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Website seems to be getting the HN Hug right now. Alt link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260112142332/https://blog.smar...

Didn't quite figure that one out. I guess the AI isn't a Rick and Morty fan https://anycrap.shop/product/plumbus

It appears there has. I didn't realize mIRC was even still being developed but by the looks of it it's actually quite actively developed https://www.mirc.com/news.html

I wondered that as well. Shame they didn't give him credit if he truly was the first one to point it out.

Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!

Mea culpa. I got this as a notification when signing into RIF and noticed this actual reddit post from the RIF dev hadn't been posted. I should have looked for the story from other…

But who would prosecute such a crime? The FBI? Seems unlikely in this scenario

No, in many cases it's a much slower agonizing death. But you might get a gold watch at the end!

Sounds a bit like that episode of American Auto.

Clearly not trained by George Carlin

Related [1]. Apparently the hamsters on the wheels that run the stock market liked that news. [1] https://m.slashdot.org/story/410085

I read .ca as .cn which was a big part of my hesitation. Thanks for making the (not so) risky click for me

Yeah, I'm not clicking on that

"Classroom libraries" are for students to pick up a small book during a break in teaching to encourage reading. Usually these books aren't long and don't have a formal checkout pro…

It took me longer than I care to admit to figure out this wasn't talking about a real incident. I figured flock was about some Kubernetes/VM thing.

As if I needed yet another place to have information tied to me out on the public searchable internet.

This feels more like the answer is "the only winning move is not to play". Every comment, blog post, Tweet, etc. you put out there is more input for an AI to learn and copy you. If…