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I wrote a little bit about this a few weeks ago [1]. For me, programming, building software has always been a creative expression based on fundamentals. AI sucks all the joy out of…

It's also going to be more training data for them.

This is a conversation about a HN meetup in Europe. Google voice is not available on the free tier to Europeans. It requires google workspace.

I believe in a group chat you can see everyone's phone number.

Hi. Long-term HN user based in Helsinki. I'd join but don't really want to share my phone number with a large group of people. Can you not find another way to co-ordinate?

This would fit right into any modern art gallery. Seems that these interactive generative art projects are in most museums nowadays.

It's absolute insanity. They have all the resources to have been able to lead from the front with this new technology. They have the products and users to integrate this technology…

Many people have high cholesterol due to genetics. In these cases even if you ate a 100% perfect diet it would only impact 25% of your cholesterol levels - which any physician woul…

That’s an interesting way to say you’re third. I’m only second to the ten other runners on my local Strava segments.

That's the British voting system for you :)

I just want to preface this by saying he's a repugnant, awful human being and potentially is going to be one of the worst things that ever happens to the UK. But... that's exactly …

Farage is polarising. I think there is a genuine chance that tactical voters can rally behind a candidate who feasibly can get the votes. However, you have to remember this is an e…

And who are you? Why should we trust you and your runtime?

Serious question, why does it matter to you? Maybe they wrote a draft and reviewed Claude's writing before publishing. Why are we trying to "call out" when AI is assisting us in ou…

I appreciate Tom as an educator, but he's not particularly an authority on anything.

This is not a peer-reviewed study. It's a Tom Scott youtube video.

I’m not saying this isn’t a legitimate concern but this really seems to have exploded amongst the tech community as the next obsession. I see this pop up on X every few weeks. Is t…

Interesting project. Aren't most modern robot vacuum's using image processing to determine whether to stop or not now though? How is Lidar going to help you avoid the cat's diarrho…

It's far worse than that. In a lot of cases when you pay on booking.com, they don't charge your card. Instead, they send all your information (including CVV) along to the hotel whe…

Anecdotally, multiple folks have said to me they don't drink coffee because it makes them anxious. Enough for me to take notice.

Cursor has had this a while, integrated with their web agents. It was a bit buggy to begin with, not working well with non-github repos, but it was improving last time I checked an…

I live in Finland and even I am sceptical of this figure. Maybe that’s because I go once a year. I will say it’s very very common for folks to use the library for its primary purpo…

I’m almost 40 and educated in the UK. I don’t think sewing has been taught in UK schools for quite many generations now - although no idea what the state of affairs is today.

It’s valuable to have input of healthcare professionals here. I don’t disagree with the majority of what you’re saying. However, the value add here is it can do your whole body a l…

Charge me. I’ll pay. I’m not going to donate to the org right now as I don’t use Firefox as it uses (noticeably) too much battery on my MacBook compared to safari and chrome.