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> I think we, very naively, thought that some hypothetical life of zero-thought pure-leisure was not only achievable, but desirable. May I recommend Aldous Huxley's "Brave New Worl…

The reason for the existence of bloated bureaucracy is political will not the technical inability to automate processes before the advent of the current wave of AI.

Capable is the loadbearing word, the directors were all PhDs in math, science and engineering fields. I dont subscribe to the strawman argument that engineers would naturally striv…

I think the website of James Sinclair has some great typographical choices, see the colophon for details: https://jrsinclair.com/about/

Bell Labs is an outlier in basically every aspect. Mr Kernighan lists stability of the environment with regard to funding, structure, mission as well as technical competence of the…

I did not yet have a positive "oh shit" moment, but when the corporate manager types that could not deliver a "Hello world" if their live would depend on and would have had a sour …

I was researching frameworks for building progressive web apps and stumbled over "Hacker News as a PWA" ( https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas ).

> What we don't need to do is to give everybody a Fisher Price toy with a "make it sound awesome" button. A sincere thank you for this metaphor.

> I'm picturing Germany as Sideshow Bob walking right into another rake. Speaking as a German with children: Completely apt image. Yet I would name several dozen of policies that a…

This is nothing particularly new. People above a certain age without kids are paying a higher percentage from their income into the social security since 2005 when Gerhard Schröder…

I use IntelliJ at work on a daily basis, and I assume that holds for a significant chunk of folks, who use Java in a professional capacity.

Be that as it may, the jurisdiction I am living in has an explicit right to refuse to testify against a spouse. It is wild to me that one can construct a crime out of that, let alo…

Probably to be a high-church Anglican/episcopalian?

I do not want to distract from the content of the article, which is highly relevant for folks who built UIs with frameworks that are conceptually based on signals, but the way that…

Plenty, but few of them can be solved by writing and deploying an app somewhere. Some of them are actually made worse by the latter. And how to make money is mostly orthogonal to s…

I find this knee-jerk reaction, that everything that shows certain stylistic choices is put under the suspicion of "might be generated", to have become a tedious cliché. Unless the…

> It can be gutted or extended at the discretion of a user. Something that would give a user meaningful agency. You, sir, are a hopeless romantic. ;)

Mine doesn't meet the criterion on HN points, but well, maybe someday: https://holzer.online

> I wonder at what point these countries will loose any moral ground against the likes of Russia, China etc. When arbitrary extrajudicial killings happen at some scale on a regular…

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2013Jan/0017.ht...

That is an argument to authority. There is a large enough segment of folks who like to be confirmed in either direction. Doesn't make the argument itself correct or incorrect. Time…

> nobody serious is promising that There is a staggering number of unserious folks in the ears of people with corporate purchasing power.

> Am I wrong to feel this? Why would a feeling be invalid? You have one life, you are under no obligation to produce clean training material, much less feel bad about this.

The iron curtain wasn't so iron from the beginning. The Berlin wall was built in 1961, that is 12 years after the east German republic was founded. 16 years worth of able workers d…

> Well, at some point you'd learn by maxing out your credit card on your cloud bill, or getting hacked and losing all your users' data, or... ...go to jail?