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This is not true. IIRC this factoid comes from the results of surveys asking people whether they had ever been the victims of domestic violence (not necessarily in their current re…

regular LLM use makes people sound like they’re on meth so we must be getting close!

IIRC there’s another scene in Silicon Valley where they have a post-it board of feature ideas for their software and one of them is “emacs keybindings.”

I’m not a professional software person but I’ll offer my two cents as a no-LLMer: I first came to HN in the “todo.txt” era of “productivity hacking” and note-taking -platforms like…

While I’m broadly open to research on the therapeutic applications of these drugs, right now the landscape is perilous because of the combination of illegal status and a spike in “…

Aaron Swartz faced 50 years in prison and $1 million in fines for sharing academic research papers on a local network. Meta/OpenAI/et al. rip off copyrights for profit and the Pent…

Inkscape is generally great but doesn’t handle text very well.

“Breeding more” bees is not as trivial as raising other animals, because bee reproduction depends on hive stability. Other animals are kept fully enclosed in captivity and can be a…

actually the rules say that no one can ever explain what Hyperbole is for

- Your example of "consistent characters" has a highly noticeable deviation between the first illustration and the other two (one knee patch on the first drawing, two on the subseq…

Yeah, I agree, if you’re talking about the role of the patriarch as a stoic provider who isn’t allowed to be a vulnerable man with his own emotional needs. It has been encouraging …

I often wonder in these threads what proportion of the commenters is male. HN skews heavily male, and statistically speaking, fathers are spared a huge chunk of the physical and me…

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We're bringing back the tag very strongly, some say more than ever before

> You know what’s fun? A stick. A stick is fun. A ball is fun. Having a body is fun. I think that's one reason why VR has such quick hype/death cycles--it doesn't do a good enough …

Top minds are now working hard at eliminating both the profession of writing and the day job.

Don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's apolitical "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun

I agree with you. The harmonics/diagonals of the notional rectangle(s) of the piece are more important than any one particular ratio. Phi is no more special than any other self-sim…

They’ll probably have a decent chance!

That's the OLD way of thinking! The future is bigger and bigger vibe-coded machines for faster and faster vibe coding, oceans of unread code piped back into the intake valve, for t…

> Manifesto of Futurism We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness. Courage, audacity, and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry. Up to no…

This was a very enjoyable read for me. I’ve never played 40K but have always been impressed with the craftsmanship and dedication of the community. I remember a lot of the early hy…

Lovely paintings!

If I see a cloud in the shape of my childhood dog and start to cry, is the cloud art?

I wish there were a good workaround for those of us condemned to MS365/Outlook. Outlook desktop is very unstable and buggy, and Outlook web is full of weird antipatterns. For examp…