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xvello
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Comment #43886750
This is the fallacy that LLM-boosters are spreading: "AI can never fail, it can only be failed". But when the fail ratio is so high, it cannot be only an execution problem. It is p…
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Comment #39218052
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: https://letsblock.it - https://github.com/letsblockit/letsblockit/ A companion project for uBlockOrigin that curates a corpus of content blocking templates, and…
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Comment #39018176
Install uBlockOrigin and create custom content blocking rules with https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results
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Comment #38967497
Heya, project maintainer here! Adding Kagi support in https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results was an easy lift, and it allows to use the filtering presets that are available at…
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Comment #38967454
Project maintainer here, thanks for the feedback. For context, this template was created two years ago when that creator's videos filled almost 20% of the Nebula timeline and "How …
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Comment #38967442
Project maintainer here, thanks for the feedback. For context, this template was created two years ago when that creator's videos filled almost 20% of the Nebula timeline and "How …
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Comment #38967395
Project maintainer here, thanks for the feedback! It's indeed all rendered server-side with progressive enhancement, as javascript was intended to be used. Happy to read that this …
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Comment #37187643
My experience is that these are usually caused by bad-quality frontend code that does not properly handle errors around bad-quality analytics SDKs, and breaks in subtle ways when t…
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Comment #37047317
https://letsblock.it : it allows you to create your own content blocking rule list from a corpus or community-maintained templates. It allows you to hide pinterest and stackoverflo…
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Comment #36589063
Agreed! That would be a great template to have in letsblock.it's corpus! Contributions are welcome if you have a ruleset to get us kickstarted.
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Comment #36589007
Heya, you can take inspiration the rules I posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35676840 for hiding the second line and the separator. I messed up the last newline, the b…
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Comment #36587483
Project maintainer here, thanks for posting it! As described in https://letsblock.it/help/about , this project is a home for rules that cannot be included in the default content bl…
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Comment #36190424
I self-host several services on a cheap VPS, but I'm paying a yearly subscription to wallabag.it. I could very easily self-host it, but I chose to help fund its development though …
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Comment #35981047
Nope, let's not reward them with money. Lobby to get this idiotic TLD shut down. Otherwise someone will grab .pdf and .png soon.
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Comment #35676840
My uBlockOrigin rules to filter posts by regexp, to filter out Twitter drama and AI stuff. The last two rules remove the second row + the spacer. news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op…
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Comment #35676821
Gandi has been bought out and has started turning for the worse. They already breached contracts with UK customers, so I am moving my domains to the Norwegian company https://domai…
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Comment #35599254
These rules would be a great addition to the low-value content filters we already maintain at https://letsblock.it , and I think a lot of users would benefit from having such a tem…
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Comment #35566751
One of the points of HTMX is to merge back all of the state to the backend, instead of spreading it between backend and frontend. For authenticated users, just store a user pref re…
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Comment #35421725
> seems like the multiplier has been getting higher lately The SSD now being soldered to the system board has of course ZERO correlation with that price gouging.
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Comment #34794065
Agreed! I switched from Spotify to Deezer one year ago. The UX getting more and more clunky due to the podcast push really soured me, but the fact that part of my monthly subscript…
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Comment #33746433
Agreed. In the meantime, I use the following uBlockOrigin rules: news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(100%) hue-rotate(180deg)) news.ycombinator.com##body:style(backgroun…
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