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I can honestly say I've never seen a young man with "GRIND HARD" tattooed across his forehead.

Scroll scroll scroll.. I'm sure the article will tell us what he said, won't it? Scroll, scroll.. won't it? Reader, it didn't.

I have a cron script which configures a today-only email address in Postfix. Mail sent to t20260617@foon.uk will reach me, but only for today. So, any time I'm giving away my email…

Wouldn't get nearly as much engagement.

"Loaded dice, rolled one word at a time" is when I twigged it.

If we had this tag it might also stop the comments from turning into another Great AI Debate every... single... time... It's lovely to see some Pratchett on HN, a nice chance to ta…

I agree, I think that's a good summary of the comments. It's more like: Person: Finds the article beautifully written. Comments: Doesn't find the article beautifully written. Now C…

I must concede that when you take what I said and spell it wrong, it does indeed look very silly. It's a good point, and one I hadn't considered.

Are the comments really saying that? That the person isn't allowed to think it's beautiful?

How to get your AI company's blog to No. 1 on Hacker News: 1. Pick an author nerds like. 2. Tell Claude "Write an article about Terry Pratchett, in his style." 3. Don't even fix th…

The funny thing is, Pratchett would have a field day with this. I can imagine it now, one of his golems starts writing these bizarre things and becomes a literary sensation in Ankh…

It's not remotely beautifully written. It reads as if someone prompted "Write an article called I Miss Terry Pratchett, and write it in his style." It's full of attempted Pratchett…

Man I would love that tag. As an enjoyer of Pratchett's witty prose, seeing this is just sad.

I'm really surprised to see everyone praising the article. It's... it's slop, isn't it? > And then there are the memories [...] that arrive uninvited, settle in, and start terroris…

Fellow former British schoolkid here. One part that really sticks in my memory about "IT" class was when they were preparing us for an exam that asked "which of these are functions…

What I'd love to see is videos of nontechnical folks using language models to create software. When I use them myself, I just see them crushing it and think, this thing is now doin…

Worth also noting that this chart has the bottom of the Y-axis cut off, exaggerating differences and making visual intuition basically useless.

First few paragraphs I was trying to guess how this was going to turn out to be a metaphor for AI. The modern disposable product is the LLM, right, and the cloth diaper is doing th…

Inscryption, too. I didn't know it started as an LD game until after I played it, and it was great to see how much of the atmosphere and mechanics were already there in the LD vers…

This is one of those bugs that taught me something, so I did this writeup. I hope it's interesting. I tried to write it like a murder mystery, showing you the bug first and then dr…

I've been updating my game Blackshift ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/741110/Blackshift/ ). It released in 2020 but I've never stopped adding things and tweaking it. Recently …

I took the pilot one as an abstract logic type question where you're supposed to assume the premise is true, so I said yes and the page said I was right, because that's a "valid lo…

Weird article. The author talks about Unicode "public use areas" (which don't exist), clarifies that they're sometimes called "public use access" (a term appearing only in this art…

Good article, and I feel your pain. Sometimes it feels like there's no point creating anything anymore, because shitty people will just steal it. In case you're interested, though,…