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East African dominance over track events has largely ended. The 1500m world record is held by a West African, while the mile and 3000m world records are now held by white Europeans…

Translation: “you will just pay more for electricity at other times of day”

The quality of HN articles has degraded rapidly in the last year. It seems a meaningful fraction of articles posted here, especially most blog posts, are now AI generated. (Of cour…

LLM-generated slop. Please don't post wastes of our time like this

I feel rather silly, all the news about the heat deaths in Paris must’ve crossed wires in my brain. But it seems the two cities have similar temperature extremes, so my point is th…

> but if you get a really cold spell and it drops to -35C Temperatures near 40C have been recorded in Paris dozens of times since the early 2000s. I don't think the winter temperat…

> Due to extreme weather conditions, forced shut down of air cooling system from floor 1 to 7 for the rest of the day It's like satire. What is AC for if not extreme heat?

Seems like OpenAI has succumbed to the urge to give their models catchy names like Anthropic does

Yes, there's no way to avoid this really. You have to pick some point on the graph as the origin.

There is so much I don't understand

LLM written slop article about LLM slop in bigtech

Vibecoded slop with LLM-written copy. When will it stop

When I see dark matter in the news I'm always reminded of the story of Vulcan. In the 1800s, detailed observations of the planet Mercury showed that its orbit was slightly differen…

“I got an LLM to write a summary of the work it did while I occasionally checked in on Cursor.” I’m getting so tired of these posts. Why waste our time?

OP, I love not just that you noticed this, but that you thought to post it here too. HN is the best.

> meant We're not meant to do anything. It's not like we were consciously designed with a purpose in mind. Do whatever you want.

LLM-written code, LLM-written blog post… Why even bother?

Oleophobic coating is standard on phones and tablets, which is part of why they don’t pick up fingerprints as easily. Some brands offer coating you can DIY yourself (eg ProofTech O…

Similarly, it's possible to take the derivative of a song. You can use a Fourier transform to express the song's waveform as a series of sin and cosine functions, then take the der…

Google and lots of other firms use a "leap smear" to hide the leap second from end users, essentially "smearing" the second across the hours before and after each leap. https://dev…