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Re:Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @07:29PM (#45367217)
But like always they didn't stop once they were a bit profitable with a few ads, instead they got greedier and greedier and made their product worse once they captured most of the market, I have wonder if there can exist some variant of capitalism that punishes becoming a bit too greedy, like a soft ceiling (tied to the minimum wage) over which most of the profits go to taxes, and a hard one where all profits over that go to taxes plus mandatory social work by its owners/executives.
Re:Getting AI to work in complex codebases on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @01:21AM (#45356590)
There is a chunk of devs using AI that do it not because they believe it makes them more productive in the present but because it might do so in the near future thanks to advances on AI tech/models, and then some do it because they think it might be required from them to do it this way by their bosses at some point in the future, so they can show preparedness and give the impression of being up to date with how the field evolves, even if at the end it turns out it doesn't speed up things that much.
Aside from being offtopic or not I want to add that it is indeed well known https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41649832
That sounds a bit too much like "this is good for Bitcoin"
Re:"Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @03:50AM (#45259290)
When spoken it helps to tell the user "my cases" in a monotonic voice (and/or slightly lower tone), which hints that is just a verbatim label (the reason this works is because it mimics how a lot of people sound when reading aloud).
Unlikely that is the case with this particular feature, its a feature request with near 2000 upvotes and more than 340 comments, plus a very hot topic in recent months.
Sure sure, they haven't refused it at all, the feature request has more than 7 months and they just haven't read it yet, you people I swear.
Sure sure, they haven't refused at all, the feature request has more than 7 months and but they just haven't read it, you people I swear.
Re:Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:33PM (#45122863)
Yeah we the people at silicon valley really care about young people job prospects of course, yeah, who would ever even doubt that.
Re:Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @07:41AM (#45101743)
As a non-american I find this too naive of a view, the third possibility is that is already pretty selective application of the law, Elon Musk brother publicly admitted being illegal immigrants for a few years (right next to Elon, in a recorded presentation), but rich people college frats are never where the raids happen, this already selective use of the law it's one of the infuriating things about it, not to mention all the other laws this administration is already breaking that will never be prosecuted.
Re:The car is not the future: On the myth of motorized freedom on Monday September 01, 2025 @01:11PM (#45094546)
And who do you think is most interested in such decay of public transportation?
Re:I Don't Have Spotify on Sunday August 31, 2025 @01:40PM (#45085139)
Songs, if you paste playlist it just searches for a playlist with similar words in their title.
Re:It's Not Wrong that (for HN) " ".length == 36 on Friday August 29, 2025 @12:07PM (#45065906)
That one is vastly more frequently used to mean "I'm so full after eating", just like the peach emoji is more used to mean butt than the fruit.
Re:It's Not Wrong that (for HN) " ".length == 36 on Friday August 29, 2025 @11:48AM (#45065621)
In everyday speak "sexualize" means to make it sexy, so unless you are finding the emojis sexy you probably meant "genderize" or something alike.
Re:It's Not Wrong that (for HN) " ".length == 36 on Friday August 29, 2025 @11:38AM (#45065509)
It could be worse, in Windows 11 the hand does not seem to be from the same person than the face, see https://em-content.zobj.net/source/microsoft/407/person-face...
Re:LLMs solving problems OCR+NLP couldn't on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:22AM (#45052518)
It's only prompt injection if it comes from state sponsored hackers, otherwise it's just surprise prompt augmentation.
Re:Areal, Are.na's New Typeface on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:42PM (#45048142)
The horizontal line on the "t" is absurdly small, it's hard to distinguish it from other slim tall characters.
I agree with everything you said except the "plundering all of the resources", there is a likelihood that they are a post-scarcity race, meaning they know how to extract all the energy they need from any tiny chunk of any nearby star (or maybe from other celestial bodies, maybe even black holes).
Re:Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine on Saturday August 23, 2025 @03:35PM (#44998521)
My most charitable interpretation is that they are hiding their identities because they are afraid of any legal trouble, after all Roblox is an 81 billion organization.
No way to filter by subjects one may be interested, no way to find likeminded individuals, no way to mute people, so yeah, not much value could be derived from it; I think that there is space for some pseudo-anonymous social network but this is not it, at least not in its current state.
Re:Steam Games with No Reviews at All on Friday August 22, 2025 @09:48AM (#44984666)
Just be aware of the refund functionality Steam provides if you gonna try anything you may find on this page, ha.
Re:Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025 on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @03:13AM (#44949053)
A fantasy of mine is to develop a fork of Unity but with an editor interface exactly like Flash, that transpiles Actionscript code to Unity's C#, or maybe a subset of typescript would be a better compromise given it's popularity (either by transpiling or by using node/deno bindings to Unity's Api), to truly make unity games as easy to make as flash games used to be, and with the option to export the project to real Unity in case you need to do something more advanced.
Re:LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers on Sunday August 17, 2025 @09:33AM (#44931441)
Something I don't understand is why is there such effort to crafting generators for all kinds of content but there isn't the same level of interest for crafting consumers of it? AIs that will play your games and watch your movies and tell you how good job "you" did? If is about money you don't have a chance because the monopolistic middlemen will hoard all space, e.g. Steam will generate the PC games that go popular, and whatever space is left will be quickly saturated by an overabundance of generated content, so given the scarcity of attention is only going up the next logical step is to generate the "people" that will consume the content, bots that craft reviews about what they "saw" and how they "felt" and have different "personalities" and constantly interact with each other.
402 open issues, mother of God, it's a glimpse of the massive effort that is handling PDFs and all it's features.
They wouldn't have used copyrighted material if it wasn't a survival matter for them, but sure you go ahead and pretend that they just happen to use it and not really need it that much.
It's clear that the giant didn't consent in this particular case.

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