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hell yeah

I don’t understand why all of these companies need to frame it like this. Why not a large amount of people doing an even larger amount of science?

>> HN comments are _NOT_ going to help debugging your mental state. > Nice paradox you've created there. This is a "...and don't call me Shirley" level of logical interpretation of…

Is DOGE gone though? https://xcancel.com/spikebrehm/status/2072422555101561154 I'm very curious about how many other projects like this OPM retirement processing overhaul there are…

If TFA says "only humans can be conscious," you may know many more humans that have a virtual body made up of virtual organs than I do.

I like this bit from the wiki article: Speaking through Zarubin, Dneprov writes that "the only way to prove that machines can think is to turn yourself into a machine and examine y…

I'm surprised at the largely negative sentiment HN has for this essay. He stakes out his claims in a refreshing and readable way. Most of the criticisms here, and general "philosop…

His certainty seems like a rhetorical style rather than a series of facts. It would be very annoying and not persuasive if he started every paragraph with some variation of, "I thi…

Are you saying that a sufficiently advanced version of sentence continuation is indiscernible from actual understanding? He isn't saying sentence completion is what keeps LLMs from…

I like the Hebrew syntax of the golden rule! I've never seen it before. I've always like the idea of taking it a step further and trying to do unto others as they would like done u…

I unironically love arguing on the internet, because you're replying to the author of the essay, but I think the text supports your comment and not his hahah. "We lose any sense of…

Sim City 3k is my least played Sim City game, but this is inspiring me to take another look. I really like the sweaty micromanagement and bigger scope of 4, but maybe I will prefer…

Your comparison just helped me understand how I feel about AI a little better. I too own a car but don't like driving, and don't like how my environment is shaped by what cars need…

I find this kind of research and political science to be ill-equipped for explaining how people and society work. Fiction like Nabokov's Bend Sinister is able to get much closer to…

A new high watermark in absolutely content-free marketing webpages. - Annoying startup animation (at least it's skippable) - Minimalist copy that is that is also very hard to parse…

This made me wonder about Boris Cherny's professional career pre-Claude Code, so I did a customary "Boris Cherny wiki" Google. I'm shocked to learn he doesn't have a Wikipedia page…

>> wordpress is valuable because it allows very bad developers / marketing people to write very bad code and get away with it, driving extremely low cost solutions for clients who …

I bounced off of this article because I didn't like the conclusion, then provided myself a rationalization that it was probably mostly AI generated. What inspired you to engage wit…

The shear volume of writing, the false rigor and vestigial artifacts (preface, interactive charts, MORE filler hidden behind accordion dropdowns) are a tell. I would be more annoye…

"The US has been acting powerful recently..." sure_jan.gif I can commiserate with this person cooking up a rant based on a faulty initial premise but it's a doozy. Kidnapping heads…

This is so good I want to believe AI had no part in writing it other than the scripts.

What a strange thing to post on a corporate CEO blog - proof that AI is making it too easy create things without asking why. How does it serve Fivetran to post open letter about wh…

Those are just examples of academic/progressive jargon that I hear often in the Bay Area and in progressive circles. "Decolonizing," could mean for instance changing world history …

I've managed to go my whole career using regex and never fully grokking it, and now I finally feel free to never learn! I've also wanted to play with C and Raylib for a long time a…