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> Let me guess what Palantir will tell them: your audience is dying and/or illiterate. Add cartoons. You’re welcome. And USA Today will be billed $50M for the privilege.

I can’t tell if this is a troll post or not, but either way, the concept the author seems to be looking for is called the “Law of Demand” [0]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_…

And once again we have to pinch ourselves and marvel at our timeline where genuine news headlines and those from The Onion are utterly indistinguishable.

I dunno. The seams of the joke are still load-bearing IMO.

> I agree LLMs are not good at abduction but very few humans are either I, too, am glad that few humans seem good at abduction.

The map is a sad attempt at a choropleth with no legend, no hover or interactivity, and no information whatsoever other than opacity.

For me it's the copy, it really does read as soulless slop and I think there are many people who are just tired of it.

OT, but something I didn’t know is that if you go to Google, and type in “$FOO font”, it will render the entire results page in that font. Of course I had to try Comic Sans, then G…

“What about health insurance?” “Your enrollment will end on the last day of this month, and we will be providing every affected employee with information about extending their cove…

In a similar vein, there was an interesting discussion [0] a while back about elevator buttons [1] and how timing for door close/open works, along with a bit of the history and reg…

I subscribed for a year, but like a sibling comment said, it was too focused on Commonwealth news and culture to be worth my time. It was however entertaining to receive in the mai…

Slightly OT, but nothing can beat DonHopkins’s “About” section here on HN [0]. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DonHopkins

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https://www.johndcook.com/blog

I think you mean M31 instead of M3, and assuming northern hemisphere viewing only. I think the Magellanic Clouds are visible in the southern hemisphere.

Now this kids is Hacker News.

You're asking the right questions.

I’d vote shuffle with space bar.

It's a very common error that happens in both written and spoken language. I've wondered if it's because weary is kind of "in between" wary and leery , like an incorrect mashup, or…

"Just quiet determination."

Few can top the opening line of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . But there were brave souls who tried, in the now-defunct Bulwer-Lytton Contest [0]. Where else could you find gems …

What is arguably worse is hearing these phrases from humans who have been inculcated with the notion that their usage is idiomatic and appropriate. And we thought "robust", "circle…

Another one is "surface", like in "across all product surfaces". I've been in the field for 15 years and have never heard that particular usage before.

Thank you to the author for writing a GitHub page in 2026 that is entirely devoid of emoji.