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Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

683•andrehacker•3d ago•1067 comments

Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

440•Ekami•1d ago•733 comments

Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?

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Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?

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Ask HN: I made an image watermarking tool. What are the issues open-sourcing it?

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Tell HN: Stripe ToS update demands biometrics, freezes payments until given

11•cuz-reasons•6h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?

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Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used

4•prmph•7h ago•5 comments

Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?

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Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?

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Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list

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Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens

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Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?

36•sunshine-o•2d ago•57 comments

New Biochemistry-Based Metabolic Protocol Seeking Alpha Concierge Members

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Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space?

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Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction

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Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?

8•themasterchief•1d ago•1 comments

I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests

7•iliaov•3d ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?

4•amichail•1d ago•3 comments

Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?

10•chistev•2d ago•30 comments

Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js

25•antihero•2d ago•13 comments

Life saving / first aid posters

37•cpu_•5d ago•4 comments

Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight

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Ask HN: What would you name your own LLM?

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Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?

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Ask HN: Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong?

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Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?

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Ask HN: Why isn't AI image generation closely linked with graphics code gen?

3•amichail•2d ago•2 comments
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Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used

4•prmph•7h ago
Helium (https://helium.computer/) is Chromium-based, with all the Google odiousness removed, emphasizing minimalism, privacy, zero telemetry, built-in uBlock Origin, and no sync or AI features.

I am just a regular user that was looking for a Firefox alternative for a long time. I do not know why Helium does not get more attention. It's so fast all the time even with several hundred tabs, it never crashed, it is strongly privacy and safety protecting, I do not have one complaint about it.

Here are some ways the others fall short:

- Firefox and all its derivatives are frequently incredibly sluggish, even on the same machine at the same time other browsers based on Chromium and Webkit are fast. I really wanted to like them, but I just gave up finally. I can't even use Mullvad browser now.

- Safari's interface and UX seems somewhat clunky to me. I tried Orion; it shows a lot of promise as my secondary browser, but, even after updating it today, it has significant UI regressions. And this is for software that's past version 1.0.0

- Brave browser was pretty good, but I was disillusioned by their not taking user protection as seriously, and some of their "scandals"

- Of course, the least said about IE, Edge, Chrome, etc, the better

And I've tried a large number of browsers over the years: IE, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Orion, Zen, Brave, Mullvad, DuckDuckGo, Vivaldi etc, etc.

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tt_dev•6h ago
Well you put it on my radar
Bender•6h ago
Helium is my fallback when a Firefox addon is giving me grief and I don't feel like debugging it/them. Firefox will always be my primary as I find the addon options make the internet functional for me. Canonical, Certage, ClearURLs, CSS Exfil Protection, FoxReplace, NoScript, Tab Reloader, Temorary Containers, uBlock Origin, Zoom Page WE

I use both browsers on Linux.

colesantiago•5h ago
> And I've tried a large number of browsers over the years: IE, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Orion, Zen, Brave, Mullvad, DuckDuckGo, Vivaldi etc, etc.

If you are on any of these browsers, especially Chrome please switch to Helium.

satvikpendem•2h ago
> is Chromium-based

Yeah I'm out, not using any Chromium browsers, especially due to not having full extension and adblocking support.

I'm not sure when you used Firefox but I don't find it slow at all, seems to be on par with Chrome and Safari.

prmph•2h ago
It has uBlock Origin built in. No need to even install it.