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Google search results now are nearly unusable, most look like this: - Top of the page is slow loading AI regurgitation of deeply buried real web results, but often wildly inaccurat…

Red flag #1: "fact checking" terminology - Orwellian as it gets, usually at best a counterargument, and at worst outright propaganda or lies. Red flag #2: Who are these people, the…

10x-15x+ price to median income is common in many desirable areas. Completely ridiculous, but also what you might expect after a decade+ of QE, asset inflation, and the last four y…

Ollama is so easy, what's the benefit to Llama.cpp?

> The X experience for many is being drowned in the muckiest shittiest slime. Paid-for bluechecks drowning out the air, spouting wild conspiracy theories, hate, disinformation, and…

Online power now seems to consolidate into whoever complains the loudest, and/or whomever has the most political connections. Neither of those are good. Shouldn't it be alarming to…

The "why" is often habituation

That whole conversation is worth listening to

> Twitter fundamentally offers no killer feature. Less censorship is a pretty important feature

> Twitter/X is actually a balanced discourse site now. CNN even admitted that the party affiliation of its users went from majority-left (65/31) to split down the middle, 48/47 To …

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> "We see right through the unshowered soul living in a car by the beach, or by the Walmart, or by the side of the road. But he’s there, and he used to be somebody" Do we? No, we d…

Hydropower is the only true renewable green energy that we have. It's ironic that dam removal is so popular with people who claim to care about green energy and the environment.

Coolest thing I've seen for a smartphone in a while, and definitely the coolest for Android

My pet theory is that everyone has ADD/ADHD at some level, particularly when tasked with something they do not like to do or want to do, and that the rise in ADD/ADHD is worsened b…

A close friend of mine is dealing with a variety of health issues due to heavy metal poisoning from their tattoos. Personally, I have never seen a case where tattoos improved someo…

You really must consume your own domestic propaganda for maximum effectiveness, it's more targeted at you and your culture, customs, beliefs, biases, etc

"climate change" was the topic, if the topic were "beanbag chairs" or "health problems related to saturated fats" I would have done the same. BTW if you have a preferred name for t…

Did you reply to the wrong comment? I fail to see any relevance to my comment, or even to GPT or LLMs.

I can't be the only one who wants to see the training data on a per response basis, IMO it should be a feature.

Why is this on Hacker News? Did Kissinger involve himself in tech in some way I am unfamiliar with?

ChatGPT is the most impressive tech I've used in years, but it is clearly limited by whatever constraints someone from The Woke Police / Thought Taliban shackled it with. Try to pe…

Has anyone ever applied this process to humans? If you breed two entrepreneurs, are you more likely to get another entrepreneur?