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thyrox

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    Comment #42254407

    I've been eagerly awaiting access to the tool for quite a while. I would definitely be willing to pay to try it out and provide feedback in addition. I'm genuinely surprised by thi…

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    Ask HN: Netflix Post Mortem

    Any Netflix Engineers here? We'd Love to See a Post-Mortem of the Recent Issue A lot of Reddit comments are suggesting that the recent Netflix outage was due to a manifest file fai…

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    Comment #40631961

    I often think that the reason why PHP is still so popular compared to Perl is because php never stopped evolving. If php had paused development or even slowed it down like this it …

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    Comment #40457148

    I feel that for music. During my teenage years I used to listen to the same songs over and over on my walkman. I still remember 99% lyrics to the whole albums. The music used to ha…

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    Comment #40427044

    Surprised the headline didn't mention it was a Boeing 777. Points to bbc for not going for the obvious clickbait.

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    Comment #40308147

    Very nice. Since Hn data spawns so many such fun projects, there should be a monthly or weekly updates zip file or torrent with this data, which hackers can just download instead o…

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    Comment #40305208

    The company I work for absolutely must have everyone using it as it's supposed to be much safer to Windows. So I had to spend over $2k for a stupid laptop that won't even run half …

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    Ask HN: Any long term vapers here? Need advice

    There is so much information and mis information about vaping that I just wanted to know from the source I trust about the harmful effects of it. So far all I got is it's supposed …

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    Comment #40237900

    On one hand I agree that this should be flagged and taken off homepage (as it is right now), but. Otoh more people need to be aware of such scams and simply not trust reddit, hn, e…

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    Comment #40191609

    I have been seeing this guy David Sinclair a lot in my Youtube feed lately with raving reviews. But after reading your comment did a bit of research and my god what a scam(1). Ther…

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    Comment #39950831

    Guess it's time to jump to macOS finally. I've always wanted to try that but due to prohibitive costs never did. But with more and more Windows shenanigans I guess it's time to bit…

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    Comment #39944538

    Thanks for sharing this link. My god there is something about this writing style that's just incredibly entertaining to read. Most of the time I get so bored reading such long arti…

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    Comment #39884586

    Is there survivor bias in being stuck? We have accepted that people who leap out of their comfort zone end up always successful. But a lot of time this is not true. I know few peop…

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    Comment #39477308

    Wow this is super impressive but does somebody know a way to generate consistent characters with stable diffusion? What I mean is if my first prompt is a girl talking to cat and se…

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    Comment #39410408

    Sorry forgot to add the URL https://www.notebookcheck.net/VR-porn-a-no-go-for-Apple-Visi...

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    Comment #39214768

    I never upvote any Google's A.I. research articles as most of the time it is: look what we have done, but we will never release anything. OpenAi gets a lot of criticism for being c…

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    Comment #39111001

    Serious question but does anyone get any value out of these threads? Most of the time it just devolves into hundreds of comments with links to random projects hoping to get traffic…

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    Comment #39009201

    I really hope those messages had a CRC check so as not to start wars unnecessarily.

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    Comment #38866149

    Thanks to perplexity it looks like they are adding a new key to the PC keyboard to open copilot. That's the summary I got.

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    Comment #38809943

    If I remember correctly earliest version of Apache also did this (though it used S/FTP instead of dropbox and .html instead of .md)

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    Comment #38794519

    As an avid OSS supporter, I used to be a Firefox user until I got frustrated by its restrictive policies. For example, the addon store would block certain addons from being install…

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    Comment #38762412

    How does one learn about this stuff? I learned about basic networking in college (the TCP layers) etc but people doing such stuff sounds like Greek to me. If I want to learn more a…