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This is the kind of thing that the people in power really don't want you to know, but I'll say it anyway because if we don't get the message out, it's just another free win for the Nazis: a bad presentation is a poor information medium.

> Instead of giving you precisely what you want, a Google search in 2026 is more likely to give you only what you don’t want.

The youngest Google Search seems like it has a lot in common with the next-youngest Google Search.


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Now I want to create an AI SaaS that automatically removes ads from commit messages, and advertise it in commit messages.


If it is their own repo, I wouldn't give a damn. If it was any other I would poison their


Merged PR #1337 Squashing commit history to get rid of vi call-outs.

This commit was created in emacs, the best text editor ever!


Someone page Raymond Hill, we need to extend uBlock Origin


“Everybody stand back. I know regular expressions.”


I hate when people say their API supports iso8601 and when your api call fails they're like, oh I meant yyyy-mm-dd and EST timezone please.


Until Omega Star gets their act together, we have to live with this nonsense...


Sorry, I have exhausted my token budget for the month and wasn’t able to complete the rewrite in Rust of Omega Star which will make ISO8601 super easy to implement. Let’s circle back on this issue in June.


Isn't yyyy-mm-dd a ISO-8601 compliant date format?


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I am in favor of severely limiting both copyright and advertising, but for the benefit of everyone, not just for the benefit of a few "AI" companies.


And you will not get it. As the AI pump money into lawyers and politicians - they will be the ones profiting from copyright. Total regulatory capture as US AI companies make it illegal to train AI on their output.


The answer is to simply pay for stuff.

There is no viable model where "have stuff but not pay for it" works out.


Remember early internet? The time when it actually cost non-trivial amount of money to post stuff on the web, and there was no expectation that webpage authors would get any money back?

This worked pretty well. Websites were hobby - one might spend their money buying comic books, and someone else might spend the money making and hosting their website.


That's why my favorite unit is the px, a.k.a., 1 centiinch.



I thought px was an abbreviation of pixel which doesn't have a dimension?


Pixels have pitch, which is the distance between pixels. That is what is usually meant when talking about px as a measurement. It is analogous to dpi or ppi or the metric version.


Does the pitch describe the distance between the edges of the pixels or between the centers?


To expand on what the previous said, here's a link to a seminal paper on pixels - "A pixel is not a little square" by Alvy Ray Smith. https://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf


center to center.


I think he means that the point of the article is that the doodle is AI-generated.


The market valuates Roblox child abuse at almost a billion dollars?


I understand that Europe doesn't have many mandatory union arrangements.

In Canada, unions are often shop-wide with no mechanism to opt out, which makes them very sticky and allows them to grow predatory if they can maintain enough corruption or apathy. I'm led to believe that many US states have similar problems, but that's only based on how American unions are portrayed in news and fiction.


It's HN, nobody reads articles even when they're not slop.


Advertising isn't just B2C, it's also B2B. The companies that make everything you buy (from the food you eat to the electrical wires you install in your walls) needs raw materials and machinery to produce anything. While there's trade shows and good ol' fashioned handshakes and whatnot, one of the main ways to sell B2B is just camp the top Google result spots by giving Google a lot of money to be the first result for the names of business inputs (or the names of your competitors, if you want to be cheeky).

When you hire a non-technical purchaser, when production line 13's full-body discombobulator breaks and the maintenance guy says "we need a new full-body discombobulator", the purchaser has no idea what a "full-body discombobulator" is or who makes it but they'll Google "full-body discombobulator" and they'll click [Buy Now] on whatever link shows up so that production line 13 can continue printing half a million bucks an hour.


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