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Comment #43683613
Nice. We've seen some good engineering work from DeepSeek. Keep it coming.
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Comment #42141175
Wait. When I first saw this news on Twitter I thought it was a joke, since it was a tweet by The Onion.
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Comment #42101873
I’ve been using Linux for a long time for personal purposes and I understand what the blog says. But I also feel like it doesn’t have to be this way: Linux should be easy to use, w…
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Comment #37873859
I'd like to hear a security expert's take on this. Something about this makes me feel real nervous.
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Comment #27663004
Great technological advancement. I believe congratulations is in order.
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Comment #24973478
I'm partially degoogled thanks to Hacker News as well as "Tech Twitter." And as much as I don't think people can be completely "degoogled", we need some healthy competition to keep…
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Comment #24972124
Interesting. Would be really helpful to see a more detailed expert audit on the reverse-engineered source code, and point out to the actual privacy offenses, and analyze how danger…
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Comment #24720652
FWIW, people are already using Apple Pay and Google Pay through a phone with fingerprint sensors. So... it's really not a new thing we're sacrificing privacy for convenience.
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Comment #24261825
Thanks for the work. It's quite some materials to compile. I love how you organize your thoughts and knowledge together and I've just started doing that too.
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Comment #23988232
This could be the right step towards algorithm transparency. It is critical in the information age we're in, while Facebook is promoting alt-right conspiracies, and YouTube is feed…
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Comment #23035628
If I understand correctly, Urbit is a new OS kernel and application layer, with a new weird FP language on a weird VM. Its first app is a crypto ID system. Am I wrong or am I wrong…
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Comment #22344026
As much as I want to believe it, Linux is still quite lagging in the personal computing area, where hardware support, graphics support, creativity application support, and enterpri…
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Comment #22198803
The author used one game as the indicator of the success of the whole platform. Doesn't seem to me as a good reasoning. However the Stadia platform doesn't seem to be gaining a lot…
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Comment #22171926
I upload them to Google Play books.
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Comment #21805774
Not invented here syndrome at it again, this time induced by Slack. I don't even use this thing at work on Windows machines.
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Comment #21722992
A computer shared by a family is not uncommon. You don't use it doesn't mean no one uses it.
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Comment #21398399
Thank you, Guido! I've learned Python and since loved Computer Science.