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Re:If you love a website, back it up on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:49AM (#50350826)
I just started using it, and to my surprise it only saves the sanitized html content, no scripts no css. I'm thinking of pairing this with archivebox. But hister is amazing. I love it. It's from the creator of searxng if I'm not mistaken which is another piece of great software.
Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:08AM (#50325857)
I don't mean to bring low value demagougue, I can't help but ask myself, when Hitler rose to power, then being jailed and then rose to power even more, did the normal people who wanted nothing to do with his bs felt the same?
Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:10PM (#50321149)
Thank you for giving me a glimpse. Reading half through your comment made me realize I never saw YouTube ads since the AI cancer, naturally, I wondered what it feels like.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:48AM (#50301300)
The problem is, just like with Bitcoin, when you need to use it someone could steal it
Re:A Health Update on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:56AM (#50286633)
Best of luck, hero. Reading the linked post in the beginning made me burst into tears. It's not fair to get all this shit coming your way in a lifetime, let alone one year. I hope you get only the best years from now on <3
Re:Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:46AM (#50243621)
Tangibly related - I use Linear for ticket management and I'm in love with this. After being defiled by Jira in my $dayjob, I couldn't believe I'll find a ticket management app I would love so much I literally advertise for free.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @05:03PM (#50200988)
Well you wouldn't steal a car, why steal a book you rented from the feudal lord? It's his intellectual property.
Re:The Future of CSS on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:44AM (#50178137)
I love emotion.sh with my heart. It used to be so hard to write css for me until I landed on the mental model of styled components
Re:3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:29AM (#50040873)
And sky rocketing (...) prices
Something about reading this blog post knowing every letter and screenshot done manually with no LLM gave me the chills
Re:A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:28AM (#49991247)
Not gp, but my take on this is op is being overly dramatic about stuff, and it activates the mirror neurons on the reader, I don't remember the name of this phenomenon
Re:A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:17AM (#49991165)
You're saying LLMs, but the future holds a full system using it as a tiny component we can't really imagine. Like transistors became unimportant or should I say trivial by themselves, the complex systems built on them are truly unimaginable. Except well if you're David Bowie: https://youtu.be/8tCC9yxUIdw
Re:A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:04AM (#49962849)
I already forgot I did that too. Too bad you can't relive parts of your life '_'
Why that was a weird rabbit hole to go into. Thank you. I don't fall for this stuff though. It looks like a conspiracy theory like the world is flat, etc. That's enough internet for today.
Re:Bob Cringely Has Died on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:53AM (#49953968)
This is heart breaking. I can't imagine going through all of this. I wish the best for his family now <3
To anyone not knowing this dude - I really recommend reading josh.mn - the posts are interesting and well written, personally I love the philosophy of it. To Josh - you're such an inspiring person, thank you
Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News on Sunday September 27, 2026 @12:10PM (#49867990)
You are absolutely right to push on this
Reading this threw me back to 2014 - how was working for AOL back then?
Re:Homebrew 7.0.0 on Sunday September 13, 2026 @07:05AM (#49682570)
Thank you so much for doing this, for years you make me feel like home, or the year 2010. Please don't ever stop!
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:32AM (#49621496)
I ended up adding -ai to every search in the browser level to turn this crap off. I couldn't find a way to disable it otherwise. I did it after it hallucinated the world cup games schedule which made my friend send wrong events to everyone after he "looked it up". Can't stop this from him, but at least this honest mistake won't happen to me.
Re:Programming is Art on Monday September 07, 2026 @07:41AM (#49597137)
Half assed fun fact: there was this painter I can't recall his name, the one that painted that girl with the head scurf. He might have used camera obscura and traced the picture. To me it feels like our times. There's a new tool that can be used along with the tools we have been using for decades to create something magical.
Re:AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:10AM (#49574739)
I've been thinking about this lately - is it like using 3rd party libs to achieve stuff faster? As much as I would lovr to hand craft the datetime logic in my app, I might as well use luxon and invest this time somewhere else. Only now with llms, you get virtually infinite 3rd party libs you can use, you create them on the fly. So if you have strong engineering values, I would say simply it boils down to "contracts over programs", you can still be in touch with the logic that glues it all together and treat some logic as a blackbox the same way we do with 3rd party libs?
Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @04:30AM (#49519450)
While moving from spotify to youtube music a few years ago I bought a vinyl player to listen to full albums and fell for it. Then when I moved to curate and self host my collection with Plex and Plexamp I realized I'm not using the player anymore since I'm using Plexamp to listen to albums. Plexamp is not perfect and not open source unfortunately, but it's a really good non-enshitified product.

I had to migrate away from youtube music since the experience was infuriating me every time. I love making playlists on the go. In youtube music after adding 30 tracks to the play queue, tapping 1 track accidentally deletes the play queue and plays this track. This made me feel bad every time it happened.

I don't see how it is just accepted to lose progress in 2026 as if we're using win95. It feels like 80% of the sw I use provides a caveman UX, not leveraging the tech, leaking implementation details and being constrained by technical reasons. On the other hand, working on Prepbook[0], I realized how hard it is to create the perfect experience and how it's even harder to justify it financially.

I'm doing discovery by talking to people, I love it. Every time I listen to Monolink I recall my co worker that just said "check out monolink" when he heard I love Ott. I love that it makes the experience about connection to people as well.

[0] https://prepbook.app

Re:No AI Fridays on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:52PM (#49500362)
Lead, follow or get out of the way
Re:No AI Fridays on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:43PM (#49500256)
Dam everything about it sounds like a fairy tale. Way to go. That's so inspiring
Re:Glacier Mice on Saturday August 29, 2026 @03:47PM (#49492747)
Why don't you use it anymore?
Re:Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux on Saturday August 29, 2026 @01:56PM (#49491843)
Not GP but I feel like that's kinda their point - the fact that we still have this platform to collaborate in such an organic way is truly remarkable and must not be taken for granted.
Re:OpenAI: Migrating to HTTPX2 on Friday August 28, 2026 @09:29AM (#49478187)
Tangibly related, did you know that odd versions of node don't get LTS, I found it odd at first
It still haunts me, that dot they slipped in, in one of the commits, every time I merge a PR
Re:Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @09:21AM (#49464523)
> Amazon's search effort was shut down the week of October 29, without any measurable success. Major Cynthia Ryan later said it had been more of a hindrance than a help. She said that persons purporting to have seen the aircraft on the Mechanical Turk or have special knowledge clogged her email during critical days of the search, and for even months afterward. Many of the ostensible sightings proved to be images of CAP aircraft flying search grids, or simply mistaken artifacts of old images. Psychics flooded the search base in Minden with predictions of where the aviator could be found. One man from Canada was particularly persistent with daily calls to Ryan. Ryan noted that every message, letter, or phone call was taken seriously, which swamped the USAF specialists assigned the task of reviewing every one of them without regard to apparent plausibility. In retrospect, the crowdsource effort was "not ready for prime time", according to Ryan

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