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jitbit
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Comment #49233275
You can use a smart plug that turns it on/off. Or even a mechanical outlet timer. Or set the phone to never charge above 80% Thta said, keeping it on charger for months will eventu…
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Comment #49203539
tragedy of the commons, exactly
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Comment #49101068
I've actually created a Chrome extension for [feature 2] ages ago (mostly for myself). If the current URL is on HN - it shows it (with the number of upvotes) https://chromewebstore…
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Comment #49058259
You can contribute to an OSS platform. To accellerate innovation, adoption etc You CANNOT contribute anything to a model.
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Comment #48787746
I live in Europe, had to get my permanent residence permit and for that - you have to pass the language exam. Boy, that was some experience! I'm in my 40's so learning a new langua…
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Comment #48739695
Anthropic: lets embed super secret invisible undetectable unicode telemetry into our prompts Also Anthropic: lets do this in JS
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Comment #48536799
> world can't deal with something that requires global concentrated efforts Saddest part is that it used to The Ozone layer problem was exactly this: coordinated global concentrate…
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Comment #48299396
I speak Russian and that version sounds way more natural. But you’re right, just being nitpicky
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Comment #48297731
Funny enough the post is machine-translated by AI - from the Russian original at https://orchidfiles.com/ru/im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers-...
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Comment #47900404
This is is different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269 - that was the copilot agent at github - this one is injected by VSCode
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Comment #47296206
Exactly brother, mind if I hug you. I can play with my 7yo, or help the 11yo with his homework, or go for a run!! - while LLM is cooking a well-spec'ed agentic task. This sounds em…
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Comment #47289748
Turning 50 this year. Coding has never _stopped_ being a passion for me, but my increasingly limited time becomes an issue. And Claude code (and cursor) saves me So. Much. Time. I …
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Comment #47182095
Anyone else paused at this line “we do not support mass DOMESTIC surveillance” As a European I’m kinda... concerned now.
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Comment #47026889
I tried doing something like that in my app, and quickly discovered that some modern semantic/functional tags are STILL not supported in some browsers. Or work badly. For example, …
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Comment #46944435
Can't upvote this comment enough. "You're not imagining it." "But my days got harder. Not easier. Harder." "Now?" as the paragraph opener "Why? No reason." as the paragraph opener …
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Comment #46713871
Sometimes when college kids in a hotel room next to mine are being too loud, I go out, check their room number , go back to my room and give them a call (usually just dialing the r…
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Comment #46607120
The title is misleading. It says “dominating” however no sources or percentages are provided. And later in the article it only says “increasingly applying”, with just two examples.…
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Comment #46154579
I don’t work at Microsoft and I have (almost) no friends there, but— My team has relied on the Microsoft stack for over a decade (dotnet, GitHub Actions, VS Code, MS extensions), a…
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Comment #45898926
True - if we're talking about actual security bugs, not the "CVE slop" P.S. I'm an open source maintainer myself, and I used to think, "oh, OSS developers should just stop whining …
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Comment #45891057
I'm founder of a 100% .NET based company (15 years, 1mil LOC), all development happens on Macs, production servers run linux. No issues so far. No, really, I'm facing more issues f…
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Comment #45888669
For us, every .NET upgrade since .NET 5 has gone surprisingly smoothly and reduced CPU/RAM usage by 10–15%. We were even able to downgrade our cloud servers to smaller instances, l…
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Comment #45779964
Why is this flagged? This is pretty significant actually. So stories like this are no longer possible? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734582
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