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Would you feel the same way about creating open source software that had been forked 1,000's of times and used without your knowledge? Are you interested in living in a world where…

The funny thing is, this works well with people too. Not to literally not answer, but dig into the question or problem they bring up to understand their mental model and whether th…

Many breakthrough technologies appear initially like toys. And this certainly qualifies. I've never been able to code anything more complicated than a memory game in javascript but…

Really appreciate the deep dive here. M&A is the final boss of startups and so rarely do we get any credible, detailed information about how things go down from the founder's persp…

You may be saving money but wood smoke is very much harmful to your lungs and heart according to the American Lung and American Heart Associations + the EPA. There's a good reason …

At the highest level, this becomes a question of whether we live in a predetermined universe or not. Historians do debate the Great Man vs Great Forces narrative of human developme…

First off congrats on launching a novel idea and hitting HN front page. Question / feedback — why is there no way to see what one of these looks like on the website? You have a hea…

With ChatGPT explicitly storing "memory" about the user and access to the history of all chats, that can also change. Not hard to imagine an AI-powered IDE like Cursor understandin…

I am also not a therapist but I am a former tech founder turned executive coach so I do talk to people who are facing what feels like overwhelming challenges, risk, and uncertainty…

Full text link here: https://archive.is/DIKKv Musk has (for now) pulled of heist that sounds like a summer blockbuster scheme: take direct control of the payment system that all US…

Our big brains actually evolved because of lying - research by scientists like Robin Dunbar shows that figuring out who was lying and how to lie better may have driven the explosio…

I love the intent behind this letter. So often talented people are just below the "cut off" for whatever opportunity they are seeking, and they see themselves as unworthy. Some may…

I’ve always been interested in the idea that creativity is primarily about random association. That association can happen inside your mind, or it can be externalised like that sto…

You might enjoy the interview I did with a 20 year software engineer veteran who did stint(albeit short) as an Amazon warehouse worker to get through burnout https://news.ycombinat…

Did I miss how we are supposed to get recommendations from what OP built?

Yes, this is bad. Yes, it was also inevitable. Hopefully we will get lots of practice watching AI try to destroy humanity and build systems around that.

Congrats on the launch! I just tried this and while the tuning examples actually sounded more like me (a bit robotic but not bad for 20 seconds), the actual generations sounded not…

Goodwill. And the fact that people can do any number of other things to get the same effect without paying. What are you really asking?

Businesses are not people who get old, can't keep working, and retire. Businesses can borrow significant sums of money, issue stock, come up with a new product that can transform t…

As a naturalized US citizen who was born in China but intends to raise a family as full-bore Americans, it's hard for me to assess the China threat. I believe China very much wants…