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Sharing this in hopes it saves other people the data loss I experienced: CC's default setting is a 30-day data retention: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/59248 If …

Reading Factfulness was an epiphany for me: our brains are wired to pay attention to the superdramatic in a way that is now harmful to it - the same way that preferences for sugar …

Do you have any recommendations for literature you like? (My experience in eye science matches yours - the literature is WAY ahead of what people believe)

Having a good prompt-engineering skill is the highest-leverage thing IMO, so I burnt 2 Max 20x usage windows to help Fable help me refactor mine. With its partnership we: - Went de…

I see this with my dad as he approaches retirement. I try to remind him that if he doesn't pay with money, he's going to pay with his time... and right now he's saving money he doe…

This invisible cyberwar is already happening; it's just that the brains powering it is getting smarter.

Try this 1. put your thumbs on your ears 2. rotate your hands so your index fingers are on the base of your skull, middle fingers just above 3. now put your index fingers on your m…

I'm building an agent orchestrator (plug: https://github.com/mieubrisse/agenc ) and asked Claude what prior art exists. It pulled back Plan 9, and I was shocked: this is exactly wh…

I've been wondering this too: for us, UUIDs are super opaque. But for an agent, two UUIDs are distinct as day and night. Is the best filesystem just blob storage S3 style with good…

The guy to watch here is https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone . He's rewritten SQLite in Rust with fixes, written his own Rust async engine with fixes that Tokio doesn't have, gene…

I'm working on this! https://github.com/mieubrisse/agenc I think Gastown is truly special, but I wanted something more focused on learning as I think that's the real bottleneck. So…

Yep, and I've been doing this already! So far no response (understandable; I'm just a random guy), which is why I figured I'd expand my search by posting here on HN.

Hey folks, After rounds of doctors were unable to explain some visual symptoms I'm having, I recently started treating my high myopia as I would debug a production system: collecti…

Re. what apps can run in the background - have you checked out the "allow background battery usage"? This has worked so far for me.

Yes, exactly! We generally treat spaces with the benefit of the doubt, which I think is smart for mental health. A conference center which doesn't have the bathrooms close to where…

I appreciated this comment. I really dislike Trump, but I try to steelman the opposing side to not fall into the "other party bad!" nonsense. But his recent actions have made it ve…

In case you want that same functionality now, I use the following three extensions to tame Youtube dark patterns: - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/df-utube-distractio... …

I had an epiphany that faulting myself, and my self-control, is exactly what these sites want you to do. "Oh, it's just your bad self-discipline" No, this is full-on war for contro…

I also use DFInstagram. You can keep stories; I have mine configured to kill the feed & cancerous search page grid but allow me to see stories. Works great.

A similar thing happened to me. I once took a timed test with a section that had me translating a string of symbols to letters using a cipher, response being multiple choice. If yo…

I think you're looking for this: https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/reflections-on-palantir I worked there for 7y, and can confirm Nabeel's post is very accurate. The general public t…

The reason they pair it with consulting is because: 1. The products are powerful but complex, and were designed by smart, technical people for smart, technical people. They lack so…