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How many people upvoting this used to use lmgfy links when some asks a question?

Compare the cost of raising a bachelor's degree educated human and AI is still cheap.

Just admit that Chromium is too complex at this point, we've all seen show HNs doing what could be considered magic in Chromium. We probably need to issue a mortarium in new platfo…

It is the same as when javascript was used to mine cryptocurrency before web browsers blocked it, exploiting other users computers for unfair gain.

They should be banned from all app stores and added to anti virus definitions. Many smaller sites have already shutdown due to being DDOSed. Even Wikipedia gets attacked by them.

I no longer consider IPv4 to be part of the real internet anymore, just a source of legacy tech debt.

It's been happening on most Saturday's since March. The next milestone is when the weekly low is above 50% so we can put more pressure on the likes of Github and Virgin Media to up…

Saying "The X moment" sounds like an XKCD comic headline.

It's just a webkit wrapper, not a new engine like Servo and Ladybird.

People are just piping Special:Random into their browser and submitting to hacker news to get free karma.

AOL Time Warner was the peak of the original dot com bubble.

Achieving AGI will be more than just passing all benchmarks, it has to account for the unknown problems too.

Yet Cloudflare relies on bugs in browsers to "verify" you.

I've been following Wikipedia almost since it began, the stated reason is not matching the actual reason, They've wanted Larry Gone for years, even Jimmy will very be betrayed even…

This is now the end of Wikipedia for me, it's only a matter of time before the rest of the admins try to split the wiki into endless forks.

I didn't have a PDA but surfed the web on a WAP phone and a PSP.

The real milestone is when it's over 50% all the time.

There was also the various attempts at TV web browsers back in the CRT era and also that some modern smart TVs ship an outdated Chromium build that doesn't work right.

IP allocations are inaccurate due to all the VPNs, (CG)NATs and proxies spoofing everything now, the whole internet is tangled up like weeds.

Might as well say "Adobe, please ship an official creative suite for Linux", and will probably fall on the same deaf ears.

Stop linking to malware sites please.

It could be said vibe coded competitors to any proprietary software. If everything proprietary was "forced open" by AI what would be the economic effects?

I just hope they don't start ignoring human created bug reports, as there are still many that haven't been fixed for years.

The trouble is that Mozilla has admitted they can't survive without Google's revenue. You are basically using Google by proxy unless you use a truly independent browser engine of t…

Firefox and Safari used to have RSS built in, but removed.