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croisillonon Hackers hit French national blood bank

yes but The Telegraph too runs invented stories

croisillonon Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)

training on "no i don't need google search to nurse me after a breakup, i was just asking what movie has the line she just dumped me"

croisillonon An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

did they copy the Times of India? https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/discovery/italia...

croisillonon French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit

https://xnologin.com/videolan/status/2116229135919919278

https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amendements/3210A/...

the text menstions several times that internet providers are the one in charge of collecting and paying the tax, i don't see how the softwares enabling the streaming/download would be under threat?

croisillonon Did it just build.. a clock?

nope

croisillonon Did it just build.. a clock?

Firefox on Win10

croisillonon Bentley's Kyiv deadlership among the strongest, despite the war

contains false sentences despite careful wording https://mythdetector.com/en/europe-in-bentley-sales/

croisillonon Did it just build.. a clock?

the flip movement just appears a few times and disappear?

croisillonon A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible, 990 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764791

croisillonon Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center

183 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048638

253 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50196837

croisillonon Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest

ah yeah it's worse in San Escobar so why do anyone even care

croisillonon A Markdown File Should Just Open

as always, i love the "mount it trivially with curlftpfs" comments here

croisillonon Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana

nice, we could do a lithuanian stress font this way too

croisillonon RIP Eric Binnion

"he will be remembered as the guy i gave an award to", looks like DJT's obituaries

croisillonon Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists

they're made out of water?

croisillonon Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more

i wish a button where a human would have written the text

croisillonon Orkut.com

no offense meant but i find it entertaining that you can be "a big thing" and only a few years in discover that language matters

croisillonon Walking Men

and the Ampel-couples in Vienna https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelp%C3%A4rchen

croisillonon How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

i dunno, if you follow the link to https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS?end=2024... you see Estonia has high distribution losses?

croisillonon Ask HN: Honey Pots in 'who wants to be hired'?

if by fake recruiters you mean people who claim they have a position for you but they can't tell you more and what's the lowest you could go and you never hear from them again... they are not fake recruiters

croisillonon Hacker News Site Layout

because it's maintained by people who miss the 19th century

croisillonon I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world

Just because LLMs can write copy for webpages doesn't mean they should. A landing page should not warrant a tl;dr.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665895

croisillonon The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped

Those are palette variations, not enough Zengarden-like

croisillonon The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped

good good but are there really websites with 2 or more variously different designs for the same content, like Zen Garden did?

croisillonon Why the AfD Wins

glad to learn that you suddenly embrace any kind of compassion and solidarity, in the form of what you call the next iteration of woke

croisillonon Why the AfD Wins

my point of view is simple:

anyone who thinks "woke" is a valid counterargument is not worth listening to

croisillonon Why the AfD Wins

it's funny you can't stop claiming to understand everything from politics but still can't imagine that there actually are other politicians (Chi Ossé's comments made the rounds before AOC repeated it) out there than your favorite target

that too should we call hagbardisms

croisillonon Why the AfD Wins

it's funny because the reference to your quote of her shows it was not a quote of her

we should call that hagbardisms