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Flagging seems extreme, but this is a very low information post about audio adapters, with a smidge about amplification. I went in expecting some kind of arduino-to-electromagnet j…

There is an Ikea in south Philadelphia not far from the Old Swedes Church, but they do not do anything to promote the Swedish history there, however brief. The colors of the flag i…

And now automate and scale that with Claude/OpenAI/Gemini/whatever. It's insidious and terrible.

What I do love is that when you're a mod, that post history isn't necessarily hidden.

I cannot emphasize strongly enough just how deeply pervasive the spam is at Reddit. I'm a mod at the ecommerce subreddit, and I've only caught some of the AI-powered marketing oper…

What is better? My colonoscopy came with a dose of propofol that made me understand why Michael Jackson went out the way he did. Best sleep I've ever had.

I did a colonoscopy at 38, because I saw something in the toilet that looked like the lingonberries at Ikea. Everyone was like "Man that seems early" but when I woke up, the doctor…

I'm paying $16/mo for Photoshop and Lightroom. I have to imagine that the majority of people who post to HN can afford $16/mo. I'm not a professional photographer, but it's an exce…

I really enjoyed Photosynth. I remember coming across an account from a guy in Tehran, and there was something really moving about sitting in Pennsylvania and being able to explore…

I learned a long time ago that people who talk about IQ don't usually have anything intelligent to say.

I still pay for Flickr Pro, for a couple of reasons: the API still works, and I basically use it as a DAM for my wife's website. She's a composer, and it's super handy to have her …

What I am hearing is that while you like to read, you do not feel like authors bring enough value to the table for you to actually reward them for their work.

I was exposed to a lot of really interesting music from Trent's what.cd profile back in the day.

NIN had a messy breakup with their original manager about 15 years into things. Once Trent Reznor emerged as more or less a free agent, he embraced radical approaches to distributi…

Please respond to what's linked, rather than make assumptions based on the headline.

Yes! I regularly share a link to Mike's talk - I was about to post it myself before scanning the comments.

I have no doubt that those numbers have been inflated by AI powered marketing tools, dead internet theory style.

>People are only willing to pay for quality, mostly. lol, lmao even. In America at least, people pay for branding, and to give the impression that they're of a higher standing than…

>I am on the side of humanity here, but people don't pay for art. Man, maybe you don't hang out with enough artists. It's true, people typically don't make the equivalent of a tech…

As someone in the process of building a niche museum about hyperlocal archaeology and history in my Philadelphia neighborhood, the timeliness of this post is excellent. Speaking of…

Once or twice, I've clicked through on a link in an email that was convincing enough to fool me, and what saved me both times was that I run NoScript. It's so frustrating just stan…

>Flash was great. Is there anything Flash could produce that wouldn't render these days with SVG + CSS + JS? This has more or less been the line from the day Steve Jobs decided Fla…

You're upsetting the kind of people who leave their shopping carts in the parking lot instead of putting them away when they're done.

Nano Banana was the first generative image tool that seemed to understand architecture. I have some 18th century engravings that I've been trying to get AI tools to visualize as th…

The trick I keep in mind in situations like this is to look at brake lights ahead of me. If cars are braking and I'm accelerating, I'm probably going to end up driving very ineffic…