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Why does neither Microsoft nor Google nor Apple take the lead and offer free LLM answers like Google offers free search results? Is that because there are simply not enough GPUs ou…

Just to make me understand this: This is about storing data in the form of "Facebook user XYZ looked at a page about travel to Antarctica" and the reason Facebook wants to store su…

For example, if a user specifically asks for a URL's full text, it might inadvertently fulfill this request. So this seems to imply two things: 1: Bing has access to text on websit…

Congrats! Going full time is the only way to go for a project you love and want to grow. What is the business model? How much visitors does Marginalia have?

There is a subreddit about Reddit alternatives: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/

That's why I suggested piggybacking on HN's karma points.

Hosting costs: Let's start with text only. Moderation: True, that's hard. But maybe piggybacking on HN's karma points could solve it? Network effects: Do we really need many users …

What are some of those Reddit clones? Any of them decentralized, so there is no "one ruler" who can close down the thing in the future?

Do we really need a big part of the community to have a good "forums for everything" site? To me it seems, that 99% of Reddit is just "content fast food" and low quality comments. …

What is the hard thing about building an open, user-friendly Reddit alternative? Hosting the posts shouldn't be that hard. Storage is so cheap these days. Is it the legal aspects o…

Can GnuCash be used to do your taxes in Germany? Any indie makers here doing their taxes on their own? So far, I have always worked with a tax consultant. But I wonder if it really…

Going by that logic, no technological progress would take place at all.

Its not just firewalls. Its also all kinds of code that interacts with the internet in all kinds of ways. Extending all that code to two kinds of IPs, writing tests, setting up two…

This is one of the reasons I do not support IPv6 anywhere. It would take a lot more work to support two types of network requests. I hope I can ignore it up to the point where I ca…

Is the world becoming more and more Orwellian? Is this a long term trend? It got pretty much unnoticed on HN, that Europe recently voted to make all crypto payments illegal unless …

I think the ads will become even better. Say you put the message you just posted through Google to correct style, facts and spelling. You know how it would reply? Here we go: The t…

Releasing a LLM would not kill Google's revenue. It would increase it. Because more people would use Google than before. And they could still show relevant ads. The big question is…

Does Twitter have any way to prevent/punish using screenshots instead of the Twitter embed thing when you put Tweets on your website? Twitter can probably not use copyright to figh…

The combination of your "CPU as undefined, Memory as 8GB, Platform as MacIntel" can still be used to fingerprint you. Independent of whether the values represent your actual hardwa…

Someone should also look into the "navigator" variable that websites can access. It provides a strangely open look into the user's machine. For example, it allows websites to know …