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Francisco de Cuellar survived in Sligo, and escaped inland to O'Rourke's Castle where he got refuge and found 70 or so other Spanish survivors. The path he took from the shore inla…

Someone's already built #1. I've seen the demo, and it had a wow factor, but ultimately I don't think it'll revolutionize games. Would Skyrim be better if you could talk to ever gu…

Zuckerbergs ineffectiveness was evident long before the examples mentioned in this article. He failed to counter the rise of Twitter, failed to combat misinformation during electio…

Spec driven development can help some, even for brownfield projects. You can have an LLM swallow up your entire project and spit out a spec, and then review that yourself. For any …

"I won't let a human clean my house because AI companies might be paying them to help train future housework robots" is some nuclear grade paranoia.

You're right to push back

Great, now do a lawn mower!

If we ignore the price, which is astronomical and silly, then everything else is forgiveable, I think. Yes it's made from plastic tarp, which makes it lightweight and easy to manuf…

The price does seem steep for something so simple it could be modelled with straws in three minutes, but I don't really understand the rest of the negativity. Don't we want innovat…

Back before LLMs they were stuffing Cortana in there. I don't know if they ever marketed that as AI but it was named after an AI character in a video game

I used to have a custom ISO of Windows XP using Barts PE and a bunch of other tools. It would install a fairly stripped version of the OS that ran really well on old hardware. I pr…

The sad truth is Microsoft is so heavily invested in and indebted by AI, advertising and telemetry that the only way Windows lite would ever get the greenlight is if the company ta…

> Exactly, we need Windows Lite! Just Win32, media encoders, graphics drivers, CoPilot, and enough to run movie maker and Office, the rest is useless anyway! I know you're trying t…

What about electric babies

I think it's ironic because the old man is schooling the kid, but the kid in that scene literally wrote the words for the old man. Maybe irony is too strong, but it's amusing at le…

I always thought it ironic that this beautiful speech about life experience was written by 2 20-something "scared shitless kid"s for Robin Williams to deliver.

Fosslinux sucks on mobile web. Sentences flow off screen and you can't resize to read them. I haven't seen anything so bad in a long time. Had to use Firefox reader mode just to be…

I love on-device transcription apps, but this looks like yet another AI generated whisper wrapper. I'm put off by the readme which is clearly LLM generated, with emdash all over th…

Its nice to see HN not shitting the bed over every openAI announcement anymore. Maybe we're finally taking these things with a pinch of salt

I think it was more that the change required was relatively simple, and the industry was sort of already phasing out CFCs anyway. Banning them in fridges and aerosols was mostly fr…

People seem to (in)conveniently have no service in movies a lot, exactly when they need it

> That’s not even to speak of all the movie plots that would have been ruined. I clicked on all the links. Pretty much all of those movies could still work with wired technology. E…

If only climate change was as easy a solve

> Now is probably a good time to liquidate your pension, fly to a remote island somewhere, and live out the remaining 6 months or so of civilization in peace. > So maybe the open s…

Totally agree. That first chart is just four vertical lines, I can't figure out what the hell I'm supposed to be looking at without reading the article.