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twitter.com 2mo ago

Google pushes update to Antigravity instead it reinstalls and locks everyone out

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github.com 1y ago

ByteDance Releases UI-TARS Desktop, Alternative to Anthropic's Computer Use

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What are the "boring" businesses for hackers these days?

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 3y ago

Facebook accounts hijacked by new malicious ChatGPT Chrome extension

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www.theverge.com 6y ago

A small Wisconsin company stored thousands of people’s CDs, then vanished

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www.reddit.com 6y ago

Goodbye with Love

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aiexperiments.withgoogle.com 9y ago

Take a pitcure and AI and machine learning tell you what it is, set to music

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aabgu.org 10y ago

How Winning Leads to Cheating

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fusion.net 10y ago

10 cellphones are dropped on the sidewalk to see what happens to them

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www.forbes.com 10y ago

Sony just tried to trademark “Let's play” and failed for the wrong reason

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news.softpedia.com 10y ago

Smartwatches can be used to spy on your card's PIN code

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una.im 10y ago

Create Instagram filters with CSS

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www.wired.co.uk 10y ago

AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers

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wordpress.org 10y ago

Wordpress theme Twenty Sixteen appeared in the theme directory today

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medium.com 10y ago

The Evolution of Magazine Covers

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

Globe Making (1955)

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cloud.google.com 11y ago

Google is giving away free trials to Cloud Platform, 60 days / $300 credit

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maptia.com 11y ago

The men who hike with goats

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musicmachinery.com 12y ago

Exploring regional listening preferences

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www.omgchrome.com 12y ago

Popular Chrome extension bought by malware maker

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medium.com 12y ago

There is nothing wrong with using your cellphone at dinner.

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www.fastcoexist.com 12y ago

$20,000 houses designed by Auburn University students

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

Google April Fool's: Explore Treasure Mode with Google Maps

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Can karma inflated by the HN vote hack be reset? (Mine included)

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go.codeschool.com 14y ago

Code school offering first month of subscription for $9, usually $25

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jqref.borloz.com 14y ago

JQRef, a jQuery reference for iPhone, is available in the App Store

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www.ifixit.com 15y ago

Samsung Chromebook gets torn down, turns out it's just an improved CR48

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stampede.it 15y ago

$15 for a 6 mo. Pro account at letscrate.com, $10 if more than 25 people buy it.

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groups.google.com 15y ago

Six months later, no one has found the Easter Egg on the Google CR48

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www.bbc.co.uk 15y ago

The tent that turns into concrete in less than 24 hours

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I took advantage of their "Token Cup" for the world cup and won 530,000 credits. I believe at the time they said it had to be used in the desktop app, which I have installed. Nowhere can I find any sort of balance or evidence of the 530k other than the Token Cup page itself that say that is what I was given.

Their web chat has almost no settings of customization. Everything they present just comes off as amateurish to me. I trust them less than most Chinese AI companies, which a very low bar.

That 10 minutes is likely very normal. Possibly...

* A Google employee messes up a setting (like one of the previous incidents) triggers something that looks like a suspension is warranted and it takes 10 minutes to flow through the process to suspend.

* A Railway customer does something corrupt, or seemingly corrupt, Google's system starts limiting access and take 10 minutes to decide it should be a suspension.

These are even more likely if there is a person in the loop to approve, who obvious did not dig deep enough to see that they should not have done so.

Googlebook 2 months ago

not a single mention of Apple Intelligence.

This is probably because they know it is not very good.

I wish there was a way to see how many grifters YC has under their umbrella compared to the general population of startups in general.

My gut says the general population has a larger percentage.

A desktop client for Repomix. Repomix is a CLI which allows you to summarize all the code in a repo in one txt or md file so you can in turn feed it to an AI model for analysis. It absolutely gets the job done it its current state, but it is a personal project so there may be a few rough edges.

https://github.com/KevanMacGee/Repomix-Desktop

It's open source and has no official connection to Repomix. But the developer, yamadashy on Github, knows about it and seemed to like it enough to add it to the Repomix website under the community projects.

I like being able to paste all the code into a browser window and have lengthy discussions with ChatGPT, Gemini and GLM. Doing so in the browser saves tokens over doing it in Cursor or Codex. I like using the Projects feature in ChatGPT in the browser and Notebooks with Gemini because that gives the model context and history on whatever I am working on. It was one part scratching my own itch, one part learning about Python and Customtinker.

It's made specifically for when you just want to get the code and paste it, no muss or fuss. It doesn't have support for flags (yet?) like the CLI because again it is built for speed. Besides, when I want flags, I like using the CLI instead to get granular. Repomix Desktop is for "just give me the code."

I'm a self taught coder so I'm very open to feedback.

I still love Peppermint OS and have used it on several low end boxes.

It also didn't try to be internet browser focused, it just gave you easy ability to make the OS browser focused. Out of the box, it was like a better Lubuntu. You had the opportunity to chose what web based apps/services you would add.

Notepad is turning into the text app I desperately want, except for the association with Copilot. And then with new changes, it had the recent security vulnerabilities issues. The only thing it doesn't have that I want is a sidebar that shows folders or files like so many text editors already do.

I never use Notepad anymore. I have been using Pulsar, which is okay, but not exactly what I want.

I want a text editor that can do markdown if I want, spell check, minimal tool bar with some formatting shortcuts, etc.

I'd love it if a "dumbed down Typora" had a love child with Notepad.

"The problem is that a 4x8 plywood sign will weather very fast in New England weather. "

I live in Rochester, NY. Our weather is no better or worse if you are a sheet of plywood outside 24/7. It will last years.

Note that in the article, the author says how the scammers do everything to avoid having to show up in person. That's because they are in a different country and try to commit the scam without setting foot in the US.

What about sinking 3 2x4s into the ground and nailing a 4x8 sheet of plywood with a tastefully painted sign indicating the property is not for sale?

It won't stop everyone but any realtor doing due diligence will likely see it. If is lasts long enough, it will show up on Google street view as well.

That's selection bias. Most replies in the post were positive.

BrandonM's comment also wasn't that unreasonable in my opinion. Imagine telling someone many years ago that we'd use an app on our phones to get in stranger's car and pay a lot for the privilege as well. His reaction to Dropbox wasn't on point but wasn't tone deaf.

Drew from Dropbox responded to the post at the time and BrandonM responded positively, praising the product.

It was overall a mature and very fair way of saying it wasn't for him.

I have this PC for over 2 years and did not realize I didn't have Chrome installed until Google's Antigravity prompted me to do so for its agent.

So it's installed now but still un-personalized like it was installed 5 minutes ago. I don't use it except with Antigravity.

I don't trust Distrowatch's popularity list. I have thought for years it was probably gamed.

There are constantly distros in that top ten list that aren't in other top ten lists like mentions of reddit, mention on Twitter, Google searches for "linux distro", etc.