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0points · 2026-10-15T08:58:57 1792054737

> Slackdot

What kinda insult is that?

0points · 2026-10-13T08:56:34 1791881794

The question was about good software. Those photoshop clones won't even let you get basic work done.

nicce · 2026-10-13T08:58:35 1791881915

E.g even the comments are not working properly in the PDF reader from some unnamed related suite

rob · 2026-10-13T09:11:57 1791882717

What? Normal people are going to edit a photo and "spin up a photoshop clone" every time. /s

https://x.com/levelsio/status/2109288526726549822

TeMPOraL · 2026-10-13T09:10:57 1791882657

That's just the goalpost moving exponentially fast.

0points · 2026-10-11T19:52:49 1791748369

That's a witty joke, we used to make them all the time ...

redanddead · 2026-10-11T19:58:05 1791748685

1/ Not apparent, there are lots of guys on hn that have real AI setups costing > $50K

Lots of business owners here too that build their own clusters

2/ If it's a boom and bust cycle as he said, where's the bust? It's not coming. Humanity will use exponentially more memory and computing, as we've seen. That's not going away.

Let's have interesting conversations about the next steps for memory, is it quantum? what's up next? is humanity really beholden to a monopoly of private chip makers

0points · 2026-10-07T10:57:38 1791370658

Good old confirmation bias.

0points · 2026-09-23T06:05:39 1790143539

And here I was thinking this was proved beyond any reasonable doubt when 4chan users spoofed the Time Magazine person of the year poll of 2009 to spell out "MARBLECAKE, ALSO THE GAME" by the initials of the top winners:

https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/27/time-magazine-throws-up-it...

Or when Kim Jong Un won in 2012, spelling out "KJUGASCHAMBER":

https://observer.com/2012/12/4chan-successfully-votes-kim-jo...

hyperpape · 2026-09-23T10:41:46 1790160106

You're half right, half not.

This is evidence, but it would be a mistake to think that high profile online contests would have the same dynamics as low profile online polling. 4chan is characterized by an insane level of effort on the specific jokes that they care about. But they don't care about a random poll nearly as much as they care about big stunts like this.

nemomarx · 2026-09-23T11:11:07 1790161867

Of course, but a low profile poll also needs less effort to manipulate, so it scales down for both ends.

aniviacat · 2026-09-23T09:34:12 1790156052

Online polls being easy to manipulate makes it so weird to me that the European Central Bank made an online poll on what the new Euro bank note design should be. (Participants did not have to identify themselves in any way.) I wonder if the results will at all be taken into consideration in the following decision-making process.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr2609...

account42 · 2026-09-23T11:19:49 1790162389

In that case there was heavy pre-selection und strict rules for submissions even before that. So they were probably fine with any of the presented choices winning and the "poll" is really just PR.

rhdunn · 2026-09-23T08:52:50 1790153570

Or Boaty McBoatface winning the name of a research ship (given to a submarine on the ship).

dcminter · 2026-09-23T10:43:36 1790160216

In fairness I think a lot of people (me included) genuinely thought that would be an entertaining name for the ship, so the polling result wasn't necessarily wrong per se.

rhdunn · 2026-09-23T11:03:37 1790161417

Fair, though it does show how things like that can skew polling results.

mitxela · 2026-09-23T11:35:19 1790163319

i.e. engagement bait

alchemism · 2026-09-23T11:24:51 1790162691

At the time, we ended up with a conference room with the same name, after an office vote.

c4rnifex · 2026-09-23T13:47:42 1790171262

Those were not bogus respondents, just silly ones.

0points · 2026-09-21T11:08:06 1789988886

I think you are being misguided. The repository itself contains disassembly directly from the copyrighted ROM, and is thus not original work.

0points · 2026-09-21T11:06:14 1789988774

> endangering preservation

Luckily preservationists are found outside such ridiculous jurisdictions, and most recognized titles have been preserved for a long while already.

onetrickwolf · 2026-09-22T14:33:57 1790087637

True I just wish they didn't have to skulk in the dark for what is essentially a public service. I also think some projects aren't so lucky.

We probably have a pretty brief window where projects like this can even be done where there's people alive who worked on the original systems. It would be nice if these were encouraged rather than being in some gray area.

0points · 2026-09-16T09:37:06 1789551426

This?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

> The FDIV bug affects the 60 and 66 MHz Pentium P5 800 in stepping levels prior to D1, and the 75, 90, and 100 MHz Pentium P54C 600 in steppings prior to B5. The 120 MHz P54C and P54CQS CPUs are unaffected.

0points · 2026-09-13T22:10:23 1789337423

AI made a zodiac-looking cipher for the headline image.

dhosek · 2026-09-13T22:39:04 1789339144

It’s a warning of what it’s going to do next…

0points · 2026-09-11T19:27:30 1789154850

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