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by dang 4d ago
Discussed (only?) once before: The Interim Computer Museum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37304983 - Aug 2023 (15 comments)
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by dang 4d ago
Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
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by dang 4d ago
Please don't do this here. You may not owe $CEO better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 4d ago
Those are two separate issues. We can debate whether an article is on topic or HN or not, but it's still possible, desirable, and mandatory for commenters to stick to the site guidelines.
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by dang 4d ago
Recent and related. Others? OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49650326 - Sept 2026 (179 comments) More questions about whether researchers can trust Open
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by dang 4d ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645480 , which was posted a bit earlier (and where the article appears to have somewhat more information).
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by dang 4d ago
Recent and related: LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612329 - Sept 2026 (359 comments) GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea - https:&#x2F
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by dang 4d ago
" Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. " It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads. Also: " Don't be snarky. " (FWIW I don't think you meant to do either of these
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by dang 5d ago
(HN moderator here) > I'm waiting for my money to run out before I end it Please don't do that. Someone emailed us a link to your comment and was concerned that you were in this level of distress. I didn't have another way
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by dang 5d ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we've asked you before. If you wouldn't
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by dang 5d ago
All: please don't post generic reflexive reactions to titles. That's covered by this guideline, among others, in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : " Please don't pick the most provocative
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by dang 5d ago
Personal attacks will get you banned here. No more of this, please, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 5d ago
" Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. " a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (Also, please avoid tit-fot-tat spats - they never d
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by dang 5d ago
We've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to troll HN with.
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by dang 5d ago
Religious flamewar is not ok on Hacker News, regardless of religion. No more of this please. I realize that this thread has many ways of degenerating but what you posted here was particularly pure flamebait. We detached this subthread from
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by dang 6d ago
It's helpful to let people know when links aren't working but can you please not be a jerk when doing so? From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : " Don't be snarky. " " Edit out
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by dang 6d ago
Ah, that would explain it.
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by dang 6d ago
Prequel thread: DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624603 - Sept 2026 (216 comments)
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by dang 6d ago
(most) comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639408 , which has the original source
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by dang 6d ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639408 , which has the original source. I'll try to assemble the other links there too.
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by dang 6d ago
Since you posted the original source (thank you!) I think we'll use your submission as the one to merge into, then re-up it.
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by dang 7d ago
Discussed a few times: A Slower Speed of Light (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40332586 - May 2024 (59 comments) What if we could reduce the speed of light - https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by dang 7d ago
> Truly idiotic moments. Peak of Western civilization point. Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? This is particularly bad. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. You've been
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by dang 7d ago
" Don't be snarky. " " Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 7d ago
Yes and secondarily weird is why there was a flurry of these all at once. I mean it's probably just the usual group dynamics but it would be interesting to know what precipitated it, and why now.
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by dang 7d ago
Thank you! I'm impressed and grateful that you ended up being so nice in this exchange. As my sister-in-law used to say, "you barely ever get that".
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by dang 7d ago
I'm not going to pile on by posting a moderation warning in this context, but I do want to respond to one point you made: > this hive of nobodies is allowed to run rampant here, with no moderation You're quite right that there
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by dang 7d ago
I was just replying to another user about that very point! Maybe it will be helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49637174
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by dang 7d ago
I'm afraid you're getting a bit piled on in the replies because readers feel strongly about this. But I want to add one thing re this: > I do use LLM editing What we're seeing is that LLM editing leaves nearly as many impr
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by dang 7d ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636283 .

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