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by WolfeReader 5d ago
This makes Hacker News usable again. Thank you .
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by WolfeReader 1mo ago
Actually it is. I haven't seen any Google AI summaries since I started using non-Google search engines.
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by WolfeReader 1mo ago
Use a different search engine such as Ecosia or noai.duckduckgo.com
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by WolfeReader 1mo ago
Offer low pay and start using lines of code as a metric. Not only will you not hire such people, you'll also filter out any who might already be on your team! (Assuming "these people" is a euphemism for "skilled engineer
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
"Thanks Obama" is sometimes used sarcastically by people who actually don't mind Obama, as a parody of how conservatives would blame literally anything on him. Too bad the above post didn't give enough context to say whi
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
Thanks for letting me know about mupdf! One of my favorite things about KOReader is its ability to handle humongous PDFs on extremely modest hardware; it's good to know what this ability is based on.
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
Windows would be a whole different build target, and Koreader works great through WSL anyway.
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
The thread title should be updated to clarify that it's a JavaScript-specific article.
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
claps
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
It sure is! But I guess it would be less fun to say "1 out of 5 developers will not be using Codeberg going forward". Especially since that may well be an intended effect of Codeberg's decision here. As long as AI is a source
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
The current adoption of LLMs by developers seems to be a bit more than 20%. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/06/about-1-i... This is just for professional jobs (and is 9 months old) of cou
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
It's a completely different statement, so yes.
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
"Write" is not the correct verb for how you produce software if you get it from GenAI. May I suggest a few replacements? "Plagiarize" or "excrete" are both more fitting in different ways.
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
If the outcome is that most vibe-coders leave Codeberg alone, that seems like a win for Codeberg.
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
If you say "publishers require DRM" and then say that publishers sometimes sell books without DRM, you might need to review the definition of the word "require". Some publishers require DRM. Which is entirely different
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
Selling books doesn't require DRM at all. I buy DRM-free books all the time. As an example: Kobo will tell you, at the bottom of each book's page, if it has DRM or not. And it will happily sell you a book without DRM and let you d
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
I'm anti-AI as heck, but this is a really good point.
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
Bicycles don't consume the energy of a small nation.
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
Yes. They're using AI to write Git commits. They're using AI to delete directories. They're using AI to summarize articles written by AI. And the planet just gets hotter and hotter.
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
Now this is the sort of stock phrase AI should use more
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
I already gave a specific example. And since your second paragraph shows that you don't understand what generative AI even is or how it works, you have got some learning due before you continue to discuss AI.
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
Easy: counting letters in a word. There are tons of examples where AI confidently presents incorrect letter counts as fact. Search it up, really! Good example article: https://wonderfulengineering.com/googles-new-ai-search-t
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
Wow, you are drinking the corporate kool-aid eagerly . The brain understands concepts. I can say, for example, "a penny saved is a penny earned" and understand that I'm talking about money and savings in general. I've f
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
They may have been implying it; I'll say it. Token prediction machines do not produce meaningful output . It is much more likely that they will regurgitate, without attribution, something meaningful that a human wrote (in their plagia
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
It is inevitable that a post criticizing grammar or spelling will, itself, contain a grammar or spilling error.
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by WolfeReader 2mo ago
Search engines without ads exist. Try noai.duckduckgo.com. Decent search results, actual sources, no risk of hallucination, no extreme energy cost.
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by WolfeReader 3mo ago
Good on them! AI-produced "content" is a DDOS attack on human cognition. It takes more time to review than to produce, and the original coders rarely review the output before creating the merge request. And the planet is paying.
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by WolfeReader 3mo ago
I legit did not know this. Thanks!
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by WolfeReader 3mo ago
1. Ease of use. Other VCS have more consistent command line interfaces; Git's interface has to be studied. In practice, people end up using GUIs with missing functionality and then end up searching for help, and a lot of real experts c
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by WolfeReader 3mo ago
"I wish commits could be folded into larger commits so that you can still capture the individual changes but also not see them by default when looking at the history of a file." Fossil merges do this. More people need to use Fossi

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