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MyProtein manufactures raw protein powders without artificial flavours: soya, pea and hemp. That way you can add your own preferred/safer sweetener to the shake, or just drink them…

Just drink protein shakes? There are soy protein ones that are completely inoffensive and pea protein which isn’t tasty but much cheaper. Do professional athletes actually eat only…

I don’t really get the Pinterest hate, but from what I understand it’s because their walled garden content came up in web search results. Anyway I’ve been using their app for over …

There’s Chinese analytical labs which identify the fragrance molecules in a perfume. You just have to send them a sample. The caveat is if the perfume used natural oils or captive …

It’s so strange to me that I’m now using Google maybe a couple times a month (and then only through a proxy like Mullvad’s leta). This would have been inconceivable 15, even 10 yea…

That doesn’t mean DDG is anything special, only that Google has become incredibly bad.

I’d call this performative news consumption. Information overload is mainly a result of legitimate complexities in the world. It took only a little while to find in today’s item ab…

Except Apple has a country’s worth of users, whose livelihoods are reliant on them. The “state democracy” is right now more subordinated to tech oligarchies, than vice versa.

Vim existed before Jetbrains IDEs. It’s also much more general. I use Vim to write literary works and manage my knowledge base. There was also a guy who was using Vim as his IRC cl…

Naomi Klein’s article in the guardian

Exactly, and there’s no wording I can imagine coming from the manager who requested this, which wouldn’t make it sound like the plain abuse that it is. But the guys who obeyed the …

They literally pay engineers to come up with crazy grey hat techniques to monitor people’s online activity. And those scumbags are probably HN users. It’s sinister. I wonder about …

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Simply put, if we’re living during such a major technological revolution, why does using software suck in such disastrous ways that were unthinkable even ten years ago?

It actually varies by segment. The least technical people are enthusiastic about AI. The moderately technical (e.g tech hobbyists, artists and power users) are repulsed. The segmen…

My guess is it’s probably due to AI assistants/vibe coding.

The transition from assembly to C was to a different layer of abstraction within the same context of deterministic computation. The transition from programming to LLM prompting is …

Would you say this comment needed major changes, in order for a MAGA supporter to feel that it is applicable against his own political adversaries?

The elephant in the room is actually one American company having unencrypted access to global internet traffic.

I think it’s extremely naive to think Cloudflare is anti-government. It’s more likely that they’re a US Intelligence company, whose purpose is to decrypt and monitor global interne…

Do you really need a source that people motivated by arrogance and greed are repulsive to everyone else?

They dig through (your) history, in search for examples of corruption or evil.

Sir if you could finally add keyword filters, I wouldn’t spend half a second considering an alternative. I sorely missed this the past years while HN has been spammed with AI marke…

This is long, but trust me when I say, that about halfway through, it will answer your question fully. https://www.newstatesman.com/business/economics/2024/02/the-... This gist of …