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Izkata

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    Comment #49223507

    Same with ublock origin on firefox, been years since I've seen any ads. There was a period where they tried to break through the blocking and occasionally I'd see one, but it kinda…

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    Comment #49213102

    Heatmap of the past year: https://isgithubcooked.com/ It got worse around April/May this year, while that graph stops at February.

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    Comment #49212814

    > because a small group of hateful fucks pretended it meant something else. That was a 4chan op designed to make leftists overreact and look stupid. There were also like a dozen ot…

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    Comment #49209985

    See this other top-level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207498 The github page links to web.archive.org, the malware was caught immediately, and in response it lie…

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    Comment #49203213

    "Developer" became popular to mean all three to distinguish from "programmer", only the first one.

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    Comment #49195513

    The original site is long gone, but the image still exists at similar URLs. Though from the description on KnowYourMeme, apparently no one has duplicated the original site, so ther…

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    Comment #49178086

    The whole point of the 2025 one is that they found the self-reporting to be significantly inflated, which is why self-reported surveys like this one are hard to trust.

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    Comment #49178053

    > Or reducing meeting load. Well, I expect when you've vibed too much and lost track of the code, and can't answer questions in meetings anymore, you'll stop getting invited to the…

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    Comment #49177932

    Aww, looks like the magnetometer web API was abandoned: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Magnetomete...

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    Comment #49177912

    Translations? Not far enough, got to include rotations: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Device_orie... (And yes, CSS can rotate around all three axes, so you could…

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    Comment #49162183

    A woman's DNA match to a dead baby from before she was born led to the arrest of her grandmother: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/us/baby-garnet-cold-case-mich...

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    Comment #49155396

    To repeat their last two sentences: > Even before LLMs we were aware if it: we knew people moving to managerial/PM roles eventually get their coding skills rusted. Well, now we are…

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    Comment #49150523

    I think visual mode has existed as long as vim existed, and vi was what didn't have it. When I first started at my company, we did all work on shared VMs, and the system vimrc had …

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    Comment #49146698

    > Then you have people that start using AI as their guiding light, with every question on how to live and interact with others going though the AI. And even people replacing human …

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    Comment #49130406

    The Whispering Earring might be closer: https://croissanthology.com/earring

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    Comment #49125992

    It was already a thing two years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1dn81b5/ai_a...

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    Comment #49123401

    It's a simplification of the original icons which both looked like and were called menu icons/buttons, so it makes some sense if you were around long enough: https://www.theregiste…

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    Comment #49123201

    Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114450

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    Comment #49113590

    And Network pages which you were automatically included in based on your .edu domain, designed to facilitate real-world activities at that location.

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    Comment #49113408

    > There are practically no town squares. In the mid-2000s, my hometown decided to build a town square. They put it at the edge of town next to the train station, where it would loo…

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    Comment #49109698

    > Conclusion! I will give them one positive though: They didn't actually label it "conclusion". That's always been a signal to me that someone doesn't know how to tie their thought…

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    Comment #49109418

    > It took 17,600 actions, tested many paths that failed, switched channels when they were blocked, and repeatedly returned to earlier leads. Something I've been thinking for a few …