This has to be intentional, right?

And yet almost all of the most popular sports leagues in the US have a salary cap rule.

"Local history" is a very popular feature in the JetBrains IDEs (just search HN comments), and I remember similar tools appearing on HN several times in the past (for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784238), so clearly there is demand for such functionality (or at least was in the past, when almost all code edits were manual).

I think the problem with such places is, they just become a dump for self-promotion by people who otherwise don't participate at all. The opposite of an actual community. That's why even reddit used to have a 10-to-1 rule of thumb about posts like that (which would be very easily gamed today).

Yeah, I think you're right. Asking people to give feedback and contribute instead of just self-promoting is like expecting everyone to maintain a 1:1 torrent ratio - it's just not gonna happen.

Usually online communities have dedicated days for such things. Like a "side project Sunday" or such, with one large thread.

HN has that every day, and a dedicated section for it: Show HN. Link in the top bar :)

Yeah, but that's not the same, as most readers will just skip over that. What I said is more similar to HN's monthly "who's hiring" threads or "what are you working on" threads. Like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937696. I find those much more interesting.

Even if you trust the intentions of whoever you're giving your data to, you may not trust their ability to keep it safe from data breaches. Those happen all the time.

Or the person that takes over after them

It's always good to have viable alternatives, if only to prevent vendor lock-in in case they make some drastic changes in policy or pricing.

Make it port Firefox's engine to iOS, that's something people would actually use (in countries where Apple is forced to allow other browser engines).

Copilot plan limits are however "per prompt", and prompts that ask the agent to do a lot of stuff with a large context are obviously going to be more expensive to run than prompts that don't.

Well they are doing the same to website owners who rely on human visitors for their revenue streams.

Both scraping and on-demand agent-driven interactions erode that. So you could look at people doing the same to them as a sort of poetic justice, from a purely moral standpoint at least.