Because it's a smart model trying to fight against the brain tumor system prompt from Elon.

Because a lot of HN users secretly agree with this stuff and don't want it discussed.

Garry Tan and Paul Graham both post praise of the DOGE team on their Twitter pages. Maybe the problem extends above users.

I keep a list of recent falsely flagged HN stories in my favorites. There's a pretty clear theme there.

> I keep a list of recent falsely flagged HN stories in my favorites.

Someone should make an alternative HN frontpage listing only the flagged discussions, ordered by upvotes/comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/active lists all stories, including flagged stories.

> I keep a list of recent falsely flagged HN stories in my favorites.

Great idea; I'm gonna start doing the same.

The question at this point is when do we pivot away to an alternative where these topics aren't covered up? Maybe even hosted in Europe.

There's https://frontpage.fyi/, which is built on ATProto (same as Bluesky). Doesn't seem to have a whole lot of activity yet, though.

Tildes has replaced HN and Reddit as the site I default to for news aggregation.

I do feel like it is a bit light on the technology/programming front, otherwise it has a well-rounded mix of interesting topics. I feel like its decisions to not have a downvote button, as well as only allowing sign-ups through limited invites from other existing users, were smart ones.

Mastodon is also good, depending on how well you curate.

Lemmy uses the same underlying protocol but is closer to hn in form

You don't actually need MFA. This whole thing came about because people reuse passwords between websites and websites have their databases hacked all the time so the same password can be used to log in on other sites.

2FA codes solve that because you can't reuse them between websites so one website getting hacked doesn't expose all of them.

You can easily reuse TOTP between websites, but not many websites let you set your own TOTP secret. They could easily do the same for passwords, but none do.

What situations do you encounter where you don't care about the structure of the data? The only ones I've ever encountered have been logging, where it's only purpose is to be manually text searchable, and something like OpenStreetMap where everything is just a key value store and the structure is loosely community defined.

As soon as you have a loosely defined object you can't access any specific keys which makes it useless for 99% of times you want to store and retrieve data.

You define the data schema client side.

That's the entire idea behind Firebase. It makes prototyping much faster. I don't know how well it scales, but it works for most smaller projects.

Wait until you hear about ORMs.

I still have to create tables. I still have to migrate tables, these are all things I don't need to worry about with firebase.

It all depends on what you need to actually do. The only real weakness of Firebase is the Google lock in.

You still have to worry about data migrations without a schema though. Unless you just never access old records.

Depends.

Let's say you have an object called box.

It has 3 properties, the id, it's name and it's weight.

4 months later you add a 4th property. Cost, odd records that don't have a cost just return null for that field.

Last app I worked on had a few tables in the billions of rows. Seemed to work fine as we were only really accessing it by unique keys which seems to remain fast no matter how large the table is.

> we were only really accessing it by unique keys which seems to remain fast no matter how large the table is.

Even a naive B-tree index has a logarithmic curve, which means that the time to find a record asymptotically flattens out as the number of records increases.

Aside from just getting more useful responses back, I think it's just bad for your brain to treat something that acts like a person with disrespect. Becomes "it's just a chatbot", "It's just a dog", "It's just a low level customer support worker".

While I also agree with you on that, there are also prompts that make them not act like a person at all, and prompts can be write-once-use-many which lessens the impact of that.

This is why I tend to lead with the "quality of response" argument rather than the "user's own mind" argument.

I swear the people posting this stuff are just building todo list tier apps from scratch. On even the most moderately large codebase it completely breaks down.

That's not true. You just have to have competent leadership. You can build the infrastructure first knowing people will use it when it's done.

That was the invention of the car. Public spaces used to be massively better and people went out and socialized more.

And now people have forgotten that almost all the problems cars solve today are problems caused by cars in the first place.

I hated feeling completely stranded as a kid since nothing was accessible by foot or PT. Even today visiting my parents outer suburban house feels like being dumped on an island.

My social life as a teenager was incredibly limited by the fact that I couldn't just jump on a bus and meet up with everyone else who lived in areas with PT coverage.

Yeah, most of us have no idea how bad we have it until we live somewhere where it's different.

The idea of walking/biking to school or walking with your friends to the cafe after school to hang out, or bumping into friends while walking home from a bar is so alien to Americans that it's not even on their radar.

We get a glimpse of it when we go on vacation to Prague or Disneyland or something. But when we return home, we immediately relegate the experience to something exotic you do on vacation rather than something you can actually have.