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Re:I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots
on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:58PM (#49665294)
Is there an open database of this?
Re:Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max
on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:44PM (#49090995)
Cool stuff. Do you have a the hardware and a way to bridge the compute? Or just hopeful?
Re:Microsoft is using TPM chips to crack down on pirated Windows activ...
on Monday July 27, 2026 @09:57AM (#49069788)
What is windows actually good at? I bought a computer with it pre installed a copy a few years back and it seemed like just an upsell into Microsoft’s ecosystem and random other ads.
Everything was slow, barely responsive you could just feel the code bloat. After a few hours I just gave up and installed a Linux distro.
Are people really putting up with this en masse as consumers?
Re:Will tech giants ever let us opt out of AI search features?
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @10:20AM (#48762063)
With most of these moments put X into everything is just a moment of temporary insanity with a high dose of FOMO. It eventually settles into a clearer patterns of where it makes sense and makes revenue at margin.
The last point is key though if there’s actually margin to be made we’re stuck with it.
Re:10 years building vertical software: are we cooked?
on Monday February 16, 2026 @06:11PM (#47041609)
Even if it wasn't generated by AI, it reads like an advertisement for some company which sure sounds like a wrapper on top of a LLM. I think the moat for that type of company is a lot less defensible than any of the Vertically Integrated category leaders by a country mile.
Re:Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2
on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:57AM (#46589381)
This is so cool, I’m glad the company allowed the author to release this to the public. People like myself with knowledge of some of the art and technology involved but that stand outside the industry can get a little bit of a sense how the SOTA of animation evolves.
Secondly the bit about the evolution catching the unnamed studio, likely Pixar in production capability as of the first Zootopia certainly shows up on screen.
What did I just click on? Love the no context drop in with 37 points and no comments.
That being said whatever this is… something
Re:OpenAI won't make money by 2030 and needs another $207B, HSBC estim...
on Friday November 28, 2025 @08:19AM (#46078401)
I think you may want to adjust your units there. 500M is a Tuesday breakfast for these AI companies burn rate
Re:Apple reports fourth quarter results
on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:15PM (#45765469)
Seems like the obvious reason for this is that Mac is now a niche for people that operate computers, where there are likely 6 people that don't for every 1 that does. We keep hearing that the next generation is "true computer" illiterate.
The second reason is likely that there are computers that are 1/3 of the price subsidized by the terrible ad-supported OS installs. (Has anyone tried to setup a MS computer lately, it's an ad-box).
Re:Ask HN: Widespread Apathy?
on Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:27PM (#40674327)
Looks like this post was buried, what part of the rules did it fall afoul of?
Ask HN: The word "Surfaces" – when did it enter the lexicon?
I'm hearing this all over the place right now, feels like it means something along the lines of feature, how does everyone else understand it?
Re:Daily Price Tracking for Trader Joes
on Thursday February 08, 2024 @12:57PM (#39305186)
I feel like Charles Shaw is an exception to that and cheaper in California?
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/trader-joes-two-buck-chuck-...
Ask HN: What is the modern take on the role of design regarding visioning?
I’m have a hard time understanding whether it’s an industry shift or something more local. The design org in my company has decided to dedicate 50% of their capacity for the last six months or so to what they call “Visioning”. I’ve found a few articles about this, but not to the drawbacks. It seems to be that the expected output is a few features pulled from the exercise to roadmap validates...
Re:Netflix adds 13.1M subscribers, tops revenue estimates
on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @06:25PM (#39111444)
"Netflix is also looking at making its ad tier more attractive to advertisers, including by bolstering its sales teams and ad operations to “meet brands where they need us and how they need us.”
“We’re focused on the long-term revenue potential here,” said (Co-Ceo) Peters. “We’re very optimistic about it. It’s a huge opportunity."
Seems about what everyone was predicting, and inline with making the watching experience worse. It's surprising they added subscribers. I wonder how many were due to deals with Phone providers etc.
Re:T-Mobile US to Lay Off 5k Employees
on Thursday August 24, 2023 @11:41AM (#37250165)
Interesting, they just gobbled up the Mint Mobile MVNO for something like 1.35B which was already using their network and of course there's the Sprint for 26B and now are cutting jobs to save half that.
I wonder how much of this is the articles cable company wireless deals, and more just consolidation of jobs around the new megaco they've created.
Re:Joe Murray – Creating Animated Cartoons with Character (2010) [pdf]
on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @02:03PM (#37239845)
Thank you. This will be great to work through with my kids - They're really into the Captain Underpants and Dogman which feature a lot of characters and I'm building their creations into video games with Godot.
Seems like an opportunity to do a reprint? I don't love printing 240 pages on a home printer... but maybe that's the only option.
What's the copyright situation if I tried to reprint this for personal use through an on-demand printer, would they accept it?
Re:Meta releases New SOTA Text to Music generator better than MusicLM
on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:13PM (#36272417)
Pretty good at transcribing the text, but the outputted music feels for lack of a better word “safe”. For example the kicking beat is way to generic and soft.
Re:JMAP – a much needed modern email open standard
on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @02:26PM (#36128563)
I tried to implement this for quite a while but the ecosystem situation both server and client seemed to be a status of "Weekend Project" rather than a robust implementation. Is there commitment to create a reference implementation etc.
Re:Home Prices Rose in February for First Time Since June
on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @09:47AM (#35700410)
Home Prices Rose in February for First Time Since June
Re:US CFTC Sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao
on Monday March 27, 2023 @12:23PM (#35328638)
Is this confirmed that it's really launching in July, do you have a source?
Re:Stop Listening Please, Google
on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:07PM (#34542338)
Can anyone (perhaps a former employee) confirm this behavior. I can’t tell if I’m imaging connections or the words spoken are being ingested by the ad machine.
It seems like a huge overreach to be listening, the microphone privilege I could see being abused for this, but it just seems so wrong.
Re:News Corp in Talks to Sell Realtor.com for $3B
on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:51PM (#34514547)
News Corp in Talks to Sell Realtor.com for $3B
Re:Ask HN: Why is Google freaking out about ChatGPT
on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:48AM (#34491311)
I totally get your point, that was a fun metaphor.
Re:Stripe Extends Partnership with Amazon
on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:53AM (#34490300)
Wait, obviously Amazon has their own checkout software. Is this a name recognition play to have AWS come with Stripe batteries included?
Ask HN: Why is Google freaking out about ChatGPT
It seems like a recurring narrative is that this level of AI will disrupt Google and others, but why? Is it just because it will become easier to crest “shovelware” articles that will mess with uniqueness of pages, or a personal assistant type feature “Book me the best hotel in Phoenix” or something else?
Re:Meta dumping nearly half a million square feet at San Francisco hig...
on Saturday January 21, 2023 @10:12AM (#34466923)