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The AI writing thats ubiquitous these days - on my company email and slack, on random quotations in the newspaper, blogspam, even narrated by youtubers on camera (!) - is exactly l…

Exactly. This is like that Sci fi show where the whole world is taken over by an alien organism and everyone you meet is basically the same one person. The AI is also off-puttingly…

Yeah, wading through an endless stream of AI slop articles posted here (and elsewhere like on reddit) is exhausting. I suspect I won't be coming here as often anymore, which is a s…

This makes me indescribably sad. Dr. Rauschmayer's books and articles helped me tremendously early in my career. I owe him a debt of gratitude.

I mean, good on them but its like fighting a wildfire with a thimbleful of water. Feel like the model trainers would be able to easily work around this.

+1. While the author's complaint is perfectly valid, in practice the advantages of even current OLEDs - for me - far outweigh any disadvantages due to subpixel layout fringing and …

But if all you want to do is render HTML then why use ? I'm only speculating, but it doesn't seem surprising that regular DOM rendering logic - which has to handle approximately a …

Essentially a throw new RuntimeException(e) for rockets? As a fellow engineer, I sympathize.

Great article. The Sphere is such a ridiculous, hilarious and fantastic project. We should be build one in every city.

It’s a patently obvious money grab or scam or PR attempt because there’s no way in hell Wordpress will be around in 30 years let alone a hundred. But that got me thinking. Will the…

Certainly not at the FAANG I work at. We hire specialized engineers to work on device drivers and OS kernels and absolutely do not ask them questions on how to design distributed w…

This makes me indescribably sad. Apart from mourning the loss of a fantastic app by an awesome developer, to me it signals the end of a golden era of small indie client only apps. …

Is there something remotely similar for the US market? I would love a small, cheap electric city car and it doesn't have to be solar or anything - though that would be a plus! It w…

On that vein, I recently joined home-barista, an old school web forum for coffee geeks. That site is seemingly frozen in time from the early 2000s. There are no trackers - there's …

Social media promotes a vicious callout culture where everything you say in the past is permanently used against you in the court of public opinion whenever you change your mind. W…

I am agreeing with you, but I can see how my comment is unclear.

I'm willing to bet on it! I live in the center of Silicon Valley and it would take me a 30 minute drive to the south or the east before I lose cell phone access.

A rate hike that that was widely telegraphed and has been anticipated for years, to boot!

I agree. We live in a golden age of gaming. Steam and all the game stores have a practically unlimited catalog (granted there's a lot of shovelware, but still plenty to chew on). T…

Worth bearing in mind that the author has himself admitted to and apologized for factual errors in his article that could change some of his conclusions. https://twitter.com/mattyg…

Happy to see the Fall of Civs podcast on HN. An amazingly well produced, thought provoking podcast - highly recommended by this Internet Stranger!

I would be surprised if it starts to show wear within the next 10 years. I've been using mine daily for around 10 years, and yes, you are entirely correct. If I could somehow clean…

I've been on HN long enough to realize that the majority of comments here are going to inevitably devolve into a discussion of the sheer complexity and breadth of tooling listed he…

This sounds fascinating. I'm interested to learn more. How does one go about paying for passage on a cargo ship?

This certainly happens quite often. However, speaking purely anecdotally just to add a data point - in my current team at a big tech firm, none of my teammates have left because of…