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It is truly odd in a way. You had posts here about Google managers or execs saying AI coded something solid in a few days what their own team were working on for months or years, o…

Latest Firefox on Android (v.136) can't open Google Maps directions (car, transit, walking) when user refuses to be redirected to the Maps app and gives Request Cannot Be Completed…

>Netflix is what you put on while you are doing other things. Yeah, I watch all films I consider worth seeing in the theater frankly. I rarely have nightmarishly disruptive movie g…

>Work should be based on results The people who play politics also have their work judged by results. Getting yourself promoted to head a project that prints money for the company …

>it's amusing how brown is used here. Brown here is being used here to mean Brown University. In what way do you find it amusing.

Yes, and unfortunately the “desire” for scientific research of everyday life is hard to maintain because frankly in our current times it has dawned on many that scientific research…

Thanks for the explanation dang. >Posts by new and low-karma users are not automatically killed. Anyone can see that by looking at the /newest page. >[let us] know about them at hn…

>it means that they shares (let's say) the gussed city name with Microsoft. I'm not sure I understand or maybe I'm missing something, sharing the guessed city is not "technically" …

>Then again, you did assume that this was done automatically. If you see multiple [dead] stories that are minutes old by different users that have non-clickbait tech titles it is n…

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Your impatience has betrayed you. Some examples from the next pages, that caused me to write this post: [dead] Show HN: Try QwQ-32B for Free: Advanced AI Reasoning Model (qwq-32b.n…

If you go to the "lists" page there is literally a "noobstories" page, because someone deemed that that would be an interesting filter for some people to explore. What's the point …

Just an FYI -- I don't know if this has been the case for a while and I'm just noticing it, or a new moderation change but a lot of noob submissions and low karma user submissions …

I have no idea how random the librewolf maintainers are but the next iteration raising the bar for high-impact open source projects should definitely have a checkbox for "has a key…

It's called a "shadow government" in European (?) parlance[0], though not to be confused with the term "deep state". That is, the opposition basically prepares a shadow government …

>when the Country needed Americans to call out the corruption Just for the record, Trump tried to get the attorney general of the Southern District of New York to drop the case aga…

>US involvement forced Israel to withdraw unilaterally from Gaza in 2005 Ah yes, history started in 2005. Let's talk post-2005 then. This was when Netanyahu, an elected leader of I…

The parent post is by and large correct, except for the right-hand man of Donald Trump stuff. Musk was indeed trying to buy influence, which is definitely not a "5D chess move" but…

This is the correct answer. Trump won because of the current economy. Biden's margin over Trump in 2020 was double Trump's margin over Kamala. Democrats did better than expected in…

>We grew up on hopeful sci-fi and will stick to it until our bitter end. American optimism and hope did not derive itself from "hopeful sci-fi" or tech. The sci-fi and tech came in…

Thanks for the info. Doesn't "revoking the Equal Employment Opportunity executive order" entail that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will be affected? [0] EDIT: Trump a…

Here's a take that I came across which I'd like your views on if possible: When the Civil Right Act and Americans with Disabilities Act were created, people asked the government to…

You said in your comment above that he's "out there ranting about wokeism like a lot of them now, he's losing the plot", as if his stance is a new thing. I was just pointing out th…

> He also doesn't even list a specific example of something he wants to say but "can't." That's because he's making the general point that in every era there is always something "t…