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So random youtuber gave you something of value - something that saved you hundreds of dollars from not having to get a professional repair - yet you have something against random Y…

Or you could not consume the content.

YouTube is tolerable with ads. If I found it intolerable, I would pay. Or not visit.

I don’t use adblockers. If a site has too many ads to be usable, I don’t visit it.

> I would love for something to force a speed and power rating on USB-C plugs. This already exists. Cable makers can certify their cables and mark them with their data speed and wa…

How do the cars do when breaking a rule is necessary? For instance, a car is broken down in the one forward lane of a two-lane road, requiring the waymo to cross the double-yellow …

The whole point is that the friend wouldn’t know what an agent is. The friend would have heard that AI is changing the world and she would have went into ChatGPT or maybe Claude or…

Some people want a new car all the time. Leasing is not a bad way to do that. Wanting a new car all the time is the expensive decision, not leasing, which is merely a manifestation…

Heh, I saw the title and the domain, and I thought it was referring to wealth transferred from poor to rich by all the credit card fees that merchants pay that are refunded to well…

I had what I thought was a completely ridiculous prompt: “Build me a replacement for Microsoft Word.” ChatGPT did what I thought was the right thing: it responded asking along the …

“You need to look up Oneplus to see how many people were using their devices till they announced exit from Western markets.” The final part of this sentence shows why there is abso…

I am always very polite with my chat bots. Mostly because the interface does mimic human conversation and I’m afraid that if I’m rude to the bot, I’ll get used to being rude and th…

Don't they also need plentiful water?

This is a good point, but CarPlay is not open interoperability. Open is DisplayPort. Open is 3.5mm jack. Open is Bluetooth. The car has two proprietary tie-ins to two dominant mobi…

I think CarPlay is evidence of failure. My aim is device independence. In the old days, to print I had to hook up my printer to a computer. To print from a computer on the network,…

The “2026: Logging on today” section is way off the mark. It says that if you want to read the headlines, you turn on your Windows PC, get nagged for updates, etc. No. You get your…

This article is but one example of a tiresome genre: the paean to the supposed glory days of aviation. Passengers dressed up, dined on caviar, and smoked cigarettes. Stewardesses w…

OpenTTD and 0ad are open-source games that have been under development for many years, which tickles the hacker sensibility. I think these two games fit into the HN mindset much mo…

“I assume it's because he is seeking to pay rent, food bills, and other expenses through employment.” Fair enough, so if there were one “right” answer, that would be the one to giv…

I do not understand why this matters. Judge the content on its merit. It makes no difference if “AI wrote it”.

I frequent a small venue that sells all its tickets through this vendor. They have other venues as well, also using this vendor. https://www.axs.com/

Their "shrink rate" is low. Members are less likely to steal.

As the saying goes, anyone can build a bridge that lasts forever. It takes an engineer to build one that lasts fifty years.

Nine women can already have babies in parallel. That is, nine women cannot have a baby in one month, but nine women can have nine babies in nine months.