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green-eclipse··on YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup
"good at marketing" by being completely incompetent?
green-eclipse··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
What is this news source NDTV? I've never heard of it. Are they reputable?
green-eclipse··on Apple Rethinks Its Movie Strategy After a String of Misses
https://archive.ph/zHKjy
green-eclipse··on Responsive bar charts in HTML and CSS
Why are all these responsive charts displayed as images? Are they not proud of their work?
green-eclipse··on Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
Side note: I just wanted to comment on the variance of HN submission popularity. OP submitted this same amazing tool as a "Show HN" 20 days ago, with very similar title and shorter description [0]. It got no votes.

Today this submission is climbing rapidly. Was the tool very different 20 days ago? I honestly don't know! But you never know how submissions will perform here. It feels pretty random, which makes sense, and also is part of the fun of HN.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40645009

green-eclipse··on One Million Checkboxes
I don't understand, where is the AI + LLM part
green-eclipse··on Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California
https://archive.ph/HoERr
green-eclipse··on Tesla Auto Wipers: Why They Don't Work and Why There Isn't an Easy Fix
Code for a public facing website used by hundreds of millions of people is always more complicated than you think it is on the surface.
green-eclipse··on Show HN: I made a online free tool to enhance and auto-crop your screenshots
Ahh nice. If you can add a built-in transparent background that would be super helpful too. Thanks for the tool!
green-eclipse··on Show HN: I made a online free tool to enhance and auto-crop your screenshots
Nice tool! Is there a simple way to format the image without a background, or just a transparent background?
green-eclipse··on Show HN: Low cost no subscription alternative to elevenlabs
Any option to try for free?
green-eclipse··on Gemini 1.5 Pro updates, 1.5 Flash debut and 2 new Gemma models
> The grand prize of the Gemini API Developer Competition is a custom electric DeLorean.

That's a pretty cool and novel prize. Curious what it's worth.

green-eclipse··on Demographics professor warns that by 2531, everyone in Japan will be named Sato
South Korea has that problem right now. 20+% of people have the surname Kim [0]. 14% have the surname Lee [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_(Korean_surname)

[1] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_(Korean_surname)

green-eclipse··on Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia
Would be great to see some of Fisk's cases in here /s
green-eclipse··on Prosecutors: Sam Bankman-Fried should get 40 to 50 years in prison
https://archive.ph/m840Q
green-eclipse··on Japan's Space One rocket explodes seconds after liftoff
Hardware != Software
green-eclipse··on MSFT engineer warns Copilot creates violent images, ignores copyrights
That is quite the escalation path.
green-eclipse··on Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update
iPhones have plenty of issues too, I've experienced my fair share, as have others. Technology always has bugs:

https://discussions.apple.com/community/iphone

green-eclipse··on Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update
Mine is working fine.
green-eclipse··on Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews safety debate
This is a wildly unserious argument.
green-eclipse··on LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud
Microsoft bought Hotmail back in 1997. Hotmail was powered by Unix servers until 2004, despite MS's best efforts to transition to their own Wintel-powered backend [0]. These things take time.

[0] https://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Live-Hotmail-Was-Pow...

green-eclipse··on Amazon funds 3 advocacy groups to thwart Microsoft's cloud efforts
https://archive.ph/RJFXs
green-eclipse··on FTC: Amazon made $1B through secret price raising algorithms
https://archive.ph/a8JqF
green-eclipse··on Amazon Boosted Junk Ads, Deleted Messages to Thwart Antitrust Probe, FTC Says
https://archive.ph/y5PFF
green-eclipse··on How China's “debt traps” work
If you read the article it answers this very question, with examples.
green-eclipse··on How China's “debt traps” work
The reason it was such enormous news was due to how very rare this situation is in the US. Apartment buildings don't collapse on a weekly basis.
green-eclipse··on They studied dishonesty – Was their work a lie?
People have been pointing out these frauds for a while now.

Aug 2021: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9914493/Landmark-st...

July 2023: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ariely-frances...

etc etc

green-eclipse··on Microsoft tried for years to displace Google as iPhone's default search engine
https://archive.ph/KclBz
green-eclipse··on We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy caused
Unity stock is down about 10% since the announcement. I'm sure that's driving the action plan & messaging more than any actual feelings about harming their userbase. They knew the users would be irate, but investors... That's a different story.
green-eclipse··on Bread, Water and Peanut Butter: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Life in Jail
https://archive.ph/HQXWk
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