heavensteeth

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by heavensteeth 11d ago
- "a platform built for humans, not AI." - "Bots are welcome. Slop gets blocked." - "No AI buttons bolted onto every surface." yet the entire website appears to be itself AI slop. is the codebase vibecoded too?
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by heavensteeth 20d ago
While it doesn't represent modern war at all, of course, I've always enjoyed the knowledge that Australia was bombed very little during WW2 despite "neighboring" the Axis Japan simply because it was too far away and plan
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by heavensteeth 2mo ago
I agree whole heatedly with severing ties with Yandex, but no, Europe still continues to funnel billions of Euros to Russia; €5.57B in goods (plus €7.81B in exports) and €3.63B in energy[0] in Q1 2026. [0] https://ec.europa.eu&#x
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by heavensteeth 3mo ago
> and decide to go past the “this was mostly built by AI” part I got that feeling just seeing the title use "native" as a synonym of "not a website".
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by heavensteeth 3mo ago
I'm surprised by the amount of heckling this post received almost immediately! And a lack of constructive input. I for one enjoyed the article and understand what you're getting at.
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by heavensteeth 3mo ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383220
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by heavensteeth 4mo ago
> Then it forces me to thumbs down the music, which also isn't what I want to do, because I have no idea what effect it's having on my recommendations. I feel this. Social media algorithms can be so complex and opaque now that
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by heavensteeth 4mo ago
That's Go.
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by heavensteeth 4mo ago
This is exactly my gripe unfortunately, it feels like needless fragility. IIRC the author has said they believe it wouldn't be too difficult to patch QBE to work as a library, but from what I've seen the code is somewhat terse and
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by heavensteeth 5mo ago
Most social media has been has been utterly untenable forever, but Twitter and Discord are the most troublesome in my experience. It's so hard to create and use a new account on those sites without the rigmarole of captcha (due to susp
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by heavensteeth 9mo ago
His hands aren't just cold — they're dead.
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by heavensteeth 10mo ago
I struggle to believe you don't understand what they mean. There is many a homophobe in the world. GP isn't saying homophobia is good, simply that espousing a pro-LGBT viewpoint may upset people. Maybe they deserve to be upset, bu
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by heavensteeth 11mo ago
The author doesn't like HN.
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by heavensteeth 11mo ago
Given the list of non-university .edu domains is static (or even decreasing assuming some expire), couldn't you keep a list of those instead?
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
The first thing I checked was how hashing is implemented and two things stand out to me: 1. Input must be valid UTF-8. 2. stdin is read to EOF instead of being read incrementally Neither are ideal and can make ut unfit for a fair few use ca
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
Did you vibe code this by any chance? It's clearly insecure. Oh, yes, you did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44656840
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
I found a pretty cool 80kb docker image that is just a copy of busybox httpd, which makes creating a docker image out of static files very simple.[0] [0] https://github.com/lipanski/docker-static-website
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
I tried Podman on my messing around VPS but quickly reverted to rootless Docker. The straw that broke the camels back was a bug in `podman compose` that funnily enough was fixed two hours ago[1]; if `service1` has a `depends_on` on `service
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
> even if cash is legal tender and they, by law, _have_ to accept cash this is not true as it is not what "legal tender" means. Legal tender is something that the government must accept as payment, not private enterprise. &
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
I'm not a psychologist but some of these extrapolations seem insane to me. > Using Czech police records, American and Czech researchers compared rape rates in the Czech Republic for the 17 years before porn was legalized with rate
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
> Taking an extra two hours per passenger on average, that’s 1.725 billion hours, or $83 billion cost to the economy just for extra time wasted for domestic passengers. That seems really wrong to me? 1. Business flyers are getting paid f
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
Mass appeal has mass appeal, apparently.
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
> - Signal: how can you believe it is not controlled once it becomes the mandatory app in the US Gov. cryptography?
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
personally i havent watched tv or listened to the radio on my own accord in many years because there are too many ads. i like the idea of not being able to choose the content im engaging in but it feels like 70% ads and 30% content
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
Right, it's only natural; they MitM 20% of the internet. Similarly, I struggle to believe they're not providing much of the data they collect to the CIA.
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
That article reeks of AI generation. The "author" also uses an AI generated profile picture. I struggle to trust anything this page says.
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
I ask in complete earnest: is that your honest reaction to seeing it, or did you hype it up for your comment? Personally very little could evoke that kind of reaction from me. Maybe a little, "oh, that's an interesting thing to be
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
Whether or not you agree with Kent on this, you have to commend that he tends to be very active in discussing issues with the community in a fairly open, calm, and thought out way (at least from what I've seen). Comparatively, I find s
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
SponsorBlock doesn't send video IDs to the server. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlockServer/issues/25
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
I'm not surprised by the data recovery company story, it feels like I only hear bad things about that industry. I remember something similar happened with LinusTechTips.

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