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My understanding of injecting money in education is that it's proven to be extremely ineffective at improving outcomes. Schools just hire more administrators and build nicer gyms.

Perhaps you could, but you probably always could've built a clone of any SaaS app you wanted, it's just become faster. I'm reminded of the infamous Dropbox Hacker News comment[1]. …

Wow, what an exquisite piece of writing. The core idea of modernity's tendency to take a Good Thing and chop it up into tiny pieces and bind it into Something Resembling Good Thing…

To those who have everything more will be given; from those who have nothing everything will be taken.

Looks like there's still no support for the M50. I hope with the revitalized development it's on the roadmap!

Hah, I'm curious if this is legally possible. I've never seen that on any non-ThinkPad laptop.

I'm with you on desktop but I've been craving some sort of way to interact with Claude Code from my phone while I'm out and about. What I want at the core is to be able to open up …

Preordered! I'm so excited; I had a pebble way back in the day and I remember liking the vibe of it way more than any Apple Watch/fitbit I've owned since. It feels the closest to t…

The world is a slot machine. There’s a reason intermittent rewards are so intoxicating to naturally evolved brains: exploiting systems that give intermittent rewards is a great res…

I was surprised recently to see that gemini-cli[0] and codex[1] each have way more GitHub stars than Claude Code[3]. Currently 62k, 31k, and 25k respectively. Stars are only a prox…

> I would argue that there are very few benefits of AI, if any at all. What it actually does is create a prisoner's dilemma situation where some use it to become more efficient onl…

I think the idea with unregistry is that you're still building somewhere else once but then instead of pushing everything to a registry once you push your unique layers directly to…

I think it'd be a perfect fit. We'll see what happens: https://github.com/basecamp/kamal/issues/1588

I'm a big fan of Mochi[1] (also unaffiliated) after getting frustrated with the clunkiness of Anki. Mochi has great native apps on macOS and iOS (and maybe more?), the cards are fo…

I solve this problem with a system prompt in my LLMs[1]. ChatGPT is the main spot where I'm going to be trying to understand a new concept, so after groking it I'll ask it to make …

I've had the same sort of difficulty with phrases like "most" or "almost all" or "hardly any"—I crave for these to map to unambiguous numbers like the probability yardstick referen…

My wife and I have a daughter in the demographic of these shows, though she's a little young for Bluey. There's a YouTube (and now Netflix) show called Ms. Rachel for a younger aud…

IMO it's all about privacy. Perhaps also availability if the main LLM providers start pulling shenanigans but it seems like that's not going to be a huge problem with how many big …

Hacker News is such a cool website. Hi thank you for writing this!

I love this! I was similarly inspired by the Wait But Why article[1] and made a chrome plugin several years ago that shows this for my life every time I open a new Chrome window[2]…

I freakin' love Sublime Text but the AI chat features of Cursor make all of the benefits in this post irrelevant. It's fast? Not as fast as an LLM. LSP code completion? Not as good…

I'm new to ClickHouse. Why is this necessary? Isn't there a native way to do ClickHouse migrations?

Television in particular seems ripe to be reallocated. Didn't we go through a whole analog-to-digital conversion over a decade ago that led to TV going through wires instead of thr…

> in my book that's as bad as it gets. In the book of world history things have been way worse[0]. In the book of world futures things could get way way worse[1]. 0. https://en.wik…

This is neat! I have a few thoughts: - my intuitive sense of animals that are thin or fat is totally off. I think of cows as being fat (ex: "fat cow") but their body fat percentage…