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That goose was already roasted. Firefox can't be trusted with Mozilla because Mozilla can't be trusted with Firefox. They intervened in the most important antitrust trial so far th…

You're replying with a trite cliché to a comment saying that this particular technology was step N-(20+) being built at step N.

> So with that in mind, why wouldn't AI be able to write better code? > Since this is Claude, the models of the future might be more expensive, or more locked down, or might decide…

Don't use your phone while you poop if you're a phone addict like this person and their demographic, and you need to create an artificial excuse for you to stop constantly touching…

They were supposed to optimize for the situation in which they weren't the only program running on a computer, and they failed to do it.

> you know what a browser is called by the web site? check the header that tells the version. You mean that key whose only legitimate values also call every browser Mozilla? Arguin…

Then you are a uninvited bot that crawls my content in order to send alarms to people to tell them to visit my site? This is a "what if it's for your own good?" argument. What if I…

They'll get a discount for publishing good things and suppressing bad things about Palantir. edit: prepare for a lot of interesting op-eds from the nation's first newspaper printed…

Those that acted in their own self-interest thrived, and others died.

> I read up recently on the history of the fall of the roman empire > eventually opting for authoritarianism The Roman Empire was always authoritarian. You might be interested in t…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_control

This dumb lawfare is a safety valve to allow them to continue not to regulate. Just like the under-18 bans are also an excuse not to regulate (and to root everyone's computer.) Som…

They've been continuously programmed with insane beliefs about China, which is less shocking when you understand what insane beliefs that they've had programmed into them about the…

Wow, the people buying them up must be really stupid then. You should tell them.

> This might just be realistic about the median American's tolerance for walking. This might be unrealistic about the number and relevance of Median-Americans. Turns out more than …

Such a silly complaint. Just file a request with Google for a run, and if you give them a few hours advance notice and verify that it's you through a video call with their AI authe…

* [...]Could Have Saved[...] Cannot Now Save. Unions get power when labor is at its strongest, not when labor is at its weakest. When tech labor was at its strongest, it became sup…

I think they're saying that's exactly what you're buying for 3€/yd.

I miss when people used to hide emotional fragility, and not publicly brag about being physically and emotionally devastated by an HN comment.

> It's a blog post. It was written. The person you're replying to is saying that it wasn't written. If you are the author, I will believe you that it was. If you are not the author…

There was a burst of improvements over the year after Musk bought it, then it stagnated. The Hasbara bots are drowning every conversation about any subject. I'm sick of hearing abo…

You can't be implying that twitter's UI suddenly became shit when Musk bought it. It had become the worst popular site on the web years before.

That's what they tell us, but for some reason software still looks just as bad or worse than it ever has.

> but because of the "hurr durr" connotations I have no idea why you think this. You might be terminally online. Hurd is just like "herd" because it's a microkernel, and hurr durr …

The throbber was the beginning of developers gaslighting users. It began as an indicator during long loads that your system hadn't frozen (because whatever process was running had …