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Cut & Paste always struck me as more of a Windows thing. Which is weird because obviously I can do cmd+X / cmd+V on a mac... I just never do. Instead it's "select" - command+C - de…

Exactly the same - took way more work to delete the thing.

Yes, that is precisely what happened. Over and over again. Every time I had to delete it. It was something to do with the way they embedded Google login on the page.

This was worse than that. This was no click. It would literally do it without any intervention as long as I browsed to the page.

LinkedIn is one of the most annoying sites on the internet. Every time I mistakenly click a link, it automatically grabs my Google account and creates a new account and profile for…

References: Information hazard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hazard Babel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel On the Calculation of Volume: https://en.wikipe…

I wrote a thing about exactly this, but I'm resistant to blogging for undefined reasons so, maybe this will help someone... # AI speech is an Infohazard Apart from all its other po…

Thank you for engaging with this thoughtfully. You've highlighted the HUGE difference between "bespoke just for me/us" and "product that works for everyone". I've been struggling w…

AI + hardware has really helped my wife and I get more sleep. I had an esp32-box-3 lying around from a lapsed "voice agent" project from a year or two ago. Had a baby. Baby moved t…

Pi is my daily driver. I noticed the same phenomenon, and had Claude analyze all my past transcripts for classes of 'edit' error. Built an extension which patches the edit tool to …

I've always wondered what "illegal" means in this context? Is it designed to just be a pejorative, or something incendiary? When is an invasion "legal"? I can't really think of any…

That unsubscribe rule is genius. (Obvious in hindsight, as the best things are.) Thanks for that.

Thank you, yes. I was very confused.

This interaction was a delightful example of life in 2026 - the disparity between what AI can do, and what and how we use AI. (Which I like to term for myself "Phenomenal cosmic po…

Jan 2025: https://www.psa.org.au/changes-to-paracetamol-scheduling-wil... It's the usual public health balancing act of help vs harm.

Really lovely article. In paramedicine we usually treat 10g of acetaminophen in a 24-hour window as a potentially fatal overdose. That's also why the law in Australia was changed t…

Growing up we learned about _Slaughterhouse 5_ and _Cat's Cradle_ by Kurt Vonnegut. But there's not enough discussion or awareness of _Player Piano_. Incredibly prescient. These ki…

Thanks for all the kind words. I would love to work on this more but the hackathon sprint was really all I had time for (note the newborn in the video...) without more backing / su…

Paper Computing (great name!) is something I've been thinking about a lot to help my kids benefit from tech without exposing them to the brain melting addiction of screens. I sacri…

Thanks, this might be exactly what I'm looking for. I see you have support for vanilla js and svelte, but it's unclear whether you can get all the same functionality if you don't u…

Thanks, this helped crystallize something for me: the play the AI labs are making is anti-fragile (in the Nassim Taleb sense): > The very act of resisting feeds what you resist and…

Thanks for that. And here I was somehow hanging around on 4.5.3.

I've never yet been "that guy" on HN but... the title seems misleading. The actual title is "A Ramsey-style Problem on Hypergraphs" and a more descriptive title would be "All lates…

Lately my favorite podcast to listen to has been the audio version of Zvi's blog: https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/p/claude-code-claude-cowor... . It's AI narrated, but at this po…