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New comment by pluc in "That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis"

pluc — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:06:38 +0000

No Amount of Grammatical Feats Will Make You Look Smart If You Use Word Capitalization.

New comment by pluc in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

pluc — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:34:44 +0000

Nobody at Microsoft could've predicted AI was going to be so popular!

New comment by pluc in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

pluc — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:33:25 +0000

Microsoft. Azure. AI.

Pick one!

New comment by pluc in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

pluc — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:50:14 +0000

I think it's funny that in the same thread I'm being accused of not reading the headline and reading only the headline

New comment by pluc in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

pluc — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:12:45 +0000

The question was whether some companies forego LLMs in favour of human authoring

New comment by pluc in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

pluc — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:02:10 +0000

Ford did: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/06/30/ford-hir...

So did Commonwealth Bank of Australia and IBM: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/01/employers-who-laid-off-worke...

And I'm sure many others who didn't publicize it because they have to keep this circular economy going.

New comment by pluc in "Alibaba AI Models Hit 3B Downloads, Passing Meta, Google"

pluc — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:16:21 +0000

https://archive.is/ApymE

Alibaba AI Models Hit 3B Downloads, Passing Meta, Google

pluc — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:15:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-15/alibaba-ai-models-hit-3-billion-downloads-passing-meta-google

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312866

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by pluc in "Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?"

pluc — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:26:55 +0000

I don't and it's great

New comment by pluc in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

pluc — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:29:26 +0000

Hit counters showing 00000089

New comment by pluc in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

pluc — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:27:38 +0000

Ha, people who didn't live it will have a hard time believing AJAX was as strong a buzzword as AI is today. Crazy to think asynchronous requests were peak innovation at the time

New comment by pluc in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

pluc — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:44:45 +0000

Old web was 88x31 buttons, 468x60 banners and tables

New comment by pluc in "$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf"

pluc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:59:00 +0000

If you think this particular story about the dedication of some people to a fictional character from a book is nonsense, I've got bad news

New comment by pluc in "They Killed Old Reddit"

pluc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:34:24 +0000

"They didn't remove anything, they just removed anonymous access"

New comment by pluc in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

pluc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:33:21 +0000

Just gonna drop this here for no particular reason

https://urban-privacy.com/pages/anti-surveillance-clothing

New comment by pluc in "They Killed Old Reddit"

pluc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:23:00 +0000

Same here, went dark between two clicks.

New comment by pluc in "They Killed Old Reddit"

pluc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:17:35 +0000

So anyone knows a good Android RSS reader?

They Killed Old Reddit

pluc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:16:34 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255834

Points: 35

# Comments: 31

New comment by pluc in "Everything you do is being recorded"

pluc — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:40:44 +0000

A Faraday box that doesn't block signals is just a box.

New comment by pluc in "I've yet to see any"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union"

pluc — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:55:33 +0000

Nobody's going to convince me that with a technology you can just supply "yeah don't do that but keep everything else intact" we'll have altruistic innovation.