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Can we ban AI slop posts?

Yep, I stopped reading as soon as I saw the obvious AI language. It's a huge turnoff.

I didn't hear that one but I am a fan of Sklansky. And I also have a very vivid memory of learning the word, when I first heard the song Turn Around by They Might Be Giants. The co…

Pickleball courts

The site is down. Here's an archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240711030040/https://sabr.org/...

The 24hr notice is mentioned by OP in their comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682720

It quite literally is not something else

Another thread on the same article, these need to be merged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39782278

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39779711

There's no such thing as a free lunch, regardless of how you distribute the costs. If a seller is refunding the cost of shipping on returns, they are passing that cost on to you in…

https://archive.is/rmMEb

https://www.dueapp.com/ is great for this (see the "So persistent you can’t forget" section on the home page)

It’s only illegal if you’re intentionally doing it to avoid reporting

This is great to see. Some feedback: I entered the exact name of a doctor I knew would be in the database, formatted as "firstName lastName". The result was buried under 20 other l…

Agreed. The HN Guidelines[1] already say "Please submit the original source" but I guess it doesn't get enforced very well. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is the epitome of bad science journalism. The study says "X is correlated with Y", while the article says "X increases risk of Y". Moderators, can you change this to the actua…

The link no longer works. Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20230908050506/https://lichess.o...

https://archive.is/G5ZIm

https://archive.is/20230528170728/https://www.reuters.com/br...

https://archive.is/0ZVdh

https://archive.is/EKr6I

https://archive.is/v5LjK