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Here in Austin, I'm stuck calling an uber and hoping I get a Waymo. When does that deal expire?

IME: Cycling bibs and shorts from knockoff amazon brands seem to be of equal quality to entry-level name brand stuff (pearl izumi) at a fraction of the price. Plain underwear, on t…

Love this, it's like Randall Munroe x Lynda Barry

About time somebody started flooding the millennial nostalgia collectibles market with fakes.

Ah yes, my first love. I remember creating a quiz game based on greek mythology, and a little RPG where I realized the power of exponential functions by wrecking my power curve.

I don't agree with everything this piece concludes, but I do admire getting to read through a whole HN article without feeling the sheen of AI co-authorship.

I actually realized last night that everything that got me excited about the internet circa 2013 is actually way easier now, fun little one-off websites are far more doable, but we…

I started doing this a few years ago, it works a treat with non-junior engineers. With the right testing in place, review becomes more about communicating the ideas clearly rather …

If you go outside and they are burning witches, it's best to go along with it.

I really miss the old way of doing things. I know it was a maintenance nightmare, but I only really value having an iphone app with native notifications that lets me see exactly th…

Yes, look at the massive 'success' of Vail, Colorado.

While refrigerated transport came with great benefits - everyday families who previously had meat only 1 or 2 nights a week could have it daily! - but I don't think we've yet reali…

By your own logic, anything that can be done 'for women' would equally benefit you. You are in a woman's societal role, and being marginalized to the point of invisibility comes wi…

My mother always enjoyed playing Jeopardy! on alexa, it was a novel format and everybody could participate while sitting around and chatting. She happily would have paid for it, ev…

After the better part of a decade spent with chromecast and legal streaming, I have been forced back to the high seas as of late. I can't reliably get programs without onerous subs…

Getting into climbing was secondarily a health choice, but primarily a social endeavor for me.

vanilla ice would like a word

A lot of people will need to stop identifying as 'someone who makes art with enough value to trade it for the decent wage'. Millions of egos destroyed, not a dollar of GDP lost.

If one claims to be able to write good code with LLMs, it should just as easy to write comprehensive e2e tests. If you don't hold your code to a high testing standard than you were…

Exactly this. After the enshittification of evernote I swore I would only write documents in formats and contexts where I can easily pick up and move.

LLMs unlock a fundamentally different paradigm of interaction, in my experience a non-technical person with a good humanities background can describe what they want adequately. Thi…

Yeah, my assumption is a ton of people are getting for half the advertised capacity, and if they looked at actual 10Ah batteries this would be in line with their energy density.

His work has enabled so much creativity and he gets to give great software away for free, what a chad.

I won't even look at a youtube video essay about an obscure vintage RPG (my preferred form of guilty pleasure viewing) if it's under 20 minutes long.

Not just stop and wait, the intention is that the world will fully start to spin backwards and reverse the flow of time until post-WW2 abundance returns. All that's needed is the r…