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Is it just me or is this clearly written by Claude? The last heading is literally "The honest version" But otherwise throughout it just reads like Claude wrote it.

No, taxes are taxes and theft is theft. Taxes are, in the case of a country like the United States, a legally sanctioned, representative approved (indirectly voter approved) means …

Same. I don't think I have many words that get misinterpreted at all, though pretty almost always does (as pet).

The article seems mostly about noticing a fun coincidence backed by anecdotal evidence, except I’m currently going through the same thing, so I’m lending the theory more weight. (T…

Gift article if that helps: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opinion/artificial-intell...

His argument, whether you accept it or not, is that AI was built with humanity's stolen knowledge for the most part, which is somewhat accurate. At least, models were trained on va…

The author uses how models are suggested to be used "the rails way" as an example for why it doesn't work anymore, talking about business logic in the models. But in every framewor…

An analogy: Imagine you bought a house from HomeCorp but if you want to buy furniture or anything else that goes in your house, food, toilet paper, etc, it has to be from HomeCorp,…

Ah we were typing at the same time but strong agree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974935

Personally I picked my next phone based on which had the most useful AI this year. I've been waiting my whole life for, basically, the computer from Star Trek, and I think it's on …

There are many tech companies working to improve things like convenience for consumers (e.g. Amazon), or productivity for workers (e.g. Figma) But are there any notable companies w…

This is such a great read. Fascinating and well written, super complex things in microbiology explained (and entertaining)

Not saying your opinion is wrong, but for some reason I found myself consciously liking the yellow a lot, which is rare for an article background color for me

I was aware of Pixel dungeon but didn't realize it was available on PC, Mac, and iOS. Particularly impressed that it builds for iOS when written in Java - turns out the game is bui…

I think about the logistics and shipping and manufacturing and packaging and warehousing and manual labor when I buy a $12 tea kettle made on the other side of the planet. I don't …

Yeah I had the same response. He makes lots of anecdotal claims about tribespeople's back trouble but where's the data? It's mildly interesting nonetheless.

Note: having lived in Melbourne CBD, cities can indeed be loud, e.g. at 1 am on a Saturday (bass from clubs, and apparently drunk people really enjoy going Woooo!!! really loudly a…

I bought a cheapish wifi router to use for dedicated AirLink and I do SteamVR -> Quest 2. It works great. No latency (but I will admit the very occasional lag spike, it doesn't bot…

This isn't a very HN answer, but https://www.nytimes.com (on Mobile) is very attractive and usable. It's just pretty. There're ads if you don't block them, but they frequently have…