GaryBluto

Incredible. I don't think I've ever had the displeasure of visiting a website that has half a second of cursor movement lag before.

You’ve been on HN since 2007 whilst he has been here since 2022, yet you deride him for being an HN “entrepreneur”?

I cannot tell if you are being farcical or not. The article is very blatantly not that, if you take more than a cursory glance at it.

How the time flies. Now the ENL-world has two thriving cultural revolutions, both at each other’s throats. It’s all become very tiring.

where the retro communities themselves don’t value LLM work

What do you mean by “communities”? There was no enthusiast Council of Nicaea where all people who like old hardware met and unanimously decided that LLMs are bad and their work not to be valued. I see plenty of “retro”-adjacent work done with LLMs posted here to a generally warm reception.

Are you just referring to the views of an extended sphere of enthusiast mutual friends that you know?

Does the iPhone need to remain tethered if it is transferred via USB?

Scraping has never "intrinsically" been anti-social behaviour, you just don't like it.

I use a custom browser extension that is mainly used for filtering out pet peeves and regex matches and was wondering what everybody else used (if they use anything at all?).

I've lived in the UK all my life and have the same thoughts as GP.

Is there no project safe from these kinds of obnoxious neo-busybodies?

Anthropic begging for some guidance

Anthropic was "begging" to make it harder for competing companies to be founded.

I'd argue that most, if not all clandestine cells that call themselves themselves "Antifa" are as anti-Fascist as the "National Socialist German Workers' Party" were socialist.

I found the wording of "inciting violence" odd - surely firing a rifle at police officers is violence and not simply incitement for others to join in? It sounds like the author of the article is so obsessed with the social ramifications of acts they can't see the literal ones.

I contacted the QNX community relations manager a little time ago and (if I remember correctly) they said they weren't going to release any of the microGUI source as they wanted the community to focus on their current projects. Very saddening that all that useful historical source code is being left to rot.

Tangentially related, I wish more websites and blogs looked like this now. It's elegant and modern but simple.

Jamie Zawinski is a perfect example of intellectual intelligence unfortunately not translating to emotional intelligence.

https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.bugs.dist/c/ItL6xJm...

If only I had the immense courage to warble nonsense in front of a projector displaying clips of pop culture for 20 minutes. Thank god we have such future laureates to do so for us.

The same type of eccentric foreign citizens you're likely to find here.

Do you have a blog or website with similar anecdotes of life? I found this very interesting.

I've managed to get it directly regurgitate an image from training data, which means any number of these images could be real too.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a33c0f1-2d88-83eb-9163-d85bb65d5b...

Found on the web: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetMysteries/comments/vy3afb/d...

While I'm strongly against AI regulation, I'd argue this is significantly more interesting than people who pretend AI is sentient, especially when the prompts used just say the vague phrase "apologies for the content".

I had just settled on using Continue in VSCode to migrate from Copilot Chat not 30 minutes ago, then I visit the site again and this has happened. Cache follies.

I noticed too; I managed to ignore it at first but it eventually became so grating I stopped reading shortly before I reached the end of the article.

I'm not exactly sure of the reason for the overuse but the sheer amount of times it is used feels artificial. Not "artificial" in an "artificial intelligence" sense but perhaps a corporate, "inclusive" thing[1] that may have rubbed off on the author during his time at Mozilla, or a political convention (which is possible considering the large "Fump Truck" text on his Mastodon page).

[1] https://acorn.firefox.com/latest/content/inclusive-writing/o...

Windows Aero did work, or at least the Windows 7 incarnation of it.

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I come to Hacker News to avoid this. You have practically every other website on the internet to discuss politics, why here?

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I wonder if this will create a market for freer forums for Koreans that are hosted in other countries?

Using OpenRouter, going to migrate to DeepSeek's official API soon. I'm not using it for anything commercial or for private data so I have no privacy qualms.

Almost exactly the same story here. I've also had little to no refusals from DeepSeek, with it's Chinese values meaning substantially less friction when it comes to things like reverse engineering, finding copyrighted files, working with dubiously-sourced source code, et cetera. I don't think I'd go back to Copilot even if they dropped prices by 90%.

What's with the lack of Microsoft design language on the website? It's painfully obvious they're trying to emulate Anthropic's style here and it looks tacky.