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> Bing is obnoxious, and it's asking me to cognitively process 100 different things other than the only thing I care about: my search results. Google (privacy issues aside) is terr…

> The government is banning a business from the country, which I'm sure we've done before. Ah yes, the great firewall of America. We've finally caught up to the totalitarian regime…

Meta hired a firm last year (Targeted Victory) to malign TikTok: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/meta-cant-buy-ti...

Gecko and SpiderMonkey still exist, despite all of the terrible Blink/V8-only implementations out there…

Gave “him”?

Uh, couldn’t link directly to Microsoft? https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-sear...

> "In addition it's probably a good idea for Secure Boot to be enabled for the average user if you can." That's a hard pass for me.

Why thankfully? What if you cannot access your local library for a myriad of reasons?

> An optional appstore with verifications is one (great) thing, making it mandatory is another. Sure, and it's great that Android has side-loading and it would be nice if Apple off…

I'm pretty sure it's about the ethics of altering humans and a fear or a resurgence of eugenics. That aside, I'm also pretty sure someone reviewed his work and found out that his H…

Be careful, a few fraudulent transactions and the teams would start thinking you're just trying to get out of paying your bills instead of helping you out. Lots of banks have virtu…

According to Google Stripe was posted on HN 130 times in the last month. I'm guessing for someone who uses HN daily this might skew their world view to assume that Stripe is everyw…

> The cost of Apple's gatekeeping -- their review bureaucracy -- is entirely their own doing and benefits no one. That was actually the reason I ditched my Android and switched to …

> Older IEs don't have Array.indexOf() IE8 and older to be specific[0]. But, if you're supporting IE8 still you have bigger problems at hand. Microsoft stopped supporting any versi…

> many startups in reality do start paying at or above market I think that's the key phrase here. I don't know if they paid at or above market rate and that would be where I'd star…

> You mean like how Google got ECC forward-secure TLS deployed across the whole Internet? Did you finish reading the article? > Facebook’s WhatsApp has brought end-to-end encryptio…

> I pay $70 for AT&T's UVerse GigaPower fiber (300/300 right now) in Austin Does that include the opt-out from tracking fee? I don't live in Austin and don't have GigaPower, but I …

Likewise :) My apologies if that was over the top, I meant no disrespect.

Excuse the poor pun but.. are you serious? Facebook excluded several of your friends based on their terrible name policy. They run their walled garden however they want to. Your pa…

> I'd assume that the text is modified in units more complex than substrings and whitespace splitting? Correct. Each letter in Arabic can have up to four shapes depending on its po…

> I'd love to see a plan to making the Hacker News site work great on mobile Seconded. I'd also like to see something implemented to control the contrast on downvoted/dead entries.…

> I still can't quite follow. FTC = bad. FTC investigates companies for small problem while ignoring other companies that do way worse. Hope this helps.

Very neat! Mind if I borrow some of the CSS for my cards trick[0]? [0] http://cluecode.com/cards/

> The amount of bad faith people ascribe to basic usability functions utterly astounds me. I think most of it comes from how Google (and the industry in general) has evolved. There…

> This also happens on iOS with spotlight. As far as I can tell there's no way to turn it off. You can turn it off from Settings > General > Spotlight Search. Uncheck "Spotlight Su…