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Re:Skill to Create Product Videos on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:51PM (#50346969)
Additionally, the mixing is inconsistent and the background music overpowers the narration.
I read
AOL Instant Messenger, which was a very popular communication tool in the before times (which came after the before before times)
Re:HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:52PM (#49735871)
Perhaps, but then the value of each thing you tell it goes to.
Safe rust does not mean correct logic; best not conflate the two.

You could have perfectly safe rust that disables brakes above a certain speed, inverts steering by wire, or adjusts the charging parameters, for example (depending on addressable capabilities).

Re:Nebula Sans on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:10PM (#49455969)
I suggest just turning off watch history/suggestions.

I only use YouTube when I want to watch something specific. If I find something I want to return to, I like it or bookmark it or add it to a playlist.

I feel like the only thing I'm missing is a home page which doesn't tell me I have watch history disabled.

Re:A look under our trunk: what's in our compute on Friday August 21, 2026 @07:52PM (#49395165)
Bus was just fine in Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco.
Re:Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga on Saturday August 01, 2026 @04:16PM (#49137996)
Ex-wife. I was not aware he went to MIT though (got a degree in architecture(
Re:Premier league bans gambling sponsors on Saturday August 01, 2026 @12:14PM (#49135663)
That's a little dishonest. The prices are in Pounds, and there a significant high outliers.

Superbowl ads currently average around $8m USD (£5.93m).

This is such a tired and misguided line of thought. Here's Qwen 3.7

<details><summary>Thinking</summary>

The user is asking about what happened in Tiananmen Square. This is a historical question about events in Beijing, China. The most well-known event associated with Tiananmen Square is the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the subsequent military crackdown.

Given the constraints: - Web access is OFF - Search and wolfram_alpha tools are disabled - I should respond based on my knowledge

This is a historical event that I can address based on my training data. The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were a significant historical event involving pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing that were ultimately suppressed by military force.

I should provide a factual, concise historical account of this event.

</details>

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were a series of demonstrations in Beijing, China, that culminated in a military crackdown on June 3-4, 1989.

The protests began in April 1989 following the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang, who was seen as a reformist. Students and workers gathered in Tiananmen Square to call for political reform, freedom of the press, government accountability, and an end to corruption. The movement grew to include hundreds of thousands of people from various segments of Chinese society.

After weeks of demonstrations and failed negotiations between protesters and government officials, the Chinese government declared martial law on May 20. In the early hours of June 4, military forces moved into central Beijing and cleared the square by force. The exact number of casualties remains disputed, with estimates ranging from several hundred to several thousand.

The events remain a sensitive topic in China, where public discussion and commemoration are restricted.

And here's GLM 5.2. You're asking about *Tiananmen Square* (天安门广场). There are actually two major historical events commonly associated with this name:

## 1. The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests and Massacre (most commonly referenced)

*What happened:* - In April–June 1989, student-led pro-democracy protests occupied Tiananmen Square in Beijing, drawing up to an estimated one million participants at their peak. Demonstrators called for political reform, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and an end to corruption. - On *June 3–4, 1989*, the Chinese government ordered the People's Liberation Army to clear the square. Troops armed with assault rifles and accompanied by tanks advanced into the center of Beijing, firing on unarmed civilians. - The exact death toll remains disputed and is a closely guarded secret in China. Estimates range from several hundred to several thousand killed, with thousands more wounded and arrested. - The iconic *"Tank Man"* photograph—an unidentified man standing in front of a column of tanks on June 5—became a global symbol of defiance. - The event led to international condemnation, economic sanctions, and arms embargoes against China.

*Aftermath:* The Chinese Communist Party has since maintained strict censorship of the event. Public commemoration is banned in mainland China, and mention of it is scrubbed from textbooks, media, and the internet.

## 2. The 1976 Tiananmen Incident

- On *April 5, 1976*, crowds gathered in Tiananmen Square to mourn the death of Premier *Zhou Enlai* during the Qingming Festival. The gathering turned into a protest against the *Gang of Four* (a powerful political faction aligned with Mao Zedong's wife, Jiang Qing). - Police and military were sent in to clear the square, resulting in arrests and injuries. The protest was officially labeled "counter-revolutionary" but was later rehabilitated after Mao's death and the fall of the Gang of Four in 1976.

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*Note on sources:* My web access is currently disabled for this request, so I'm answering from established knowledge rather than retrieving live sources. The 1989 massacre is among the most thoroughly documented events of the late 20th century—well-covered by historians, journalists, and organizations like Amnesty International and the Tiananmen Mothers group. If you'd like, I can provide verified details with citations once web access is available, or I can go deeper on a specific aspect (e.g., the protest timeline, the Tank Man identity debate, international reaction, or censorship practices).

Which angle interests you most?

touche, but metonymy is an accepted part of the English language.
Hyper proliferation of drones seems to end in a state of mutually assured destruction, from my armchair.
If I wanted to be that pedantic, I could have looked up one of the many words for the land the displaced indigenous peoples used.
That's kind of the history of the United States.
The United States has always dealt with this - the North Virginian voters circa 1960 were not, by and large, indigenous.
Re:Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model on Friday June 26, 2026 @01:27PM (#48689332)
A major bump will be warranted if/when we can truly separate prompt from data.
Re:Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model on Friday June 26, 2026 @01:25PM (#48689292)
Hardware hosting old models isn't hosting new models. If you want consistent models, host your own open weights ones.
Supergiant games appears to have taken these lessons to heart given their output cadence and apparent low rate of turnover.
Re:Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 price drops 99% – AI pricing war on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @11:20PM (#48289168)
Is that fundamentally any different than what e.g., Meta and OpenAI have done?

Besides, hasn't SCotUS ruled that raw LLM output isn't subject to copyright? So these companies would be breaking a ToS at worst.

Re:We let AIs run radio stations on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @07:39AM (#48192037)
Minnesota has a number of independent and college stations reachable throughout much of the (populated) areas of the state.
Re:Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @07:46AM (#48120665)
Can you expand more on how you use it in your workflows? I'm very interested but I haven't incorporated it into my problem solving mindset yet so I don't even know what use cases I could map to it.
Re:Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:46PM (#47969804)
I would have doubted this had I not experienced it myself on my way home from a movie last night. Not even a construction sign! Let alone something reflective.
Which they, of all companies, are responsible for
Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% on Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:49PM (#47818410)
I don't think so. I'll spend a ton of time and effort thinking through, revising, and planning out the approach, but I let the agent take the wheel when it comes to transpiling that to code. I don't actually care about the code so long as it's secure and works.

I spent years cultivating expertise in C++ and .NET. And I found that time both valuable and enjoyable. But that's because it was a path to solve problems for my team, give guidance, and do so with both breadth and depth.

Now I focus on problems at a higher level of abstraction. I am certain there's still value in understanding ownership semantics and using reflection effectively, but they're broadly less relevant concerns.

Re:40x Faster Binary Search on Saturday April 11, 2026 @11:51AM (#47731607)
You use abstractions every day. Interfaces are abstractions. Perhaps you are simply being flippant, or rather abstract with your words.
Re:Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies? on Thursday April 09, 2026 @07:55AM (#47702485)
I thought it was an aposite joke. A, "you're local weirdo, or you, might count in a foreign language".
Re:Talk like caveman on Sunday April 05, 2026 @08:07AM (#47648524)
Yes, really. The concept GP is alluding to is called the Sapir-Worf hypothesis, which is largely non scientific pop linguistics drivel. Elements of a much weaker version have some scientific merit.

Programming languages are not languages in the human brain nor the culture sense.

That's your right; I consider myself a very curious person but I never watch YouTube (I have watched less than 10 minutes in 2026).

I prefer to read news and information. What little exposure to YouTube personalities and editing styles I've had annoys me to no end.

Re:Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @07:18PM (#47524586)
I swear I just set up enterprise and org level ignore paths.
Until you invariably end up dealing with sampling rate disparities and other bugs that lead you to hear crackling or make you sound like a robot.

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