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One thing you haven't noted is radio. Some local radio DJs frequently play songs I enjoy that have under 1K plays on youtube. No algo or platform is surfacing those. Local radio ge…

it's disappointingly easy

Warcraft 3 had some of the greatest mods that kept the player base alive for decades

>When I'm building out a new feature, I can churn through millions of tokens in Claude code. + >Not sure what model provider profit per token is, but let's say it's .001 cents. So …

I did not realize Eno could not read sheet music. I always thought he used graphical expressions in his presentations as an artistic choice.

imo, this paragraph covers the essence of a good chunk of the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_penicillin#Replic...

A bit of OT, but I have four iPhone 5/5s/SE (the SE is peak design and form factor, fight me) lying around that I use strictly as offline devices for things like saving data from m…

This is based on HSBC's model, which assumes some incredible numbers, such as: > user numbers on an S-curve that by 2030 reaches 3bn, “equivalent to 44 per cent of the world’s adul…

I've been distro hopping recently and missing the Web Apps application in Linux Mint. Somehow, Tangram slipped my radar until now. Seems to have never been mentioned on HN too. mor…

SEO slop is what the LLMs were trained on. GIGO

Creating a product for creeps is so on brand for a company founded by a creep.

>Several European governments have jailed people for social media posts. Many Europeans support this - they don't understand how government censorship can quickly get out of hand. …

This reads like someone desperately sticking band-aids onto a raging dumpster fire. It certainly doesn't help that the journalist wrote more words on kayaking than trying to get Be…

The training data is full ads. For books, you have publisher-influenced rankings, SEO slop and promotional social media posts. It's GIGO, and has been that way from the start.

Anecdotally, me and colleagues I talk to are getting a lot more micro-management and nitpicking from managers. The nitpicks and changes requested seem to be increasing at other com…

since this is coming from a "technical SEO consultant": how about website owners and businesses stop bloating their sites with (mostly useless) trackers and analytics scripts first…

there's a difference between an internal brief and a public copy.

This is nice. A few thoughts: It's sad to know that sobriety groups use addictive tech for check-ins. > Replace scrolling with building - building out my RSS reader, my website, my…

The headline seems misleading, the quote in the article is: "[...]we may pause or discontinue our pursuit of Intel 14A and successor nodes and various of our manufacturing expansio…

Being passionate about hats is one thing, but being passionate about sharing something you care about with others is the real driver for publishing. As LLMs degrade web discoverabi…

> They replaced an always on-screen OS navigation button that's been there since Windows 7 with an ad!! That must be doing wonders for the click rate. I can see the pre-promotion p…

I'm not a fan of horror, but it seems like it's still extremely profitable (low budget -> solid viewership in theaters/streaming) and the one genre where creatives have enough free…

Indeed, as another comment linked to https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21819-impact-of-ongoing-war... it seems pretty clear that this is not the case: > We've used our available con…