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EU Parliament temporarily defies Chat Control heise.de

6 donpott 4 months ago 0 comments

Spanish government 'quietly bans use of Palantir' in critical state systems lbc.co.uk

94 donpott 4 months ago 24 comments

Comment · 5 months ago

That was a Cliff-hanger!

House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs ispreview.co.uk

98 donpott 9 months ago 137 comments

ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.' businessinsider.com

73 donpott 9 months ago 41 comments

DeepSeek-v3.2 Release api-docs.deepseek.com

5 donpott 11 months ago 1 comments

Great Ball Contraption (GBC) at Japan Brickfest 2025 [video] youtube.com

3 donpott 11 months ago 0 comments

4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk

411 donpott 1 year ago 430 comments

Comment · 1 year ago

The primary source cited in TFA was itself submitted to HN some months ago and garnered 100+ comments, for your reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43816546

Comment · 1 year ago

It is quite clever. My own rule of thumb is "add half of the amount in miles, then 10% of the (original) amount in miles". What's interesting is that it happens to be just as precise as the method shown above (ie. 1.6 v 1.609 v 1.618 )

List of Latin Phrases en.wikipedia.org

7 donpott 1 year ago 0 comments

Small electric cars were said to be the future – but SUVs now rule the road bbc.co.uk

5 donpott 1 year ago 1 comments

Comment · 1 year ago

Which one? HN? TFA? Any of the scammy subdomains mentioned therein?

A Plan for Reparations Became a Debt Trap for Marijuana Retailers nytimes.com

2 donpott 1 year ago 0 comments

Comment · 1 year ago

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42960219 ? DIfferent sources, but same event