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Your competitor has a $100m self-implosion in what must be an all-time slam dunk marketing moment and you spend 7 cents generating a marketing blog post instead of having someone w…

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/244/

Their number one concern is about the the commies perpetrating deep repression of their own people! How noble! This whole time I thought it was because they wanted more money and p…

I have friends who despise cyclists but oppose bike lanes. Bike lanes would take cyclists out of your lane and into their own lane. Plus if more people start cycling because there'…

Just self host if you want freedom. I switched to Codeberg to maintain a semblance of project discoverability while having freedom from Microsoft but I don’t need the code police t…

Same, the vibe I got from Codeberg was "Kumbaya everyone, come build free software here away from The Man spying on you". According to many HN commenters today it was always meant …

Should I be concerned that many of my hobby projects are little "one-off software [projects] specific to my need"? Is Codeberg only for hosting large, community-driven projects tha…

Make your LLM boyfriend with an open weight model so you don’t have to resort to online petitions to companies that could not care less about you.

It's worth learning to harvest with a scythe because it's cheap, good exercise, and has no mechanical parts to fail. The issue isn't whether it's worth learning something in a pers…

This is a good way to get outside and do challenges like jogging every single street in your town. I figured that OSM was basically complete, but info was severely lacking for my a…

Dramatic pause. "Then AI arrived." The silver lining is that it's currently easy to recognize LLM blog posts and the "authors" never realize how bad they sound. This "author" proba…

As someone who’s only used Emacs for around 5 years, Emacs is awesome even if you haven’t been using it since 1987. I used to get intimidated by the fact that every single Emacs us…

Fellow LLM doomer here. Don’t forget how many people uncritically accept LLM responses as true, unknowingly read LLM-generated articles, or listen a Youtubers reading LLM scripts a…

I'm done for once the authorities know I have an account on HACKER News.

If I was an end user of a working product (AI or not), I wouldn't care. At work generating and fixing loads of slop is less rewarding work than doing old coding, troubleshooting, a…

I asked an LLM (Gemini) about a calculated field in my taxes that was wrong but I couldn’t figure out why and every time it tried to tell me something like “It’s a common glitch fo…

Once every single thing connected to the internet (iPhone + 10 years?). Tech products, software, video games, etc. were new and exciting ways to solve problems. Now every single th…

To fill the gap left by all the sites being blocked, the company intends to offer access to a library of religious content, including AI-generated Bible videos. Truly a serious and…

Since last year Amazon doesn’t let you download your books as files from the web anymore. You have to sync purchases to a (presumably supported) Kindle device. I have a jailbroken …

This could just be a skill or wrong use case thing, but do you only use spreadsheets for pure number-crunching? I've played terminal spreadsheets, mostly sc-im, but I often have so…

I have AI automation metrics that are tracked. We have automation that automates the AI usage whether you want it or not so our metrics are 100% for everyone. Presumably this makes…

I know this is nothing new, but it's insane that we need policies like "When talking to us you have to use human words, not copy pasted LLM output" and "You must understand the cod…

Alternatively, join my meetings on time. You click End Call, then Join. It takes 3 seconds. You get Outlook reminders 15 minutes in advance. Webex/Teams notifications 5 minutes in …

Last I used Visidata, it didn't play nice with fields like %sort (they'd disappear if you re-saved the file) and if you had two fields with the same name in one record they'd get c…

My misspelled My Chemical Romance lyrics @yahoo.com address will never die because of this.