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You can. Just be the kind of founder that won't sell out your users for an extra payday (private equity, VC, sale to a bigger corporation, squeezing extra money by enshittifying the product, etc.)

The big tech companies are currently lobbying the US government to bring identity verification laws to us at a federal level. They stand to grow even more rich and even more powerful by being the gatekeepers of identity. Imagine if you could only log in to Hacker News by using your Google account.

It will kill whatever is left of small independent communities on the internet, and it's a disaster for free speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAd-OOrdyMw

Does the law specify HTTP specifically?

My apologies, my anger is at the payment processors, not at you/not meant to be combative.

Itch hasn't lost its marbles, they're forced to remove this content by payment processors. They're critical infrastructure, they shouldn't be allowed to arbitrate on behalf of an entire society. We need laws to require them to carry payments for any legal transaction. Paying for porn games is legal.

It's a shame they're using Discord, a centralized silo of proprietary ownership, for community.

If blue states can build enough housing to welcome refugees from collapsing red states then great. Caring for people and building bigger concentrations of healthy people is a good thing, especially as the House is proportional to population.

Around what amount of load would you say the overhead of opening/closing becomes a problem?

Follows are already public information.

I'd bet they are showing us far more ads than necessary to run the platform, and many of them are trash (crap product, abrasive ad, etc.) Not to mention the tradeoffs with privacy.

If humans don't understand it to write the data the LLM is trained on, how will the LLM be able to learn it?

It's not even remotely helpful to keep parroting "this is what Americans wanted." Not only do Trump voters not represent a majority of Americans, the media landscape is so fractured that many people did not know what they were voting for and just wanted cheaper groceries. Is that stupid and naive? Yes. But it's also stupid and naive to generalize and say "Americans want this."

set browser.ml.chat.enabled to false in about:config

Looks miserable. Prompt, tweak, review, test, tweak, prompt, review, test, review, tweak, prompt, etc. Fiddling with settings windows in some black box software that belongs to someone else.

Programming: a powerful skillset, one of the few things that can give you autonomy and agency besides money. Doable on basic computer hardware with no internet connection. Self-reinforcing, investing in yourself.

Prompting: requires expensive subscriptions to someone else's computer, someone else's software. They can turn it off, they control it. Spending your days QAing software and reviewing code and describing in worse language what you want the computer to do, over and over, until you test your way to something approximating what you wanted. Not to mention incinerating the environment.

I know which of the two I prefer.

All of these people advocating for AI software dev are effectively saying they would prefer to review code instead of write it. To each their own I guess but that just sounds like torture to me.

I'd rather put my effort into developing my own skills, not hand-holding a hallucinating robot.

Are they? If this is his best effort at forcing his bot to spout lies, it doesn't seem to be a great strategy.

Because the average American is pathologically selfish.

Tree style is better, it gives you a visual hierarchy of where each tab has come from. Makes Wikipedia rabbit holes more interesting.

First of all you might want to update that assumption, but traditional media aside Zuckerberg is all in on the clown show and he owns the major social media platforms.

Come on, you're a tech person aren't you? Maybe a programmer? How many times have you had an idea guy come to you with a "great idea for an app" if only they could find someone to program it for them?

Sorry, but most ideas aren't great. It's the painful process of refinement, hard work, and iteration that results in something great.

Your definition of creativity is flawed. Imagining something is a small part of the process. Developing the skill and technique to express that imagination is the most important part.

So would the site shutting down because AI bots are too much traffic.

This is a direct response to thousands of Americans being fired from their jobs by Elon's actions, with thousands more threatened and likely to lose their jobs in the future. I don't think "think of the jobs" is the right way to convince people this is a bad move.

This is how I use HN now. I don't bother with the censored front page anymore.

Aren't hackers supposed to be a curious bunch? Is that really the only way you can imagine unions working? Can you not see the imbalance of power between a single individual and the corporation that employs them? Unions are fundamentally about balancing that power dynamic.

What did you find it useful for in this afternoon?

Not sure if I'd call the relentless assault on my attention to convince me to purchase things "happy", but to each their own.

The Republican controlled congress is fully complicit. The CR they're voting on includes a provision that preemptively surrenders their ability to restrict Trump's tariff boondoggle.

https://bsky.app/profile/fritschner.bsky.social/post/3lk4eyq...

I would encourage you to take a breath and observe the world around you every once in a while.