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Re:The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence"
on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:26PM (#50344010)
Best I can do is all the same shit from a different group of people.
Re:It's now official, tech is the new tobacco
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:27PM (#50280403)
I don’t think it’s official until Netcraft confirms it.
Re:Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:08PM (#50251777)
Your sense of worth should not be tied up in your job.
Re:Zuckerberg can control Meta after death. He refused to give up that...
on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:32PM (#50247620)
Neal Stephenson’s Fall is not far from that.
Re:Fuck Nuance (2015)
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @06:08PM (#50236500)
You’d better look out, because I’m gonna say “fuck”.
Re:They Fled Trump's America. Now They Regret It
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:10AM (#50166737)
While amusing enough in a schadenfreude way, a lot of this article is dedicated to "people post dumb things on reddit". Just stop reading reddit posts, people.
Re:An ad-free Android TV
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:20AM (#50165979)
And yet TVs were sold for that price or more accounting for inflation for decades, and indeed most people bought them.
Re:Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:03AM (#50148570)
This has been standard for DNS registration since the 80s.
Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:49AM (#50104503)
Fantastic. Giving me memories of MS Bob. Put a talking animal assistant in the corner and you’ve got it. Oh, and you could connect the assistant to an LLM of course.
Re:Thinking will become a hobby
on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:28PM (#50062563)
“If these trends continue… ayyyy!”
Re:Our $445M Series D
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @12:46AM (#50029663)
My first job in 2004 was a pretty casual conversation. My next few through the 00s were basically the same tbh.
That seems too late for both of those, heh. :) I started on LJ in 2001 and quit in 2006. Orkut I think I signed up for in 2004, and only lasted maybe a year there. I seem to remember the Brazilian influence even as early as that.
Re:Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @07:01PM (#49948619)
It’s also a name clash with arguably the finest hummingbird-based shooter for the 32X. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolibri_(video_game)
Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading?
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @07:32PM (#49928247)
I just read Replay by Ken Grimwood. Couldn’t put it down and finished in a day. It’s a “character re-lives his life in a time loop” story, which subsequently has been done in many different ways, but this is an early example (was published in 1986 or 87, so e.g. it predates Groundhog Day by several years).
Anyway it was an emotional read. I’m surprised I had never encountered the book before, since “alternate choices affecting how your life turns out” is a concept I’ve always been into. But on the other hand this one would not have been nearly as powerful to me earlier in my life. Me being the same age (or close enough) to the main character at the start is what does it, of course.
So, recommended, especially if you’re in your early-mid 40s.
Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading?
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @07:22PM (#49928183)
Someone else mentioned Tigana which is standalone and good. A lot of his other books though take place in a shared world, the first one for that is The Lions of Al-Rassan. (Mostly they don’t have to be read in order but if you do read them in publication order you will catch small references.)
Either of those two would work as a next read.
Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading?
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:56PM (#49901262)
I’ve read most of GGK’s books but never got to that one.
Re:The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:27AM (#49893912)
Here’s another clue for you all.
Re:Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)
on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:58PM (#49883511)
Ah, a classic. This was Slashdot’s high point.
Note: (2004)
Re:There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:16AM (#49826533)
Sorry, next time maybe he’ll make it into a TikTok for you.
Re:How do Traffic Signals Work (2019)
on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:17PM (#49795206)
> M y cynical ass would not be surprised at all if oil/gas companies were lobbying against ASCT because idling cars are buying more fuel
This is a bizarre conspiracy theory that you just invented. Stop making up things to get angry about.
Re:College Is Coming Apart After Successive, Overlapping Crises
on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:52PM (#49794501)
The “next generation” gets trained by adjuncts and grad students. “Top scientists, engineers, and thinkers” are too busy with grant proposals to be bothered with teaching.
Re:People who know the most often sound the least certain
on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:22PM (#49768928)
Reminder that the “Dunning-Kruger effect” is not real.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160437
Re:Ask A Monk – A digital wilderness for thoughts with no immediate an...
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @11:33PM (#49749909)
Re:I Don't Like LLMs
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @11:45AM (#49742516)
I mean I got into it because I loved it as a kid in the 80s and 90s. And I still loved it in college. Turning it into a job quickly crushed any love I had though.
Re:I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to ...
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @05:00PM (#49718861)
Can we add “I think it sounds like AI writing” to the list of off topic tangential annoyances? Clicking into an HN thread and having the top comment being about em dashes or something is obnoxious.
Re:IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @01:41PM (#49674938)
> It's still bad when mega-corporations attack small guy.
No, actually, we decide things based on the law, not based on which side you like more.
Re:Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:34PM (#49665696)
“political” has a meaning, and it’s not “everything”.
Words mean things.
Re:iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:18PM (#49631006)
99% of people put their iPhone in a case that covers up the color. This is not something anybody actually thinks.
Sometimes I tell my teenage daughter “stop inventing things to be mad about”. Good advice for HN commenters, too.
Re:GLP-1s Are Being Linked to Fewer Serious Infections, Including TB
on Thursday September 03, 2026 @07:36PM (#49558609)
Wow, bet they never thought of that. If only the researchers had thought to ask HN first.
Re:Humanity has built the records of FATE by accident
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:09PM (#49541779)
The Red Sox/Blue Jays game recently when the “fourth out” rule came into play probably could have used an LLM explanation.