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This email was 100% AI generated. I just edited a similar sentence from a claude code doc I'm writing - "we're not just X, we're fundamentally Y" is an obvious tell. I guess he's p…

I ship a very visible product which, when it breaks, generates a lot of social media angst (it's in the gaming adjacent space). So we try not to break things to the best of our abi…

> But for some reason, democratic socialists refuse to engage with the book earnestly. You're not as informed as you think you are, probably because you're not an NYC resident and …

I work for another large streaming site where people like to use adblockers. These adblockers also cause similar performance issues that are entirely caused by awful code in these …

Steam in NYC is also used for cooling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system

This is incredibly petty of me but why do people keep spelling "ads" as "ADs" lately? It's an abbreviation not an initialism

Works for me on FF dev edition. I bet WebGPU support is required (mainline FF does not support this).

This comparison has never made sense to me. If I get a free beer, I can do whatever I want with it. Drink it, dump it, whatever. Same thing with pretzels. Am I missing something?

Yeah I wonder what people do, and have done, around the world in walkable communities predating the car. Perhaps people in these communities are on average more mobile into old age…

Twitch has been stitching ads for years.

Bell Labs in Holmdel (ala Severance HQ) is now "Bell Works", a combination of offices, restaurants, stores, and community space, including the public library. It's free to get in a…

According to AAA, the average cost of owning a new car is $12k per year [0], and that's just for one car. So New Yorkers can put that extra $1000 per month towards housing. As a Ne…

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Peak HN moment

> Goes to time square > The whole city seems like a money laundering operation Classic

Seriously? Just google it, there's plenty of articles. And unless the OP is lying (they're not), they're literally providing you with info from a firsthand source. Whats with HN an…

Any topic on HN which is tangentially related to the Culture Wars (progressive cities/DAs among them) typically has several comments bashing the "woke".

You are now a tech-journalist revered "ex-googler", enjoy your newfound credibility!

Conservative HN never misses an opportunity to punch air about "wokeness"

Yes, but what about conservative bias in AI????????? /s

It's not a dumpster fire, its 5d chess!

Do you live under a rock? This place has always been libertarian, and since Trump has turned into an echo chamber of alt-right grievances in tech. The initial burst of cheering fro…

You're being downvoted because HN is a lolbertarian paradise, but this is correct. He wants the Parler audience.

> I'm not the biggest Musk fan but I believe he has a very effective process and he is a product person What a weird thing to say after he killed twitter with his "process". Perhap…

The post that killed HN