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The translation feature was always there, they just made it so you don't have to press a button to translate a post. Which I guess is nice, but it's like a minor client-side settin…

Your videogame is a data-harvester for the purpose of ad-serving, why on Earth would GDPR compliance be easy for you? It sucks that the mobile market is essentially just a glittery…

It feels close (it's only 4 years away) and yet futuristic (the new decade!). The way it feels is important because all these statements are based on jack and only exist for hype.

This person is a Luddite. I just don't think that implies what most people on HN wish it would imply, though, as reading thea actual article shows. You don't even need to ask your …

I wouldn't consider gachas to be "actual games" (sue me), but yeah, they do tend to have way more complex gameplay and graphics than the timewaster freemium games of yore. Genshin …

Zionism is the support of the Israeli colonial project. Jewish people have a right to self-determination regardless of Israel's existence; Israel's existence does not determine the…

I mean, yes, you could attempt to take over the largest entertainment market in the world, already dominated by a handful of multi-billion dollar corporations, in the hope that you…

The best part of stumbling upon niche subjects is learning about their mythology. The name Clifford W. Ashley meant nothing to me five minutes ago, but now I'm in awe at the fact h…

California isn't "very left-wing". It's liberal, centre-left if you're being kind. The democrats are a centre-right party with some mildly-leftist pockets of members.

This is a good analogy, but you made it backwards. The "Clergy" fears the "Printing Press", as it acts as a tool of decentralized information spreading. But LLMs are not decentrali…

The coin isn’t supposed to stop you from stealing the whole cart, it’s supposed to stop you from abandoning the cart in the parking lot.

Yeah, trilobites are cute. Sad to see infighting among the beings-that-are-surely-dead community.

The bots are called "crawlers" and "spiders", which to me evokes the image of tiny little things moving rapidly and mechanically from one place to another, leaving no niche unexplo…

I will reveal that I have played far more of Shenzhen solitaire than Shenzhen I/O itself. Zachtronics made a stand-alone version of the game[1], but there's also a fanmade version …

I would also recommend TIS-100's "sequel", Shenzhen I/O. TIS-100 is a bit 'dry', with the puzzles being entirely abstract. In SI/O, you roleplay as a developer emigrating to China …

It's a greater fool scam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory Pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, MLMs, NFTs, Crypto, Memecoins... they're all greater fool scams. All bas…

And that's good. People don't generally lie for no reason. Companies are interested in obscuring their licensing practices because they believe it might hurt them to be more transp…

Well, the difference is that the MMOs are almost uniformly skinner boxes engaging in psychological warfare against each and every person that plays them, while Terraria is the vide…

I've made sure to reference "historical significance" when referencing P&P and the Cabinet for this exact reason. I think every classic undergoes some amount of 'rot', but I've als…

This is something that gets forgotten all the time: the common man could go watch a Shakespeare play for a penny and sip on ale between one dirty joke and the other. Pride and Prej…

It has little to do with authority and more to do with the effort/return ratio. Visual edits are expensive and dialogue changes are cheap, so it doesn't make sense to redraw frames…

Can you please elaborate what you mean by Unity "pointers"? As far as I am aware, in Unity, either you find the node by name via `GameObject.find` or you assign a reference via the…

If you completely ignore the section of the population that needs aid, then yes, there's no need for aid. Might as well stop building wheelchair ramps, because for a healthy person…