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RunSet··on Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center
Would you care more about Google's crime here if you did not suppose China wanted you to care about it?
RunSet··on ThinkRail from JetBrains
> I feel somewhat bad for JetBrains.

I don't, since I read their privacy policy[0] before deciding to never use their software. Might I add: VSCodium[1] exists.

[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/privacy/

[1] https://vscodium.com/

RunSet··on The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses
> I grew up using Hammer and this simply blows it out of the water.

Strange to read "I grew up using Hammer." when I still see Hammer as a newfangled update to Worldcraft.

No Quake map editor will let you do anything the Quake engine can't, of course.

If you draw your maps on paper first, as id Software did[0], then the editor you use doesn't matter so much.

J.A.C.K.[1] is the current torchbearer for the Hammer lineage.

Also there is a community fork of Trenchbroom[2] that exists because Trenchbroom includes slop. Or "machine generated code" or "wAIfu generated code" or however salves your feelings.

"The map editor everybody uses" is reductionist.

[0] https://xxcancel.com/romero/status/643540836072992768

[1] https://jack.hlfx.ru/en/

[2] https://codeberg.org/NextBroomTeam/NextBroom

RunSet··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Rather I'm not convinced by your claim.
RunSet··on Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low%20cunning
RunSet··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
RunSet··on Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone
https://reason.com/2026/08/06/courts-say-the-justice-departm...

This administration does not merit any presumption of regularity.

RunSet··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
> That won't happen.

Speaking of thought-terminating cliches...

RunSet··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
I asked my AI girlfriend whether AGI was inevitable and she said my question was brilliant and insightful.
RunSet··on The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
"The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of development time; the remaining 10% accounts for the other 90%."
RunSet··on Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro
The XBLA port (that was never released) was leaked and runs well in Xenia.

https://archive.org/details/GoldenEyeXBLA

It is also one of the few "remasters" that let you toggle the original graphics on the fly. (Mapped to R1 on the gamepad.)

RunSet··on Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities
Yet Biz Markie has to clear every sample.[0] What a crock of justice.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Upright_Music%2C_Ltd._v.....

RunSet··on Demographic "doomsday" misses the mark
"They had such enormous fun that they called for another elephant to come."
RunSet··on Wine ported to OpenBSD
Especially welcome news now that OpenBSD is shaping up to be a refuge from slopcode.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177411620801633&w=2

RunSet··on Linux 7.3
> In terms of maintenance, I don't see a difference between getting a contribution from a stranger or from a stranger using an AI.

Perhaps not in terms of maintenance. In terms of provenance there is a significant difference between "I wrote this." and "I found this."

RunSet··on The Brain Sandwich
"Other people use slop the wrong way."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_effect

RunSet··on 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
> where did it really ever apply? The automatic door has won despite, devastatingly so (and no your fancy upper east side building doesn't count and neither does the Regency or the Hilton).

The wal-mart greeter is essentially a doorman for automatic doors.

RunSet··on Tesla Roadster
> Ok, so it actually flies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhVLgTsoMhQ

RunSet··on An Apology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skl71urqKu0
RunSet··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
> Israel is beset on all sides, geographically, digitally and conceptually, by forces hostile to western civilization who want to destroy them at the first opportunity.

Could you name those forces?

RunSet··on Full Decompilation of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver
Related:

"Sunsetting decomp.dev"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100731

RunSet··on Container ship sinks in Strait of Hormuz as Iran steps up attacks
> According to Kerry, Netanyahu had presented presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden with plans to attack Iran, all of whom refused, before he received an affirmative response from current US President Donald Trump.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-892647

RunSet··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
Also Chrome got its initial market share largely by paying third parties to bundle it in their installers in the mode of Bonzi Buddy and Virtua Girl.

As one would expect of a browser made by the world's largest advertising corporation.

RunSet··on Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet
ebay has hidden the "report listing" button so well i thought they removed it. but it is still accessible behind a plus sign ("+") in the corner of the page.
RunSet··on Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise
> Once again Mozilla invents stuff noone wants.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/phasing-out-the-o...

RunSet··on Firefox Enterprise
If you are unable / unwilling to install an extension, Librewolf includes and enables uBlock Origin by default.

https://librewolf.net/

It is a Firefox fork with sane, user-respecting defaults. Of course it breaks sites that do not respect their users' privacy / agency.

RunSet··on Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
> Another feature that has been left broken in Firefox for many years

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505521

RunSet··on AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
> It's more like painters got obsoleted not because of cameras itself but because what people actually wanted was not artistic mastery and celestial strokes of the brush, they wanted simple, accurate portrayals of life's events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_Playing_Poker

RunSet··on AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
> Projects I never thought I’d even have the time for are now possible.

Put another way: "Projects I would previously have considered a waste of time now seem worthwhile."

RunSet··on Thinking will become a hobby
The AI "boom" has also been a net economic loss by all accounts, albeit the finances of the movers and shakers are opaque. The profits are all projected on the far side of a singularity that will make profits irrelevant.
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