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I do miss coding, but it just isn't worth it anymore.

This pretty much sums up my current mood with AI. I also like to think, but it just isn't worth it anymore as a SE at bigCorp. Just ask AI to do it and think for you and the result only has to be "good enough" (=> works, passes tests). Makes sense business wise, but it breaks me, personally.

hn/dangs stance on this: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paywalls%20by:dang&dateRange=a...

tldr: paywalls are allowed as long as they can be circumvented easily, eg via archive.ph or similar services

What are Eurosky’s goals?

In the next 12 months we aim to set up and operate key components in the AT Protocol tech stack: PDS services, relays, and content moderation, in order to ensure that the ecosystem is robust, resilient and with a base in Europe. We also aim to kickstart the development of a suite of social applications that advance democratic and participatory civics, through technical support, access to resources, and collaboration with communities.

To do that, we aim to raise €5-7 million over the next 12 months, and €15 million in funding by 2028.

€5-7m for operating a BlueSky instance. Great use of european funds right here!

They don't need to instill fear in everyone, but only a critical mass and most importantly _regulators_.

So there will be laws because not everyone can be trusted to host and use this "dangerous", new tech.

And then you have a few "trusted" big tech firms forming an oligopoly of ai, with all of the drawbacks.

My prediction is that YouTube will do the opposite. Completely embrace AI content (mostly short-form) and inject their own generated clips.

Having short form content that captures users without having to pay shares to content creators seems to a believable goal for the service

Slightly OT, but who is HelixGuard?

The website is a mess (broken links, broken UI elements, no about section)

There is no history on webarchive. There is no information outside of this website and their "customers" are crypto exchanges and some japanese payment provider.

This seems a bit fishy to me - or am I too paranoid?

I for one like it to be able to post stuff on my website without the risk of someone sending me pizza or swat teams to my home address...

direct link (PDF): https://www.esma.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2025-11/List_...

  − Accenture plc  
  − Amazon web Services EMEA Sarl 
  − Bloomberg L.P. 
  − Capgemini SE 
  − Colt Technology Services 
  − Deutsche Telekom AG  
  − Equinix (EMEA) B.V. 
  − Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. 
  − Google Cloud EMEA Limited 
  − International Business Machine Corporation 
  − InterXion HeadQuarters B.V. 
  − Kyndryl Inc. 
  − LSEG Data and Risk Limited 
  − Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited 
  − NTT DATA Inc. 
  − Oracle Nederland B.V.  
  − Orange SA 
  − SAP SE 
  − Tata Consultancy Services Limited

The source for this is a reddit post from 7 years ago?

Reminder that rasengan, before running vp.net also owned Private Internet Access (PIA) [0] which was also allegedly involved in spreading rumors about ProtonVPN years ago [1].

PIA btw was acquired by Kape/Crossrider: https://cyberinsider.com/private-internet-access-kape-crossr...

So there is a lot of history between the owner of vp.net and proton.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497614

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/comment/e...

If I understand correctly it does only show stats for the current frontpage (aka top 30). So it's the "Most Upvoted Story (on the frontpage right now)".

That is not true for most states in Germany.

After 10 years of mandatory school most states have what is called "Berufsschulpflicht" until you are at least 18 years old.

That means you have to learn a job, which is not the same as working full-time and still considered education.

So, if traditional game worlds are paintings, neural worlds are photographs. Information flows from sensor to screen without passing through human hands.

I don't get this analogy at all. Instead of a human information flows through a neural network which alters the information.

Every lifelike detail in the final world is only there because my phone recorded it.

I might be wrong here but I don't think this is true. It might also be there because the network inferred that it is there based on previous data.

Imo this just takes the human out of a artistic process - creating video game worlds and I'm not sure if this is worth archiving.

Yeah right. We also got "vibe coding" out of it.

The article contains a paragraph about ads and it reads like a nightmare:

The full-page advertisement you saw on the previous page is an example.

the paginated website design opens up new possibilities for ad placement and presentation, allowing for innovative approaches in terms of ad type, location, size, and interaction compared to traditional scrolling.

highlighted and annotated sections often represent the user's key interests, allowing for more targeted and relevant ad placements

ads embedded in the website will be included in these downloaded PDFs, increasing ad exposure each time the user reviews the PDF file.

Paid subscribers could download ad-free PDFs, while non-paying users receive PDFs with embedded advertisements, providing a tiered reading experience.

I don't really get it, but I'm also not using chrome, but looking at the website's source instead.

- Does the website actually do anything related to SXG?

- Would this also work if I search something completely different, goo offline and then just click on the first result?

- What is the point of the code if it's just hardcoded?

- What is the random progressbar doing? Just for visuals?

Edit: I explored a bit more and this blog post[0] by the OP would probably be a better entry-point for this post.

[0] https://www.pawelpokrywka.com/p/stretching-google-prefetchin...

Looking at https://rvlt.gg/discover/servers it seems that all reasonably active servers are either turkish[0] or anime related.

[0]: Turkey banned Discord in 2024: https://www.reuters.com/technology/turkey-blocks-instant-mes...

I don't really see the point of this - but here is some feedback from trying it out:

* Whatsapp search is broken. Goes to "https://web.whatsapp.comSEARCHPHRASE/"

* Most of these only work when logged in via cookie to the service

* Amazon search inserts your affiliate tag - you might want to make this clear somewhere.

If you don't care if it's correct or not you can also just make the stuff up. No need to pay for AI to do it for you.

From TFA:

Oscilloscope Music is music that creates it's own visuals.

The same signal that goes to the speakers is also fed into an analog oscilloscope to draw green glowing lines.

The left and right audio channels correspond to the horizontal and vertical axes of the image.

Parametric functions are meticulously crafted to create synesthetic geometries in a lab aesthetic that is retro and futuristic at the same time.

The tricky part is to create images that sound good and vice versa, which demands novel methods of synthesis, mixing and mastering.

This is exactly was TFA does.

But there was one downside to AI. AI was like a human which is why you could talk to it like a human. But because it was like a human, it could also be wrong like a human. So I had to make sure that it wasn't getting the answer wrong. For which I would sometimes use Google Search.

I really don't buy that this was written/created by an actual 9yr old.

But this might just be my unhealthy pessimism/skepticism when it comes to stuff on the internet.

SynthID-Text works by discreetly interfering in the generation process: It alters some of the words that a chatbot outputs to the user in a way that’s invisible to humans but clear to a SynthID detector. “Such modifications introduce a statistical signature into the generated text,” [...] “During the watermark detection phase, the signature can be measured to determine whether the text was indeed generated by the watermarked LLM.”

This! So much this!

I don't understand how this point doesn't come up more often. I don't want to waste time to formulate a question when I can just use 2-3 keywords to get a result with traditional search.

Imagine having to type "What does this error message mean..." Everytime you paste an error message into Google/ddg/kagi.

I also wonder if the same people wouldn't have the same benefits with way cheaper AR classes like from xreal[1]

[1] https://www.xreal.com/de/air/

Yeah I'm one of them. I developed a full-on anxiety disorder after my diagnosis with high BP to the point where I would get panic attacks just sitting in front of the device.

At the same time I would became obsessed with measuring BP and pulse...

My current solution besides anti-depressants and therapy is just ignoring it and trust in the pills from the doctor.

Right now I'm thinking about trying something like the Aktiia wearable to get some measurements without me knowing...

As someone coming from gaming, somehow early-access for books seems weird

I don't get this. So I upload photos of myself to the service to get... more photos of myself...?

What is the use-case where I would have 10+ good photos of myself to upload but needed 80 more photos?

(Also at first I thought this would be about some sort of ai cheating in fps games, but english isn't my first language)

This might be a pretty big idea. Since GIMP is highly scriptable afaik it should be possible to have an AI do all the work. But as always... you would need a lot of training data.

OT, but 7.2 reads like the description of some Yu-Gi-Oh card or something:

Mistral AI may terminate this Agreement at any time [...]. Sections 5, 6, 7 and 8 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

The websites faq says they are still using stripe for payment and ordering - however this may work.

Let's see how this one goes.

It didn't go well for BMW before:

BMW drops controversial heated seats subscription https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421730