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Re:You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:04AM (#49891756)
I wonder if another factor is how many people move around the country.

For families with kids, forming deep friendships as an adult can be a logistical challenge.

Many people have no current relationship with friends they made in college or high school

Thanks for the links, very interesting.
Re:I Quit. The Clankers Won on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @11:09AM (#47601955)
That has been my feeling too. I have completed soo many personal projects (or improvements) that were collecting dust on my 'mental shelf'.

Without AI I would probably never get to them because realistically, I do not have dozens, or hundreds of personal hours to devote to fun, but unnecessary projects.

Re:Nvidia NemoClaw on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:09PM (#47449548)
Well it is subtle satire done well because another person could write the same thing and be completely serious.
Yes a bit ironic, but I am glad they can see that there are times to use AI, and times for human interaction.
Re:US economy unexpectedly sheds 92,000 jobs in February on Friday March 06, 2026 @10:18AM (#47275966)
How can one downvote on HN?

Show HN: LLM-DAG-UI – A branching conversation interface for Claude

https://llm-dag-ui.vercel.app

I built a proof-of-concept UI that displays LLM conversations as a directed acyclic graph instead of a linear chat.Try it: https://llm-dag-ui.vercel.app (screenshot in repo)The idea: conversations with LLMs often hit dead ends or go in directions you want to backtrack from. What if you could branch off from any message and explore a different path, while keeping the original intact?How it...

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Show HN: MoonLocator – Astronomical library for moon calculations in Java

https://github.com/dgrims3/MoonLocatorLibrary

I extracted the lunar calculations from my Android app Lunar Locator into a standalone Java library.The equations are from Jean Meeus' "Astronomical Algorithms." Given a time and location, it calculates relative lunar positions, rise/set times, distance, illumination, and more.Available on Maven Central (Java 17+): https://github.com/dgrims3/MoonLocatorLibraryHappy to answer questions!

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Re:Apple I Advertisement (1976) on Sunday February 01, 2026 @08:41PM (#46851399)
Yes, I was wondering if I missed some context.
Interesting, and I have also finished live football games thinking it would have been better to just watch it on TV at home.

However, his claim that a spectator would "automatically reframe what she saw into the way it would appear on television" is never supported other than him saying "trust me, it's true, if you don't believe me you are in the minority".

I think that depends on how you interpret "happiness to become one’s default state of mind."

I think feeling happy is my default. I still get mad, hurt, sad, bored, etc. But when those feelings wear away, I return to a general state of happy contentment.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? on Sunday August 25, 2024 @01:46PM (#41349430)
This sounds interesting, but I do not totally understand your description. Could you explain further what you are building?
Do you have a link?
Re:The Story of Curl on Monday February 19, 2024 @09:11PM (#39437248)
I'm suprised to see Nix at #20. Is it becoming more widely adopted?
Re:Ask HN: Science Fiction Starter List on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @11:20PM (#38716976)
Dune - Frank Herbert
Software should not be free for the users. The expectation that profits must be made through advertising, paired with the entitlement of users who scoff at the idea of paying for a product is a recipe for disaster over the long term.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius definitaly affected how I live my life.
Re:Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort? (2023) on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @10:32PM (#38455167)
Top notch podcast, one of my favorites.
Re:Ask HN: Which book do you keep asking people to read? on Saturday November 25, 2023 @01:42AM (#38411734)
I love the Earthsea series and so much more that Ursula has written
Re:Push ifs up and fors down on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:46PM (#38285638)
That was my same thought. This example would only work in specific circumstances, so why present it as a rule,