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Ok, but brevity is the soul of wit. That's part of my point, this is a long form article with no content . If a human had written it, it would simply have been two to four paragrap…

This article has the bones of something interesting, but the style is too barren and the content really needs to be fleshed out more. I feel like if a human had written it, they wo…

People who are interested in DOS software might take note of "Pits", a DOS assembler demo from 2024 which features, quote: - Multithreading (using all hyper-threads / CPU cores) - …

Meta and Google are entirely advertising-focused companies, with their main revenue coming from being able to put together accurate profiles of people to spam them with campaigning…

I think people are very justifiably angry that a very stable, well trusted tool, has started to immediately go downhill. The Linux Mint Timeshift tool has an issue open documenting…

Gluten-free cooking has come a long way since I was a five year old with celiac eating bread with the texture of cardboard! For pizza check out the America's Test Kitchen's recipe,…

If software engineering wants to progress past being an "art" and be considered an engineering discipline, then it should adopt methods and practices from engineering. First and fo…

With the amount of AI-generated slop content on the front of HN these days, I'm honestly reconsidering visiting this site in the first place. What's the point? It seems better to c…

Scheme already has hygenic macros, I don't get why you'd vibecode a worse (less battle tested, llm-generated) replacement. I'm not sure why this hit the front-page, to be honest, b…

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> but I posit that that’s the same with people, > The difference is in the kind of errors machines make compared to ones that humans make. There's another difference, and that is t…

I don't think that this is very hypocritical on the part of the developer holding such views. Typing code has never been the bottleneck, building the mental model has. You need the…

Hmm. I don't see how . I'm poor so the quality of cables I can afford or buy is much worse than the average tech worker — I'm limited to either the cable that comes with e.g. my ph…

Damn, three years younger than one of my parents. A real shame. Call your loved ones :(

> I'd like to believe there is a sort of education that allows people not to understand details, but at least to be able to get the rough shape of the topic at hand and shape their…

I think the difficulty is we know vastly more, and have experimented with vastly more since the 19th century, that the majority of university learning these days, and the inherent …

Why do you need to generate transistor-level breakthroughs multiple times a year? Those breakthroughs are hard to generate, but they're important and industry-spanning. The problem…

I'll be honest, I think that this line of "everyone creative is going to be out of work" is parroting exactly the same lies that VC are selling about genAI. At the end of the day, …

My partner in the USA texted a state-wide hotline for mental health. What she got was a simple not-even-chatGPT chatbot that ignored everything she said and, quite frankly, made it…

> AI has been one gut-punch after another with someone selling cheap knockoffs of your work in the same marketplace using your munged up work taken without credit, compensation, or…

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> Poor quality code might have caused the error, but the failure to investigate the errors and sweep them under the rug was made by humans. That's not quite correct. The root set o…

Yeah! It's not like code quality matters in terms of negative value or lives lost, right?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_IT_scandal Furthermore, > As for the artifact that …