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But it's worth their time to stay on platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon? Something isn't adding up.

To answer how it got so big: it didn't start out trying to replace Slack. It just solved an acute pain point for gamers. Skype was becoming increasingly enshittified, and people we…

Shared this in the other Gemini Pro 3.1 thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074735 ) but wanted to share it here as well. I just tested the "generate an SVG of a pelica…

I just gave it a shot and this is what I got: https://codepen.io/takoid/pen/wBWLOKj The model thought for over 5 minutes to produce this. It's not quite photorealistic (some parts …

Where did you see this? Elon's account looks fine and I'm not seeing any discussion on X about this.

Related discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735545

https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

I always enjoyed D’Angelo Barksdale’s interpretation from The Wire: > D’Angelo: "He’s saying that the past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go thro…

Appears to be working now for me. Edit: Down again. Edit 2: Up again.

It was flagged off the front page yesterday. I'm not sure for how long, but you can read discussion about this in the thread itself.

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361024 (543 points, 57 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362149 (135 points, 8 comments) https://news.ycom…

The grandfathering clause is the tell. If these drones were an active national security threat, they wouldn't let civilians keep flying them. This looks like industrial policy masq…

Fair point, but it's hard to ignore the timing. Netanyahu literally just called TikTok "the most important purchase going on right now" and described social media as a "weapon" to …