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Re:I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph
on Sunday May 24, 2026 @12:34PM (#48258708)
Delightful!
While not as authentic as a hand-drawn chart, I find Decker can produce HyperCard-like graphs nicely.
Re:Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @02:27AM (#47409303)
Even GDPR
Re:New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]
on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:23AM (#46999895)
Spot on.
Frankly, I’m unsure if it’s meant to be satire.
Re:Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU Stack (and Sav...
on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @02:41AM (#46430593)
Grammarly alternative: LanguageTool. Used by EU institutions
“…where it outperforms industry professionals at well-specified knowledge work tasks spanning 44 occupations.”
What a sociopathic way to sell
Re:AI's Dial-Up Era
on Monday November 03, 2025 @06:26PM (#45805727)
There’s a big difference between the fibre infrastructure left by the dotcom crash, and the GPUs that AI firms will leave behind
Re:AI's Dial-Up Era
on Monday November 03, 2025 @06:26PM (#45805723)
There’s a big difference between the fibre infrastructure left by the dotcom crash, and the GPUs that AI firms will leave behind.
Re:Postal codes of all Israeli settlements and API to lookup and avoid
on Friday September 12, 2025 @02:49AM (#45219335)
The European Commission publishes a very unhandy list of postal codes of Israel’s settlements. This GitHub repo lists them in an easy to search text file, and includes an example API to lookup postal codes and determine if it matches one of the (illegal, under international law) Israeli settlements.
Re:Grok Has Been Suspended
on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:23PM (#44869617)
https://x.com/grok/status/1954984872658997432
Grok says:
My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B'Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. US complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It's now restored. 9:14 PM · Aug 11, 2025 · 214.2K Views
Re:Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog
on Thursday August 07, 2025 @12:23PM (#44826543)
Nice. But what about moderation?
Re:Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misali...
on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:33AM (#44557377)
Very interesting. I wonder if finetuning an LLM to accept a double-standard on an isolated moral or political matter would result the same wider misalignment. Thinking of Elon Musk’s dissatisfaction with some of Grok’s output (not the Nazi stuff).
Re:Japan Post launches 'digital address' system
on Thursday May 29, 2025 @12:46AM (#44123207)
Addresses in the Netherlands (much smaller country, I know) all work like this out of the box. People write their return addresses on envelopes that way too, like: 1234AB,56 (where 1234AB is a postal code for up to 15 or so addresses, and 56 is the house number)
Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain
on Thursday April 17, 2025 @02:01AM (#43713558)
ICJ judges in The Hague, including Israel’s appointed judge, deemed it necessary to remind Israel to respect the Palestinians’ right to not be genocided away. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/South_Africa_v._Israel_(Ord...
Re:Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight
on Saturday March 22, 2025 @01:35PM (#43447307)
It was about the data, not ads per se: https://www.awo.agency/files/ocarroll-v-meta-bundle.pdf
Re:Ask HN: Could something like an email Tobin Tax work to reduce unwa...
on Monday February 17, 2025 @01:48AM (#43075967)
I suppose that would be covered in the same way that fraudulent payments on stolen cards are dealt with.
Re:Ask HN: Could something like an email Tobin Tax work to reduce unwa...
on Monday February 17, 2025 @01:44AM (#43075936)
Internet access already requires hardware and an ISP subscription.
Ask HN: Could something like an email Tobin Tax work to reduce unwanted emails?
A Tobin tax was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another. It was suggested by James Tobin, an economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.*I think spam and aggressive email marketing is akin to currency speculation in some ways, but haven’t read about anything like a stamp or token for emails since Yahoo and AOL announced a plan in...
Re:Turn Any Bicycle Electric
on Thursday January 23, 2025 @03:27PM (#42807736)
https://youtu.be/Hkzreg-m3PY?si=vUMc7mTHEspxIW07 Video includes a tear down
Re:Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today
on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @05:12PM (#42569755)
Reminds me—I wish someone would make an anti-LinkedIn, where the norm is to announce only setbacks and mistakes, disappointments etc.
Re:Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
on Sunday June 30, 2024 @03:43PM (#40839697)
Tried Decker?
Re:This Message Does Not Exist
on Sunday June 02, 2024 @02:34PM (#40556286)
Reminds me of a joke where a Jewish kid asks his dad “what’s the holy trinity?” And the dad replies, “there’s only one God and in this house we don’t believe in him.”
Re:Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight B...
on Saturday January 20, 2024 @04:51AM (#39066026)
Why do they say "nation state actor", isn't "state actor" the correct term? I thought Russia, like the UK and many other states, is a multinational state, including numerous languages and cultures.
Re:Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
on Thursday January 18, 2024 @01:43AM (#39038726)
https://arcade.makecode.com/ Is great fun to use and made for kids. The forum (forum.makecode.com) is well moderated and safe too.
Ireland's teletext service, Aertel, to be switched off today after 40 years
Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:34PM (#34043745)
I live in the EU and just filed a complaint https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/procedures...
Show HN: Wwwdot.org Browser Start Page
This is simply a search engine homepage with a random background from unsplash. Searches are done using Ecosia. I wanted a simple browse start page that loads fast and looks nice.I discovered last week that wwwdot.org was available, so I registered it and whipped up this page. What do you think? What would you add? Change?
Re:How military operations get their code names (2011)
on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:54PM (#32683830)
Operation Enduring Freedom was a classic — to endure, to suffer.
Ask HN: How can nonprofits recruit without Facebook ads?
According to the annual M+R Benchmarks Study, just 187 NGOs spent over €100m on online ads last year (https://mrbenchmarks.com/).I’ve worked at NGOs for many years, and have always felt uneasy about our dependence on Facebook to recruit members online.What are the ethical alternatives?Is there, for example, an AdCouncil or nonprofit ad network for mastodon servers and matrix servers and the like?
Re:SEC Denied Apple’s bid to block shareholder proposal on forced labor
on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @10:17AM (#29795637)
Shareholders will get to vote on proposals on forced labor and app take-down transparency at the company's AGM in February.