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I'm fairly certain it's just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks, on an individual basis.

Having doubled down on using mostly Claude (+GPT and Gemini) professionally in strategic consulting work for about 2 1/2 years I can say with certainty that the irrational exuberan…

I've known Webflow for a while as a business, and even pitched it to large companies like Maersk and Nielsen as a Wordpress alternative. I was on the sales side so it always seemed…

The uptick in Indeed job listings is not a reliable indicator of job growth. AI has simply made it easier to render JDs and screen candidates at scale. Wouldn't it be expected that…

I've found this several times as well. I googled something to dispute a comment in reddit, and google "confirmed" it as accurate, citing what the person said in that exact reddit c…

I feel like there is such a huge opportunity for small niche community social networks right now. The major social networks are such a cesspool of nonsense and brainrot.

Exactly, and main reason I've stopped using GPT for serious work. LLMs start to break down and inject garbage at the end, and usually my prompt is abandoned before the work is comp…

My thinking was that there was an exception handling and the error message was getting muddled into the conversation. But another commenter debunked me.

> “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” I loved the beetle article, thanks for that. They're so well tuned at predicting what you want to hear tha…

Wow this is incredible. I saw the emergence of that spiral cult as it formed and was very disturbed by how quickly it proliferated. I'm glad someone else with more domain knowledge…

If you want to go down a rabbit hole examining people in this disturbed place in realtime search reddit for the Cyclone Emoji (U+1F300) or the r/ArtificialSentience subreddit and s…

Japan, the Nordics, S. Korea and Central Europe, all countries with a demographic crisis. They need those babies.

I haven't been particularly active on HN in a long time, but I've been tinkering with this manifesto for nearly a year and thought it belonged here. I've grown a bit frustrated wit…

Not looking for a job, but as a parent of a toddler just stopped by to say thank you.

Not sure why this is news worthy. When my Prius catalytic converter was stolen, the mechanic i went to in Silver Lake offered to put one of these on my car and I did. A lot of mech…

Here's some reading material for you, from reputable sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894421/ https://news.mit.edu/2014/inside-adult-adhd-brain-0610

I just yesterday went to a Korean restaurant in Orange County CA that had robot waiters. It was very exciting since I haven't witnessed it in the real world, and my daughter was in…

The Apple Weather app UI has far less granular detail than Dark Sky iOS app for hourly predictions. I liked the hourly view of temp, humidity, precipitation. We lose that in Apple …

I rely on Otter pretty heavily these days. 100% agree that recording and sending the transcript to meeting attendees without their knowledge is a really bad move from several angle…

I feel like this saga is going to conclude with a Hulu/Netflix/HBO documentary where they end the series with an interview of Ryan Breslow in his jail cell.

I work for a team that specializes in middleware development - eg the cases where Zapier really falls apart and needs a more thoroughly architected solution. I've spent a lot of ti…

America is in a honeymoon period with remote work. Most people do not have separate dedicated workspaces in their homes, or worse have roommates, kids etc and must make office spac…

It's 2021. There is very little opportunity left in SaaS that hasn't had mind boggling amounts of investor capital thrown at it. These are your competitors. In every single conceiv…

I highly recommend hitting rock bottom, because when you get there you know everything after is up.