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Interesting take. If AI indeed takes over the thinking, could the next scarce resource be, humanity? I’d argue that strength is already taken over by the machines, at least in soci…

Funny, I had a similar idea this morning in the shower. I was thinking about how distributed digital infrastructure could be achieved in practice. Running some music streaming and …

I believe one of the reasons I keep coming back to hackernews is the absence of ads and the near complete focus on content. Shout out to those who work in the background to keep it…

Thank you for sharing this and making it open source! I appreciate that when clicking the link you end up immediately in the tool. I saved it. This surely will be useful at some po…

Allow me to use this post to give big kudos to the maintainers of Strudel for having put together a brilliant set of official docs. I found them incredibly well put together and he…

I do not think Hiroshima existed in isolation. I totally agree that the Japanese empire and the Third Reich committed horrible war crimes in WW2. If there's anything I lament, it's…

Here’s an extraordinary piece that focuses on the stories of the ordinary lives of the real people surviving 64 kilo enriched uranium exploding above their head yielding a blast of…

As you ask why this is here. Copied from the guidelines of this site: “What to submit? On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking …

I don’t understand, what kind of marketing do you think this is? I’m OP. I setup the blog a while ago but only for the first time I thought of something that was actually worth wri…

Good points! Totally agree that people care less than you think, and it’s very healthy to live your life without thinking you have to please everyone all the time. The nuance I tri…

Really cool stuff. It felt strangely real. Impressive!

Excellent essay. I loved the way you made it interactive.

It's a pretty small, straight forward web app. Think: python backend and a vanilla html / JS frontend, served over flask. The frontend is mostly in one file, so maybe it's not the …

I just tried it out in the context of a small but messy side project. It did exactly what I asked for. The easy of use is a bliss. Impressive!

Living without appetite. I get it can help some people with losing weight. But doesn’t it sound a tad sad too? Isn’t desire one of the most complex, beautiful emotions?

The ‘ability to learn’ idea may not be so novel, but I am not sure if I agree with calling it ill defined or it having an agenda for more inclusivity. Generally, in schools, at lea…

So by your measure, would Hacker News be spam for websites and blogs?

Can we imagine it? The lottery of life gets you born in a place that from one day to the other witnesses the arrival of foreign soldiers speaking foreign languages. They roll in yo…

Article 5 (f) of the EU AI Act, fresh from the press (published two weeks ago), prohibits "the (...) use of AI systems to infer emotions of a natural person in the areas of workpla…

> To appreciate the peculiar beauty of cycling you need to understand what it is. In the middle of nowhere, festoons are hanging over the streets of a small village. It's a long fo…