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by monooso 9mo ago
Kagi does not use Google's search index. From their post which made the front page of HN yesterday [1]: > Google does not offer a public search API. The only available path is an ad-syndication bundle with no changes to result pre
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by monooso 9mo ago
> We're now in the stage of having a bunch of solutions looking for problems to solve. We've always had that. In olden times the companies who peddled such solutions were called "a business without a market", or simpl
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by monooso 9mo ago
This is incorrect. Kagi does not use the Bing index, as detailed in the article: > Bing: Their terms didn’t work for us from the start. Microsoft’s terms prohibited reordering results or merging them with other sources - restrictions inc
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by monooso 9mo ago
Cost, presumably. From the article: > Microsoft spent roughly $100 billion over 20 years on Bing and still holds single-digit share. If Microsoft cannot close the gap, no startup can do it alone.
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by monooso 9mo ago
There was an article on HN last week (?) which described this exact behaviour in the newer models. Older, less "capable", models would fail to accomplish a task. Newer models would cheat, and provide a worthless but apparently fun
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by monooso 9mo ago
In terms of data sovereignty and security, the location of your servers is irrelevant if you're a U.S.-based company, thanks to the CLOUD act[1] (emphasis mine). > The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) o
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by monooso 9mo ago
If it's throwaway code to accomplish a one-off task, I just care about whether the task has been accomplished. The method is largely irrelevant. Anything more "serious" (client work, for example) usually falls within my spher
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by monooso 9mo ago
I rather like GNOME, which presumably also makes me a moron. Or perhaps we're all just people with differing opinions on what constitutes a "good" user interface.
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by monooso 9mo ago
Author here... > I sincerely hope that you're not pushing code into production... without understanding what it does. I do not. That hasn't changed. > ...the only thing it does is type faster than you do. LLMs can do many, m
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by monooso 9mo ago
> We don't know what the author asked it to do, but this smells like the problem started at least several messages before that. Author here. It was what I assumed would be a fairly simple task, fixing some duplicate closing frontmat
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by monooso 9mo ago
> GNOME dictates onto users what the developers think the users should use or have. I find that not acceptable. Every operating system (or DE) does that. Hell, every piece of software does that. They're all just a bunch of opinion
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The thing that brought me joy(stephenlewis.me)
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by monooso 9mo ago
> Who is this framework for?... It's great if you want to build a blog or something, but it's definitely far from great for building apps. Not an Astro expert, but the massive headline at the top of the homepage may provide a c
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by monooso 9mo ago
*poorly written prose
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by monooso 9mo ago
I'm not sure "it works this way in Application A, and this other way in Application B" is a particularly strong rebuttal.
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by monooso 9mo ago
That's the entire point of the EU Blue Card. From the linked website (emphasis mine): > An EU Blue Card gives highly-qualified workers from outside the EU the opportunity to live and work in an EU Member State...
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by monooso 9mo ago
> The insurance business in general is very competitive and not very profitable... Knowing several Americans, and how much they pay for health insurance (and are still required to pay for some things "out of pocket"), this is i
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by monooso 9mo ago
This may have been the case historically, but these days the king's role is largely ceremonial. As to the House of Lords, around 11% of its members are hereditary peers. A bill [1] is in progress to reduce that to zero: > The bill w
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by monooso 9mo ago
Not a US citizen, so a genuine question: do US health insurance companies have a track record of passing on such savings to consumers? That has not been my impression as an outside observer.
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by monooso 9mo ago
I don't understand this attitude. Bose listened to feedback, and responded in a positive way. That's a good outcome for the community, and refusing to "praise" Bose's actions just because they didn't originally
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by monooso 9mo ago
That's a lot of supposition leading to a shaky conclusion. Your speculation may be correct, of course, but I have yet to see any mention of Anthropic issuing "plenty of warnings", or only taking this action because they &quot
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by monooso 9mo ago
Simon Willison made many of the same points (without the technical deep dive) back in October 2025 [1], when Anthropic announced Skills. A couple of choice quotes, which are echoed in this new article: > I like to joke that one of the re
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by monooso 9mo ago
Handily appearing next to this story on the front page of HN: "Health care data breach affects over 600k patients" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528353
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by monooso 9mo ago
You're clearly not a fan of Tailwind, and that's fair enough. However, stating that Adam Wathan (AW) "basically forced [Tailwind] onto the world" is nonsense. People chose to adopt it because it solved a problem. In ca
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by monooso 9mo ago
I don't think there's any suggestion that Americans are the enemy. Indeed, the article makes it clear that (a) the issue is not individuals, and (b) the desired changes would be good for most (non-billionaire) Americans.
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by monooso 9mo ago
The article discusses many of the (unfair) tactics which have lead to US tech dominance.
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by monooso 9mo ago
Every car maker selling cars in the EU needs to comply with EU laws. That's why Europe is mercifully free of Cybertrucks: they can't legally operate on roads within the EU, because they don't meet the safety requirements (o
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by monooso 10mo ago
As opposed to months of interview prep, followed by half a dozen interview stages, possibly including an unpaid take-home mini project, all of which could be for naught because you fluffed some obscure algorithm question that bears no relat
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by monooso 10mo ago
> I want as basic a car as possible that goes forward when I press the gas and stops when I press the brakes. GP was talking about HUD and "new features" in the context of a $60k car. Presumably your desired "basic car&quo
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by monooso 10mo ago
I agree that certain commands require some effort to learn, but I would not include `cp` or `mv` in that list.

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