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monkpit··on Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
Or, open the comments and then click the title link. Then click back when you’re done reading the article, so you can read the comments. That’s my preferred mobile workflow anyways.
monkpit··on Kill The Cookie Banner
You replied to a comment saying the companies don’t care to make it easy. Then, you shifted the blame to parents instead of the companies. I got your point just fine.
monkpit··on Kill The Cookie Banner
Spoken like someone who has never used parental controls. They’re a shitshow.
monkpit··on Kill The Cookie Banner
* definition of bad is subjective and may vary depending upon which lobby group has the most cash to throw around
monkpit··on Amen Break
Really tragic, honestly, the way Coleman’s life ended without him being properly recognized and compensated for what is possibly one of the most sampled pieces of audio ever.
monkpit··on Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall
You don’t think the two are related in the least bit?
monkpit··on Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall
I’m sure they’ll just come up with some other branding, they’ll “go bankrupt” and reorganize, and call it good in the public eye, and everyone will have forgotten about it in a year or two.
monkpit··on Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall
Which, funnily enough, is _also_ something you can teach your children.
monkpit··on Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall
Yes because everyone else on HN is one hivemind, other than you of course.
monkpit··on Freeze-Casting
A slurry is a type of suspension, I guess.
monkpit··on The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin
Does jellyfin offer intro/outro skipping like plex pass does? And hardware accelerated transcoding?

The only thing keeping me on plex is my lifetime plex pass, and family inertia.

monkpit··on Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
And what percentage of the software in the world needs to come close to human-quality code? I’d argue the percentage of the whole is VERY low.
monkpit··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
It doesn’t take any longer to have the llm script this kind of thing, one off or not.
monkpit··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Until someone comes along and changes it without updating the name, or the value comes from a remote service and they change without you changing your name… etc.
monkpit··on Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely
Plus the fact that there’s bias in the first place - citizens in a country where they know social programs will care for their needy would not need to donate.
monkpit··on Resetting Xbox
> gotcha

Gacha?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacha_game

monkpit··on CarPlay Is Additive
You said “let them know after you already bought it” - again, why would they care?
monkpit··on CarPlay Is Additive
What makes you think they would care? If they cared they wouldn’t have done it in the first place.
monkpit··on CarPlay Is Additive
(n=1)
monkpit··on Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards
Words are a representation of an underlying something; LLMs do not deal with words, they deal with tokens and embeddings. There’s a transformation layer between words and inference and back.
monkpit··on Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)
> I highly doubt it.

Not a very convincing discussion point without some support.

monkpit··on A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
Reminds me of psDooM

https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

monkpit··on The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
For what definition of “tolerate”?
monkpit··on Job application asked for my SAT scores
wild to call out a random org like that…
monkpit··on Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)
How is it fraud? Who is being defrauded? What is the impact to the victim?
monkpit··on I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M
You can’t make a contract that breaks the law, it doesn’t work that way. It’s unenforceable and doesn’t hold up in court.

Otherwise, you could just make contracts anytime you wanted to break the law for any reason.

monkpit··on I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M
It doesn’t mean _inside_ the apartment. It means if they decide to film a commercial and you’re walking your dog in the background, they don’t have to ask you.
monkpit··on How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
> Unikraft needed an engineer to add capacity by hand

This seems a little unfair - the _architecture_, as designed, required the human in the loop. The tool doesn’t require it.

monkpit··on TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
Important to whom?
monkpit··on Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Who controls the prompt? Shareholders? And how do you have confidence that the prompt is being used? Just thinking out loud, it’s an interesting idea (even if it might be terrible and dystopian).
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