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Re:Attention is all you have
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:54PM (#49804377)
Thanks to you and @bradley for the explanation.
Re:Attention is all you have
on Monday September 21, 2026 @10:54PM (#49796296)
When you say "navigational queries" do you mean Google Maps?
If so, you may not be aware that the locations represented by square dots on the map are ads.
Re:Working on Economics with Fable 5
on Monday September 07, 2026 @10:44PM (#49605163)
Re:Bug Blindness
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:16AM (#49495646)
> I get that people who are fans of things tend to be blind to the thing's faults.
Wow, there's Obsidian, Kagi, and Apple in a nutshell.
Re:Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:12AM (#49495626)
> It’s not even because everyone else's trackpads are fucking garbage (they are). It’s that systems that aren’t macs just weren’t built around using one.
Great news for users depending on accessibility
Re:An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:09AM (#49341913)
PSA - A crucial detail about Fastmail's spam filter that should really disclosed more clearly is that your filter is only trained on email you flag from within the web UI. Invoking your email client's "move to spam via IMAP" function does not train the filter.
Re:Fastmail offers EU data region
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:54PM (#49224131)
They're Australian
Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon
on Sunday July 19, 2026 @01:08PM (#48969833)
For now
Re:I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64
on Friday July 17, 2026 @12:17PM (#48949100)
I suggest you run this by an actual doctor.
Re:Summer of '85: DOSBOS is rejected by ANALOG Computing
on Saturday June 06, 2026 @03:25PM (#48428100)
That's not a trick. It's just how you list files. Same awkwardness as any other disk command.
Re:Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behal...
on Friday June 05, 2026 @12:49PM (#48415127)
I think it originally aired on MTV.
Re:Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
on Friday June 05, 2026 @12:48PM (#48415117)
“When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI.”
Well Tim, I suppose the blind do outnumber the handless.
Re:Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behal...
on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @10:25AM (#48370712)
Nor the Flux Capacitor from Back to the Future.
Re:Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs
on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @11:46AM (#48281349)
The most infuriating case I've seen within the last few days is the Airbnb CAPTCHA, which relies on the user being able to see content that is blocked at zoom levels over 100%. They have an alternative audio option that they've clearly never tested; it always reports failure, even if the CAPTCHA was solved correctly. Unthinkable for an organization with their resources.
Re:Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
on Monday May 18, 2026 @09:58PM (#48188359)
Obsidian is just a shitty wrapper around CodeMirror, which does the actual heavy lifting. How much of the money should Obsidian hand over to the CodeMirror developer?
Re:The Future of Obsidian Plugins
on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:58AM (#48118361)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088576
What, no smiley face in those comments? Maybe a silly shrug would have been appropriate.
Re:The Future of Obsidian Plugins
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @09:28PM (#48116773)
Just say "I think my users are stupid" and be done with it. The timing of your announcement is obviously not a coincidence. You are genuinely terrible at this.
Re:The Future of Obsidian Plugins
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @07:40PM (#48116013)
For those that aren't aware, this is all meant to distract/confuse you in light of this story: https://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/obsidian-plugin-abused-i...
Re:The Future of Obsidian Plugins
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @05:49PM (#48115074)
I realize you're just doing your job as CEO to shape perceptions here, but this is your best effort? The docs should have correctly stated "we don't review ANY new community plugin release". Hint: This is where you would admit the review process itself was meaningless theater intended to provide a false sense of security to users that trusted you.
Re:The Future of Obsidian Plugins
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:48PM (#48114325)
In what universe is it trusted? This blog post is an admission that they've been lying to their userbase about their review process for years, with updates receiving no review whatsoever. Enjoy your mass exfiltration.
Re:The Future of Obsidian Plugins
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:42PM (#48114255)
Wtf are you doing with all the money? Hire some actual engineers already, Jesus.
Re:The Future of Obsidian Plugins
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:40PM (#48114223)
Maybe wait and see how this plays out. It's a cat and mouse, and the mice here are way smarter. Data exfiltration happens quietly.
Re:Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @08:21PM (#48089611)
No I'm not. But I'd encourage you to visit and see for yourself why these outcomes are completely predictable.
Re:Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @07:47PM (#48089346)
Yeah, but these attacks are possible without any of that complexity.
Re:Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @07:46PM (#48089334)
This is just the first detected and reported instance, in all likelyhood such attacks have been happening for some time. When will the fanatic userbsse finally admit that using Obsidian in any enterprise setting is just plain malpractice?
It takes 5 minutes in their Discord channel to see the founders are D&D nerds, not competent engineers. It was never meant for serious work.
Re:Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @07:35PM (#48089256)
That's horse hockey. Obsidian is not a usable system without community plugins.
Folks will reply "but I use it every day without plugins".
That position disregards software usability as a formal discipline, along with decades of UX research and standards.
Re:Ask HN: Which is better–macOS/Windows/Linux?
on Saturday May 02, 2026 @11:07AM (#47987058)
Macs are great for watching cartoons, etc.. But for any serious work, you'll want a real computer.
Re:Ask Jeeves Shut Down
on Saturday May 02, 2026 @03:14AM (#47984110)
Nobody remembers Hotbot. Google before Google.
Re:Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins
on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:36PM (#47942305)
When would prefer for it to have been released?