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Two things: A) With great power comes great responsibility + making the world better through eradication of diseases, heightened food and economic security, improvements to the sta…

This is somehow the most Hacker News thread I've ever seen and I love it.

If an LLM is what's going to teach me a new language, why would I ever pay some middleman $100-200 a year for an app wrapper? This guy doesn't seem to realize that embracing AI-fir…

Entirely uncritical state controlled or substantially aligned media masquerading as news is always bad and should be criticized. See also almost anyone called on in White House pre…

I don't know how long ago that was, but I've been a Pixelmator user for at least a few years, and it's leaps and bounds ahead of where it was when I started with it. Coupled with P…

Though way less likely to turn it into a cursed subscription zombie.

Putting concerns about future states aside, congrats to the Pixelmator team. I've been using the app for years and it's a really great piece of software, well designed and well bui…

A deterrent to prevent additional whistleblowers from coming forward? If the issues are as massively systemic as facts to date suggest, it seems like there might be a number of oth…

I don't think you refuted the underlying point so much as gave cause to it. The idea isn't that simply stupid people rise to the top, it's that people who are capable of gaming a s…

Really cool idea and generally solid execution -- I would totally use this. That said, a couple bits: 1. I can't seem to click the events on the map in Safari on Mac. 2. The map do…

This comment has some real "startup based on some light prompt engineering atop ChatGPT gets put out of business by ChatGPT's latest feature" energy.

Wow, thanks for that -- that's an excellent slide deck.

Yeah, no kidding. This is what LLMs are not meant for 101 -- it'll get a lot right, a solid amount of the time (spare me the anecdotes), but the idea that someone who doesn't know …

Think "employment contract."

When you get them all, it's "Queen Bee." I've only ever gotten it once -- for whatever reason, the puzzle just clicked that day -- but it was extremely satisfying.

Psst, there are actually five.

Yeah, +1 to Spelling Bee -- that game is great! That said, this post needs a SPOILER tag.

Big +1 for Code by Petzold. Just started the 2nd edition that came out last month and I'm blown away by Petzold's ability to pack in meaningful, interesting information without sac…

Man, I know this wasn't really the intention of the comment, but I just read through that thread and got a little nostalgic. Crazy that was like 13 years ago. Sheesh.

Yeah +1. This is impressive and I would have used it in a heartbeat for a new project I'm involved in, but the inability to even consider commercialization means going this route i…

Could not agree more. I've shilled it three times in the past week alone. And I've also taken to mentioning it in any README involving env vars. Awesome tool.

Yeah, same here -- serious 90's nostalgia in the best way. This is awesome.

Haven't done any codebase spelunking, but their FAQ at the bottom of the page states it pretty clearly: "Who provides the Brave Talk service? The Brave Talk service is provided in …

How is she being cynically abused by the people calling for her freedom? You think that in itself is western propaganda? Also, it's absurd to equate what she's done to any form of …

Huh, so trying to open up access to real information (instead of, you know, propaganda) about what was happening on the ground in the early days of a pandemic is now being a "Weste…