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Exactly. DuckDuckGo used to advertise themselves as a way to escape Google's search bubble[0] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140720050529/http://dontbubble...

The BBC had a programme "Your Home Made Perfect" where they would give people a VR demo of two potential home renovations, then they'd build the one they chose. This was a few year…

I wonder if they got permission to generate that (admittedly impressive) Berserk image.

After reading about the default mode network here a few times recently, I think missing out on all that critical "daydreaming" time is a bigger problem. I've stopped listening to t…

Sounds like the "Penfield Mood Organ"[0] from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep . Characters "dial" emotions, from basic to extremely specific (e.g. "481. Awaren…

So is Chromium. But, like with web browsers, competition is always good.

Mentioned in the article, but the source is the excellent YouTube documentary Valve released for Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4

>was surprised to read that it was built in Godot, which I'd only ever considered for games The Godot editor is built in Godot [0] [0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.5/getting_s…

>Fawns/calves/... can walk almost as soon as they are born. It takes humans far longer to learn that. Humans are helpless at birth because we have big brains and walk upright. Whic…

The thickness of the book being calculated from its page count is a really nice touch.

Blindsight hit all the right hard sci-fi notes for me. I've yet to find something that scratches that same itch.

Fantastic book. I read it for the first time about a year ago but I still think about it once every week or two. Thought about it as soon as the "spaceship" started to accelerate t…

The SponsorBlock [0] addon has already solved that for sponsored/ad segments in videos. Rather than AI, crowdsourced timestamps lets it automatically skip past adverts. [0] https:/…

As do most people who quote the 10,000 hours thing. Gladwell greatly simplified K. Anders Ericsson's work [0]. Most people just read Gladwell's catchy headline and miss the point. …

Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38013151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37990750

Nice to see this again. Such a clear breakdown of a complex topic, presented beautifully. Tangentially related, the documentary The Watchmaker's Apprentice [0] is a captivating loo…

Not sure if they're being serious, but there's what looks like a "3" on a distant air-con unit, next to left-most tree. If your viewport is narrow you might not see it [0] [0] http…

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You might be interested in AdNauseum [0] > Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. [0]: https://adnau…

Switched from Goodreads to StoryGraph to escape Amazon’s nonsense a while back. Felt like it was missing a few things and found Hardcover recently, and I haven’t looked back. I don…

I have an account for my game dev projects on https://mastodon.gamedev.place/ and it's a great community for that kind of stuff. People tend to stay on topic: the local feed is alm…

Great work! It would be nice if the demo page had a game ROM ready to go. You could probably find something free and/or open source on itch.io.

Right-click on a search box > "Add a Keyword for this Search". Edit: it then gets saved as a bookmark and you can edit it like any other.

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