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it's pretty much impossible to engage with people in a sane way in threads like this. hide and move on.

yep, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyw9rpdl4po > "The US Top Secret-cleared aerospace and nuclear workforce is ~700,000 people," science writer, investigator and pseudoscien…

you know, i feel like the " it's the parents' responsibility " comments that turn up on submissions like this often tend towards phrasing like " the parents " rather than " with my…

emailing hn@ycombinator.com is possibly a better way to raise a question about moderation like this fyi. mods may not see this comment but they probably will see a direct email. th…

It's not everyone else's fault that executives etc. decided to grow their userbase/business/profits at all costs, i.e. with no concerns for the harms they've been causing. It's sim…

didn't know about lite, thanks for the tip

> Been using ipgeolocation.io to fetch the additional information about the GEO locations, ASN information, etc.

> (i.e. popups, banners large enough to push users to interact with them, etc.). "i.e." doing a lot of work there. GDPR doesn't require pop-ups or banners for providing consent. It…

they are now attempting to "de-slop-ify" it https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/linkedin-re... which is hilarious

> Drm is not targeted at the hardcore pirate, it's targeted at a potentially larger percentage of people who would be tempted to get the thing for free if it was easy spotify and n…

youtube video link from the article behind the "you must agree to cookies to play this youtube video embed that's actually not a youtube video embed" shenanigans https://www.youtub…

except during that time players aren’t huddling around the manager and the rest of the coaching staff. all of whom have their ipads out to discuss stats breakdowns and instruct pla…

They could, but an LLM makes it faster and easier to launder code. And makes it harder to detect. Plenty of github accounts now are agent-driven monstrosities just trying to inflat…

> It's enough to tell you that, if it does happen, it must be quite rare and not a systematic issue. alternative perspective: it's just taking time for the lawyers to figure out wh…

> The concern discussed here is copyrighted material being generated unintentionally and the original author asserting their rights. both intentional (malicious contributor) or uni…

reminded me of: > The complaint argued that "the basis of the Gaye defendants' claims is that "Blurred Lines" and "Got To Give It Up" "feel" or "sound" the same. Being reminiscent …

> To my knowledge there is not a single known case where this happened. > News back then were about intentionally prompting to output known copyrighted material. First, there are o…