carry, but I could be missing something.

Edit: There's actually a few cases with adding 2 as well!

Re:Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @06:54PM (#46982934)
Alternatively, hand someone $20 and your phone and have them do the verification for you.
This article is like 300 words. Would it have killed them to not generate it using AI?
Re:Looking for flagged discussions on HN? See what's active on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:56PM (#46559943)
It seems like this post got killed as well, but it's the first I'm hearing of the functionality. I wouldn't say I'm a frequent user of the site, but I think I would have noticed if people were posting this link often.
Re:Looking for flagged discussions on HN? See what's active on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:47PM (#46559838)
People on Hacker News with a high enough score get a "super downvote" that can downrank a story, with enough removing it off the page entirely (flagged). It's why you won't see stories critical of Elon Musk or the current administration last for longer than an hour.
Sometimes, but I didn't get sucked into the crypto/blockchain/NFT hype and feel like that was the right call in hindsight.
Valve's 30% cut would lower it substantially. Taxes might put it beneath 50%.
Re:Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @03:46PM (#46437797)
What's wrong with having a hyphen in your name?
Re:You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving on Sunday December 21, 2025 @03:12PM (#46347968)
15 years ago this exact comment would have been written swapping out millennials for gen x and gen z for millennials.
Yeah, I saw some posts on there the other day that felt a bit suspect, went to look at their profile, and nothing. I'd already become an infrequent user of reddit since some earlier changes, but that makes me even less likely to go back.
Re:Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union on Friday December 12, 2025 @04:01PM (#46248904)
It's still going on now - they just use a third party to help them collude.
But suddenly adding cameras that resulted in catching more people fixed the issue? Surely if the catch and release was the issue, that wouldn't make a difference.
There's a lawsuit ongoing about Valve threatening developers with delisting if they sell non-Steam copies of games (that's NOT Steam keys, but, say, a version on the Epic store) on other stores.
Do you really think many people are being charged and found guilty of felony assault for throwing a sandwich at a random person? He was only charged because the guy was part of a cop-like class.
Re:Some people can't see mental images on Thursday October 30, 2025 @03:00PM (#45763910)
This is similar to how I'd describe it for me. I can mold the apple into what I want it to be, adding a sheen or showing the bottom or the top, but any "visualization" that I do disappears basically immediately.
One of the "slogans" was a reference to the game Helldivers 2. They were memes.
A few days ago someone shot people while pretending to be a police officer. Someone impersonating ICE for kidnapping isn't out of the realm of possibility.

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