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Doing what's right is like a superpower. (189)
Just like Google News consumes others' content and profits off of it, so does ChatGPT, only worse. (58)
Not only is there no need to thank Chat GPT but it takes tokens for it to get rid of your thanks. (49)
ChatGPT et. al. are bots and as such should obey `robots.txt`. (29)
And serving ads instead. (39)
Believing the misconception that a customer has decided not to use your product because they're lazy is only hurting you. (245)
MIT license that excludes use as sample data for machine learning (417)
Unless... (214)
Big tech is in focus and being held somewhat responsible for fighting misinformation. But what about smaller platforms? And how can big tech help? (1230)
My answer to an Ask HN. TL;DR: For money. (66)
A brilliant technique to (almost) determine a user's OS by testing whether CSS has OS-specific built-in font families. (331)
TL;DR You aren't, but spam is real, and a good alternative doesn't exist at the moment. (848)
Hijacking blocking notifications and DNS unresolved errors (57)
General issues that have made me, and others like me, host or build my own solutions instead of paying for an existing service. (526)
“Institutional sexism” is an abstract concept for many of us. It’s often difficult to put into words.This post appeared on my LinkedIn feed on 8th of March this year. The poster... (813)
A run through some of the tech used for the pandemic (4031)
I really like the book The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. It talks about how over time companies move into higher revenue segments, effectively abandoning the lower ... (1269)
An overview of Reddit's adversarial and seemingly counter-productive changes. (888)
Elastic changed the licence for ElasticSearch disallowing providing it as a service. A lot of people were upset. My reflex was to join in the outrage but I wanted to better understand the motivation behind this decision. My reflex was to join in the outrage but I wanted to better understand the motivation behind this decision. I also wanted to consider the different arguments against it. I bookmarked the HackerNews threads and came back to them only recently. I tried to strip away the emotion and noise. Following is a summary of the different arguments that helped me form a more nuanced understanding of the situation. (2343)
The Star is a popular newspaper in Malaysia.They published a couple of articles about sexual harrassement. In a country where FGM is swept under the rug as being “part of the cu... (163)
Startup founders tend to be an eccentric bunch. It’s almost a pre-requisite for a founder to be a bit delusional about their chances of success — even though most companies fail... (104)
Due to non-existent consumer protection laws e-commerce in Malaysia does things that would be down-right illegal elsewhere. (289)
Update: Feb 2021China-Based Executive at U.S. Telecommunications Company Charged with Disrupting Video Meetings Commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre I wonder who that could b... (674)
At what point are you just renting the device? (478)
Cruise announced Origin, their shared autonomous car product/concept. It’s absolutely the type of vehicle I imagine would be part of the daily commute of nearly everyone, eventu... (623)