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Re:Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:30AM (#50002841)
Your 20-50 cent customer does the same thing but prices it for Gates at 140,000. Rinse and repeat and Gates ends up paying 20-50 cents for a banana from somebody that isn't you.
Re:From Holy Water to Frozen Meals: The Evolution of Vending Machines
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @03:04PM (#49869772)
Might be worth a refresher on the guidelines, or at least a thoughtful examination of why this completely unrelated topic lives rent-free in your head.
Re:Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude
on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:53PM (#49405545)
Are you struggling to read their extremely simple English? Confusing remark.
Re:HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
on Thursday August 13, 2026 @05:25PM (#49292056)
Absolutely. Show me the source of a sufficiently complex web application that isn't built on React, and I'll find the React-by-any-other-name inside.
Re:HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
on Thursday August 13, 2026 @05:23PM (#49292037)
There are very many highlight performant sites built on React, and very many sites that are homespun or built on other frameworks that perform badly. It's a scapegoat.
Re:HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @04:27PM (#49278106)
The appeal is that it's not React, aimed mostly st people who have a grievance against React for one ill-informed reason or another. In time it will either become React by another name or die out.
Re:I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @07:37PM (#49190527)
It's fascinating to see retrofuturist ideas being built in real-time. Being able to translate your thoughts instantaneously to cogent written text and using it to make a PowerPoint is almost painfully analogous to e.g. cassette futurism, or like 50s visions of the future where we have gigantic video screens but they're still CRTs.
Re:The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small Canadian Town
on Monday August 03, 2026 @10:48AM (#49156539)
I don't have much familiarity with composting or fish sauce production, but wouldn't the high salt content make it a bad fertilizer?
Re:You only need the frontier model for one single edit
on Monday July 20, 2026 @10:18PM (#48987303)
I call him "my son"
Re:An Update on the scraper situation
on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:36PM (#48899248)
Most young people are familiar with lowercase sentences and have been for a while, yes
Re:Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your fe...
on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:30PM (#48899186)
This is a good encapsulation of why the year of the Linux desktop is perpetually fifteen years away.
Re:Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its...
on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:25PM (#48899122)
Surprised to read this as a Queens thing, this sounds perfectly at home in the Midwest.
Re:An Update on the scraper situation
on Saturday July 11, 2026 @01:02AM (#48868913)
I'm...not old enough to read a Business Insider article about being annoyed by lowercase letters.
Re:An Update on the scraper situation
on Saturday July 11, 2026 @12:17AM (#48868693)
> forced lowercase
??? shift is an extra key to press
Re:All Star Wars Games Ever Made – Released, Cancelled and Mod Archive
on Monday July 06, 2026 @06:28PM (#48811320)
Fun coincidence to see this mentioned today, just recently I rescued my DroidWorks disc from my basement and was looking into how to get it running on a modern system. Obviously Wine/Proton are probably an option but I saw that there have been some efforts to build open implementations of games like Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 and Grim Fandango that ran on the same engine or a modified version of it, I wonder how much of that pre-existing work would be transferrable.
Re:Africans Are Turning to Starlink
on Friday July 03, 2026 @08:46PM (#48781631)
All places laden with useful information.
Re:Costco Is the Anti-Amazon
on Friday July 03, 2026 @08:23PM (#48781544)
The style of plastic bin definitely looks the same. The ones we were getting looked something like this[0], same folding-flap top as in your link but form-fitted insulation inside:
[0] https://flexcontainer.com/product/insulated-molded-container...
Re:Costco Is the Anti-Amazon
on Friday July 03, 2026 @06:07PM (#48780575)
I used this service before it rolled out widely and these boxes were a mixed bag. On one hand they worked really well, they were essentially insulated hard totes with styrofoam lining and often had dry ice in them for anything that needed to be kept cold. On the other hand, I lived in an apartment, so storing 3-4 totes for a week or more was a real chore.
The funniest thing I remember though is that the totes weren't optimized for the size of some of the products available very well - if you put a frozen pizza in it, it sat diagonally, and without enough room to really put anything above or below it. You order four frozen pizzas, and you're allocating many cubic meters of apartment space for them until the next time you order.
Re:Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students
on Friday July 03, 2026 @03:07PM (#48778751)
I'm glad to see more of this approach to modernizing education. I roll my eyes seeing people argue that we should go back to pen + paper or other weird rose-colored regressive approaches to preventing AI usage. It's part of education now, it's part of work now, and learning environments that don't acknowledge that are going to be dragged kicking and screaming into a future with empty classrooms.
Re:Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @06:17PM (#48712305)
See my other comment. I want my doctor/plumber/etc to be able to recall faster, type faster, work better under pressure. If you're better at those things you should get better grades and be paid more.
Re:Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @06:16PM (#48712288)
Those are all proxies for "is smarter". They have better memories, perform better under pressure, etc. Universities are meant to prepare students for the real world where these things matter.
Re:Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @06:05PM (#48712189)
Fast students are smarter. Why avoid grading on that?
EDIT: Rate limited so: "smarter" here means how well the student will perform in a career in their chosen field. Fast + accurate is the ideal.
Re:The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @05:52PM (#48712067)
Agreed. A lot of my countrymen have forgotten that America generally kicks ass, it's sad to see.
Re:5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @05:24PM (#48711807)
This might explain my confusion. I went to the inflation calculator to see that $60 scallops in 1917 would be $1700 now and was a bit taken aback.
Re:Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @06:58PM (#48666595)
I had a lot of very good times with CoffeeScript but I'll never forgive it for having implicit returns. So many subtle event-bubbling bugs caused by that.
Re:Big AI labs are hiring philosophers
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @05:24PM (#48665813)
My bad, I meant for this to come off more funny than snarky. Appreciate the check.
EDIT: Upon finishing reading the other comments on this article though...I feel a bit singled out. :)
Re:Big AI labs are hiring philosophers
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @04:07PM (#48664985)
I think, therefore I am seeking 2.5m total comp
Re:Spying on kids to save kids from spying is stupid
on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:37PM (#48648459)
Same here. Every time a thread like this comes up it brings out that a surprising number of paranoid helicopter parents browse HN, which is a contradiction in perspective that I can't really emphasize with.
Re:Spying on kids to save kids from spying is stupid
on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:31PM (#48648373)
Let's ban books and skateboards too
Re:Canada is looking to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over the n...
on Monday June 22, 2026 @11:14PM (#48639776)
If they're not building reactors on the land allocated to native tribes, why should they?