It's easy to explain. "I use PGP for my personal notes (symmetric) and for e-mailing my security conscious friends (public-key)". That's sufficient and not awkward.
I am regularly reading comics and colored PDFs; the value of color e-ink is definitely not up for debate for me. There's no question that there's room for improvement! But if you're only reading prose or black & white…
so-cal-schemer attempted to bypass HN moderation by reposting a flagged post in its entirety without waiting for the "vouch" process to complete. Meanwhile, behnamoh's post was essentially dismissing the idea that we…
I get the sarcastic intent in your comment; but it's more useful to focus on what Trump does than the things he says. One of his strategies is to say unbelievable things like he's gonna revoke Rosie O'Donnell's…
If someone posts a story about topic Y and a reply is "does anyone really care about topic Y?" I would expect it to be flagged and downvoted. The answer is "yes". Obviously people still care. No need to resurrect a dead…
There are enough AI stories on Hacker News. We don't need AI advocates coming to the stories that aren't about AI and saying they don't matter because they're not AI. Things that aren't AI still matter and are still…
Most "Show HN" posts these days are vibe-coded garbage. It is a pleasant surprise to see one that isn't!
This makes Hacker News usable again. Thank you.
Actually it is. I haven't seen any Google AI summaries since I started using non-Google search engines.
Use a different search engine such as Ecosia or noai.duckduckgo.com
Offer low pay and start using lines of code as a metric. Not only will you not hire such people, you'll also filter out any who might already be on your team! (Assuming "these people" is a euphemism for "skilled…
"Thanks Obama" is sometimes used sarcastically by people who actually don't mind Obama, as a parody of how conservatives would blame literally anything on him. Too bad the above post didn't give enough context to say…
Thanks for letting me know about mupdf! One of my favorite things about KOReader is its ability to handle humongous PDFs on extremely modest hardware; it's good to know what this ability is based on.
Windows would be a whole different build target, and Koreader works great through WSL anyway.
The thread title should be updated to clarify that it's a JavaScript-specific article.
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It's a completely different statement, so yes.
"Write" is not the correct verb for how you produce software if you get it from GenAI. May I suggest a few replacements? "Plagiarize" or "excrete" are both more fitting in different ways.
If you say "publishers require DRM" and then say that publishers sometimes sell books without DRM, you might need to review the definition of the word "require". Some publishers require DRM. Which is entirely different…
Selling books doesn't require DRM at all. I buy DRM-free books all the time. As an example: Kobo will tell you, at the bottom of each book's page, if it has DRM or not. And it will happily sell you a book without DRM…
I'm anti-AI as heck, but this is a really good point.
Bicycles don't consume the energy of a small nation.
Yes. They're using AI to write Git commits. They're using AI to delete directories. They're using AI to summarize articles written by AI. And the planet just gets hotter and hotter.
Now this is the sort of stock phrase AI should use more
I already gave a specific example. And since your second paragraph shows that you don't understand what generative AI even is or how it works, you have got some learning due before you continue to discuss AI.
It's easy to explain. "I use PGP for my personal notes (symmetric) and for e-mailing my security conscious friends (public-key)". That's sufficient and not awkward.
I am regularly reading comics and colored PDFs; the value of color e-ink is definitely not up for debate for me. There's no question that there's room for improvement! But if you're only reading prose or black & white…
so-cal-schemer attempted to bypass HN moderation by reposting a flagged post in its entirety without waiting for the "vouch" process to complete. Meanwhile, behnamoh's post was essentially dismissing the idea that we…
I get the sarcastic intent in your comment; but it's more useful to focus on what Trump does than the things he says. One of his strategies is to say unbelievable things like he's gonna revoke Rosie O'Donnell's…
If someone posts a story about topic Y and a reply is "does anyone really care about topic Y?" I would expect it to be flagged and downvoted. The answer is "yes". Obviously people still care. No need to resurrect a dead…
There are enough AI stories on Hacker News. We don't need AI advocates coming to the stories that aren't about AI and saying they don't matter because they're not AI. Things that aren't AI still matter and are still…
Most "Show HN" posts these days are vibe-coded garbage. It is a pleasant surprise to see one that isn't!
This makes Hacker News usable again. Thank you.
Actually it is. I haven't seen any Google AI summaries since I started using non-Google search engines.
Use a different search engine such as Ecosia or noai.duckduckgo.com
Offer low pay and start using lines of code as a metric. Not only will you not hire such people, you'll also filter out any who might already be on your team! (Assuming "these people" is a euphemism for "skilled…
"Thanks Obama" is sometimes used sarcastically by people who actually don't mind Obama, as a parody of how conservatives would blame literally anything on him. Too bad the above post didn't give enough context to say…
Thanks for letting me know about mupdf! One of my favorite things about KOReader is its ability to handle humongous PDFs on extremely modest hardware; it's good to know what this ability is based on.
Windows would be a whole different build target, and Koreader works great through WSL anyway.
The thread title should be updated to clarify that it's a JavaScript-specific article.
claps
It's a completely different statement, so yes.
"Write" is not the correct verb for how you produce software if you get it from GenAI. May I suggest a few replacements? "Plagiarize" or "excrete" are both more fitting in different ways.
If you say "publishers require DRM" and then say that publishers sometimes sell books without DRM, you might need to review the definition of the word "require". Some publishers require DRM. Which is entirely different…
Selling books doesn't require DRM at all. I buy DRM-free books all the time. As an example: Kobo will tell you, at the bottom of each book's page, if it has DRM or not. And it will happily sell you a book without DRM…
I'm anti-AI as heck, but this is a really good point.
Bicycles don't consume the energy of a small nation.
Yes. They're using AI to write Git commits. They're using AI to delete directories. They're using AI to summarize articles written by AI. And the planet just gets hotter and hotter.
Now this is the sort of stock phrase AI should use more
I already gave a specific example. And since your second paragraph shows that you don't understand what generative AI even is or how it works, you have got some learning due before you continue to discuss AI.