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input_sh··on GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits
Not one or the other but both. He's banned on GitLab as well.
input_sh··on Various LLM Smells
It's not the base model, it's the system prompt in dev tools.

To give an example I'm personally frequently annoyed by, Google's Antigravity will consistently use the word "anthropomorphic" while "thinking" and the end result will consistently have obnoxiously large border radius (kind of like Android's design language).

Codex on the other hand likes to make websites with blue elements on a black background and likes to use emojis for icons for some reason, which is a terrible idea accessibility-wise.

input_sh··on EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products
Amazon is also under investigation under DSA, eBay is not big enough (in the EU) to matter under this law.
input_sh··on Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News
FYI Apollo News isn't really known for its factual accuracy plus they don't disclose the document they're basing their claim on.
input_sh··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
They used to have public-facing relative figures located on /traffic, but it looks like they got rid of that page some years back and now it just redirects to the homepage.

Random snapshot of what it looked like: https://web.archive.org/web/20220101023001/https://duckduckg...

input_sh··on Last.fm is now independent
You can toggle between YouTube and Spotify as the default playback provider.

Note that you do need to be a premium Spotify user for it to work. That's not needed for YouTube, so that explains why YouTube is the default.

input_sh··on Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE
The title as it is right now is 79 characters long, the limit is 80.
input_sh··on Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
Yes, we know, its purpose is to guide the bots, not forcibly block them.

That said, one of the biggest websites in the world not respecting it is definitely a noteworthy story. Hopefully another one of the biggest websites in the world (formerly known as Twitter) eventually respects it as well instead of not even disclosing itself via a user agent and pretending to be Safari running on iOS.

input_sh··on Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
To train AI. Not even a hyperbole, that is the only concrete example they list in their explanation: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot

> Amazonbot is used to improve our products and services. This helps us provide more accurate information to customers and may be used to train Amazon AI models.

input_sh··on Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo
Even in the past there has been a bunch of nonsense "rules" that made other countries choose between trading with Cuba or the US, but not both.

To name one, if a ship docks into Cuba without filing paperwork requesting to do so from the US, it cannot dock into any of the US ports within 180 days of leaving the Cuban territory.

To name another one, if some product is made somewhere else, but contains >10% of US-made parts or materials somewhere in its supply chain, then as far as the US government is concerned it might as well have been 100% made in the US and therefore cannot be exported to Cuba. Otherwise, the company that sold it to Cuba risks being banned from operating in the US.

So the US is and has been pretty much tilting the scale against any other country in the world trading with Cuba, using its own purchasing power as a bargaining chip.

As for solar panels, they do not solve your inability to move cars around. They do reduce your need for fuel, but when you're 100% out of fuel, no car can move around and no amount of solar panels is ever going to fix that.

input_sh··on What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?
Then I guess you've completely missed my point.

If I hand you a lump of gold and tell you it's actually a piece of shit painted in gold, I'm sure you'll find reasons to hate it.

input_sh··on What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?
People would come up with very specific made up reasons why they hate that plate of chicken as well, so I don't see your point.

As for your red vs. white wine comparison, it'd only make sense if one of those was doing its best to pretend to be the other one.

input_sh··on What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?
This is like asking people to rate this plate of bugs while serving them chicken. Even if tastes great, of course some people who will have a visceral reaction against it.
input_sh··on The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
That's just Chinese hardware with extra steps. If you don't believe me, feel free to look up the list of CEOs that are in China right now as a part of the US delegation.

As for the R&D part, Huawei is still pretty much indistinguishable from any other phone. I could buy one right now if I wanted to. It has shittier software though.

input_sh··on The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
Trivialise it all you want, but the world is vastly different from what it was at the beginning of 2025 and I don't think you or anyone else can deny that in any way.

What happens next remains to be written, but so far this new order seems to be leaning heavily towards China and to a lesser extent the EU. Not because of anything those two have or have not done, but because of what has up-until-that-point been widely considered to be world's number one superpower losing its damn mind. I don't even have to come up with a list of examples to prove my point, we both have pretty much the same list in our minds already.

Instead, I'll just quote the President of the United States from a little over 24h ago:

> I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.

AI is just another in a series of slaps to everyone's faces by the US. If it has some legitimate long-term use (which according to me is still an open question, although to many others it is not), thank god the US does not have as significant of a moat as necessary to fully control it, as the crux of it is easily replicable (albeit expensive).

input_sh··on The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
The US is undermining its own (and everyone else's) economy just fine, no imaginary assistance from China necessary.

The role of the US was always to purchase cheap Chinese hardware, slap some modestly better software on top of it and the rest of the world happily would pay for that as a whole package. But with the US increasingly becoming isolationist, the rest of the world is starting to wonder why do we need the US as a middleman at all, so the US had to invent a whole new reason for the rest of the world to rely on it: AI.

Of course, the problem with this idea is that while everyone was perfectly happy with the previous arrangement, nobody else in the world gives a shit about AI. It's scary, it takes the coolest things we used to enjoy doing and turns into mush, it destroys our local culture by making us all rely on English, everything bad (like layoffs) gets blamed on AI and so on and so on. And when you combine that with the rest of the stupid foreign policy decisions, many would find joy in witnessing the US economy crumble to the ground. Pointing the blame to China instead of to your own reflection in the mirror is just an easier pill to swallow.

input_sh··on Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
Aren't you choosing to ignore something very specific specified in that article? Why do you make it seem that article implies it's their overall policy?

> A few months ago we stopped referring to robots.txt files on U.S. government and military web sites for both crawling and displaying web pages (though we respond to removal requests sent to info@archive.org).

input_sh··on Operation: Epic Furious
Does the game just loop? I got the lube, then the TP, then the lube again, then the TP again...

I mean it'd make sense for it to loop, but I'm just wondering if I'm missing something or should I just call it there.

input_sh··on Internet Archive Switzerland
Relevant blog post: https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzer...

> Internet Archive Switzerland joins a growing group of mission-aligned organizations, alongside Internet Archive, Internet Archive Canada, and Internet Archive Europe. Together, these independent libraries strengthen a shared vision: building a distributed, resilient digital library for the world.

input_sh··on Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
Because the post actually listed one single source instead of listing 50, 49 or which are only tangentially related to the topic at hand?
input_sh··on Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers
Citation of what exactly? That not all browsers implement the same thing at the same time and that some features are Chrome-exclusive because for one reason or another other browsers refuse to implement it?

Is that really something you need a citation on? You sure seem to have come up with an example of your own.

input_sh··on Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study
20/50 states don't allow mobile gambling, so Texas is only one of those 40%. Some of those 20 states (9 to be exact) do allow sports betting, but only physically, not online.

That said, this means very little when a different type of gambling ("prediction markets") is somehow allowed everywhere because of the corruption of the current administration, with the son of the president being a "senior advisor" to both Kalshi and Polymarket, completely circumventing state-wide bans.

input_sh··on Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051079

It's better because it actually lists a sample of Bugzilla reports that were made public. This topic was discussed previously (36 comments two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885042), but the part about bug reports being made public is brand new.

input_sh··on Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers
Chrome likes to make up new "standards" and then some websites adopt them immediately.

That said, I can only remember two instances of that slightly inconveniencing me in the past, and both times I was inconvenienced by a Google-run website: once upon a time Google Earth refused to work, and once upon a time I couldn't tweak my Google Meet background. Both are no longer the case.

input_sh··on Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
There's a whole payment section in the submitted article which addresses your concern, perhaps you should read it.
input_sh··on Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
It's even more fascinatingly dumb to have this discussion like 2 or so years after every major platform decided to kill any notion of 3rd party clients they used to support.

Yes, in an ideal world, that'd be great for both humans and LLMs, but we are about as far from that ideal world as we could be. You can't even do some of the "advanced actions" as a human with human-level reflexes without encountering a captcha, but sure, all of a sudden, everyone will just decide to make their bread and butter that is data easier to explore via an LLM.

input_sh··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
It's not "aggressively maintaining the female option", it's just a language quirk. English has a gender-neutral "the" article which you put in front of every noun, German has three different variations of "the" depending on the gender (der/die/das). Literally every noun has a gender, including inanimate objects such as a piece of furniture. "The table" is always masculine ("der Tisch"), "the lamp" is always feminine ("die Lampe") and "the bed" is always neutral ("das Bett"). Sometimes changing the article completely changes the meaning of the word, for example "der See" is the lake, but "die See" can be the sea or the ocean.

Only living things can have more than one gender and in that case, not only does the article change, but so does the suffix. There is no "singress" in English, only "singer", but in German there's "der Sänger" or "die Sängerin". Calling a female singer "der Sänger" would be grammatically-speaking completely incorrect.

The only thing that changed fairly recently is that more and more people intentionally try to maintain gender ambiguity when they don't intent to specify a gender, in which case "the singer" becomes "die Sänger:in", or even "der:die Sänger:in" if you want to be even more pedantic.

input_sh··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Wouldn't know, as I have never been in charge of one, but I imagine Google having the power to make your browser completely irrelevant would be a pretty strong incentive.
input_sh··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
It used to support it out-of-the-box as well, but it's technically against YouTube's ToS to allow this without paying for a premium, so now you need this as an extra hoop.
input_sh··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
A bit of both? Imagine every time you read the word "actor", it is instead spelled something like "actor:ress", or "actor_ress", or "actor*ress" (because the separator hasn't been standardised).

Personally I'm in favour of it, but I will concede that if it's done enough times throughout the text (as German has way more gendered nouns in common use than English) it does come with the downside of breaking the reading flow.

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