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I built PromptToolbox to collect prompts in a table that help guide ChatGPT conversations. I’ve included a list of prompts that can be used to customize conversations for different…

And sorry I could not pull them both / And build one module, long I sat ...

These pings annoy me, night and day, Incessant asks without delay, And lines to code to earn my pay... And lines to code to earn my pay.

If I gave this much thought to my weekly poker game, I might fare better.

I built “Should I get COVID” as a casual way to help people decide how long to isolate, because there’s always a debate about whether it’s worth it to lock yourself in your home fo…

Seems like, in aggregate, the question is whether adding variance to outcomes is net positive or negative? Some students will receive multiple consecutive years of excellent instru…

Why does this simply threaten artists? At what point is code a type of creative expression? When are the IDEA for a novel technology and the chops to implement equally viable appli…

Sometimes UI can be distracting and I’ve found that I’m most focused when able to focus completely on the content on a page. I built HN Lite as a chrome extension to hide all infor…

Can someone rewire my brain to be hyper-efficient when clicking through articles on HN and dreadfully-inefficient if my mind wanders to fantasy sports?

I suppose, if the definition of "weird" is loosely-related to "low probability of truth" or "wildly deviant from existing orthodoxy," the highest-upside ideas would seem to be "wei…

The NYT is taking a swing at longtermism, the New Yorker is taking a swing at effective altruism, and this begs for a little numerical reasoning on the topic. If we must consider e…

Hey HN! Anonymity can really shape how people interact with each other, and HN is no exception. After reading PG’s mention of changing some users colors to orange, and the decision…

A skilled data scientist is likely to perform reasonably well on Kaggle...but are they the type who is likely to WIN?

Bezos buys the Washington Post, Musk buys Twitter...Now we need to long for the world where megalomaniacal billionaires just bought football teams?

"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." - John Wanamaker

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” ― Bob Dylan I aspire to this and to help others do the same.…

I'm waiting for some Musk tweet, the requisite outrage from an impassioned subset of the populace, a quick-witted Musk response, followed by the new title: "Elon Musk OWNS 9.2% of …

One useful regulation might be to prevent neutering the functionality of a product if the user does not elect to share their data. Unless those data are part and parcel of the core…

How about the sound of children playing outside? The sound of a baseball popping into a well-worn leather mitt still exists, but is becoming awfully rare. It ain't tech, but it's a…

The question reduces to one of incentives. Scams are extremely easy to initiate, cheap to scale, and once they're sniffed out, extremely easy to replicate with a small variation in…