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It's based on votes mainly. This is covered in the FAQ [1] and the exact algorithm has also been shared in the past [2]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html [2]: https:/…

I've been playing this via Steam and having a lot of fun. It's very satisfying that you start simple and when you discover a new way you cleanly reset and do it better next run.

It's like reading an article that drops in "moist" in every sentence, I'm literally uncomfortable trying to read this

I've always found Whatsapp a terrible name, but its so established now that 'apping' is understood. If you're big enough it seems that a bad name hardly hold you back.

I'm reading a book on Vim and the author mentioned the old "Google is your friend". That aged poorly as well :')

> Thank you for joining the Be My Eyes community! Be My Eyes connects blind and low-vision users with volunteers who can provide visual interpretation of smartphone images, to comp…

I see that makes sense, thank you!

I'd love for more screenshots should anyone have and can share. I still don't get a great picture of how it's running in the browser and I find UI choices fascinating. But I imagin…

Just because wages are high in SF, and your account was free to create, doesn't mean €1 isn't a barrier for someone in Kenya. > As of 2026, the minimum wage in Kenya for general do…

> Though, not at places that have such a strong social mission as this one. That's the shameful thing really. Yeah it's pretty common to have (GDPR violating) cookies and 'share al…

That is basically how I understood the author and what makes the exploit novel, yes. Personally I don't think it's that simple or explicit, but there could be some truth to it?

Could you elaborate? I can't tell with music and voice

But they'd never optimize or loosen guardrails around helping people connect with grandma. It's an interesting hypothesis "use the guardrails to exploit the guardrails (Beat fire w…

What's the irony? The site telling your local time would be helpful how/why?

Malicious actors also buy 'aged' accounts, so you'd need to continually monitor this reputation? Seems a hard challenge to solve for individual site owners.

https://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/ here's some to get you started

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2027507717469049070

Hey it's Joey checking in again. We noticed you mentioned our company, let me know if you have any questions about our (free!) program. I'll go ahead and email you some more info, …

In Dutch we indeed happily do this even for English loanwords like "creditcard" or something more obscure like "lockpick". When in doubt, remove the space.

What an infuriating website. I know complaining about bad websites is frowned upon, but they are actively making it hard to read and click through the links, yet that is the entire…

If you can't one-shot that you've been declawed /s

Journalist publishes lies about himself, is surprised LLMs repeat lies.

From the Wayback Machine [0] it seems they had a normal "open" set-up. They wanted to be indexed, but it's probably a fair concern that OpenAI isn't going to respect their image li…