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Reddit blocks all search engines except Google. You have to log in to use Old Reddit. Actually, you cannot access Old Reddit with a new account. You cannot use RSS feeds anymore. You cannot use the Wayback Machine anymore. If you're on a VPN or a public WiFi, you cannot use New Reddit while being logged out either.

And despite all of these annoyances imposed on their own users, who made the content and tirelessly maintain it, it still costs fractions of a penny to scrape Reddit on Bright Data et al.

"We have Arc Browser at home".

More seriously, it's nice to see this UI finally copied by a major browser, but sad that there's still no real replacement for Arc.

I just updated. I think it looks great overall, but there is way too much lost space on the horizontal tabs.

> Restore failed. Control Panel was replaced by Settings, except for the settings that are still in Control Panel.

Microsoft really needs to remove the Control Panel and let us control everything in the Settings app. It's infuriating to have to go dig in this old mess because of backwards compatibility or something.

Are people really seeing ads in Windows 11? I've never seen one, is it a regional or licence specific thing?

Thank you for sharing, it really seems to be a great app!

It's a shame that so many niche websites have no other choice than moving to Cloudflare.

> "In the process of mitigating, migrating, and updating things, we’ve made a lot of upgrades and improvements to the wiki and infrastructure: Automatic blocking of many bots and other nuisances, including Tor exit nodes"

Is this supposed to be a good thing? What's the point of blocking Tor here?

The Snapdragon X chips are already wonderful with Windows 11 ARM64, so I'm pretty excited to see how much Linux will be able to squeeze out of those!

Switching from ChatGPT Enterprise to Legora at my firm was a godsend, it's so much better for legal work, even with the frequent changes to the underlying models.

I don't think so, but moving the mouse over any date in the calendar makes a request for the list of snapshots taken on that day.

I really appreciate the Archive team's efforts to make the Wayback Machine more responsive, and have donated a few times to support them.

Unfortunately, the restrictions have been way too strict for the last few months: from my residential IP, simply moving the mouse on the calendar for a specific URL is enough to get stuck on 429 error messages for a while; and from corporate ISPs (for example, on airport WiFi), you often can't access the WM at all. I hope they'll find a way to relax those.

Reddit's ad platform is the worst imo. I pushed for trying it at my work and I ended up looking like a fool: it blew all the budget almost instantly on phantom clicks, with absolutely zero conversions. It's nowhere near as good as Meta's.

Confirmed by OpenAI : https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2098113585683808624

Prime's app is ridiculously bad imo. I'm not sure why that is, but everything is slower and takes more clicks and digging than similar apps on the same device. There are also significantly more ads than on Disney+ or Netflix ad tiers.

I find that Netflix and Paramount+ are the American services that offer the best app experience on my (very low-end) smart TV.

Panos Panay must be so vindicated right now. The Surface Duo truly was ahead of its time.

I agree, Opus 5 scoring higher than Fable 5 on Artificial Analysis really makes me question the relevance of these scores.

Do you have any tips for running Codex on the Macbook Neo? Have you changed any setting? On mine, it stutters on every single chat, and I don't even have any plugins installed.

Hi! Thanks for looking into this. I have also been having this issue for the last two days. It looks like it might still be broken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49528768

Hi! I have the same issue (Orange France mobile network). It might be IPv6-related?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499217

I had the same problem, tried a bunch of stuff, banned millions of IPs, but nothing really worked. I ended up spending a bunch of time rewriting the website with Codex so that it is more efficient. Now I'm still getting the same junk traffic, but it barely affects the CPU anymore. I think this might be the way to go.

Cloudflare is also great at playing both sides, and they're trying pretty hard to push for pay-to-crawl because they'll probably get a 30% cut along the way.

Interesting to see that their most important domain, noblogs dot org, seems unaffected.

Thank you! I gave up after more than 2 whole minutes of waiting on a high-end smartphone. I'm not sure this keeps bots out, but it definitely keeps users out…

Yes. I looked just two days ago to purchase a M4 Mac mini (I had no idea they would refresh it), and estimated delivery times were '5-6 weeks', with the highest RAM configs unavailable. Other retailers still have some in stock though.

Same thing for me! Got it with the education discount when it came out in 2024 and, although I've been pretty disappointed with macOS, it's crazy to see that the price increased by $300 in less than 2 years, with no sign of the price increases slowing down.

What will happen once people are priced out of buying computers? I find this worrying.

It's so nice to see an old-school HN hug once in a while.

Sure. The Insider blog tends to be pretty up-to-date: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/

They seem to be focused on performance improvements because of the MacBook Neo pressure and RAM crisis, but right now, I'm mostly excited for the right-click menu and taskbar improvements. You can already do this with third-party software, but it's not the best experience unfortunately.

I might be in the minority here, but some of the latest Windows updates that dropped in the Insider channel are really cool, and I'm excited to see those coming to main.

I've been noticing the same thing since 5.4- it starts with "Yes" yet I haven't asked a question. I think it might be related to the reasoning, like it's answering its own questions?

> The council said the ban, which lawmakers passed in July, was too wide-ranging — it could apply to platforms that did not necessarily pose risks to children’s health and safety — and that it did not take into account the age, maturity or family situation of children. The council also found that the ban would infringe on privacy, because it would require everyone to prove their age on social media platforms.

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/world/europe/france-court...