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People are missing the commentary that this is exactly what happened…

The reason is that back then while Mars bars were more unhealthy - everything else was more healthy. Eg. Mayonnaise contained eggs and oil instead of the weird crap + sugar mayonna…

‘artificial flavour’ may be doing some heavy lifting

I’d be more interested in the ingredients. I would guess the 91 version has a lot less weird stuff in it?

Is it just about pushing people out of autopilot? When commuting in particularly people are just in their own world. I’ve noticed a similar effect when it snows here in london. It’…

I also had a sales job at uni, just selling windows. But it was great for making me much more socially competent. Highly recommend.

The worst thing about Apple AppStore ads is they create a who-can-pay-more rises to the top situation, where previously it was more based on merit. And In order to make an ad campa…

This is. Very well written letter.

Yeah if you can afford the probably 10x it will actually cost, you can also just afford a cleaner to come twice a week and be able to do a wider variety of tasks (anyone going to t…

Can anyone explain why the body doesn’t just naturally make lots of These broadly neutralising antibodies? It seems like they’d be so useful - so there must be a good reason there …

The reality of this is a lot less exciting than the headline implies.

That graph basically shows China is 6 months behind. So yeah it’s not as good now, but it 6 months it will be.

There’s an article from yesterday I think it was stratchery where they say it’s also because the Chinese open source models are better because they don’t have to play by the no-dis…

I just gave the day dream / pay bills image to ChatGPT and Gemini pro and they both could only tell me the pay bills text (shown with the thin lines)

If you push that ditch analogy though. Yeah we no longer dig ditches manually - but we also then all got overweight and weak because people aren’t doing any physical labour anymore…

The thing is - is it a self fulfilling prophecy? We already know junior hiring an are down. And how many people are now excited to learn to code compared to 5years ago? How many of…

Prediction: in 2027 a coding agent will read this as inspiration for why it should code.

What is the car’s reaction if you just block the camera. Will it still drive?

What do you think is the answer then? Why does it think that? I just thought it’s interesting that it constantly uses that as a justification but they don’t explain where that just…

Question: how does Fable _know_ it’s ‘just a simulation’? Is that specified or does it always just assume it isn’t really being put in charge of things for real?

We got another 6 months, meatbags.

This reminds me of ‘The Jules Test’. Popularised (hyper locally) by my friend Jules. When renting a flat, simply head straight to the bathroom and flush the toilet. If the toilet f…

Someone explain how the HN algorithm has put this on the front page

Yeah, I was waiting for the punchline, but it never came

So many websites are like this. Amazon is one of them - why make it so hard to zoom in on an image?