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by input_sh 4mo ago
They used to have public-facing relative figures located on /traffic, but it looks like they got rid of that page some years back and now it just redirects to the homepage. Random snapshot of what it looked like: https://web
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by input_sh 4mo ago
You can toggle between YouTube and Spotify as the default playback provider. Note that you do need to be a premium Spotify user for it to work. That's not needed for YouTube, so that explains why YouTube is the default.
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by input_sh 5mo ago
The title as it is right now is 79 characters long, the limit is 80.
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by input_sh 5mo ago
Yes, we know, its purpose is to guide the bots, not forcibly block them. That said, one of the biggest websites in the world not respecting it is definitely a noteworthy story. Hopefully another one of the biggest websites in the world (for
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by input_sh 5mo ago
To train AI. Not even a hyperbole, that is the only concrete example they list in their explanation: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot > Amazonbot is used to improve our products and services. This helps us provide
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by input_sh 5mo ago
Even in the past there has been a bunch of nonsense "rules" that made other countries choose between trading with Cuba or the US, but not both. To name one, if a ship docks into Cuba without filing paperwork requesting to do so fr
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by input_sh 5mo ago
Then I guess you've completely missed my point. If I hand you a lump of gold and tell you it's actually a piece of shit painted in gold, I'm sure you'll find reasons to hate it.
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by input_sh 5mo ago
People would come up with very specific made up reasons why they hate that plate of chicken as well, so I don't see your point. As for your red vs. white wine comparison, it'd only make sense if one of those was doing its best to
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by input_sh 5mo ago
This is like asking people to rate this plate of bugs while serving them chicken. Even if tastes great, of course some people who will have a visceral reaction against it.
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by input_sh 5mo ago
That's just Chinese hardware with extra steps. If you don't believe me, feel free to look up the list of CEOs that are in China right now as a part of the US delegation. As for the R&D part, Huawei is still pretty much indisti
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by input_sh 5mo ago
Trivialise it all you want, but the world is vastly different from what it was at the beginning of 2025 and I don't think you or anyone else can deny that in any way. What happens next remains to be written, but so far this new order s
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by input_sh 5mo ago
The US is undermining its own (and everyone else's) economy just fine, no imaginary assistance from China necessary. The role of the US was always to purchase cheap Chinese hardware, slap some modestly better software on top of it and
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by input_sh 5mo ago
Aren't you choosing to ignore something very specific specified in that article? Why do you make it seem that article implies it's their overall policy? > A few months ago we stopped referring to robots.txt files on U.S. gover
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by input_sh 5mo ago
Does the game just loop? I got the lube, then the TP, then the lube again, then the TP again... I mean it'd make sense for it to loop, but I'm just wondering if I'm missing something or should I just call it there.
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by input_sh 5mo ago
Relevant blog post: https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzer... > Internet Archive Switzerland joins a growing group of mission-aligned organizations, alongside Internet Archive, Intern
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by input_sh 5mo ago
Because the post actually listed one single source instead of listing 50, 49 or which are only tangentially related to the topic at hand?
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by input_sh 5mo ago
Citation of what exactly? That not all browsers implement the same thing at the same time and that some features are Chrome-exclusive because for one reason or another other browsers refuse to implement it? Is that really something you need
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by input_sh 5mo ago
20/50 states don't allow mobile gambling, so Texas is only one of those 40%. Some of those 20 states (9 to be exact) do allow sports betting, but only physically, not online. That said, this means very little when a different type
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by input_sh 5mo ago
Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051079 It's better because it actually lists a sample of Bugzilla reports that were made public. This topic was discussed previously (36 comments two weeks ago:
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by input_sh 5mo ago
Chrome likes to make up new "standards" and then some websites adopt them immediately. That said, I can only remember two instances of that slightly inconveniencing me in the past, and both times I was inconvenienced by a Google-r
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by input_sh 5mo ago
There's a whole payment section in the submitted article which addresses your concern, perhaps you should read it.
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by input_sh 5mo ago
It's even more fascinatingly dumb to have this discussion like 2 or so years after every major platform decided to kill any notion of 3rd party clients they used to support. Yes, in an ideal world, that'd be great for both humans
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by input_sh 5mo ago
It's not "aggressively maintaining the female option", it's just a language quirk. English has a gender-neutral "the" article which you put in front of every noun, German has three different variations of &quot
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by input_sh 5mo ago
Wouldn't know, as I have never been in charge of one, but I imagine Google having the power to make your browser completely irrelevant would be a pretty strong incentive.
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by input_sh 5mo ago
It used to support it out-of-the-box as well, but it's technically against YouTube's ToS to allow this without paying for a premium, so now you need this as an extra hoop.
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by input_sh 5mo ago
A bit of both? Imagine every time you read the word "actor", it is instead spelled something like "actor:ress", or "actor_ress", or "actor*ress" (because the separator hasn't been standardised).
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by input_sh 5mo ago
Terrible metric that tells absolutely nothing about what's state-of-the-art. You might as well call this list the most astroturfed models on HN.
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by input_sh 5mo ago
It wasn't "because of an incident", it was because they were required to submit a report about that (or any other) incident, did so, and then the security footage proved that they straight up lied in the report about that par
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by input_sh 5mo ago
You don't like slop and you left Spotify for Tidal ? That is pretty much the only one that's even more infested with fake tracks than Spotify is. AI slop specifically isn't even the worst problem on Tidal, it's like t
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by input_sh 5mo ago
> However, I wasn't aware that distributors might not vet content prior to publishing. Oh it's far worse than that. Some of them like the abovementioned LANDR also offer "AI-assisted music production", so there's

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