skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The green screens tend to be much quicker and more responsive than the web frontends that are developed to replace them.

Agree! Back in 2005, I was involved in a project to build a web front end as a replacement for the 'green screen' IBM terminal UI connecting to AS400 (IIRC). All users hated the web frontend with passion, and to this day, I do not see web tech that could compete in terms of data entry speed, responsiveness, and productivity. I still think about this a lot when building stuff these days. I'm hoping one day I'll find an excuse to try textualize.io or something like this for the next project :)
The current boat I am on is relying on Firefox for most of my devices: Windows Laptops, Android Phones/Tablets with Ublock Origin and NextDNS set over DNS mode for all of the devices in my family.

For iDevices relying on Orion Browser paired with Ublock Origin and NextDNS set up. As good as Safari but without the annoyances of Plugins. Their compatablity mode seems to work on sites where Safari seems to have issues.

Ungoggled Chromium for sites that seem to break on both Firefox and Orion, unfortunately there are loads out there. It's a shame that Firefox isn't as effecient with Battery Consumption as Orion is.

Brave/Edge just never cut it for me.
Disable JS in 2025 does NOT work. Petty much every site only works properly with JS, with some exceptions.

JS is a core part of the modern web experience. 10 years go MAYBE Noscript would work, I never bothered, you end up having to whitelist a bunch of sites anyway even 10 years ago.
I remember a launcher that was kind of bare bones and didnt use spotlight for indexing, it compiled its own index, and was able to do great fuzzy searching, but I forgot the name and cant find it, anyone else have a clue?
Yeah, that was the sentiment at the time.

It reminds me of that meme, maybe called the midwit meme?

On the left you have the dumb guy, saying AOL does everything. On the right you have the hooded guy, saying AOL does everything.

In the middle you have the crying guy saying no you should use Netscape browser, and ICQ for messaging, and usenet for forums, and dogpile for search, etc.
Apparently not, the article notes that the amount field cam prepopulated with 15 zeros.
That was impressive. If it all came from just this short 4-line prompt, it's even more impressive.

All we're missing now is a text-to-video (or text+audio and then audio-to-video) that can convincingly follow the style instructions for emphasis and pausing. Or are we already there yet?
It's quite relevant to highlight that Mozilla is removing the promise that they won't sell your data:
https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b...

Another browser option is Brave, but you have to disable the altcoins stuff :/
If you owe the bank a thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a couple houndred millions, you own the bank.
Of course. It's just my opinion that this task would be perceived by most to be fairly repetitive and unfulfilling, but if the author thinks otherwise, great for him.
previuos submissions

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You may be interested in https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
Digital services are a prime target for reciprocal tariffs from the EU.
you would still be better off in the long run even just putting everything into an MSCI world unless you value being able to scream at a human if markets go down that highly
I am not young, and I was around for both. What was the difference?

I remember going to Europe from the USA around 2012, and everyone was already using Spotify. Their music experience was vastly superior to ours. IIRC, they were based/avail in countries with really loose music copyright laws. Was that what made the difference? They grew huge where they could, before the hammer came down? Then too big to fail?

Again, IIRC, when the US music labels wanted to shut them down, they instead said: "hey, why don't you just buy a big piece of Spotify. We are already your distro. F the artists." I remember thinking that this was a gangster move. (btw, I still refuse to subscribe to Spotify.)
I suppose if I'm making my own, I can make it longer, but my issue with these as they have come with desks I own is they become absolutely useless as soon as I have a mouse bc there's not enough space.
Yeah, I thought it was unnecessarily confrontational and tried to make it clear that's not my intent.

I'm not offended in the slightest, just a very happy user who wants to encourage other people to try librewolf for themselves.
Any comments on "Apache AGE"?

Apache AGE™ is a PostgreSQL that provides graph database functionality.

https://age.apache.org
It starts by discovering how little most folks know from ISO C legalese versus what their compiler does, and it goes from there when adding anything else not part of the standard library.
"Starting today, ChatGPT Pro users will be able to select GPT‑4.5 in the model picker on web, mobile, and desktop. We will begin rolling out to Plus and Team users next week, then to Enterprise and Edu users the following week."

Thanks for being transparent about this. Nothing is more frustrating than being locked out for indeterminate time from the hot thing everyone talks about.

I hope the announcement is true without further unsaid qualifications, like availability outside the US.
Things have changed back though - the CLI is hot again at-least amongst developers.
> actively harmed by US tech giants

Both Nokia and Skype went under due to usual European leadership stagnation and comfort before getting bought. Thankfully both sales funneled enough funds into EU to bootstrap a startup culture here.
I've done construction, masonry, retail sales, barista, deli, a line cook, aiding the mentally challenged and Software development. Id say all those jobs can be stressful.
haven't used them. what made them special?
warren buffet got rich by outperforming early (threw his dice well) and then using that reputation to attract more capital and use his reputation to actually influence markets with his decisions / gain access to privileged information your local active fund manager doesn't
Until the Manifest V2 code is ripped out.

The current situation looks more like a deprecation brownout than a chance at continued support.
> My expectation would be that Apple could quite easily design the phone independently of the safety regulations, then do a review and determine that they have effortlessly complied with them. Otherwise it is more likely to be a defect in the regulation than with Apple.

This statement is a bit much. I don't think we can really have a productive discussion about this with you, because it seems like you've put Apple on such a high pedestal that you won't accept any criticism of them.

The idea that if a company -- at least one you hold in high regard -- would naturally design a product that would violate some regulation, then that regulation must be wrong... wow, that's an incredible statement to make.
How do I right click and add a blank text file to a folder?
Ah, I'd love to have that kind of daily recap... mind sharing some of the code (or even just the prompt?)
Oh I agree … but

I believe software is a form of literacy, not engineering. And I believe everyone should be literate it brings great benefits socially and individually

And if this works for him/her it’s a calendar on a piece of paper stuck to the fridge. Great, it works for them and some people might find it good for them too

But yeah.

“One day I will get organisssseed”
Thanks for spoiling my weekend. :)
> Unix philosophy. It's one day, one line.

The Unix philosophy is often recited as "do one thing, and do it well". This does one thing, but doesn't do it well at all.
Spotify did illegal stuff in beta, but they fixed it since then. Megaupload never cared about the law.
I put $10 on an account over ten years ago to make sporadic calls (e.g. customer service in other countries). That account still has $5 left, and I’ve made a ton of calls to many different countries.

What’s a good alternative here? I just want to make outgoing international calls cheaply.
I'll give it a try. Itch quarantined your page, i'm not sure why. I don't care because my gaming pc is airgapped but you might want to look into it. When clicking download i got this :

WARNING: This Page Has Been Quarantined

Our system has flagged this page for additional review due to potential suspicious behavior from the page owner.

If someone has asked you to download from this page and you don't fully trust them, or their behavior isn't what you recognize, then we don't recommend downloading this file until our team has reviewed the page.

Password-protecting files or pages is a technique often used by scammers in an attempt to block virus and other security scans from detecting malware. Do not trust password-protected files unless you fully trust the uploader.

Learn more about the "Try my game" Discord scam.
He sent private detectives to dig up dirt on the caver he called "pedo guy" and told journalists they were defending an abuser of children with very specific, totally invented, details to the accusation.

He also then got away with it in court because he claimed he wasn't making an accusation, just using a generic insult.
A recent Russian joke:

Bezos comes out of the oval office and mumbles: "dumb old asshole!" Zuckerberg overhears it and reports to Trump. Next meeting, Trump asks him:

- Who did you mean by "dumb old asshole", comrade Bezos?
- Biden, of course, comrade president.
- And who did YOU mean by that, comrade Zuckerberg?

(hint: this is a re-purposed joke about Stalin)
I just wanted to bring up the stress caused by "passive" bosses, who attempt to be everyones buddy, avoiding even the faintest whiff of having to actually "manage" employees. Especially employees unable to integrate themselves, after months, into a workflow wothout causing an equal amount of work for others to decipher and clean up.

I'm not bitter, you're bitter! :)
Looking through emails I think somewhere between 2007-2008. We built a Spotify pirate clone when they went legit, it died because we were not good at being 1337/illegal, the cloud was not trusted, and most importantly Spotify was just easier (and legal).
you know what? it would be damn nice to do this to literally every post in HN and give people a summary so that they dont have to read 500 comments
Because browsers don’t just browse these days, they do all the heavy lifting and not just for the nerds like us, but actually make it accessible to the normies. They do all the compliance work to all the standards too. There is no standards of sending something to space yet.

I do so much in my browser these days, things I had to have 15 applications for back in the ie days.
> gitlab.com with librewolf, you'll see a white page with no content

It works fine, even with JS disabled.
Pantone?
I have been on firefox since forever. Not quite sure why people would even bother with Edge unless of course its the "approved" browser in your org.
From Wikipedia:

> All tracks were originally sold in 256 kilobits-per-second variable bitrate MP3 format without per-customer watermarking or DRM

Don‘t remember 100% but wouldn‘t the variable bit rate explain this?
With the absolutely massive investment in (and push for) AI, I assume the belief is that the the reduction of workforce will have less of an impact.
> Outlook’s layout and software is FAST.

?????

Updating mailboxes takes forever. Wrangling a significant number of mails takes forever, but notably it at least finishes, much unlike in the new, web based version. Opening links takes forever. Randomly loses connection to the server which it cannot reestablish without a restart.

Are we talking about the same Outlook? It's also a bog standard email client, I cannot even hope to imagine what you find different on its layout.
And a more "industry friendly" government is going to let the wireless companies provide crappy service, lie about it, and take the funds.
Actions speak louder than words. Firefox (including derivatives) is by far the most fingerprint resistant and adblock friendly webbrowser there is.

In terms of features, it's very rich and always improving.

Mozilla also maintains arguably the best web development resource there is, which is MDN.

Mozilla's internal problems aside, some people really don't appreciate how successful Firefox, Thunderbird and MDN have been and still are.
Is that any different from the bulk of standup today?
Yeah, I had the same experience, found a comment from 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16057725

Thinking about it I also remember a client I can't remember the name of that was mainly an indexer/file explorer on top of samba shares that just traversed everyone on the same subnet on SUNET that many used as a pseudo extension of their own library, sort of proto-cloud storage.
If your argument is basically "the EU has more important things to do than tell Apple what they can and can't do", I'm sorry, but that's a losing argument.

There is nearly always something more important to do, no matter what you are doing. That doesn't mean that what you're doing is a waste of time.
LOL thanks for calling me on it. I thought this thread would we way more popular, and was on my phone so feeling a bit too lazy to DuckDuckGo a bunch of examples.
Wonderful comment. Thank you. I think the "theme park to its former meaning" line is very right.
but while there is a plateau in the transformer architecture, what you can do with those base models by further finetuning / modifying / enhancing them is still largely unexplored so i still predict mind-blowing enhancements yearly for this foreseeable future. if they validate openai's valuation and investment needs is a different question.
You're currently dying of the "being human" cancer. Are you working on or donating to anti-aging research, or do you prefer to do other things with your time? It just comes down to your discount factor. Based on inflation, it's typically about 0.95/year, so you would expect to care about ~10% as much for things 50 years in the future. This means if you had a ~10% better quality of life not working on anti-aging, you're guaranteed to be better off. In reality, you should hedge your bets; if everyone spent just a little time on the disease, we could cure "being human". The same applies to dying fighting cancer. You should be willing to do some experimental procedures, but not if it eliminates your happiness for the rest of your life.
My hot take is just that Vault isn't a good solution, and the permissions model is wholly inadequate.

Except for not "feeling" secure, the only thing everyone wants is a Windows AD file share with ACLs.

Just no one realises this: all the Vault on disk encryption and unsealing stuff is irrelevant - it's solving a problem handled at an entirely different level.
I don't think creating the illusion of an imaginary middle class ever helped anything. I believe it only makes things worse, as now a lot of people think they are not working class, just because they have an above median wage. Snap it, even some even hold to the illusion that they are rich, just because they have a house with a mortgage and a private pension.

What you need to have a modern, western country instead of a dog-eat-dog wild west is welfare, including universal health care.

But welfare is considered as an evil communist plot in the US and the people who are led to believe that they are somehow above the working masses keep voting against their own interests. Not just in the US, unfortunately.
Microsoft killed Skype for me a few months ago: the Linux version simply stopped working, and unless I install a Snap-based one (which I cannot do remotely on family computers), it's now useless.

Also, my Skype credit simply disappeared from the account (granted, it had been sitting idle for a few years, but still).

WhatsApp, Signal and similar apps completely replaced Skype, which stopped innovating years ago. Other than some "automatic captioning" based on Bing, and interface changes that are annoying for computer-illiterate people, barely anything changed.

For several years, Skype had been a very lightweight way to communicate with people with not-so-good computers and flaky Internet connection. Trying to replace it with Jitsi, for instance, quickly shows how much more CPU is needed to run that instead. But then the Linux version started being packaged differently (Electron?), so that was lost as well.

Well, it will likely survive for some time on old companies that still use Skype for Business.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it still an issue that due to Chromium not supporting the V2 manifest, adblockers like Ublock Origin won't function in Vivaldi?
I actually prefer the RUM model.

The previous "per apply" based model penalized early stage companies when your infrastructure is rapidly evolving, and discouraged splitting state into smaller workspaces/making smaller iterative changes.

Charging by RUM more closely aligns the pricing to the scale/complexity of the infrastructure being managed which makes more sense to me.

That said it has tempted me to move management of more resources into kubernetes (via cross plane/config connector)
At least in the US, slavery is alive and well. 13th amendment abolishes slavery except as punishment for a crime, and prisoners all over the country perform forced labour for a small fraction of federal minimum wage.
Compliance and capital vs. defiance and disaffiliation.
Not sure how why anyone thinks it's possible to fully control AGI, we cant even fully tame a house cat.
tannhaeuser presumably talks about clicking the corresponding button in the dock. Although, granted, that's the "app" button.
Edge is much worse than chrome anyway. Chrome just screws the user behind their back, with hidden tracking.

Edge has all the user-hostile stuff much more in your face. Like the shopping bar that keeps popping up with coupons or tries to get you to buy at a shop that pays more for advertising. And it tries to trick the user into getting bogged down with loans by offering buy now pay later schemes.

All the sneaky tracking stuff from chrome also happens. So why would you bother?

The only reason it's still popular is that companies love it because they can lock it down in full BOFH mode. At my work I can't even choose to reopen the last tabs anymore on launch. That and pretty much every other setting is "managed by your organisation"
Maybe they started a really long expensive training session, and Elon Musk's DOGE script kiddies somehow broke in and sabotaged it, so it got disrupted and turned into the Eraserhead baby, but they still want to get it out there for a little while before it died to squeeze all the money out of it as possible, because it was so expensive to train.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-kI4Qzj9U
It lost all hope when it demanded the same login as windows. No longer could I have a semi-annon chat tool. I didn't want a "one password for everything" experience.
Skype for Business UX > MS Teams UX
Interesting, thanks for doing this. I'd say that (at a glance) for now it's still worth to use more passes with smaller models than one pass with 4.5

Now, if you'd want to generate training data, I could see wanting to have the best answers possible, where even slight nuances would matter. 4.5 seems to adhere to instructions much better than the others. You might get the same result w/ generating n samples and "reflect" on them with a mixture of models, but then again you might not. Going through thousands of generations manually is also costly.
>UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice.

From their blog post[1]. Smells like bullshit to me. You haven't had this license for the last 30 years and I've had no trouble browsing. What's changed that you suddenly need it?

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-terms-o...
I have the same issue. I'm curious to see how it's implemented, so I'll take a look at the source code.
No you don't, it's opt in.
I’ve not followed this issue with ad blockers being blocked. Is there any legitimate reason for this or is it just a corrupt change from big tech?
I used to work at AFRL as an intern and a contractor, there were pictures of these platforms in a bunch of the buildings. I also played in a golf league in Newport NY. You could see the platform from a few of the holes.
> Probably not possible to be the richest person in Mexico without some incidental connection or accidental involvement with organised crime.

Honestly this sounds like a cartoonish understanding of a country

Can you say the same about the US ?

Where does Elon get his psychodelics ?

Did Silk Road use AWS ?
In my experience it is usually something related to cookies that work on Chrome and not in Firefox, and in those cases I find hard to blame Firefox.

Yet, sometimes you need to use those websites fore a reason. Firefox should perhaps make it easier so users don't need to fall back to a different browser.
You can always buy old cars. Can’t use old browsers unless you really like getting pwned.
Yeah and Firefox is completely under Google control already through the funding chain.
My QuickJS Lib v2.0 is out – with async and TypeScript support
Not a problem at all depending on what your goal is.
Not just accountants. I remember watching fully “non-technical” insurance admin / customer service people play the green screen keyboard like they were concert pianists. People can cope with a lot when they have to.
Yep. Whenever I travel, I bring a single 60W USB-C charger that charges my laptop, my phone, and even other random gadgets I might need to bring with me.

I have an older micro-USB Kindle that annoys me. Of course, for most trips I never need to charge it, as long as I charge it before I leave, so for all practical purposes it's fine.

My wife just bought an iPhone 16 to replace her iPhone XR, and if it weren't for her AirPods from a few years ago, she'd be able to avoid carrying around that extra lightning cable too.

This might feel like a minor, first-world problem, but it is annoying. And when you scale it up, there's so much waste with so many people needing two cables, one of which could have never been manufactured, had we all been using the same ports all along.
The biggest integration I can think of is the calendar and the reaction emojis on emails. Previewing Office documents I don't really do, but that sounds fairly trivial as well.

> it’s an order of magnitude faster than Gmail at the basic act of opening and navigating between emails

There must be a tremendous difference between consumer and business gmail then, cause I'm honestly unable to imagine this. Outlook is generally not fast, and will reliably choke when wrangling an appreciable amount of mails (a few thousand or more).
It’s about expectations. In very simple language: people expect Microsoft and Google to track the hell out of them. But Mozilla says they are your friend and respects privacy, but then their actions speak the opposite.

A betrayal from a friend is harder to handle than a blow from an enemy.
Amazing how neglected this service was considering Microsoft paid billions. Are there companies that do acquisitions well without killing the thing they acquire?
I didn't use statistics or suggest using them.

> that's me as a voter doing a cost benefit analysis. Which frankly is the only rational way to vote

Great. As I said, abuse, exclusion, widespread discrimination against minorities and women is well-established, for example. Those are very high costs.
Yep.. in almost every way it should have beat out slack. It did everything better, and had a name. It was so very close, but lost. Mostly I think because of how hard it was to get non-users into it's eco system.