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by ctrlmeta 3mo ago
Do proof-of-work pages actually stop AI bots? Big AI companies have enough compute to solve these challenges at scale. And if their bots are already doing much heavier work to fetch, read and process each page, then solving a small challeng
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by ctrlmeta 5mo ago
The multiple levels of abuse here are astounding. That grown adults can think projects like this are acceptable, let alone promote them, is hard to believe. I am 90% sure this is yet another vibecoded project. Has vibecoding really corrupte
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by ctrlmeta 8mo ago
This "Code is cheap. Show me the talk." punchline gets overused as a bait these days. It is an alright article but that's a lot of words to tell us something we already know. There's nothing here that we don't alrea
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by ctrlmeta 8mo ago
I don't know what >1M subscribers have got to do anything. It is the case that many YouTubers pushing a specific propaganda have >1M subscribers. YouTube may be a little better than Twitter or Facebook but if you land upon any pr
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by ctrlmeta 8mo ago
> That's got to be why one UK VC after another is closing their doors. One after another? The only one that closed office was Andreessen Horowitz. What's the "another"? I don't know why all the London threads att
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by ctrlmeta 8mo ago
I have done a lot of social work with Bangladeshi community. What many people don't know that the Bangladeshi wives who come as dependants speak better English than their husbands and sometimes as good as the natives. I was surprised t
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by ctrlmeta 8mo ago
> English no longer functions reliably as the default public language Absolutely false. My god! Have you even been to London? Stop consuming propaganda from Twitter/X and Facebook. It isn't good for your mental health.
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by ctrlmeta 8mo ago
Where are you pulling this random 15% number from? And a ridiculous number too. It's more like 2% to 3% unless you spend your entire day traveling. I just checked how much I pay for travel. My monthly travel expenses is £150 total. Tha
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by ctrlmeta 9mo ago
The website has been made by AI. May be it has learned from its training that this kind of confirm box is cheeky humor for humans?
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by ctrlmeta 9mo ago
> Maybe its just you who doesnt like them? Obviously it's just me who doesn't like them. What's your point?
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by ctrlmeta 9mo ago
The joke was fun the first time. When the joke posts (low effort AI slop no less!) are spammed to HN every week, it stops being fun.
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by ctrlmeta 9mo ago
That's true. But it is also true that almost nobody rewrites a whole complex software in Rust to get internet forum points from HN people. Your question was "Is it wrong, though?" The answer is "Yes"
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by ctrlmeta 9mo ago
Yes, it is wrong. Take the top one: > We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it I'm pretty sure they didn't go through all the trouble of rewriting it in Rust to get some internet forum points!
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by ctrlmeta 9mo ago
> How much of this navel-gazing junk do we need? See also, from the same author: Seriously! I'll admit the first post was mighty fun. But now this is turning into an AI-spam-fest! I objected in the 2nd thread but got downvoted. Appa
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XZ Utils Backdoor(en.wikipedia.org)
25 points by ctrlmeta 9mo ago|21 comments
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by ctrlmeta 9mo ago
> As a result, I can no longer log in and lost access to all my Kindle e-books. Can't you file a suit in a small claims court?
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by ctrlmeta 9mo ago
How is this happening though? What's the democratic process there that's allowing this kind of stuff to happen?
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by ctrlmeta 9mo ago
It is and I said as much. I'm sure these experiments are fun for the creator. From the downvotes I'm getting, I'm sure it's fun for the community too. It was fun for me too the first time. It's not fun if this type
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by ctrlmeta 9mo ago
Of course it is boring and silly for me . That's why I commented. The downvotes show the community agrees with you and disagrees with me. That's fine. I'm here to speak my opinion. I'm not here to speak your opinion.
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Torvalds is sick of all the AI hype but says AI is finally maturing to the point(zdnet.com)
2 points by ctrlmeta 9mo ago|0 comments
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by ctrlmeta 9mo ago
Totally unreadable with the all caps. I guess that's the point. This kind of thing is fun once. And it was fun when the AI-generated fake HN was posted last week. But there's no need to upvote this kind of stuff to front page ever
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MACLISP-Compatible Implementation – Taking Another Detour(medium.com)
2 points by ctrlmeta 11mo ago|0 comments
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How do you cope with non-Lispy syntax?(old.reddit.com)
1 points by ctrlmeta 2y ago|0 comments
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Why Are Most Indie Games 2D Instead of 3D? (2013)(rampantgames.com)
1 points by ctrlmeta 3y ago|0 comments
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by ctrlmeta 3y ago
> How many do you know in real life? 2 emacs users and they do everything in emacs. > I suspect a lot of this is selection bias Exactly and that's why I want to know more from those who don't do everything in Emacs and how t
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by ctrlmeta 3y ago
> I know I'm a bit of an emacs user, but for this I've been using visual studio code because of one extension in particular: Cursorless. Honestly want to know how many people here use Emacs like this? I thought Emacs users live
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TypeCheck – Fast and flexible runtime type-checking for your Elixir projects(elixirforum.com)
1 points by ctrlmeta 3y ago|0 comments
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by ctrlmeta 3y ago
> A few months ago I started a new job at a company that uses Elixir > In fact, I might go as far as saying that Elixir gives you a fun language (like Ruby) while leaving out the stateful footguns OOP languages give you. I don't
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by ctrlmeta 3y ago
Emacs being Emacs it is possible to change how Emacs behaves for every key you type. Evil mode is a fantastic example of how you can emulate most of Vi within Emacs! But it's not the only game in town. If you don't want to buy int
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by ctrlmeta 3y ago
Yes, sooner or later this is going to become the future of GPT in applications. The models are going to be embedded directly within the applications. I'm hoping for more progress in the performance of vectorized computing so that both

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