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minton

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About minton

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    Comment #49058076

    Terrible! Source?

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    Comment #48636956

    Nostalgic maybe, but not sure it qualifies as beautiful.

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    Comment #48585685

    I know this is targeted at game dev, but I wonder if this would work well for a huge MS Access app.

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    Comment #48560698

    I’m glad people are looking into this because I do think it’s the future. However, why would you not take advantage of the heavily subsidized frontier models while you can. It’s ob…

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    Comment #48555237

    What do people get out of this kind of spam? How does having AI regurgitate another post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553975 ) benefit them?

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    Comment #48365754

    > No body who has a choice is using Grok The Grok app had over 100 million downloads in 2025, over 60 million active users, and generated $350 million in revenue. That’s a lot of p…

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    Comment #47805926

    Digital currency can help control you. Imagine negative inflation based on your social score.

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    Comment #47337069

    Same. I have been using it all morning, no issues.

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    Comment #47325241

    So you’ll just not use Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, or Android? In other words, you’ll just not use any computers? Seems nonsensical.

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    Comment #47222591

    Not my experience. I have iPad Pro and I only use it for workouts. It sits on my workout machine and once or twice a week I try to watch a ~45 min episode while doing cardio. It’s …

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    Comment #46865624

    But Electron doesn’t hit that bar even

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    Comment #46766580

    > Designed exclusively for tracking objects, and not people or pets, the new AirTag incorporates… Interesting to call out that it’s not designed for pets. I know several people wit…

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    Comment #46758869

    Lots of things people might want to monitor for such as nail biting.

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    Comment #46263460

    I’ve looked at jj, but couldn’t make sense of the proposed benefits. I always stage individual files and never the entire working directory, so I’m confused how it improves that ov…

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    Comment #46152725

    > An IndyCar is heavier than a Formula 1 car: while a Formula 1 car weighs 1759 pounds / 798 kg including the driver, an IndyCar weighs 1700 pounds / 771 kg on road and street cour…

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    Comment #46148426

    How are all these chat app funded?

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    Comment #45801085

    Isn’t idea of insurance at odds with the idea of a pre-existing condition? Like car insurance is a hedge against a crash. We don’t let people buy it after totaling their car. We re…

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    Comment #45451885

    I suppose they could take their enterprises with them. Removing jobs and taxes from the local economy.

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    Comment #45381957

    I love the idea of this. Keep perfectly working things from being made obsolete artificially. They should look at the old Nest Protect next.

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    Comment #45334857

    > At its core, Omarchy embraces Linux . . . makes a version of it that is accessible and fun to use for developers that don’t have a deep background in operating systems.

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    Comment #45334318

    Maybe one company should not be able to decide which browsers we are allowed to use.

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    Comment #45158477

    The zoomed in view is great if you’re commonly examining under magnification, but perhaps a slightly less zoomed view (or ability to switch between each) might make this more pract…

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    Comment #45140772

    We are are migrating back to Docker org-wide after 5 months on Podman.