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And for putting the inevitable subscribe-for-more form inline at the end of the article, rather than in a popup.

That's true. I don't know how to solve it, other than booking a long vacation until https://xkcd.com/810/ .

Those issues existed well before LLMs. Everyone who reads needs a BS detector. It's unfortunate, though, that many such detectors have been replaced with AI detectors.

If you build a device that can help build devices, you shouldn't be too surprised when people use it to build devices.

This is a popular misreading of the state of the law. Someone tried, as a bit of a stunt, to register a work for copyright with generative AI as the sole creator/author. That regis…

Ten thousand books in an 80-year lifetime would mean finishing one book every three days. That's aggressive, but entirely achievable.

Shingles vaccine, if you don't feel like clicking through.

Then today's your lucky day! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829312

It's a paraphrasing of the popular 2024 Joanna Maciejewska quote: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so th…

Sometimes it's fun to mod something that other people can also easily buy and follow your mod recipe. It's more of a network effect than publishing Gerbers and a BOM. For example, …

Probably a good way to become a millionaire, in the Branson sense of the word.

By the way, if you haven't tried 滷肉飯 (lǔròu fàn, or braised pork with rice), you should. You can't walk more than a block in Taipei without finding it, but I've seen it only once i…

Or even more banal, perhaps Meta wasn't willing to pay a higher price for more capacity.

You can follow the "correct horse battery staple" method the author referred to in the article. Another handy tool is a BIP39 seed generator ( https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ ), but u…

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that". https://news.ycombinator…

I assume this is the Bill Gates reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Gates_Letter_to_Hobb...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690510

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690510

Does the modularity make it easy to steal the accessories? I'd be sad if my new customized truck were downgraded to the base model while parked on the street overnight.

On effective engineering teams, there's always at least one person who is fluent one layer below where the rest of the team operates. That person tends to be extraordinarily useful…

We're seeing the first 20 years of the dot-com cycle, but compressed into two years, and trying hard not to fall into the tar pit of ad-supported services.

Hopefully it would be less of a criticism of the system, and more spurring people to ask questions like "Wait, why did you leave a hunting knife on the coffee table?" Design a sche…

It makes more sense to focus on its value as a console platform than its price as a PC. The lower the price, the more boxes sell, hopefully making the platform large enough for pub…

It works only once per civilization, but Steam could run a dutch auction, then surprise! sell to the winners at list price.

Rick Beato has at least one child with absolute pitch, with stunning ability to name chords and the discrete notes in them. Here's the short video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3…