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You're right! That was a not entirely clear enough reference to Gateway 2000's first ad, in 1987, which famously used the headline "Computers from Iowa?" https://buttondown.com/suc…

Haha damn, you beat me to posting it. Such an accurate description of my writing process, which, despite being super slow, pays the bills!

Not disagreeing on that front. But the article I saw on /new and the spacedaily one, regardless of their accuracy, certainly looked like wholly AI generated writing to me

Seemingly unrelated, I just saw some post on /new that was saying Dunning-Kruger had been debunked by some recent study. It looked pretty sus so I kagi'ed it and lo and behold gues…

Yes we are. I wrote about it last July: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463249 And there have been some other attempts to quantify it: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…

Saw this immediately after listening to a chapter of Player of Games. The Culture series is full of voice interfaces (Minds and drones) that are always on task

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disa...

I'm writing this on a Pixel 8 and it's the worst phone I have ever used. The wireless chip is basically dead. And the battery can't make it to 3pm. Annoys the hell out of me that s…

That's my library system too! I go to tualatin and it has a dedicated room for their makerlab and have classes every day for all kinds of stuff. Whenever I go in its pretty well at…

Tower of Babel by Ted Chiang is another comparison worth mentioning

The human.json protocol is worth checking out as a proxy for the whole "more human internet" conversation. Not perfect but interesting! https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json

Ha, I was just researching early email newsletter history and came across High Weirdness By Mail - A Directory of The Fringe: Mad Prophets, Crackpots, Kooks & True Visionaries. It'…

I saw this post at the exact same time I ran across this elsewhere: https://www.phonearena.com/news/pixel-6-7-8-9-10-battery-dra... There's no way to definitively say they're cause…

"These rules could force YouTube to give special treatment to a small group of organisations hand-picked by a government." YouTube already skews results based on their own prioriti…

vintageapple.org also has a really great collection of scans fwiw

It's just the social app being killed off, no? Wouldn't this line up with rumors that they'll soon let you create videos inside of chatgpt itself? I wish the actual video model wou…