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51% of people are still on 1080p according to the July 2026 steam survey.

Online tools to simplify this process like Perseus have existed for at least 15 years, and you could view original texts side by side with English for comparison, and original word…

For the sake of archival/computing history, do you know if a copy of the am29k High-C compiler could turn up on archive.org one day?

Yet the dev has posted here on HN saying they used LLMs to do the port, but have a preference not to communicate their AI use.

https://bsky.app/profile/neocities.org/post/3mnkqgxostk2k - This is recent and inexcusable sloppy work for a domain registrar. Private equity explains it if they're cutting and off…

Try a different host machine to rule out it being a DAS enclosure.

> You can get cheap LSI PCI cards and do miniSAS to SATA if needed. People say those generate a ton of heat because they're normally in a rack mounted server with plenty of airflow…

jeffbee isn't offering any explanation, maybe because it's obvious to them they don't think they need to, or something like that... so I'll volunteer one. If you send an email, you…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_duration_by_...

It's a shame that the author both erased their own writing style using ChatGPT, and wholesale copied sections of the content from another author. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…

Magical? Those are some rose tinted glasses. Having to install a binary blob from a free-software hostile vendor that wanted a monopoly to load a website was always ridiculous ask.…

I have to wonder if some online stores have been drip selling stock, trying to sell at the top of the market. A few extra $k on thousands of units from a day-to-day price change is…

13th gen, and they still have VGA out? Amazing. The only thing I've found that's annoying with these POS/Office builds across various brands and models from 2013-2017 is the PSUs a…

It shows 3.5" spinning rust are climbing this year too.

The only thing being added in this commit is the warning presented to users that they're at risk of instability, including data corruption with their current kernel as since 6.12, …

It's a Russian warez website, fishing for donations in crypto to bypass sanctions because of their invasion? Pass.

The video doesn't even have to load to know it's AI generated. The channel profile thumbnail and the video description are dead giveaways. The first frame of the video has too many…

The obfuscation hardware vendors do is so trivial, why do they even bother? One of the current vendor provided consumer SSD firmware update utilities for Linux as a live-usb decryp…

From people who have been using Linux since the 90s, the long term view is that nvidia has always been mostly fine since the early 2000s for hw acceleration if you didn't mind a bi…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943499 - 44 CVEs trying to replace coreutils with a greenfield rust rewrite. There's no free lunch.

There are at least two recent negative signals. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943499 - 44 CVEs trying to replace coreutils with a greenfield rust rewrite. https://news.yco…

Sometimes an employer will tell you what your view on AI is too, and make you sign an agreement.

FileZilla has had a history of intentionally bunding adware/spyware, so aren't they the threat to begin with? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileZilla#Bundled_adware_issue...