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It's still incredible you can coerce a language model to produce this, but it's not a new game, I've had it on my phone for a few years: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?…

Sometimes if you catch a new video soon after it's been uploaded you can see it's in a state before the recommendations have been generated, the few times I've seen it happen the r…

I was going to post the same thing, I bet it looks great on a retina mac screen, but on my windows machine with a monitor too big for 1080p, something about it feels off. Otherwise…

If you're on HN you're probably also conscious of your philanthropy being used for the maximal good, in which case you may be interested in projects like https://www.effectivealtru…

A Prague citizen came to local police station in fall 1968. At the desk he claimed "Officer, a Swiss soldier stole my Russian watch". Officer looked puzzled and responded "I guess …

Deus Ex got me at the perfect time in my life (15 y/o pseudo-intellectual nerd) so I really loved the game, so reading this was great. Such was my nerd infatuation with this game, …

I'm kind of astounded that modern planes haven't had this feature for a long time

Not a woman, but Garry of Garrysmod fame has a very interesting set of blog posts about dealing with and eventually befriending his internet stalker in an attempt to curb the guy's…

As a big PC gamer I've basically abandoned mobile gaming as it feels like everything out there is trying to get my money by means ranging from insidious to annoying. This is compou…

This is clearly a play by the plastic surgery lobby to get people to have work done so they look less like known criminals.

Tell that to whoever developed the crossbow/musket/repeating rifle/machinegun Civilisation seems to stem from the drive to discover ever easier ways to kill

You reminded me of this article: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertaria...

5 billion dollars a day is not too shabby for a business model that consists of rewarding people for heartfelt advice, sad stories, and puns edit: booo

While it's kinda funny, I think it's made pretty clear that text is a summary generated from the first search result that is clearly linked below, only a moron would consider this …

In The Better Angels of our Nature, Steven Pinker postulates that one likely reason for the increase in violent crime was the first set of baby boomers becoming teenagers, with row…

My biggest problem moving to OSX (from mostly windows) was the idiotic apple UK keyboard layout (US keyboards might not be such a big deal, so this stuff might not apply) so I foun…

I feel that this was and is a super myopic view to hold, while it's true that most of the worlds news probably doesn't affect you directly, it will almost certainly affect you indi…

I owe you my thanks, I used your site years ago when I first discovered the Bugle and was religiously listening to all the older episodes that had fallen off the Times feed.

I basically agree, it's more of a problem if the rampant homelessness is due to bad code that makes it too common (as opposed to imperfect design of your city), which given the his…

As far as I remember it just makes his family and friends upset, and anybody who witnesses the death, which is usually always preferable to him going mental and sentencing your mas…

In America if you collect 100 coins you get an extra life. In America if you get seriously hurt you get taken to hospital and lose some money In America you can only carry 2 guns I…

It's an amusing thought, but I imagine that most of these people realise homelessness isn't really a problem you can simply fix by following some set of procedures. Ultimately it's…

Does anybody know if it's common that an aircraft can be structurally compromised like that due to user error? I can easily imagine the stress on the airframe doing manoeuvres like…

Sounds like they're really doubling down on their devices that could never have succeeded because they were too late. I kinda wish I could have been in the meeting where they decid…