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Show me a Gary Marcus essay, I’ll show you a few new LLM “gotchas” that will be fixed by the next version. Season to taste with self-assured confidence that all these tech goobers …

It's hard to reconcile how 59% of devs in their survey are "confident" AI is improving their code quality, with prior empirical research that shows a surge in added & copy/pasted l…

Wish more people would report their placebo experiments. I have periodically run them on myself, and am consistently surprised how I have been unable to differentiate substances I …

I think they’re called “commercial displays” now (no malware subsidy like smart TVs tho)

Original research author here. It's exciting to find so many thinking about long-term code quality! The 2023 increase in churned & duplicated (aka copy/pasted) code, alongside the …

Sure would be nice if Firefox desktop would join the browsers that support PWAs. We build an app that has been PWA-first, but it is unfortunate that this generally requires users t…

For the poor few still using Evernote, there are many great alternatives now available: Notion is the obvious one: https://noteapps.info/note_apps/disambiguate/evernote-vs-not... A…

https://bill.harding.blog - Linux Touchpad project, Rails techniques, occasional entrepreneur musing

I had never specifically considered the distinction between "intelligence" and "consciousness," but after reading this, I'd agree that it may be an important distinction warranting…

Wow, a much more vitriolic first comment than I would expect from HN. The last six months has not lacked for Musk-hating enthusiasts howling “Twitter is dead.” But when I look at G…