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Re:Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art on Friday October 02, 2026 @11:29PM (#49941149)
Don’t know what my childhood would have been like without the dress up Brittany spears game! https://web.archive.org/web/20050120091734/http://www.newgro...
Re:ChatGPT and Codex Is Down on Thursday September 03, 2026 @10:57AM (#49550857)
Agreed, no reported Cloudfare, Azure, or AWS outtages.
Re:Sun Clock on Monday August 17, 2026 @09:31PM (#49340032)
Very well done, I made a similar tool a few months back. https://ethanwillingham.com/daylight-globe.html
I actually used hacker news to get off of social media 2 years ago. I consider it ‘medically assisted treatment’ like suboxone for heroin addicts.
Article should be titled: “Weight Loss Improves Survival Rates for Obese Colon Cancer Patients”
Re:The unlikely revival of nuclear batteries on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:31AM (#45014272)
It is my understanding that small nuclear batteries output very little energy, so little in fact that they are virtually useless for most applications where a classical battery would be used. The upside is that they can produce power for decades without ever ‘charging’ or in this case, replacing the isotopes. In other words, the use cases aren’t as exciting as one would expect.
Re:A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem on Saturday August 02, 2025 @02:05PM (#44769840)
Amazing how fast humanity forgets basic we’ll know spiritual facts of this universe such as “there are no free lunches” and “you reap what you sow”
Re:Recovering from AI Addiction on Friday July 11, 2025 @03:40PM (#44536121)
AA specifically suggests to only come when all other measures have failed, and if you can do it without AA ‘our hats are off to you’ quote from their ‘big book’ which is their main piece of literature. I truly believe and have seen first hand hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on rehab and counseling and medications and therapy and only AA ever brought those individuals into true long term recovery. I don’t like the AA is forced by folks who haven’t already tried, or had the privilege to try ‘all other measures’.
Re:Recovering from AI Addiction on Friday July 11, 2025 @03:24PM (#44535982)
12 step programs disagree, to grow a flower you water it and give it sunlight and good soil(the 12 steps version of this: reversing selfishness and getting out and helping others) but you don’t actually grow the plant, the DNA, photosynthesis, electromagnetism, soil chemistry…even quantum forces(AKA a power greater than yourself) are ultimately the core of what grows the plant. Therefor when one gets sober and becomes generally content and happy in life when previously they were suicidal, AA suggests that the core of the work was done by a higher power, even though the individual was indeed responsible for watering their flower.
Re:Recovering from AI Addiction on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:46AM (#44532104)
It’s important to understand that all 12 step programs(all of which are based on AA) approach addiction as a spiritual disease, and the program offers a spiritual solution. 12 step programs also teach that addiction is a progressive disease, and there is no permanent ‘fix’, but rather a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of one’s spiritual condition. Here is a concise summarization of the 12 step design for living: ‘reverse selfishness, get out and help others’. According to 12 step programs, if you stop working the program, addiction will come back in full force.
Re:I deleted my second brain on Saturday June 28, 2025 @10:24AM (#44404920)
I took some blurbs from your comment and added it to my…life/career notes. (:
Likely correlation and not causation, Gambling addiction is just like any other addiction, and no one has answered the question of ‘why’ one becomes an addict. Most likely the causation is more closely related to the upbringing of the child, and the genetics passed down from the parents.

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