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Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:44AM (#47000030)
I don't know what all this fuss is around. I'm not a fanboy and I just use my macbook as a tool.. and the resizing works fine. Is it maybe a mouse thing? I use the touchpad
Re:JPEG XL Demo Page on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:04AM (#46718180)
Is the selectable text a safari thing or a JPEG XL thing?
Re:Why didn't AI "join the workforce" in 2025? on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @03:28AM (#46509986)
I use an agent in all my day to day coding now. It's a lot small tasks to speed me up, but it's definitely in use.
Re:Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @09:39AM (#46375936)
This must be the hardest way to create an image online ever invented.
my guess, the content person put a temporary video while they waited for the correct one.. and then nobody checked again and made it live. that's why I use tellytubby videos
Re:Tell HN: HN Was Down on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @12:06PM (#46302241)
Thought for a second I got banned for something lol
Re:2025 Word of the Year: Slop on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:43PM (#46278551)
I watched that show on netflix where the professional song writers would write potential hit songs.. that was the closest thing to human slop I've seen
Re:Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:38PM (#46278493)
its so that they can tell the investors that "100 million" people use their bs
Re:GenTabs on Friday December 12, 2025 @02:22AM (#46241690)
google wave?
Re:The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora on Thursday December 11, 2025 @01:48PM (#46235355)
1B down the toilet
Good!
Re:Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros on Friday December 05, 2025 @08:09AM (#46160792)
I'm excited about getting access to the whole WB catalogue?
Microsoft is so disconnected from what it's users want and need.
I once read this thing somewhere, might have been reddit, but the person explained it like this and even if not completely true it makes a lot of sense. When the brain is dying, it searches through past experiences—something it’s never faced before—trying to find a way to survive. That process is what we perceive as life flashbacks.
Re:Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @03:22AM (#45653327)
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Re:iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @03:20AM (#45653315)
that's why liquid glass is more resource intensive, apple's gotta sell new iphones next season
from chatgpt for this article:

“Inside the Matrix: How the Brain Rewrites Reality When Learning Goes Wrong”

“Neural Jedi Training: How the Brain Masters Skills—and Sometimes Turns to the Dark Side”

“Glitch in the Mind: Why Our Brain’s Learning System Sometimes Crashes”

“Braincraft: How We Level Up Knowledge—and Why We Sometimes Rage Quit”

“Neural Flight School: Why the Brain Sometimes Loses Control of the Plane”

“Mind Avengers: When Brain Circuits Team Up—and When They Fight Back”

“Stranger Thoughts: What Brain Simulators Reveal About Learning Gone Weird”

“Control+Alt+Brain: Rebooting How We Learn and Unlearn”

“Mind Simulator 2.0: Debugging the Brain’s Learning Software”

“Fast & Curious: How the Brain Learns at High Speed—Until It Skids Out”

I am 200% for communicating science. But while this is titled to attract young minds it's just too old vibed.
Oh ffs, stop trying to make science "relevant" by these lame titles. Science is cool, just do that.
we're never going to get rid of the boomers are we?
Re:Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads on Thursday September 18, 2025 @01:05PM (#45292151)
I'll take the free fridge and jailbreak it
Re:A Website Is a Room on Friday September 05, 2025 @10:20AM (#45138936)
33, 1
Can I have an invite code please
Re:SuperDevPro: Browser Extension for Developers and Designers on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @12:41PM (#44963470)
Will try the free functionality in the next day or 2 and will upgrade if I find it works for me
"The angry, insecure and unwell are over-represented in technical forums." no, they're over-represented on all forums
so.. how would Apple know?
Re: on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @02:57PM (#44380736)
they're sunsetting search
"Generally, you don't take a fine precision machine tool [a lathe] and saw it in half... but power tools are made to be jury rigged." - Tim
Re:WordPress Feature API on Thursday April 17, 2025 @05:32PM (#43722459)
Not sure this is enough.. after the recent public turmoil I've hade multiple clients asking specifically for non wordpress systems. All of their resources is going into the bloated gutenberg pipe dream. The developers that sold and implemented these systems doesn't care about gutenberg at all, it's just another page builder. They should have kept it in a separate plugin.

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