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Re:Lower Price for ChatGPT Business on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:52AM (#47626122)
Tighter limits under the auspices of "lower price!"
Re:The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust on Saturday August 30, 2025 @05:48PM (#45078278)
This is one of the things I do like about PHP.

Intrinsically minimized state (to a certain degree).

Re:Great things about Rust that aren't just performance on Sunday January 12, 2025 @12:54PM (#42675334)
Nails it. I'm so tired fighting incidental complexity--our tools.

Speed is great but let me just focus on the business problems and write something durable.

Re:Entire Independent Board of Directors of 23andMe Resigns on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @09:05PM (#41574619)
Did your relative?

I'm not a geneticist so I could be totally off the mark; but, to my understanding, the painful part is that is a big disclosure right there

Re:Orion Browser by Kagi on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @10:58AM (#38447102)
Re:Orion Browser by Kagi on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @10:56AM (#38447068)
Browser diversification.

We're already in Chromelandia. We'd be near 100% if it wasn't for Safari mobile.

Re:Orion Browser by Kagi on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @10:54AM (#38447034)
Better customer alignment.

To be fair, Brave seems to have genuinely tried, but, seems to be failing to reach sustainablility judging by their various pivots. They've tried to walk the line of leaning toward the user while middlemanning revenue ideas to said user. BAT and crypto, VPN, messaging sales, now search+ads. The market seems to be saying no thanks from what I can see from the outside.

Orion, in straight up exchange for cash via donation and Kagi subsidization, offers to be entirely the user's agent.

Re:Tell HN: DuckDuckGo Search Results have jumped the shark on Sunday October 22, 2023 @11:08AM (#37976013)
Yes. It's the first time I've successfully replaced Google search.

Previously, I used DDG but pretty much reflexively g!'d every query.

Re:Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @04:26PM (#37934331)
I know we like to get the pitchforks out, but, it appears to be accidental:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33726

Re:Out of the Tar Pit (2006) [pdf] on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:24AM (#34971110)
I think the first half of the paper ("the problem") is much stronger than the latter half ("the solution").
Use an actor model language -- by far the sanest way. Message passing is intuitive to human experience.

1. Elixir (Erlang)

2. Scala/Akka

3. Pony