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Em dashes are used often by LLMs, because humans use them often. On mac keyboards its easily typed. I know this is oversimplifying the situation, but I don't see the usefulness of the constant witch-hunting for allegedly LLM-generated text. For text we are long beyond the point, where we can differenciate between human generated and machine generated. We're even at the point, where it gets somewhat hard to identify machine generated audio and visuals.

Filthy pork addicts...

Yeah, I've read this report and learned this: don't use their services, they only list jobs, that don't pay well.

Yes! The very famous xz hack was only found, because a German wondered why his ssh session lagged 200 ms at the start. Everyone should go mad when their main tool lags a few hundred milliseconds. It is unacceptable that we sit on machines, that run billions of calculations per second and our software still lags.

That was said about reddit some years ago and now reddit is clearly riddled with astroturfing and other manipulations. We don't know how big the problem on hn already is and how bad it will get. But it would be naive to think, that it doesn't happen here.

In my new credit card app I can set if I want to repay 3%, 5% or 100% at the end of the month. If I set it to 100%, I have to pay $2 per month. Banking is already actively hostile against the customer.

If Proton is too expensive, you can use zoho. I switched from Google and I'm missing nothing.

I tried controld and wasn't impressed. In what way is controld better than nextdns?

I don't know much about water. I just remembered that rivers aren't freezing at all, even in harsh winters and searched a bit on the internet.

To be honest, I'm writing this comment mainly to say: what a great user handle, I smiled :-)

Moving water will get much colder than 0℃ before turning solid. -10℃ or even -25℃ are easily possible. If the water is also under pressure, it can get even colder.

Have you read the about page and "how it works"? https://www.myvocab.info/en/about https://www.myvocab.info/en/howitworks

It looks like a reasonable idea to me and not stupid at all.

C2 seems to be easily achieved. I got 35% above native speakers and 96% above non-native speakers.

imo was one of the last multi-messengers, where one could stay connected with almost everyone regardless what they used. It was a good time. It was a sad day, when I realized that they will pivot to their own solution, but I guess it was better for them.

Just my 2 cents: I run a tuxedo laptop, that is just a branded clevo device. It isn't as greatly build as a Mac, because nothing is. But my tuxedo works well, nothing broke, or needed any repair. Can recommend. Branded clevo pcs in Germany are used by Schenker, Nexoc, Wortmann, One Computer, MIFCON and more. Internationally, brands like System76, BTO and XNB are using clevo. I've never heard of BTO and XNB, so this might be false information. But I've heard good things from System76.

Pushscroll looks nice, thanks for the tip!

I would use this to determine how likely a given email address will receive my mail. I build websites, where people create accounts and an awful lot of them provide unroutable email addresses. This is annoying for me and for the users. If I could give them a warning like "this email address looks like it isnt usable, are you sure?".

I tested my main email account, and it found the wrong country, and in that country the wrong person (wrong name).

Then I tested the email address of my boss, where it found a few fields of the company (address and business type), but not the person.

Then I tried a complete bogus address and still got a "success" but without meaningful data:

{ "success": true, "email": "hjd28ebsgis63kdnrzdg@gmail.com", "enrichment_data": { "entity_type": "person", "name": "Hjd", "age": null, "age_source": null, "gender": "other", "gender_source": "inferred", "city": null, "state": null, "country": null, "country_code": null, "occupation": null, "occupation_category": null, "role_seniority": null, "company": null, "company_category": null, "business_email": null, "personal_email": "hjd28ebsgis63kdnrzdg@gmail.com", "personal_phone": null, "work_phone": null, "high_school": null, "university": null, "instagram_handle": null, "instagram_followers": null, "tiktok_handle": null, "tiktok_followers": null, "twitter_handle": null, "twitter_followers": null, "youtube_handle": null, "youtube_followers": null, "linkedin_handle": null, "linkedin_followers": null, "interests": null, "interests_category": null }, "enriched_at": "2025-11-27T07:46:44.878Z", "credits_used": 0, "credits_remaining": 97, "cached": false, "request_id": "d5254e79-6f25-4fbf-b021-24539c97b636", "timestamp": "2025-11-27T07:46:44.878Z" }

This tool could be useful, but right now, it isn't. Its like a LLM from 2024: looks impressive on the surface, but is not usable for daily work.

From the article:

  As front-end developers, staying ahead of JavaScript’s evolution isn’t optional — it’s survival.

  When the ES2025 proposals dropped, many developers (myself included) were shocked.

Isn't this hyperbole par excellence? There are some new language features, that is all. The whole article looks like written by this LLM prompt: "write about the new features of es2025 and hype it up as much as possible"

It is not the same. It needs some searching, reading and comprehension to cite Google etc. Copying a LLM output "costs" almost no energy.

SCNR: What makes the Mushroom power-up "Super"?

But I think he does capture an entire line quite quickly. As I understood it, he “scans” a line of pixels in seconds.

simonw has other prompts, that are undisclosed. So cheating on this prompt will be catched.

Earlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45535384

Yes, all of this is true. But it is also true that the poisoned discourse makes things look much worse than they really are.

To reframe it: changing these bad situations is easier than it seems. It’s not easy, but many people feel as if change were impossible.

I believe this feeling of hopelessness is one of the main reasons why political and financial fascists can rise. They yell that the world is falling apart and that they have the (final) solution. Russian bot farms amplify this narrative, helping massively to weaken democratic societies.

This is an information war and Europe has been losing it for about 10 to 20 years.

Well, do you? Where does the cynicism against the political situation come from? I think europes reality is much better, than the poisoned discourse makes us believe.

Nothing that involves time and/or money is easy to implement. Not (only) because the code would be hard to write, but because what is at stake. Also, letting money flow back to the customer can lead easily to money laundering/legal problems. So, maybe it is not "technically difficult", but it sure costs more money to make it possible, than other things.

I switched from Google workspace to zoho.com Zoho is dirt cheap and has great tools to import all my mail, contacts and calendar data.

Aw man, some of us have no humor and flagged it, shame.

Either this, or the other big cloud providers have astronomical margins. One could look at the financial reports of this companies to find out...

Yeah, but to be honest the anarchist communities were (and are) pretty pale and hadn't much sun ;-)