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... It's a joke about Grok which had a weird moment where it referred to itself as Mechahitler[1]. Also it's relevant because Grok also had/has some strong biases about the treatment of white South Africans[2]: so case in point of LLMs being used to alter facts about the past and the world.

1. https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk...

Dr Bronner's Hacker: All the long wall-of-text posts

Uncle John's Hacker Quarterly: Its just the amusing anecdotes collected from the comments

Hacker's Digest: Just a collection of meta-posts that are collections of other HN content

I would hazard a guess that they hire local contractors through some shell company. Not because they're worried about it being traced back to them, just because they don't want the workers on their books. Much like all the Amazon-not-actually-Amazon delivery trucks and drivers.

That it made it even this far is ridiculous. I would chalk it up to the "boomer mentality" of out of touch politicians rather that a Europe vs America thing though.

More like cocaine. The symptoms of psychosis after prolonged overuse are even eerily similar.

What other channels? The alternative on search is Bing and it's a tiny market. Then there's display which is total dog shit.

Gotta love seeing the complaint calling out "exact match (close variant)". Google sure does love text embeddings because it massively increases the keyword-search matches for auctions. After all these years, they definitely have no intention of fixing it for the advertisers.

You don't know that.

So who's going to cross-reference the list with the J6 peeps?

Awfully convenient happening days before the midterm elections. Is this the precursor to a declaration of emergency? Perhaps after an act violence that was enabled by the leak?

How do you feel about the FCC. Should it be abolished? Otherwise, why should social media broadcasting be exceptional vs over the airwaves?

Pivot to domestic alternatives and encourage them to root out bot accounts and foreign influence campaigns.

It's baffling how western countries have left themselves completely open to information warfare. It's completely negligent. It's not some new thing and yet the door is open to TikTok, Facebook, X, whatever social media that is at the beck and call of foreign governments.

There are discord communities around hobbies and shared interests that have nothing to do with gaming and have thousands of users.

But half the good is that they are not some wide-open, forever-indexed forum like reddit.

Old man yells at cloud

Sir, can you put your hands in the yellow circles, please?

Right? All the AI optimists here acting like the people running thee businesses wouldn't mix sawdust in with flour if given the chance to.

Prolly gonna hear it for the next 16

You guys were having homework graded in university? I was taking classes where the prof would just be like "pages X thru Y odd/even" at the end of a lecture with a very "do it or don't do it, I don't give a shit" type of mentality. Your final mark was two tests, a midterm and final.

Facebook for example heavily punishes, or even makes certain accounts pay, for linking out of their ecosystem.

At this point everyone knows you have a cat, dog or baby. Facebook, Instagram can scan your photos and see it. Same with Google via Photos' latest privacy changes. Google also knows if you ever get receipts emailed to you. Your credit card company and bank know, the CC company resells that data too. Shit, Keurig knows because their smart coffee maker scans the network and sees your baby monitor or smart pet food dispenser. All these companies are rediscovering and selling the same basic facts about you and your household.

I find I live in seasonal cycles with and without it. Basically the only time I watch any TV is the dark depths of winter. It's definitely like going without caffeine or alcohol for long stretches of time.

Democracy is cool and all but perhaps roles like judges and prosecutors should be selected on competence, not by perceived tough-on-crime popular elections

Monkey-in-the-middle would've worked since someone could monkey with your packets and it's already an established name for a children's game

It's hysterical seeing the younger generations being asked to forego plastic straws while leaders in their parents and grandparents generations wage selfish wars. I'm sure saving on those straws will catch up to all those oil tankers that were burned in the last few months.

All the future ones. Don't you see? If you're a big enough public figure and announce any ambition for public office, every attempt at holding you accountable for crimes is interference!

Some kind of a uh Prison Planet you say? Seems familiar. Oh, he's in on it and wants to sell me some boner pills instead?

Piloted aviation is alive and well in Russia/Ukraine for missle trucks lobbing glide bombs from BVR

Presumably, private companies and individuals with the money to pay for tokens continue forward rolling their own in-house solutions and slowly abandon OSS as it rots. What happens when each organization has its own entire stack though? Sure, FAANGs already were like that but most smaller companies were sort of "speaking the same language" and reusing software like apache, mongodb, nginx etc.