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Ask HN: How is AI actively a threat to humanity if it's only online?
5 points by CM30 3d ago|14 comments
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by CM30 5d ago
No, but it's killing a lot of 'glue pieces together' or 'make plugins/tweaks' for a CMS roles. If you're using WordPress, Drupal, etc, then AI is devastating. Any sort of project that's not a massive
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by CM30 5d ago
Maybe not a product per se, but I feel like video game mods, homebrew, recompilation projects, etc are seeing a ton of innovation nowadays. People are creating games and software that was thought impossible for years, like 3D platformers on
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by CM30 5d ago
Honestly, if there was one point in history that marks when society started going the wrong direction, it was definitely 9/11. To some degree, it feels like it ties into a major problem humanity has in general; the attitude that "
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by CM30 5d ago
The funny thing about old IE versions is that they did in fact get one thing right in retrospect; the box model used was a lot more intuitive than the one used by 'default' in standards compliant browsers. Why would border and pad
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by CM30 7d ago
Yeah, and it should not be understated how bad only having autonomous cars would be for privacy and security conscious folk. A lot of the time you don't own them, so they're operating on the terms provided by the companies and gov
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by CM30 8d ago
Reminds me of how awkward HTML doctypes used to be. Nowadays it's very simple, but in the past? You had to refer to the URL of the doctype declaration on every page > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XH
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Ask HN: Do People Care About Image Optimisation Anymore?
4 points by CM30 9d ago|1 comments
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by CM30 12d ago
Oh video games in general can have crazy development times, whether it's through an open beta/development process or a closed one. Dwarf Fortress is a good one for sure, as is Star Citizen. Also Duke Nukem Forever, and Beyond Good
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by CM30 12d ago
Surprisingly common in fangames and mods. Mushroom Kingdom Fusion started in 2007 at the latest, and it's not going to be done for a year or so at the earliest. So, 20 years, maybe 30 if you count predecessor projects. Brutal Mario sta
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by CM30 12d ago
This feels insane to me. Like, they're just terminating existing registrations? As the article says, this is a massive security problem waiting to happen, and there will be a lot of untoward consequences if things aren't handled v
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by CM30 13d ago
If you want to make money from it, it's definitely far harder than it used to be. Ad payout for written content is miniscule compared to that for videos or livestreams, and the decline in traffic has likely hit things like affiliate li
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by CM30 17d ago
Yeah that makes sense. Gotta just figure out how to word my achievements in such a way that there's some sort of obvious, visible impact. > If you want to build an HN-approved CV you'll need to find an employer who will give yo
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by CM30 17d ago
That's very true, the Switch feels like an improvement on the Wii U concept in many ways. Though I feel the other big difference is that the Wii U Gamepad was highly limited in its capabilities. You could play games on it while other p
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by CM30 17d ago
Genuine question for those saying the CV items don't show the impact of this guy's work: How are you supposed to know what the impact of your work is, especially in a large company? Because my experience is that most employers don
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by CM30 17d ago
Seems like a useful list of things to avoid when running a startup, plus situations where it may not always be a bad thing. Still, got a few thoughts here: > if you build it, they will come This feels like the cause for so many news&#x2F
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by CM30 17d ago
I suspect part of this (at least where software devs are concerned) is resume driven development. It's a lot easier to get hired at a top company if you've worked on similarly difficult problems before, while working with 'bo
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by CM30 18d ago
From what people have found, the site is heavily likely to be vibe-coded, has a lot of security issues, and does many of the same things people complain about Twitter doing (using your content to train AI models for example). https:/&
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by CM30 20d ago
So basically, what wikis like Wikipedia are doing already, except as a service? I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think this seems like something that would hit any legal issues, at least not as described. It's not illegal to wri
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by CM30 21d ago
Sounds like society at the moment even without the free labour thing. The world generally loves celebrities and influencers and other famous people, and I hear in some fields (like publishing) they're actively selecting for online fame
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by CM30 21d ago
YouTube, Reddit, Discord, my own websites and forums, and various wikis and news sites for hobbies I'm interested in. Generally most of the sites I use are volunteer run and operated (mostly) non-commercially, so enshittification is un
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by CM30 21d ago
I think there are a few things missing here. First, the assumption seems to be that the US is the only country on Earth, or that every other country will follow their lead. There are plenty of places (especially in Europe) which are a lot m
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by CM30 21d ago
I've always found it baffling that more projects by folks that disagree with copyright, access controls, etc aren't hosted in places where the cease and desist won't work. It's like, you're doing something to annoy
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by CM30 21d ago
Makes me wonder what the numbers are like in other countries. There's a lot of talk here about issues with the American education system and what not, but I suspect the numbers would be about the same in many other places too. Like, if
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by CM30 22d ago
But that assumes the population can't vote for someone else who will kick them out. As far as I know, there are no plans to stop third parties from being created, independents from running for political roles, or people voting for whoe
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by CM30 22d ago
Companies and celebrities are a major use case here. Lots of them (especially ones from non-English speaking countries) still use the site as their primary means of communication. For example, Nintendo doesn't have an official presence
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by CM30 23d ago
But why wouldn't the rest of society kick them out before that point? Like at some point, there's going to be a lot of political pressure to fix things, especially if the majority of the population is going hungry or struggling to
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by CM30 23d ago
Given all the surveillance, wouldn't the best solution be to use that to identify future sociopaths, narcissists, etc and stop them that way? Forget a test they can bypass or cheat, identify signs of questionable behaviour (like cruelt
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by CM30 23d ago
I feel like this depends on the kind of project/work to some degree. Lots of software engineering time is spent on very simple websites, apps and other projects that LLMs have been well trained on. I suspect if you want a static site w
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by CM30 23d ago
I hate to sound like a grumpy old man, but modern social media trends, and a lot of other growing categories of sites (general betting markets like Polymarket and Kalshi, some general 'do this task for money/points' sites and

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