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Kagi added a setting to exclude paywalled websites from search results.
Two camps split: those praising the paywall filter as time-saving and those defending paywalls as fair compensation for journalism.
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GrapheneOS duress PINs cannot stealthily wipe data, commenters argue.
A website tracks real-world security incidents by AI agents from major labs.
Debate over whether AI incidents meet the legal bar for a felony.
An Ohio man charged with destroying a Flock surveillance camera was not indicted by a grand jury.
Grand jury refusal to indict seen as a win against surveillance state, though some caution it may not stop future tech.
An expired domain purchase gave control of phone routing for three British territories, logging calls to military bases.
Two camps: those praising the classic hack and those noting ENUM is still used privately by telecoms.
Cobalt is an open-source platform letting Kobo e-readers run third-party apps over Wi-Fi.
Commenters split between envy over the new capability and preference for a distraction-free e-reader.
AI companies are buying, scanning, and destroying physical books to train models, locking knowledge on private servers.
Two camps: blame copyright enforcement versus blame AI companies' cost-cutting.
With LLM agents, performance optimizations that took days now take minutes.
Split between those blaming business incentives for slow software and those seeing hope from RAM scarcity.
Canada suspends US trade negotiations and will match new 50% tariffs dollar for dollar.
Broad support for Canada's retaliation; US unreliability makes diversification the only viable path.
DeepSeek releases the v4-flash-vision-exp model for image analysis via text prompts.
The 800×800 resize limit severely restricts OCR and detail-heavy use cases.
The author describes struggling to focus on work documents due to recognizing low-effort AI-generated text.
Commenters concur on cognitive atrophy and share specific frustrations with AI-generated code comments and PR descriptions.
US trade pressure and SoftBank's Son killed Japan's TRON OS in 1989.
US trade pressure, not tech quality, sank TRON, commenters argue.
A new Rust LSP uses disk-based indexing to cut memory usage below 100 MB.
Interest in the disk-cache architecture and questions about Zed/Neovim support dominated the thread.
Claudette pipes Claude's verbose output through Gemini's Antigravity CLI to strip millennial-buzzspeak prose.
Frustration with Claude's verbose TED-talk style is widespread, with many switching models or using external de-jargon tools.
Sid Meier's Pirates! is a genre-defying classic whose design logic has been largely forgotten.
Nostalgia for Pirates! clashes with annoyance at the article's signup wall.
Everyday news items show we now live in a Ballard or Gibson-style future.
Gibson's prediction of AI making art and the breakdown of coherent social systems at scale.
Building native UIs is now easier than TUIs with LLM code generation.
Two camps: TUI defenders cite SSH, stability, and keyboard efficiency; others agree native UI is now easier with AI.
A curated collection of small, native web platform features worth remembering.
Mixed reactions: some praise the opinionated list, but many want live demos and find the snippets insufficient without visual results.
DESI team releases a 5.6-trillion-pixel 2D map covering 75% of the sky.
Awe dominates, with practical tips on accessing the map and data.
Reflections on maturity: incentives, probabilistic reality, and reason-emotion integration.
Split on whether reason-emotion dichotomy is cultural or biological; debate on fail-safe vs. fail-disastrously strategies.