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Re:Things to know if you get cancer in 2026 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:38AM (#50103542)
All ground-breaking treatments/therapies were initially only available as a clinical trial.
Re:Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:11AM (#49490046)
The thing is, perhaps they'd be more successful in exporting other things if they were part of the EU.
Re:Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:49AM (#49179400)
Because OP's email is in their bio, for one.
Re:Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now? on Thursday July 09, 2026 @01:09AM (#48841238)
Fully agreed. It's also that the interesting stuff quickly falls off the front page, and you have to go to https://news.ycombinator.com/active to find it.
"Social media" is such a wide and vague term. We're basically banning people from talking to each other.
Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s on Monday June 15, 2026 @06:42AM (#48539367)
If Reddit is "social media", so is HN.
To me, Google switched the "Evil bit" around the time of the Dragonfly debacle (2018)

If OP is only seeing the problems now, they must have been selectively blind.

Re:How we made hit video game Prince of Persia on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:47AM (#48501955)
Gobsmacked to learn that this was originally developed on the Apple II. I always thought of PoP as a 16-bit type of game.
and Disney
Re:David Attenborough's 100th Birthday on Saturday May 09, 2026 @09:51AM (#48074983)
I don't think full context should be provided at all times in casual internet conversations.

However, in your defense, "Richmond" is one of the most overloaded geographical names, second only to "Kingston".

Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:14PM (#47942147)
Oh you're right, I misread. They're actually blaming their customer's vibe coding on their problems. I which case I call BS
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @04:54PM (#47940604)
They are mostly blaming their shift to vibe coding for their problems. https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...
Is this the OpenClaw effect?
Re:Vercel Claude Code plugin wants to read your prompt on Thursday April 09, 2026 @12:17PM (#47705581)
Why are you still assuming good intentions of Vercel? This was them less yhan a month ago : https://vercel.com/changelog/updates-to-terms-of-service-mar...
Those worries are ruled out... for now. Laws can be amended.
Re:Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency on Saturday February 21, 2026 @02:07AM (#47098251)
Same here, I've not been able to open an account, it's a bit frustrating.
Re:Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped? on Friday February 13, 2026 @09:43AM (#47003280)
It's the 2026 version of this https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Re:Another GitHub outage in the same day on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @06:35AM (#46958337)
Reminded of Dan Luu's post on the Normalization of Deviance (2015, https://danluu.com/wat/)

"There's the company with a reputation for having great engineering practices that had 2 9s of reliability last time I checked..."

Now it's 2026, and customers are grudgingly accepting zero 9's of reliability.

Re:Discord Alternatives, Ranked on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:57AM (#46957509)
How could Signal be considered privacy-conscious ? The first thing they do is ask for your phone number.
Interesting to see the deep-dive on "younger car drivers", but not a pip about the old-age drivers. Yet we see from chart 1 that their casualty rate is far worse!
Not for me.
Re:Sam Altman's Dirty DRAM Deal on Saturday December 06, 2025 @02:13AM (#46171362)
If it's confirmed that Altman's played the Koreans against each other, it's going to cause a furore in Korea.
I get the feeling that they are doing this partly for marketing purposes.
The aerospace industry has had countermeasures in place against bit-flips for a long time, oftentimes thanks to redudancy

Airbus/Thales's fix in this case appears to add more error checking, and to restart the misbehaving component. https://bea.aero/fileadmin/user_upload/BEA2024-0404-BEA2025-...

("une supervision interne du composant à l’origine de la défaillance ; - un mécanisme de redémarrage automatique de ce composant dès lors que la défaillance est détectée)

Re:Compare Single Board Computers on Monday October 20, 2025 @03:57AM (#45641033)
This. Your SBC's ecosystem/support is 10x more important than its specs.
Re:Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @12:41AM (#45421951)
Anectodally, I've seen that some newly graduated engineers prefer to forgo the job search altogether, rather than lower their comp demands to get a foot in the door.
Re:Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @12:02AM (#45421774)
Not mentioned in the article : interns/juniors are too expensive these days ; seniors offer better value per dollar of comp.
What's your location?
The paradox of politics : are hated whilst actually doing what the majority wants.

As we saw in the case of the Winter fuel Payments : if a policy is unpopular with voters, it is abandoned. The Online Safety Act is popular, so it will stay.

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