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I appreciate the frustration and ridiculousness of having to use an app just to open a door, but over half of these steps are just things you have to do when you get a new phone an…

That seems overly optimistic to me. People who already distrust the government aren't going to change their minds. Even if the government releases everything, conspiracy theorists …

When I got a Macbook many years ago, I was surprised how often little utility software like this cost money. I was just so used to the abundance of open source and freeware in the …

I appreciate your positive attitude and I hope more people will adopt it. I am also part of some very niche communities on the internet, and although they are small they are certai…

I agree with your first statement, but raise an eyebrow at the second. The desktop already is the "friendly" version of the CLI. I am skeptical there could be any magical technolog…

"Google has prevented you from installing apps outside the Google Play store on your phone."

I also work for scientists and researchers, and it's a whole different atmosphere. Being research-driven instead if profit-driven makes all the difference. It's a great gig...at le…

The problem is not so much the carbon footprint of just using LLMs, but the impact from building and running massive data centers needed to train the models. Check out this report …

I found the stylistic choice to write in all lowercase so jarring that I could barely focus on the content of the article itself. Now I realize I am going against HN Guidelines by …

An easy trick is to take a common riddle that's likely all over its training data, and change one little detail. For example: A farmer with a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage must cross…

I found that the overzealous AI moderation made it impossible to ask anything remotely interesting, such as the classic dilemma: Would rather eat poo that tastes exactly like choco…

This was in Bangkok, Thailand, although the school itself was run by Indians. They had IT courses for both kids and adults. Fortunately I think these days there are a lot more opti…

Unrelated to the article, but this reminds me of being an intrepid but naive 12-year-old trying to learn programming. I had already taught myself a bit using books, including follo…

I agree, but to be fair I think that point could have been made clearer in the post. A similar but related lesson: the best way to teach something is to design a task that is just …

From what I've read, children's brains haven't fully developed the capability for emotional regulation. So not only are they less experienced, they might actually be physically inc…

> Although I must confess that I have a mental block about the second and third components of a C-style for-loop and whenever possible, I avoid them if I can. Glad I'm not the only…

Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: "Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge."[0] [0] https://…

I agree that self-policed communities seem like the best solution to the general problem. For example, public Minecraft servers often get harassed by cheaters and griefers. Some se…

I've lost count of the number of "epiphanies" he's had.

Thank you for introducing me to "Suzanne Delage," I am a Gene Wolfe fan but was unaware of this story until now. I found your interpretation incredibly convincing, too.

I had the same question, as my first reaction was "this looks like such a hack, I am sure there are better tools for this," so I poked into the user manual[0] and found this quote:…

I recently listened to an interview with Joe Brumm, the creator of Bluey, on the podcast "How Other Dads Dad". He said this is a common criticism, and he thinks a fair one. The pro…

Unfortunately the encrypted phone market is a total mess. The Darknet Diaries podcast has a good episode about this. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/105/

I've seen this play out on Discord too. When they rolled out the new "summarize conversations with AI" feature, I saw a lot of people concerned their data was going to be stolen fo…