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In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe goes from "barely maintained" to "it writes for you"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/in-3-5-years-notepad-exe-has-gone-from-barely-maintained-to-it-writes-for-you/

9•CharlesW•5h ago

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WarOnPrivacy•4h ago

Our end users have the same text file open in 22 consecutive tabs now. So I tweaked away that option.

And as long as I'm disabling stuff that wasn't asked for, copilot is gone too.

xeonmc•1h ago

You can tweak away the new notepad entirely. It’s just an execution alias which you can deactivate. The win32 notepad will always be shipped with windows in two copies[0].

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060328-17/?p=31...

m463•2h ago

data collection funds everything, extinguishing anything that doesn't snoop.

ciconia•2h ago

Thank God for Linux...

AI can do a better job of persuading people than we do

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/19/1116779/ai-can-do-a-better-job-of-persuading-people-than-we-do/

1•dogacel•12m ago•0 comments

Build economies where people collaborate with AI

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20250520121829189

1•MarcoDewey•18m ago•0 comments

CivitAI Policy Update: Removal of Real-Person Likeness Content

https://civitai.com/articles/15022/policy-update-removal-of-real-person-likeness-content

2•50kIters•20m ago•1 comments

Modern dog ownership has redefined family and parenting

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1084363

3•nreece•23m ago•1 comments

Installing MCP's directly in your chat

https://twitter.com/hud_zah/status/1925747598305935535

1•HudZah•25m ago•0 comments

Best crypto utility list (2025)

https://coinexams.com

1•zeroday28•32m ago•0 comments

Infrared contact lenses allow people to see in the dark, eyes closed

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-infrared-contact-lenses-people-dark.html

3•joak•37m ago•0 comments

Ped Use Allowed in New Enhanced (Olympic Style) Games

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/45257341/ped-use-allowed-new-enhanced-games-set-2026

2•gscott•38m ago•0 comments

Engineering for the Long Term

https://blog.dshr.org/2024/07/engineering-for-long-term.html

2•todsacerdoti•45m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk's Starlink issued warning by Australian communications watchdog

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/elon-musks-starlink-put-on-notice-by-australian-communications-watchdog/3fhomr0gi

3•lysp•48m ago•0 comments

Anthropic CEO claims AI models hallucinate less than humans

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropic-ceo-claims-ai-models-hallucinate-less-than-humans/

2•codexy•48m ago•2 comments

Home Assistant Community Day 2025

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/04/24/community-day/

1•Larrikin•49m ago•0 comments

Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour

https://mashable.com/article/energy-ai-worse-than-we-thought

2•nreece•49m ago•0 comments

Why Microsoft just signed a deal for green cement

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/microsoft-just-signed-a-deal-for-green-cement-here-s-why

1•rwc9•50m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What HN posts inspired or changed your perspective the most?

3•hungle9•51m ago•1 comments

Zeus, a mighty laser with potential fires a pulse into the future

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/physics/zeus-a-mighty-laser-fires-into-the-future/

1•lwo32k•51m ago•0 comments

Deliberate Practice and Proposed Limits on the Effects of Practice (2019)

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02396/full

1•Tomte•1h ago•0 comments

Guide to Tracing in Erlang (2021)

http://stratus3d.com/blog/2021/08/24/guide-to-tracing-in-erlang/

1•Tomte•1h ago•0 comments

The answer to the million dollar question is 2031

https://solresol.substack.com/p/the-answer-to-the-million-dollar

2•solresol•1h ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi Modems

https://niiccoo2.xyz/raspberry-pi-modems/

1•geerlingguy•1h ago•0 comments

Ads in AI Chatbots

https://www.thrads.ai/

1•jonanz•1h ago•0 comments

My Vibe Coding Project Gone Wrong Ep.01

https://haebom.dev/archive?post=4w67rj24qnd3gm5yq8ep&tl=en

1•haebom•1h ago•0 comments

SDR-RDMA: Software-Defined Reliability Architecture for Planetary Scale RDMA

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05366

1•tanelpoder•1h ago•0 comments

Like Lovable but can make apps with gen-AI powered back ends

https://getcreatr.com/

4•JonanJ•1h ago•0 comments

Do chatbots have free speech? Judge rejects claim in suit over teen's death

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/22/sewell-setzer-suicide-ai-character-court-lawsuit/

3•jonny_eh•1h ago•1 comments

Twitter down as users of Elon Musk's X app report major issues

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-twitter-down-users-elon-35273712

4•andrewfromx•1h ago•1 comments

The Linux Memory Manager

https://linuxmemory.org/

1•teleforce•1h ago•0 comments

Gaming Out a Sudden Stop

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gaming-out-a-sudden-stop

2•imichael•1h ago•1 comments

Spack: Flexible package manager supporting multi versions, configs and compilers

https://spack.io/

1•teleforce•1h ago•0 comments

Bajaj to Acquire KTM

https://www.motorcycle.com/bikes/news/bajaj-to-acquire-ktm-44622745

4•lwo32k•1h ago•0 comments