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I saw this: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro... here on HN in 2013. I'd read "Amusing Ourselves to Death" so it particularly resonated with me at the ti…

When I use it for writing I usually have an idea or thesis to explore already. I typically write it out stream of consciousness. The core idea is mine. I'm not using LLMs to think …

Seriously. Whatever slop is going to be an improvement for 99% of enterprise products. 99.9% of internal tools at large companies.

Yeah wondering that. I ended up almost paying for one when 2.0 came out. Still not sure I've found something official.

There is a bacterial outbreak and I asked if it was possible that's what made my wife sick and it downgraded.

My step mom was having debilitating pain. A year of going to doctors and no one was able to find a cause. I scanned her discharge paper work which had her prescriptions on it and g…

I was going to upgrade my M3 Max to an M5 Max with more RAM. The machine I priced out was $5400 yesterday and costs $7500 today.

That's better than the loop grok got stuck in trying to use git and push the work it did leading to a $15 api credit deduction.

My father in law owns a small manufacturing business and is not technical at all. His computer skills stop with some CAD and basic excel. He pays for ChatGPT as does his wife and h…

I asked the OpenAI playground to compare and contrast the themes of Point Break and Fight Club. It did a bang up job and blew my mind. I then realized it basically worked for any o…

I just moved from a medium sized US city and any specialist provider I contacted for myself or my parents was 5 months or more. It's not good everywhere.

This was the main thing I took from the movie Her. Wild to see it materialize so quickly.

Starting to like the lack of memory. Claude remembers I have a grill and will interject in conversations about how maybe this thing would go well with BBQ when it's unrelated or ju…

It's the opening page of the book Technopoly.

It's yet another Goodhart's law effect: > Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes. The economic ideas are int…

Which grammar tools?

BETRAYAL

Would you say the same for 191 people rescued hiking in Yosemite a year?

The legal history is a bit more complex. TLDR: assholes that were BASE jumping in Yosemite in the early 1980s did things like throw burning barrels off the top of El Capitan and ta…

> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to m…

I started a project this year similar to this with rats. It’s now two axis with tracking and a stereo camera with depth detection. The amount of hours I’ve spent on it is astoundin…

Until you factor in the legions of devops writing terraform, iam, and cicd scripts.

https://news.yale.edu/2025/02/19/immune-markers-post-vaccina... They are looking into that.