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Same on iOS
Imagine my shock.
Molyneux's mecosystem
Re:Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods on Saturday July 12, 2025 @09:40AM (#44541995)
We don't use that word anymore. It's called refinement.
Stochastic parrots
The only issue stopping me from using Linkwarden is that it creates duplicates when importing bookmarks, see https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/issues/442
Re:Prepper Disk on Friday April 25, 2025 @12:52PM (#43795883)
Here are some Kiwix datasets for preppers https://library.kiwix.org/?lang=eng#lang=eng&tag=preppers (you may have to clear the URL params if you don't see any results)
Re:Nice Things with SVG on Sunday April 13, 2025 @10:51AM (#43673210)
New attack vector unlocked
Re:Google Cache Is Fully Dead on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @06:44PM (#41652659)
Another useful feature gone, I relied on the cache many times in the past 15 years (almost on a daily basis), it will be missed.
There's no need to worry, I'm sure someone will create an open source equivalent (if there isn't one already).
The best
Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 on Sunday May 26, 2024 @05:34PM (#40485586)
Goodbye from 281436455, registered in ~2005.
"Chris Krycho, a well-known software engineer and blogger, shared his experience working on a large codebase at LinkedIn. He discussed how much velocity was valued over engineering excellence, which led to burnout and the decision to leave the company. Chris also mentioned the concept of "Ratchets," small, incremental changes that can be made to improve software development processes and tools. He is currently looking for a new role that aligns with his personal values and priorities."

https://tldrai.com/result/?conversion=cded34924aa147999c6f3f...

There's also this annoying problem with the launcher multicasting stuff on network constantly.

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/bug-reports/battle...

Re:Our Cellphones Aren't Safe on Thursday December 27, 2018 @06:13AM (#18768843)
There are no secure smartphones (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905643
Re:The Circuitry in Our Cells on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:42PM (#16415972)
Relevant SHA2017 talk - DNA: The Code of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcGM_cNzQmE
There doesn't seem to be any free option (cheapest is 25$)
Re:Intuition in Mathematics (2012) [pdf] on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:09PM (#13465494)
A quote from Von Neumann comes to my mind:

"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

What are you using then? I'm curious about which distro best handles font rendering.
Re:Ask HN: What should I do with my old laptop? on Monday July 04, 2016 @04:37AM (#12029475)
Yeah! He should go back to sleep!
Re:Wartime Radio: The Secret Listeners (1979) [video] on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @12:58PM (#11715206)
Lovely video, thanks. I would also recommend to watch Secret History of Sillicon Valley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo - to anyone interested in similar topics.
Re:Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules on Friday September 11, 2015 @06:25AM (#10202918)
Haha yeah, then you would see how fast would corporations allow working remotely (if the nature of the work makes it possible).
Re:The quest to save today’s gaming history from being lost on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @08:04AM (#9651940)
That is an amazing idea, I wonder if Blizzard stores such data.