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BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI

jsheard — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:54:43 +0000

Article URL: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/buzzfeed-disastrous-earnings-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371633

Points: 30

# Comments: 2

New comment by jsheard in "Your Phone Is an Entire Computer"

jsheard — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:39:11 +0000

That was already the case with the M-series chips, which are shared between Macs and higher-end iPads. The Neo just extends it to the A-series as well.

VideoGamer.com removed from Google after pivoting to AI-generated articles

jsheard — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:52:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thegamer.com/gaming-site-videogamer-removed-google/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363185

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by jsheard in "Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook"

jsheard — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:33:51 +0000

OP did just say M5 (implying the base model)

Those speeds on the Pro/Max are impressive though, more in line with Gen5 NVMe drives. Those have been available in desktops for some time but AFAIK the controllers are still much too hot and power hungry for laptops, so I think Apple's custom controller is actually the first to practically hit those speeds on mobile.

New comment by jsheard in "Dolphin Progress Release 2603"

jsheard — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:29:07 +0000

It's been done, the ZSNES and Project64 emulators have both had exploits which allowed a malicious ROM to run arbitrary code on the host. ZSNES is written mostly in assembly so that was kinda asking for trouble though.

New comment by jsheard in "Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook"

jsheard — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:17:56 +0000

I'm seeing ~6GB/sec: https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/macbooks/m5-macbook-pro...

That's decently fast but not especially remarkable, most Gen4 NVMe drives can hit 6-7GB/sec.

New comment by jsheard in "Dolphin Progress Release 2603"

jsheard — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:15:43 +0000

They don't: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-dolphin-donations?pid=...

New comment by jsheard in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

jsheard — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:37:01 +0000

Looks pretty fossilized to me: https://keybase.io/blog

They haven't added or really changed anything since the acquisition AFAICT, it's just trucking along exactly as it was the day Zoom bought them out. Twitter account proofs were broken by the API changes years ago and nobody is at the wheel to fix or even just deprecate them.

https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/4200

New comment by jsheard in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

jsheard — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:23:46 +0000

It's kind of bizarre that Zoom is still bothering to keep the lights on at Keybase when it's been completely fossilized for six years now. The writing is so obviously on the wall that nobody should be relying on it for anything, and yet they just won't let it die.

New comment by jsheard in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

jsheard — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:52:33 +0000

Sam Altman would love to sell you a solution to the fire that he dumped gasoline on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain)

New comment by jsheard in "The MacBook Neo"

jsheard — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:05:10 +0000

My money is on 12GB in the second gen since that's what the A19 Pro has, and it would still conveniently differentiate from the other MacBooks with at least 16GB.

New comment by jsheard in "The MacBook Neo"

jsheard — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:35:12 +0000

I can't be the only one who remembers the celebration 18 months ago when Apple finally stopped selling Macs with 8GB of memory... only for 8GB to suddenly be excused again when the Neo arrived. Perhaps it's not the same people but the general vibe is giving me whiplash.

New comment by jsheard in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

jsheard — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:13:21 +0000

Or the Wiz IoT company, which seems like something Google might assimilate into Nest, but they didn't.

New comment by jsheard in "Cloudflare crawl endpoint"

jsheard — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:55:57 +0000

They say it doesn't: https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/faq/#wil...

Further down they also mention that the requests come from CFs ASN and are branded with identifying headers, so third party filters could easily block them too if they're so inclined. Seems reasonable enough.

New comment by jsheard in "Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers"

jsheard — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:21:46 +0000

That's almost exactly the premise of a Black Mirror episode (S2E1 - Be Right Back) so you know it's going to get Torment Nexus'ed into existence.

New comment by jsheard in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

jsheard — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:35:34 +0000

He's only meant to be filling in temporarily per the Wired article, but we'll see.

New comment by jsheard in "Segagaga Has Been Translated into English"

jsheard — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:00:23 +0000

https://blog.gts-translation.com/2025/04/07/the-state-of-mac...

> 12.08% [of translators] say MTPE produces high-quality output.

> A significant portion (around 50%) of respondents do not offer discounts for MTPE work, arguing that post-editing can take as much time as traditional translation.

> Among those who do offer discounts, the most common range is between 10-30%.

New comment by jsheard in "Segagaga Has Been Translated into English"

jsheard — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:51:56 +0000

> MTPE (Machine translation, post-editing). This works just like it sounds. The initial translation is done with machine translation, then human translators review and edit the resulting translation to try to correct any mistakes.

And the consensus among professional translators is that MTPE only saves time if you're willing to accept a half-assed result. For them to edit MT up to the standard of manual translation takes just as much expertise and effort as translating it manually in the first place.

Following AI generated reviews, Resident Evil AI guide books flood Amazon

jsheard — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:57:48 +0000

Article URL: https://frvr.com/blog/following-ai-generated-reviews-resident-evil-requiem-ai-guide-books-flood-amazon-and-theyre-part-of-a-major-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310758

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jsheard in "Segagaga Has Been Translated into English"

jsheard — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:39:11 +0000

It was much easier to pirate games on the Dreamcast - the copy protection was broken to the degree that you could burn a game to a CD-R and have it Just Work without modifying the console in any way. It being both a total piracy free-for-all and also a catastrophic commercial failure doesn't seem to fit what you're saying.

Not to say that easy piracy is necessarily a death sentence for a console, the DS succeeded in spite of ubiquitous and cheap flashcarts, but the Dreamcast shows it's not necessarily a path to success either. There are just more pertinent reasons for a system to sink or swim.