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You can click your own piece and see the move order to see if it's a possibility you'll be moving into a discovered attack. You can sort of predict that pieces will move if they ca…

Potentially geocaching too

HNers aren't just using AI for articles — they're redefining the hacking of news.

In 1985, a Ross Dress for Less exploded due to methane gas, and congressman Henry Waxman representing the westside used that to federally ban any idea of a subway for decades. Prio…

Played violin, sounds nothing like a (plucked/pizzicato) violin.

I believe in modern medicine but I lost some faith in the American institutions around it when I "diagnosed" my partner with the correct disease that the first rheumatologist dismi…

Airdrop has not felt reliable to me all the time, and completely fails on anything larger than a picture or short video. Especially if you are storing your files on iCloud and the …

I use Blood on the Clocktower to do this, it's a social deduction game (that's just not randomly accusing each other) so it gets everyone talking easily

This short-term thinking makes me pessimistic about UBI. Everyone's addicted to work despite automation and AI creating less need for work. And thinking we live in a zero-sum game …

— You dropped your emdash. This comment actually sounds more human than the original post!

The most AI headline I've ever read

I guess the AI didn't know what Animal Crossing looks like. Cool visualization though.

Mostly enjoyed it but the art style gave me motion sickness during and after each session where I had to stop (playing on a TV).

I'd love an Inter-dimensional Cable channel, just weird surreal stuff

"This is not...this is" is a tell

I've repeatedly told ChatGPT to stop talking like this (it isn't X, it's Y) every other sentence

Thanks for trying and following it. Spent the morning wondering if that's a chance for it and I'm not sure. Just requires Herculean habit building which necessitates dopamine. Anki…

Thanks for the feedback, I'm trying to sort of post-mortem and I think that's always been a major point I thought I could overcome.

As someone who spent 2+ years building one, I would turn away now if you're looking for traction or sustainability ( https://couplingcafe.com ). Though I don't regret it and learne…

Not sure about the autopilot part (even planes autopilots follow a flight path). I'm not an expert either, but with roads, there are clear lanes and markings. And ability to genera…

Even an iPhone X was running great in 2025, until it finally gave up to age and the network module stopped working. iPhone 13s are lightning quick for me still.

Stardew Valley?

Ah, I meant tech startups. Starting a brewery and machine shop is exactly what I expect from the PDX crowd. I think you echo what I said, people working in PDX tech are there for t…

It helps there to be a strong community of founders, employees willing to take a risk to work at startup for less money, investors, capital, and general energy in the air. PNW tech…

As a PDX native that went to Oregon State and saw a lot of people go towards Intel, I don't feel the Oregon Intel crowd has strong aptitude for starting something up. They're at In…