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>To play a computer game in in the 1990s, you first had to understand how the computer worked. As someone who played plenty of computer games as a teen in the 90s I assure you that…

I've encountered AI copies of songs from popular artists, hopefully this will stop or at least slow that down. I suspect the only reason those songs are uploaded is because people …

If you're comfortable doing DIY a lot of equipment can be rented at your local Home Depot or similar store. I had a clogged sewer line and rented a drain snake for the afternoon. M…

Here's an interesting article by the photographer about fake AI generated macro photos: https://www.nickybay.com/ai-abuse-to-skirt-copyright-law/

I got the episode page for the podcast.

That was exactly my first thought. Could I mod this use with boats. I already have some spreadsheets for tracking engine maintenance, etc, but this looks really cool.

This is basically the plot of the Bobiverse novels. They're a fun read.

I've never seen Hackers. It was War Games for me, too.

I recently put Endeavour with KDE on an old laptop (c. 2013). It runs great. Much snappier than it ever did with windows. Great distro.

There's an unexpected optical illusion in the size diagram. The 1/6 block appears narrower than the 1/9 block.

I recently saw a patient with overwhelming MRSA sepsis with multiple foci of infection including epidural abscess (around the spinal cord), and meningitis. This person was taking r…

Interesting. Yes, that's basically what I've been going for but none of my prompts ever gave a satisfactory response. Plus I noticed you just copy/pasted from my initial comment an…

So far GPT-5 has not been able to pass my personal "Turing test" which has been unsuccessful for the past several years starting through various versions of Dall-e up to the latest…

I also misread it as Gnome editors and was briefly very confused when I started reading the article.

I have had tinnitus for years, I suspect partly genetic and exacerbated by spending a lot of my 20s and 30s at loud concerts. But just recently I noticed I now have deafness to cer…

I've used multiple hospital EHR systems and, while it's not great, of the systems I've used Epic is the best of the bunch.

A tortoise? What's that?

I also use it in cooking, add a spoonful to a soup or a stew and it really adds some great umami flavor. Marmite roasted potatoes are delicious, too.

As someone who both loves marmite and is currently learning Rust I was unable to resist clicking.

I doubt simply mentioning a forum on HN is going to lead to an influx of "noobs" who will descend upon them en masse. Those people are too wrapped up in their world of tiktok, Inst…

Any in particular that you recommend?

Same here. I was thinking expecting the nails you fasten things with. Fingernail art doesn't interest me much, but now it's got me thinking about what kind of cool art you could ma…

A while back on a whim I put my stainless steel coffee cup in the microwave and it just warmed the coffee. No sparks or drama. The metal didn't even get hot.

By the title I was expecting to read about some process to synthesize carbohydrates by capturing CO2 and water out of the air. Which I guess is basically what plants do.