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by Barbing 2mo ago
Some stats on this downranked(?) post: https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=49156299
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Tommy Mysk, Talal Haj Bakry: how long did you wait after informing Apple of their incompetence before this public disclosure, please? Thank you for uncovering this and for the website proving the bug.
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Sorry were they Englishisms or something, almost clarified I didn’t know!
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Can a person get their Roth IRA on a stoploss to make sure it’s everyone else left holding the bag? Asking for an antisocial friend Ah with a decade or two time horizon it shouldn’t matter how hard it crashes if Zitron & Doctorow are pr
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by Barbing 2mo ago
(Parent’s helpfully defining the Britishisms for HN readers)
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by Barbing 2mo ago
> It's often the fault of the human driver who takes over last second. Per The Guardian: “Two years prior, the NHTSA had flagged something strange – something suspicious. In a separate report, it documented 16 cases in which Tes
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Eh, the more details they’re willing to reveal the better. It’s probably their reality.
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Indeed you’re right, would have to simmer the flesh and strain for the milk, makes me think I’m misremembering or maybe the pro-alternative milk guy was skipping over that part to make a point… thanks :)
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Controversial! (and possible followup) Post off front page, down onto third page. Rank 78, 248 points, +10hr, 244 comments Almost wish the thread could get locked instead, but maybe only almost… - Also, for coverage: FT picked this u
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Did employees get official approval to create secondary accounts? - Someone went on Reddit to ask if they really had to use their personal Facebook account to manage the company page as they said their boss pushed back against the idea, say
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Can you clarify the information deletion/wipeout? RIP https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Ed_Mackowiak - Apple’s statement is linked there (and the bit about the woman in the Wiki might be outdated per TMZ correction h
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by Barbing 2mo ago
“They now admit that their outside lawyers emailed the wrong person after confusing two Asian last names—only after we brought this to their attention.” Stunned they’re playing the racism card.
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by Barbing 2mo ago
The dairy industry was upset about alternative milks and said it has to be from the mammary gland of a mammal to which one alternative milk advocate responds, what do you call the liquid that spills out when you cut a coconut in half?
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by Barbing 2mo ago
That’s not very fair. Can’t pretend for a second they or the many like them haven’t seen news about 1985 Canada?
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by Barbing 2mo ago
TIL there’s an app for that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230513 Recent Flock, BMW, iCloud stories not logged there - three I noticed. Take that robot, human took an advantage!
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Fair! Hope some appreciated context around author credibility nonetheless. Also if you care about the post and its implications, you’re the target market for the app. Course these kinds of defenses are still tangential and one could stretch
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Time of day? (It’s newer than a lesser commented, less voted one above - at top of screenshot.)
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Why’s this post below an older less popular one? https://i.ibb.co/jnpcFJz/IMG-0549.jpg
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Jeff Johnson is an Apple privacy information hero and deserves every penny for his apps like StopTheMadness https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Figure they do it for three-letter agencies who’re not in my threat model, otherwise I’d have to spend much time busying with… Whonix? Tails? Qubes? And lose/reimplement my Universal Clipboard and AirDrop and iMessage… (so yeah I deser
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Kept reading and yep there’s more, so it wasn’t just the intro. Not quoting it though since someone said they’re ambulance chasers, they’ll have to hire out a smellchecker.
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by Barbing 2mo ago
See your edit, got it :)
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by Barbing 2mo ago
> the only non-US one being Deepseek themselves, which aren't even the cheapest. Interesting. If I were a western lab, might I be tempted to subsidize at least one faster & cheaper provider for Chinese models to keep even more d
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by Barbing 2mo ago
USA vs. China energy production graph is wild https://stanfordreview.org/content/images/2025/10/us_china_p... States have had trouble delivering expected EV charging capacity btw Why aren’t we considered
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by Barbing 2mo ago
This comment is like an opinion someone had and then shared digitally with the world. - I didn't mind the Thomas Kinkade reference, but you do have me thinking about to what extent analogies are lazy. Do you abstain from using them com
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Great points. Wouldn't it be interesting if we could take this image back to ourselves in 2021 and see how we thought about it? I'm not a visual artist, so I would not have been overly critical of it. Today, AI art has a ton of ba
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Oh lovely. From his company’s Wiki page, one of the former employees: > … later arrested after 1995 air rage incident Other winners listed too but that’s the only guy who pooped on a plane.
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by Barbing 2mo ago
Check Ars. Commenters hated it. Commenters are still 15-20 y/o accounts, but less blind hate. Obviously, in my opinion, based on reporting of truthfulness someone like Sam Altman would not be entirely opposed to astroturfing here. But
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#5 was real winner of those shown. Rest weren’t as captivating as the sloppy grand prize poster.
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New storefronts with AI logos, food with AI caricatures of the chef, small taxi companies with GPT’s handiwork wrapped right over the doors…

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