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King Sunny Ade is another great Nigerian artist! Ja Funmi is one of my favorites: https://youtu.be/LIO9MjfOo48?si=bZFOTgQF0SZZgT_X Africa has a ton of fantastic musicians. For inst…

Are you using an LLM to write all your replies?

I had the same experience. It did okay at isolating vocals but everything else it failed or half-succeeded at.

> That's not privacy. That's performance art. Smells like it was written by an LLM so I stopped reading.

> The Maya Civilization, from Central America, was one of the most advanced ancient civilizations The Maya are still around! I spent a few months in the Guatemalan highlands last y…

Norway does a great job of this with the government-owned alcohol monopoly. The stores are always just a little bit out of the way, with slightly inconvenient hours. You can still …

If you liked this article, I recommend Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass. She's a professional plant scientist and researcher, and her books are both informative and a deli…

My assumption is that most people on HN are making programmer money. $4 - 5 USD per month is affordable even on a junior engineer’s salary in many parts of the world. The price per…

Haven’t used Roam, but what I like about Obsidian: - All your data is just plain files on your file system. Automation and interop are great, including with tools like Claude Code.…

David Chapman has a great writeup on this: https://meaningness.com/sad-light-lumens His other writing is great too, but much more philosophical which may or may not be your cup of …

Also worth considering: just don't do the thing and live with the consequences. You have to apply this with care, but it's worth having in the toolbox.

> There is no indication that we will, no matter the administration, as a society/civilization/species will do a single thing to avert the worst case climate scenarios. This is unt…

Curious to hear from folks who have more background knowledge on this, but as a minimally-informed outsider this seems like it’s hitting all of the important points.

How much effort is it to just try it and roll back if it doesn’t work?

More folks should define their own lightweight markup languages! It’s fun and makes your writing and notes feel more like your own. I created a convention for defining sub-notes (w…

Yes, exactly!! I use art-making to direct my attention in the same way: > on the one hand, the kid shouting at the park is the latest fruiting body of an immortal superorganism tha…

Curious how they've assessed quality, either qualitatively or quantitatively. How often do the generated documents miss important parts of the codebase or hallucinate requirements?…

Their code is more complex in some ways (for example, it’s verbose). But in languages with exceptions, if you want to know how a function can fail, you have two options: - Hope the…

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With tools like Obsidian and Claude Code, plain text is having a bit of a renaissance. Here's a music notation that has all the same benefits!

Really enjoyed my experiments with Gleam! Such a lovely, simple language, and it’s clearly been made with great care and attention to detail. My language of choice is Rust, but I’d…

I was a big Notion fan for years and am now solidly in the Obsidian camp. Speed and local-first was originally the main differentiator, but over time Steph Ango's "file over app" p…

My rule for social media is “don’t feed the sirens.” Like Caroline, there are many things I’d rather do than donate my time to help Mark Zuckerberg sell ads. This is why, for examp…