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Nice. I think there will be a cottage industry of porting every Mac menu bar utility to Claude. I can't use this until it doesn't show seconds. A MM:SS timer is tolerable when it's…

I would say it is up to republicans to do something about the clowns they appointed into high level office, and it’s up to democrats to continue their pattern of not appointing clo…

Someone is working on a fork that is optimized for M5, might be worth a look: https://github.com/Swival/ds4-m5

This is a great post, but am I the only person who thinks the AI-generated images are brilliant? They are haunting and disturbing in a good-art kind of way -- if I saw them in a ga…

That is indeed what the article says. Bloomberg says the same thing: https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-muscled-way-faa-1100005...

As far as I can tell, they made an exception for pepfar but its funds are still frozen, due either to malice or incompetence. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/health/trump-usaid-…

Ruja Ignatova: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruja_Ignatova

"The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America", by Daniel Boorstin

Well this is utterly wonderful.

- Karaoke: a friend of mine did a monthly outing to a karaoke bar and invited me along. It turned into a great friend group as well as a fun skill to practice, and now I host karao…

RIP Martin. Just to make this more HN-relevant: even though his book "Money" is popular and regarded as a masterpiece, it is not available on Kindle, or in any ebook format, in the…

I re-read this every 5 years or so. It certainly covers a lot of ground on which literary tastes have changed, so it might not hold up for everyone, but what keeps me coming back i…

I'm tinkering with The Tüül ( https://github.com/incidentist/the_tuul ), a site for making a decent karaoke video from any song in about 10 minutes. The members of my monthly karao…

Nice to see this project on HN, and nice so many familiar webOS names on this board. I worked on Word Ace and the Card Ace games back in the day, and got back into playing around w…

Rabe is an excellent playwright -- I'll have to check this out. Movies adapted from stage plays are great places to find good dialog, in general. Other examples: A Thousand Clowns,…

"The Image" by Daniel Boorstin. It's kind of about what living in a world of mass-produced images does to our sense of space, time and reality. So much of our experience is of thin…