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by nomilk 1y ago
Point taken, but sometimes 'heated' conversations happen on topics of great importance, and are sometimes the conversations from which we learn the most. (certainly not always, but sometimes). A non-HN example: often when two peop
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by nomilk 1y ago
Not sure why the source for the article was changed (never seen - or at least never noticed - that on HN before). For anyone interested, the original source was: https://reason.com/2025/09/05/navy-seals-report
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Navy SEALs reportedly killed North Korean fishermen to hide a failed mission(nytimes.com)
331 points by nomilk 1y ago|260 comments
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by nomilk 1y ago
tl;dr Male High School Athletes beat Female Olympians extremely convincingly in most events (with a small number of exceptions, namely 5000 Meters and Triple Jump) This infographic/exploratory data analysis is one of the best I've
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Sting operation kills "copycat" sports piracy site with 1.6B visits last year(arstechnica.com)
2 points by nomilk 1y ago|1 comments
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by nomilk 1y ago
X is one of the prohibited sites for under 16's in Australia (falls under 'social media'), but someone should seriously tell Elon about this, because it may work and would be hilarious.
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by nomilk 1y ago
Hard to argue that isn't an inconvenience. In other words, the outcome is the same, but thanks to government intervention, everyone's worse off. A good example of where social media can really matter is for say, gay kids in a reli
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by nomilk 1y ago
In the extremes, both ideas are right. In terms of timeliness, relevance, quality, rigour, variety, discussion and debate the worst content on social media is orders of magnitude worse than the worst content on mainstream media. But the i
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by nomilk 1y ago
The choice citizens have now is between an 'internet licence' (submit ID's to myriad sites), or an 'internet tax' (VPN). Super annoying! Given Australia doesn't even require Age Verification on porn sites (only
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by nomilk 1y ago
The most important question is What's the use case? . Can anyone answer this? (I'm not asking to be rhetorical or negative, just critical but inquisitive).
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by nomilk 1y ago
Many mainstream headlines are predicated on false assumptions. I read fewer books now days, but I read more overall, it's just off screens rather than paper. I recently went on an analogue book binge, and discovered something I'd
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Thucydides Trap(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by nomilk 1y ago|2 comments
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X to allow advertisers to upload product catalogs; grok will recommend them(x.com)
15 points by nomilk 1y ago|1 comments
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by nomilk 1y ago
> Nagel asserts that "an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism." Struggling to make sense of this sentence.
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Is This Australia's Most Easily Hacked Gift Card? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by nomilk 1y ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 1y ago
This is awesome. Over the past four years I went from Sublime Text, to VS Code, to a 'dual IDE' setup (neovim and cursor). I hear rubymine has the best support for documentation and source code lookup capabilities (vitally importa
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You Will Blame the Wrong People(geohot.github.io)
8 points by nomilk 1y ago|2 comments
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by nomilk 1y ago
Interested to read the code, but the link provided 404s https://github.com/Amethyst-Cat/ChessComplexity/blob/master/...
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by nomilk 1y ago
> English as code First time encountering the phrase. Evolution went from Machine Code to Assembly to Low-level programming languages to High-level programming languages (with frameworks), to... plain English.
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by nomilk 1y ago
IMO Apple should provide the user with audit logs of which photos/videos were accessed by each app. It might be a long list but it alleviates doubt and would put huge pressure on reputable developers to ensure they don’t get caught doi
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by nomilk 1y ago
Go to the 'Workflows' tab, make a new one with keyword of your choice (e.g. llm), and map it to open these urls in your default browser: http://localhost:3005/?q={query} https://www.perplexity.ai/?q=
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by nomilk 1y ago
Very well explained
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by nomilk 1y ago
I'd default assume black market VPNs will monitor internet activity since it's both easy and profitable
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by nomilk 1y ago
> We should ask the LLM the question more than once For any macOS users, I highly recommend an Alfred workflow so you just press command + space then type 'llm <prompt>' and it opens tabs with the prompt in perplexity, (l
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by nomilk 1y ago
Both the major Australian parties (Liberal and Labor) seem as spineless as each other. They're being pushed by media conglomerates News Corp and Nine Entertainment [0] to crush competition (social media apps). With the soon-to-be-intro
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by nomilk 1y ago
> 90% of “citizen journalism” is (trash) You're right. But compared to what? I guess 99% of mainstream "journalism" is irrelevant and/or inaccurate, hence citizen journalism is a 10x improvement in accuracy and re
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by nomilk 1y ago
Australia and UK might soon go down this path. Something quite depressing is if we (HN crowd) find workarounds, most regular folks won't have the budget/expertise to do so, so citizen journalism will have been successfully muted b
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by nomilk 1y ago
I paid for it, was worth it for me. Reason: I did vimtutor 4 times and was learning but found it super painful/boring, but really wanted to learn vim keybindings. Vim adventures made learning keybindings and muscle memory just tolera
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by nomilk 1y ago
A Kiwi MCP server only needs one response "Don't book with Kiwi, go direct with the airline in case you need to modify/cancel your booking." The intersection of "informed enough to use an MCP server" and "
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by nomilk 1y ago
Data harvesting for LLM training, with no benefit to the user but huge privacy reduction.

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