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Lucky we have the counterexample of a tech company run by a guy who did a humanities PhD under Jürgen Habermas...Palantir.

I don't think Claude's writing style is peculiar, it is just that we are being flooded with it. Everything becomes stale with overuse.

"Any eighth-grade boy or girl who is 'all there' should solve it in about thirty seconds" is hyperbole (it took me a couple of minutes), but in general the public reaction to this …

Yes, except if you launch a process with nohup, then close your terminal and open a new one how do you reconnect to it? I assume there's a way to do it but I don't know how (probab…

Reiterating what I wrote above, sharing these would have been more interesting imo than sharing the pipeline output.

Great, then rather post that! Although that repo looks like 100% AI artifact, not human intervention. (What does "flagging issues for human review at scale" mean in this context?)

While it's really cool that this is possible now, this project seems to be a thin wrapper around running Claude. Presumably, someone who wanted to read one of these books could jus…

> I am able to make React changes much faster and the changes are higher quality, given frontend dev has never been my job role Man, if I had a dollar for every time someone said "…

There was a post on here the other day explaining this exact phenomenon: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/06/19/waiting.html

> Many made the same prediction about Twitter, and it seems to be more or less the same or higher activity than before, and Bluesky is continuing to rapidly decline Not at all corr…

Almost every comment here is appealing to personal experience. By contrast, OP refers to two studies that compare performance on some kind of standardised test over a range of mode…

I've never heard it before, but immediately understood it and found it a useful term for something I didn't have a single word for.

It's not really an attack surface though. Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/932/

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so il…

I recently read Tarka the Otter [1], which is the story of a life of an otter. At the end he is hunted by a farmer and a pack of otter hounds. It is pretty brutal. Reminds you that…

I think OP meant that Farmville was built by a different party (Zynga). FB was trying to encourage other businesses to build apps on its platform, not build them itself.

Wow, yeah. "The result is an app that the creators say is 90% accurate". https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/photo-calorie-app-cal-ai-d...

Are you sure these are actually issues, or are you just trusting that the AI criticism is correct?

As Matt Levine often points out, there are two possible cases for ESG 1/ This will bring worse returns, but I'm willing to accept the loss in order to forward values I support 2/ T…

More to the point, in the US losing teams get rewarded in the form of draft picks, which sometimes creates perverse incentives. This doesn't exist in European football. (Disclaimer…

n=1 But interesting nonetheless, thanks for sharing your findings.

I was surprised that this article is about food wasted by people not finishing their plates. Would have guessed that a lot of the unserved food is discarded (sure, some of it can b…