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Because more AI-generated SEO garbage is exactly what the Internet needs.

When updates or apps go wrong on Windows, you sometimes need to use Powershell. Sometimes it's easier to use Powershell for admin tasks to avoid janky settings menus. What's the di…

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It's perfectly doable. I set up Linux Mint for a non-technical family member on a laptop almost a year ago. They use it for browsing the Internet, watching things on streaming serv…

I think the comparison with nuclear tech is missing one crucial aspect: ease of access. Nuclear tech has been misused, and a sufficiently funded and motivated malicious actor could…

Because AI-paraphrased copy/paste jobs and plagiarism are the future of academic writing!

I think the so-called "replication crisis"[0] might have something to do with it, particularly in psychology. The misaligned incentives to publish frequently to have a nice-looking…

> it seems a lot of our modern afflictions come down to an gross imbalance of exercise, diet, sleep, and social connection If you think about it in an evolutionary timescale, the w…

> Now Apple just moved the search to the OS via an API call to its server, and people are noticing the traffic. I'm not sure how photo hosting services doing this for the past 2 de…

> I presume a lot of time is wasted grading papers and it seems like something an AI that can see pages should be well suited to automating... I guess if grading papers is "a waste…

Hard work is a means to an end. People want to work hard when their efforts are likely to have some meaningful result—higher pay or a promotion, if talking about a job; a good grad…

You might be interested in vx-underground[0]. They maintain a neat collection of malware samples and source code. [0] https://www.vx-underground.org/

> majority of my suggestions were Jordan B Peterson I'm interested in psychology and philosophy, so I'll watch videos on those subjects every so often. Naturally, the Algorithm™ be…

Sure, that's a useful heuristic, but I'd say it works because we deal with other humans. It's safe to assume that, being members of our own species, they are likely to have an inne…

I always enjoyed the X-Files -style alien conspiracies. Abductions, Roswell, the Men in Black, crop circles, Area 51, that sort of stuff. Unfortunately, those seem to have fallen o…

https://archive.ph/tt0pY I keep seeing talk of artificial consciousness with nothing more than a vague outline of what said "consciousness" would entail, or a hand-wavy "we'll know…

I keep a line of JavaScript as a bookmarklet to do this: javascript:void(open('http://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))

I tried Takeout on my main account, and I have to say I'm surprised. Took about an hour to process and it allowed me to download everything. While I was waiting on that, I finally …

A few days ago I was going through an old Gmail account, and decided to get my data through Takeout. Told me it'd take a few hours, and the next day I had a link ready. Click the l…

Would you be OK to find yourself in this situation[0] in the future? Personally, I feel like putting all your digital eggs in one basket, be it Apple's, Google's, Microsoft's, or a…

It's just the "celebrity gossip" aspect of HN at work—where Elon Musk was, what Paul Graham had for lunch, etc. Truly fascinating.

> treat your customers well. Supporting Linux is treating his customers well. It's really won me over, I can say that much. When I was using Windows, I favoured buying games from G…

People were falling for "verified" tweets from blatantly fake accounts. The coming deepfake crisis is going to be hilarious and terrifying.