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Re:Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:20PM (#50107934)
Pushing 50, homeless, broke, last interview today from a rented office with overdue rent.

Suicidal for a long time.

Interview fails? I'm out. I have everything set - account deletions, device wipes, and method. Will keep it low key if that happens.

The previous reality for sports betting was mostly illicit, often with some goon using physical violence or threat thereof for collections. This is not to say the new reality is an improvement.
I did try it

it doesnt seem to have the full catalog

spotify shows the top songs on which i performed at over 20 million views but doesnt appear here. maybe i misunderstood what your service is doing

awesome, thanks for building and maintaining the service
Searched for a band/album for which I was a credited performer. The band has eight figures in views - enough to justify pursuing.

Got a 500 shown as an error message on your site, related to a failed connection to Spotify.

Re:Epidurals Are a Miracle Technology on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @08:45PM (#48653684)
The mother said it was a conscious decision to promote birthing a strong, resilient child, based on her belief on the matter. I have no view, but it's an interesting report, given that her kid truly is an athletic outlier.
Re:Epidurals Are a Miracle Technology on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @06:47PM (#48652581)
Anecdata, but I spoke to a mom here who declined an epidural during childbirth by choice. Her son is a champion big wave surfer.
Re:Sakana Fugu on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @12:48AM (#48640447)
For anyone finding this, I used this during the beta. Beats GPT-5.5 xhigh on complex tasks. Since it’s expensive and difficult to subsidize, use it for the most challenging problems.

OAI/ANT can subsidize their own subscriptions, so it’s hard to compete there. But the results I got from fugu-ultra were impressive.

hn (this site) had a silent memoryhole and silently ghosted this post:

https://gist.github.com/gtcode-dot-com/94960ad4460e80cf6b744...

The article was about misuse of generative language models by lawyers.
Re: on Sunday June 07, 2026 @08:56PM (#48440237)
Related somewhat: has anyone read the sci fi book “deep crossings” and if so they remember the discussion of a pancake?
Yeah, such words are a giveaway.

Another:

It is not “this simplified, kindergarten-level explanation”, it is “this explicit, thoughtful one”

In this case I suspect the poster used GPT (looks like OpenAI) to generate the initial response and then edited it.