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Re:AI Bubble Burst on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:25AM (#50304395)
It happened yesterday, on a Thursday.
Why does this even need legislation? Isn't this the default for all companies?
If you want a specific type of food, you don't go to the everything restaurant. You go to the restaurant that specializes in the food you want. One company doing everything has never turned out well in the long run.
Re:Sites in ChatGPT on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:27PM (#49938200)
Nah. Website builders have been around for a long time in various forms. This isn't much different.
Same. There is huge, real demand for memory and storage everywhere you look. New capacity takes 3-5 years to come online. Every vendor has completely sold out capacity and is backlogged on top of that. This 5-year estimate is actually pretty realistic to me. I think we are stuck with high prices on these components for at least the next 3 years, minimum.
Re:New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:33AM (#49434880)
Over for now, or at least a little while until production ramps up to our new reality (~5 years minimum is likely).
Re:HTML Can Do That on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:41AM (#49376200)
Very true, and ran into this one specifically myself when going down the "HTML can do this!" road. HTML can NOT, in fact, replace a good combobox with search input. Datalist has significant shortcomings. I wound up using a React island for this single input inside otherwise normal HTML, despite my own objections, because it really it just that much better than the native options.
I use Grok 4.5 High Fast in Cursor (Agentic window), and it's a genuinely great model.

I don't give a shit about Elon's politics in the same way I don't give a shit about Dario or Altman's politics.

Re:YC startups are abandoning .com on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @10:33AM (#49273006)
> YC startups are abandoning .com

They are not "abandoning" .com domains. They are just really hard to find available or cheap enough to buy, so they launch with something else instead!

.com will always be king

Re:Let's Make the Worst Htmx on Monday August 03, 2026 @09:23AM (#49155498)
If anyone is looking for a TypeScript framework that embraces hypermedia the same way that HTMX does (and is very easy to use with HTMX), check out Hyperspan: https://www.hyperspan.dev

Disclaimer: I built Hyperspan :)

Here is a visual of where/how they are crossing: https://x.com/Karma40114312/status/2083197740218024131
Weird how these streams of immigrants are always young men, and almost never families or groups of women and children actually fleeing some real war or oppression.
Re:The 3-degree limit could be exceeded as early as 2050 on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @11:15AM (#48922135)
If environmentalists and governments really wanted to solve this problem, they would be all in on nuclear energy. It is by far the safest, cleanest, most carbon-neutral form of energy we have that we can produce reliably at volume (base load). We went decades without building any new nuclear power plants in the US.

Instead, what you actually see happening is environmental groups actively working to _shut down_ nuclear reactors before alternate power sources are ready and available, like in Germany and New York. This of course then results in higher prices, brown outs, and burning more coal and natural gas until more alternate power sources can be built to meet demand, also making the pollution issue much worse in the short term. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Re:The Age of Reading Is Over on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @01:42PM (#48834885)
Definitions vary for sure. I just mentioned them because they did well at the box office, which is what will keep "cinema" alive.
Re:The Age of Reading Is Over on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @10:51AM (#48832762)
> Even cinema is dying and nobody seems to care that much.

Cinema is dying from mostly self-inflicted wounds though. They keep making movies (or re-making movies) with bad writing, bad stories, and unrealistic character development arcs that not many people want to watch.

Good movies have been rewarded in theatres. Top Gun: Maverick, Obsession, Project Hail Mary, etc. all had great box office sales when other movies around them flopped.

Re:Workers Cache on Monday July 06, 2026 @10:16AM (#48804957)
Huge props to just sticking with the HTTP spec on this one with `Cache-Control` headers with `stale-while-revalidate` support. It's amazing how many other providers mess that up.

On top of that the cache tags are a slick way to do invalidation. This looks like a great product.

Re:Never Give Them Your Face on Monday June 22, 2026 @12:21PM (#48632281)
I just say "no, I am opting out" and that's the end of it. They literally don't care.
Re:Never Give Them Your Face on Monday June 22, 2026 @12:19PM (#48632265)
They have photos, but not a voluntary full face scan.
Re:Never Give Them Your Face on Monday June 22, 2026 @10:59AM (#48631115)
The phrase "people will not just [...]" comes to mind here.

The amount of people that let the TSA take a scan of their face when going through airport security - even when the signage clearly says you can opt out - proves that this effort, while noble, will fail.

I (and the family members I am with) always opt-out, but every time I look around, I am the only one doing it. If I had to guess, I'd put a compliance figure somewhere around 98%+.

Here is a good article on it: https://medium.com/womenintechnology/you-can-and-should-opt-...

Re:Ferrari Luce – Designed with Jony Ive on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @11:59AM (#48281528)
The dealer issues are true, but we have been very happy with our 2021 Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy after owning it for 5+ years and 82k miles. Budget luxury with pretty good handling and performance. It's a great value package if you need a 3rd row vehicle (I have 4 kids).
Sam didn't "win" the case in the sense that most people will think of when reading this headline.

In the 20th paragraph of the linked article, finally getting to the actual reason:

> On Monday, the jury took only two hours to reach its verdict. Musk’s complaint, the panel found, had indeed exceeded the statute of limitations

Musk is appealing. This fight is far from over.

Re:Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch on Thursday May 21, 2026 @11:07AM (#48224036)
Cursor did this IDE -> Agents transition very well.

Cursor still supports both the IDE and the Agents window, open at the same time, in the same project. I frequently use both and switch back and forth between them. They also link to each other from the top bar and right-click context menus so you can switch to one or the other seamlessly. Best of both worlds. Switch back to Cursor.

Re:Halt and Catch Fire on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:51PM (#48186918)
Speaking of this show... I can't find all seasons of this on DVD/Bluray anywhere.

Seasons 1 and 2 can be found if you have the money, but seasons 3 and 4 are nowhere to be found.

I loved this show and would like to own physical copies of it, but they just don't seem to exist anywhere.

Re:/Dev/Notion on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:05PM (#48124594)
So is Notion Cloudflare now?
Educated guess on why this is happening:

All the people who get free water cups, then fill them with soda. Happens increasingly often now.

We are moving towards a low-trust society faster each day.

Re:I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers on Friday May 01, 2026 @10:08AM (#47975002)
Portless is a great tool for this! I use it for all my apps now. Zero config + built in HTTPS locally.

https://portless.sh/

Example from the website:

- "dev": "next dev" # http://localhost:3000

+ "dev": "portless myapp next dev" # https://myapp.localhost

Re:I still prefer MCP over skills on Saturday April 11, 2026 @03:23PM (#47733257)
Agreed on the MCP sentiment, and particularly remote MCPs. They keep themselves up to date with predefined tools, schemas, descriptions of how to use them, etc. where skills tend to be a mess over time, as described in the article.

Plug: If you want to try chatting with your financial data via an MCP, give FINTECH_MCP a try: https://www.fintechmcp.app - it's got a preview mode too so you can see how it works without linking any real data.

Re:Email obfuscation: What works in 2026? on Thursday April 02, 2026 @11:26AM (#47615765)
I recently noticed an uptick in cold emails and spam after publishing my new website. After a few weeks, I asked Claude/Cursor to obfuscate the email for spam protection in the mailto: link, and thy both used JavaScript with data attributes.

Something like:

``` <a href="#" class="js-mailto ${className}" data-email-user="${local}" data-email-host="${host}" data-email-subject="${sub}" > ${children} </a> ```

And then some light vanilla JS to stitch it together. Works in the browser, and spam has dropped off a cliff since.

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