subsection1h

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by subsection1h 7mo ago
The fact that this discussion was flagged might be the final nail in the coffin for me. The huge increase in AI generated comments and posts at HN is a topic that has been discussed on other forums for months now. Complaints include "O
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by subsection1h 7mo ago
I've been using HN since 2008 when I created my first account[1] and I use HN differently than most people. I have a group of bookmarked searches that I visit almost daily that relate to technologies that interest me, such as Emacs. In
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by subsection1h 7mo ago
There are plenty of tech forums that don't discuss AI. I think your confusion might be the result of you equating tech with "writing code for employers." By the way, have you seriously never written[1] so much as a single bac
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by subsection1h 7mo ago
> Never thought this would be something people actually take seriously The author of the article has a bachelor's degree in economics[1], worked as a product manager (not a dev) and only started using GitHub[2] in 2025 when they w
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by subsection1h 8mo ago
Wow, 120 comments and not one person who uses mpg123[1] or ffplay[2] with shell scripts for playlists. [1] The most minimal media player I know of. Written in assembly. Supports only MP3. [2] The most minimal media player I know of that sup
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by subsection1h 8mo ago
All of the comments posted by the HN account named jaynamburi were written using an AI. Gemini confirms this: "Based on an analysis of the comments on the profile you linked, it is highly likely that they are written by an AI (or a hum
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by subsection1h 8mo ago
> broke their workflows because of vague technical reasons > I switched to Vivaldi You refer to important security improvements as "vague technical reasons" and you switched to Vivaldi, a browser that is based[1] on exte
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by subsection1h 8mo ago
WTF. I have a separate computer solely for personal finance, domain registration, DNS management, and the associated email account. If I didn't use multiple computers this way, I'd go back to using Qubes OS.
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by subsection1h 8mo ago
The folks at the Qubes OS forum care about security, unlike the vast majority of HN users nowadays: https://forum.qubes-os.org/
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by subsection1h 8mo ago
> Privacy has long since been dead, but at least for myself opsec for personal work is too. Hacker News in 2026.
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by subsection1h 8mo ago
Containers aren't a sandbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405993
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by subsection1h 8mo ago
> the portability is very poor. I need most of my notes to be at least readable on my mobile devices. Why didn't you set up an automatic recurring export of your Org files to HTML files that are uploaded somewhere? That's wha
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by subsection1h 8mo ago
Here's another implementation: news.ycombinator.com##.default:has(a[href="user?id=dpifke"]) .comment
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by subsection1h 8mo ago
> I'm both a Conservative _and_ a practicing Christian But unlike most HN users who label themselves conservative Christians, you've never suggested that climate change is a hoax: https://hn.algolia.com/?type=
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by subsection1h 9mo ago
> doing meaningless work will destroy your soul You think commercial software is meaningful? You think web apps, mobile apps, etc. are meaningful? If so, you are very lucky!
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by subsection1h 9mo ago
> Librefox on the linux device. Librefox hasn't been updated since 2019: https://github.com/intika/Librefox/commits/master
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by subsection1h 9mo ago
A larger percentage of HN users were pass users when HN was less mainstream. Late adopters (of forums, technologies, etc.) tend to be GUI lovers because late adoption and a preference for GUIs are both linked to uninquisitiveness.
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by subsection1h 9mo ago
Hi, yakattak. Like you, I also created my HN account in 2010. Browsing HN stopped making me happy years ago. Searching HN for individual comments that include jargon that is indicative of knowledge relating to my interests does make me
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by subsection1h 9mo ago
Exactly. Also, it's not clear to me if some of these people think that containers are a sandbox or they simply don't care about security. For anyone out there who thinks that containers are a sandbox... There's a reason why g
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by subsection1h 9mo ago
> we've already crossed the Rubicon with tools like Claude Code I install all dev tools and project dependencies on VMs and have done so since 2003. > Adding browser automation via an extension is actually less risky than what
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by subsection1h 9mo ago
Do you use Auto Tab Discard? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...
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by subsection1h 10mo ago
Anger contributed directly to the start of the free software movement: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt
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by subsection1h 10mo ago
I can't decide if the account that created this post is a bot or a teenager in a developing nation: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:jerawaj740&type=all&sor...
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by subsection1h 10mo ago
> Infrastructure should aim to be bland Can you provide examples of sources of information that MAGA considers neutral? The MAGA in my extended family who live in rural America think that scientists promote evolution solely because the
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by subsection1h 11mo ago
> I personally don’t think I care if a blog post is AI generated or not. 0% of your HN comments include URLs for sources that support the positions and arguments you've expressed at HN.[1] Do you generally not care about the sourc
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by subsection1h 11mo ago
> When I was a fresh engineer I used a pretty vanilla shell environment. When I got a year or two of experience, I wrote tons of scripts Does this mean that you learned to code to earn a paycheck? I'm asking because I had written
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by subsection1h 11mo ago
> Increase in productivity has lead to broad increase in prosperity All of my grandparents retired in their 50s with fat pensions and then lived into their late 80s without having ever stepped foot on a college campus.
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by subsection1h 11mo ago
This article includes 894 words and this discussion currently includes 153 comments. Neither one includes the terms "site isolation" or "Fission". WTF.
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by subsection1h 11mo ago
> You Americans are so fucking stupid its hilarious. LOL. The person you replied to is from Venezuela: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:madacol+Venezuela&type=...
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by subsection1h 1y ago
> I don’t think it’s great to see a truly free project get absorbed into a commercial venture. Auth.js and NextAuth.js didn't seem to be in a healthy state. Work on NextAuth.js v5 began way back in May 2023.[1][2] NextAuth.js v5 w

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