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Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:56AM (#50315240)
We'd be living in a better world if politics was a skill and our politicians were good at it.
Re:Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:19PM (#49935292)
The announcement is a marketing stunt to direct people to their website.
Re:Everything You Do Is Being Recorded on Sunday August 09, 2026 @09:01AM (#49231005)
People wouldn't want this if they were adequately educated.
Re:Don't be a meat proxy on Monday August 03, 2026 @02:46AM (#49152047)
We're already seeing it.
It sure is our business if companies are misappropriating science to sell harmful products or advertize harmful misuse of their products.
Re:Lego building instructions through time on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:57AM (#48956346)
The problem is that modern sets are made up of much higher numbers of parts (especially small ones). Building them would take forever if you had to pause and think every other step, or had to play where's Wally with a dozen new small pieces all the time. Lego would first have to backtrack to simpler sets again before fixing their instruction manuals.
Re:When the Internet Was a Place on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @03:54AM (#47945338)
You can't even do it ironically anymore because the average user doesn't pick up on it and whatever insane joke you pull will become internet norm in the future
Re:Publish (On Your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:53AM (#46474281)
I made an account on twitter/x specifically to promote my site at some point. I was shadowbanned by default and had to follow other people, like and share their posts and comment on other's post just to get my own posts to show up on people's feeds. When I checked again at some later point I was shadowbanned again.

When I tried reddit I also noticed that I was shadowbanned by default and didn't even bother to do anything about because I assumed it would turn out the same way. Like I said you can use those sides to get the word out, but only if you're actively using them as a user to begin with.

Re:Publish (On Your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:29AM (#46474085)
>syndicate elsewhere

That's almost a job in itself because you have to constantly make sure not to get shadowbanned. This is probably only an option for people who already use "social media" sites in the first place. Putting a link to your site in forum signatures was the way to go. Unfortunately, forums are 99% dead.

Don't worry. The time when our computers will be locked down the same way will come in our life time.
Re:Show HN: A website/app to help manage your game library on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @04:35PM (#43626180)
I built mal for videogames too over 10 years ago. A friend also did individually. And I know at least 5 other sites that are "mal, but videogames" or have similar features.

Imo the concept is a waste of time until there are APIs for each console/store to fetch user data and automate libraries. Most users don't bother and the few that do already have accounts spread on like 10 different sites for this kind of thing. Personally these days I just keep csv files of my collection and play history and turn them to HTML via a ssg.Turns out that I don't need anything more than this.

But good luck!

Re:Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here? on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @04:52AM (#43409585)
The new layout, putting attached images and videos on the index, ruined Reddit forever. I recently went there to see what thoughts people on there had on a specific subject, only to find nothing but a stream of meme and social media posts. You really can't call it a forum anymore.
Re:Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @11:07AM (#42781679)
I only have an X account and got no censorship for #fucktrump
Honestly, I barely understand how Firefox's cookie protection works anymore. It used to have the simple option to block third party cookies that I had running all day and felt good with. That was until they started becoming necessary in certain scenarios (I can't even remember the details of what that was).

And then these days I have no idea if I can just accept a website's advertising cookies and expect Firefox to block them anyways, or if clicking on such a button would disable the browser's tracking protection.

Re:The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:00AM (#41377498)
A few years back SO used to be the common top result for my search queries regarding tech and development. I'm not sure when the shift started, but these days it's always a list of content farm links with maybe a link to SO somewhere in between.

The result for me was that I started to rely much more on documentation and writing down notes of stuff I found myself looking up a lot. I never used SO directly for looking up stuff, always relied on search engines, and as they declined in quality I just stopped visiting SO almost alltogether.

I imagine I'm not the only one with this story. Considering users also abandoned the site for LLM assistans and the strict moderation on there, I'm not surprised it is in heavy decline.

Sounds like you're proposing the Matrix. No thanks.
We did. As can be inferred from the title alone.
Re:Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on? on Monday August 07, 2023 @09:06AM (#37033888)
Sucking the carbondioxide out of the atmosphere doesn't seem to be a feasable plan, considering how vast earth's atmosphere is. My growing feeling is that we are long at the point where we need to start putting heavy restrictions in place to avoid desaster. Carbon capture technologies are already in development, but that alone isn't good enough to avert the coming crisis.
Re:Google vs. the Open Web on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:08PM (#36881109)
I don't want to play devil's advocate, but when I consider the history of personal computing it would almost surprise me if this didn't get through. From locked-down smartphones having become the norm to windows having turned into a carrier for advertisements, this just seems like the next step in some inevitable evolution of IT.

Maybe news agencies aren't much interested because this is still only an early proposal, but considering its implications I find it striking how little it seems to be talked about on the web (outside of hackernews). Rossmann seems to be the only one with a video on the topic up on Youtube. There's only a handful of Twitter results for "web environment integrity api" with next to no replies to them. When I look the keystring up on reddit the only result with a noteworthy amount of debate is not related to WEI at all. Social media is probably just on its last legs, but it doesn't seem like too many people that care are left to fight for what the web, or even general computing, used to be.

Re:The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality (1) on Monday July 17, 2023 @10:25AM (#36758598)
>You don’t have inheritance [..]

Modern PL features are more or less wrappers around comparatively complex C code. Object inheritance is actually one that isn't too difficult or complex to implement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM&t=4275s

I think there's a real market for a non-profit discord-like platform on the open web, especially with all the reddit drama going on.

Part of me wants to build this. The larger part knows I'll never ship a game when I keep letting web projects get into the way.

Re:We need a much more sophisticated debate about AI on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:38AM (#35441391)
I find it a little worrying that nobody seems to be considering the implication for society at large. We're having enough trouble with the disconnect of people brought about by social media.

What's going to happen to us when people are less and less required to work with each other in collaboration to get their work done?

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2019) on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @08:57AM (#21692238)
Looking for a flexible part time position

  Location: Duisburg, Germany
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Linux, Vim, C, Ruby, some C++, Javascript, HTML, CSS, SQL, Rails, SDL2, mruby... (I can teach myself whatever I need to get a job done)
  Résumé/CV: https://blog.tohya.net/uploads/other/28402ddf1d1b.pdf
  Email: [email protected]
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2019) on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:59PM (#21428708)

  Location: Germany, NRW  
  Remote: Yes. Local onsite is also fine.  
  Willing to relocate: No  
  Technolgies (current projects):  
  - C, SDL2, mruby, Linux, Git, Github  
  Technologies (past projects):  
  - Ruby, Rails, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Mariadb,  PostgreSQL, Apache Webserver  
  Résumé/CV: My github tells than a resume ever could: https://github.com/tohya-ryu  
  Email: [email protected]

  Languages:
  - Native german
  - English fluent in reading and writing, little experience in talking
  - Japanese confident enough in reading that I no longer rely on translations for japanese media,
  little to no experience in writing and speaking however.
About: I'm all self taught and always eager to improve my skills and broaden my knowledge. Currently looking for a part time job in tech so I can start attending university for a degree in CS next year. Had a job in online marketing where I helped maintain a tracking app for 2½ years, but even while there I learned a lot more from working on my own stuff in my freetime than I did at work (at least regarding tech subjects). Started programming as a teenager over 15 years ago with basic HTML. Always worked on web projects and game dev here and there since then. Been regularly productive since 2015. Specialized in webdev and game programming (although I started the later much more recently).
Re:Vim Splits: A Guide to Doing What You Want (2010) on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:37PM (#21421570)
I use dwm for my windows and both tabs and splits in vim
Re:The Web We Want on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:38PM (#20594910)
Can they help building a time machine to undo the iPhone?
Re:Where we see shapes, AI sees textures on Monday July 08, 2019 @01:22PM (#20384673)
Just a temporary restriction until we start training AI in robots by interaction with the real world.
Re:I forgot how to manage a server on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:19AM (#19796729)
He didn't forget how to manage a web server. He knew his problems, how to look for solutions and how to apply them. That's an important skillset to. Especially since it enables one to keep up with change. You're not a professional sysadmin if you only mindlessly keep using the same configurations that were taught to you.
Re:Mastodon and Keybase on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:22AM (#19672007)
just call them "posts" or "microposts" if you don't like "toot"

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