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The fact that this discussion was flagged might be the final nail in the coffin for me. The huge increase in AI generated comments and posts at HN is a topic that has been discusse…

I've been using HN since 2008 when I created my first account[1] and I use HN differently than most people. I have a group of bookmarked searches that I visit almost daily that rel…

There are plenty of tech forums that don't discuss AI. I think your confusion might be the result of you equating tech with "writing code for employers." By the way, have you serio…

> Never thought this would be something people actually take seriously The author of the article has a bachelor's degree in economics[1], worked as a product manager (not a dev) an…

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Wow, 120 comments and not one person who uses mpg123[1] or ffplay[2] with shell scripts for playlists. [1] The most minimal media player I know of. Written in assembly. Supports on…

All of the comments posted by the HN account named jaynamburi were written using an AI. Gemini confirms this: "Based on an analysis of the comments on the profile you linked, it is…

> broke their workflows because of vague technical reasons > I switched to Vivaldi You refer to important security improvements as "vague technical reasons" and you switched to Viv…

WTF. I have a separate computer solely for personal finance, domain registration, DNS management, and the associated email account. If I didn't use multiple computers this way, I'd…

The folks at the Qubes OS forum care about security, unlike the vast majority of HN users nowadays: https://forum.qubes-os.org/

> Privacy has long since been dead, but at least for myself opsec for personal work is too. Hacker News in 2026.

Containers aren't a sandbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405993

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> the portability is very poor. I need most of my notes to be at least readable on my mobile devices. Why didn't you set up an automatic recurring export of your Org files to HTML …

Here's another implementation: news.ycombinator.com##.default:has(a[href="user?id=dpifke"]) .comment

> I'm both a Conservative _and_ a practicing Christian But unlike most HN users who label themselves conservative Christians, you've never suggested that climate change is a hoax: …

> doing meaningless work will destroy your soul You think commercial software is meaningful? You think web apps, mobile apps, etc. are meaningful? If so, you are very lucky!

> Librefox on the linux device. Librefox hasn't been updated since 2019: https://github.com/intika/Librefox/commits/master

A larger percentage of HN users were pass users when HN was less mainstream. Late adopters (of forums, technologies, etc.) tend to be GUI lovers because late adoption and a prefere…

Hi, yakattak. Like you, I also created my HN account in 2010. Browsing HN stopped making me happy years ago. Searching HN for individual comments that include jargon that is indica…

Exactly. Also, it's not clear to me if some of these people think that containers are a sandbox or they simply don't care about security. For anyone out there who thinks that conta…

> we've already crossed the Rubicon with tools like Claude Code I install all dev tools and project dependencies on VMs and have done so since 2003. > Adding browser automation via…

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