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I really enjoy refactoring. Like, doing it by hand (5 miles uphill in the snow both ways) rather than AI. I don't even understand why I enjoy it, because if done right, there's no …

Plenty of people do, alongside the preponderance of evidence.

From the FAQ [1]: What is a "sensitive breach"? HIBP enables you to discover if your account was exposed in most of the data breaches by directly searching the system. However, cer…

It's wild to me that one of our primary measures for maintaining control over these systems is that we talk to them like they're our kids, then cross our fingers and hope the train…

I picked up on it very quickly as well. Here are some more phrases that match that same LLM pattern. Sure, you could argue that someone actually writes like this, but after a while…

The AI-generated images don't do anything to help the case either...

I believe it's because the actual text behind the font would say "Here's a statementam-and here's a diversionam-and back to the original statement." Problem is, it's only useful if…

Is reddit leaking through to HNews? This childish comment doesn't add any value to the discussion whatsoever.

I love osdev. I don't know what the end game is for me, but there's something really cool about being able to just create... whatever I want. It all sort of clicked for me when I w…

I remember the commercial for this. It was very dramatic in promoting how CueCat would change the world, but in a sort of cheezy techno-futuristic setting.

Technically, you could use an American rubber with an American fanny too.

What is the competitive landscape looking like these days for Rust web frameworks? I couldn't help but feel a bit insecure last time I was exploring the various options because non…

> skip the funny hats. I don't know about that part... those red ball caps are pretty goofy looking.

> The dems will likely stop anointing people. I thought that after 2016...

I'm going to be a bit vulnerable here... I really had a difficult time parsing that, and I'm still not quite sure I fully understand it. I found myself losing concentration when I …

Tangential question: What is the best Pandora-adjacent service these days? In other words, where can I plug in "Artist X" and get a great platter of recommendations? Spotify doesn'…

The article seems to (loosely?) imply that there's a connection between the outage and some sort of an internal employee protest, although I think it's incredibly shoddy journalism…

I would love to find one of these that does the opposite -- provides heating instead of cooling. ...also known as... clothes, I guess?

Is there a good primer on the history of unionization in the United States? I've been living here for almost half a century and I know next to nothing about how it works. I've read…

Off the top of my head: - Cloudflare - Webserver-level user-agent blocking (Apache, nginx) - Application-level user-agent blocking (`if request.user_agent == 'OpenAI'`) None of the…

Not that I'm arguing for or against preventing access from AI crawlers, but wouldn't it make more sense to block them at a higher level, e.g. the webserver, and not even give them …

Here's my "contribution": https://puter.com/app/browser-n70yre8kj1

What is the best option for cross-device syncing when you're using, e.g. - an iPhone - Google Workspace (+ Google Drive) - Multiple desktops/laptops - Dropbox Is there a single sol…

Would there be any usefulness in some sort of a "CLI standard" that defines certain behaviors and provides useful recommendations? e.g., - Apps must always have a --help/-h argumen…

As a layman designing an app with subcommands, can you explain this a bit further? I'm only familiar with using !! to bring up the previous command.