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Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by throwaway290 »

emehrkay wrote: post #211
aldousd666 wrote: post #161

Nobody wants a damn web view. If I'm clicking off to a link, I may want to click to another app and back in and still be where it was... If it's in a webview that's gone as soon as I click out. Yes, you can open in Chrome or whatever, open in a browser, but that's a pain in the ass to do an the time. I hate web views, in all forms.

I clicked a link in IG once and and it opened via a webveiw. it was one of those "give us your email for a discount" popups so I put in "mark@aol.com" and at a later date, IG asked if I wanted to associate that email with my account (or something along those lines). I tend to take the extra step to "open in native browser" whenever webveiws popup

I remember how tiktok basically injected a keylogger into any site they opened in a webview https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/technology/tiktok-browser...

I didn't think IG does something similarly shady

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Post by Ajedi32 »

oulipo2 wrote: post #192
sd9 wrote: post #154

This seems like a fairly reasonable UX improvement. Unless I'm missing anything, it doesn't seem like this has nefarious intent, it's just there so that when a user clicks a link, they see the content as quickly as possible. --- It's astonishing how quickly discussion disintegrates when Musk is mentioned on HN. He really is such a divisive figure, with incredibly polarised language both in support and against him. No…

How are you supposed to have a "nuanced discussion" about a guy doing literal Hitler salutes in public?

When you're either unwilling or incapable of understanding other people's perspectives it is indeed very difficult.

Try this: steelman the argument that what Musk did all those months ago wasn't a "literal Hitler salute". If you can do that, I suspect you'll find it a lot easier to have nuanced discussions about that topic (and possibly others) going forward.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by bradly »

aldousd666 wrote: post #161

Nobody wants a damn web view. If I'm clicking off to a link, I may want to click to another app and back in and still be where it was... If it's in a webview that's gone as soon as I click out. Yes, you can open in Chrome or whatever, open in a browser, but that's a pain in the ass to do an the time. I hate web views, in all forms.

Similarly... I _really_ dislike clicking a link in Safari on iOS and it opening an App instead of going to the web page. I have the YouTube app installed and use it on occasion, but its really jarring when I click an organic search result in Duck and get launched into an app that may not have the same privacy settings my browser is setup with.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by cheschire »

scottcorgan wrote: post #213
itsoktocry wrote: post #205

I've been a long-time Twitter user. I don't hate Elon, so when he bought it I was cautiously optimistic. I deactivated last week. The platform is bad and getting worse. It's scammy and spammy. Everything is designed around garbage engagement, so that the X team can brag about how good the product is doing.

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no, X. It looks like K, but the left side is also indented instead of vertical.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by itsoktocry »

runjake wrote: post #153
elAhmo wrote: post #70

Again, anyone still using Twitter should know they are contributing to the richest man in the world actively pushing to disrupt the core fabric of our society.

I don’t have the same take, but the algorithm and site is so broken, the patterns so dark, that I’m down to maybe 5 minutes of X a week at best. Everything is posted to get views, even from the more quality people. It’s ironic that I hear about “brainrot” the most on X, but it’s full of brainrot masquerading as valuable information.

You literally have people crying that their garbage content isn't getting enough views (and hence payout).

It's embarrassing, but that's what the entire site is.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by -_- »

looobay wrote: post #139
labrador wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The training data was considered good by Musk to start with, so he could have spicy mode, but he changed his mind and now Grok is considered poisoned with porn. My question is, can that be fixed or does he have to start over again?

There was research on LLMs training and distillation that if two models have a similar architecture (probably the case for Xai) the "master" model will distill knowledge to the model even if its not in the distillation data. So they probably need to train a new model from scratch. (sorry i don't remember the name but there was an example with a model liking howl to showcase this)

Subliminal learning: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/subliminal-learning/

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by sporkxrocket »

ceejayoz wrote: post #127
sporkxrocket wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Musk constantly promises to build things that never get built. He's 99% vaporware. Unless it actually exists, it's safe to assume that it never will.

I'm very much in the Musk hater category, but it really takes some doing to dismiss SpaceX as vaporware.

Going to the moon is very much vaporware. Maybe the penultimate example of it.

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Post by [deleted] »

itsoktocry wrote: post #205

I've been a long-time Twitter user. I don't hate Elon, so when he bought it I was cautiously optimistic. I deactivated last week. The platform is bad and getting worse. It's scammy and spammy. Everything is designed around garbage engagement, so that the X team can brag about how good the product is doing.

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Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by vachina »

itsoktocry wrote: post #205

I've been a long-time Twitter user. I don't hate Elon, so when he bought it I was cautiously optimistic. I deactivated last week. The platform is bad and getting worse. It's scammy and spammy. Everything is designed around garbage engagement, so that the X team can brag about how good the product is doing.

I prefer the X now. Unlimited stream of unhinged, unfiltered thought stream from strangers straight into my feed.
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