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Ah you're totally right! That's S05E10; I adore that show so I'm peeved I'd forgotten.

Agree on the Nostr point. Apparently it stands for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays" - sort of cute.

I'm confused - is the product finished yet?

It’s kinda interesting seeing what, IIRC, was originally a subreddit name which spawned from an AskReddit thread, is now a common marketing phrase in the tech world.

Similar to the sub itself, it’s now just shorthand for “describe using the first principles the expected audience should understand.”

I imagine a lot of people in the industry also fondly remember the 2010s reddit experience.

Lake Louise is absolutely breathtaking. Highly encourage everyone to give it a visit if they can.

I think it’s unlikely they made that typo deliberately. Similarly, I don’t think you were intentional in misspelling miscapitalization, I figured it was an honest mistake.

Is this deliberate miscapitalization thing a behavior you often encounter?

No, they’re talking about LLMs - they’re a different technology from search engines.

It will hopefully be eventually viewed in the distant future with such disdain and repugnance as cannibalism or consuming pets or exotic animals

Hm, I fundamentally disagree and I sincerely hope there will ever be a time when meat consumption is viewed as equivalent to cannibalism. That sounds like a society I wouldn’t want to be a part of.

I’m surprised you’d come to such a drastic conclusion. I have nothing but respect for your right to eat the diet you choose, but it’s a shame that isn’t something you’re willing to extend to others.

I’ve never tripped but it sounds similar to fever dreams

This sounds a bit like someone who’s never played a video game being disappointed in John Carmack.

When you’re that far removed from a certain subculture it shouldn’t be surprising when you’re unable to understand it.

Sam was a pretty awesome guy. There’s a real sincerity and earnestness to early Simpsons which came from the vision you’re describing.

He left the show after only 4 seasons, but I like to think his influence on the writing was a big contributor to the shows golden years.

The demonstration builds on Dryxio’s earlier mod that ports GTA III and GTA: Vice City into GTA: San Andreas. That version was released in February 2026 and runs each game as an independent engine inside the San Andreas process

with both games sharing the same Direct3D device. GTA III renders directly into the television’s live GPU texture.

That's the basic plumbing, for anyone curious. Cool project, game modders are awesome.

I think a bit of the aggressive denialism comes from sour grapes that American society’s best hope for UBI came from capitalists in tech instead of progressives in policy.

UBI used to be a bit of a funny reddit pipe dream. Now it’s a serious long term hypothetical being trialed in the short term and that’s solely as a result of AI progress.

When that result undermines the tenet that capitalism is the root of human suffering, it’s simplest to just reject the result wholesale.

I get the impression the author may not have made it to the end of the book where a lot of these positions are better addressed.

I can take out my copy and explain better later today, if it’s interesting.

My back of napkin figures gave me about $20-40b. I'm curious how you got to the $2 billion number?

I think when you're hoping to get hired for a professional role, it's worth taking 30s to proof-read your post.

Respectfully, if I received a cover letter with the same sort of prose and grammar I wouldn't be considering the candidate. How you communicate online says a lot about how you might behave in the workplace.

Your project seems interesting but it's pretty hard to understand what it does. https://github.com/RajX-dev/N3MO

What do your users think?

In this case, the phrase “consumer protections” is almost insulting when the things it’s supposedly protecting us from are a triviality compared to the horror show being introduced.

A minute ago I had an HTML doc I wanted to share with a PM. It was a Claude prepared demo of a hypothetical feature. Lots of screenshots.

I ended up just embedding them directly in the HTML as base64 and sending him a 15mb file, but hypothetically this would have been a nice solution instead.

I didn’t realize this!

I’d love to see an opinion poll on the topic, I imagine people’s opinions are going to change depending on the implementation.

If the pitch is “you won’t even notice it unless you’re drunk” then I’d imagine you’re right, and maybe people are more receptive than I thought.

Governments have a monopoly on violence, companies generally do not.

This fact alone makes the comparison you’re trying to make pretty silly. You have far, far more to fear from the country from which you’re a citizen than the company for which you’re a customer.

Read more history.

It's totally plausible to me that this kind of nudge will save a lot of lives.

I think an in-car breathalyzer which gates the ignition would also save a lot of lives.

Most people agree that kind of manufactured paternalism is an overreach and would be against its introduction. Other people say the same about the diverted driving detector, and I imagine others said the same about the seatbelt sensor.

The intersection of personal freedom and personal safety is an interesting topic, I don't think there's a right answer and it's ultimately pretty subjective.

I got the same impression. It was pretty disappointing to realize they had an axe to grind completely unrelated to Odin or Wikipedia.

It's unclear what this is delivering for $10/mo

Depending on the state, newer buildings do have regulations on air ventilation and quality.

The rooms being discussed here are mostly ones which would have been built before this was taken more seriously. Classrooms, older office buildings, etc.

NYC is full of buildings which would never pass any code today but are still happily occupied. It’s a trade off, I think.

What would you say is your benchmark for calling something intelligent?

Why have 20 or 30 stories tailored to specific groups of humans, when you can have stories rendered on the fly for individuals, targetting all their greatest fears and folly.

I think it's easy to overestimate how much the average voter is seeking out these weird articles. Obviously as nerds on HN they're enjoyable to pick apart, but in the grand scheme of the American electorate, I'd wager this sort of AI fake news makes a pretty negligible difference.

I can imagine someone's loved one dying of cancer a month before the election, and both sides using targetted stuff claiming that the other guy actually caused the cancer somehow.

I think that's a bit of a stretch.

I really liked some scifi book I read, where the person appointed to be president for 4 years, was determined to hate the very idea of having the job. Didn't want it. Yet was also very driven.

That sounds interesting, what's it called?

Yeah that's the weird thing with GPTZero... It claims "99% accuracy" when, IIUC, that actually means "99% of the time we won't incorrectly flag a human written post as AI."

It's an extremely easy fence to jump over, as demonstrated by the article.

This is a great read.

It would appear https://theeditorial.news is "Under Construction" now. The articles themselves [1] were originally super creepy when you know the entire thing is made up.

Michelle Quaid is fifty-two years old, the mother of two grown children, and she began working at the Commercial-News in 1999

Quaid wore a polo shirt with the paper's logo — a stylized 'C' — over her heart.

She's not real! None of it is! Truly bizarre and unnerving. I'd love if we got a follow-up, eventually.

Why only rural newspapers and South China Sea?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20260629011021/https://theeditor...

A lot of restaurants in Korea and elsewhere have replaced human cashiers with touch screen kiosks. You’re given a number, someone calls it out when your drink’s ready. For the places I went to it worked just fine. Did you have a bad experience?

The argument Robin Williams character is presenting is roughly that reading about experiences as a young person is less genuine than personally living through said experiences. Perhaps that there's more merit to a belief when it comes from someone who founded it through their own lived experience than a belief which comes from reading about others' experiences.

The irony is that Good Will Hunting (an outstanding film, FWIW) was written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck when they were very young. The belief that experience is necessary to true understanding is perhaps advice they'd gotten from someone else, not an axiom they came to through _their_ experience.

It doesn't make Williams' monologue any less true, and I imagine 30y later Damon and Affleck they'd stand by the advice, but it does make for an interesting philosophical quirk.

Looks like the author submitted it themselves to lobste.rs. Some nice discussion there, as well.

https://lobste.rs/s/csgzki/exhaustion_talking_tool

As an aside, it's nice to see that Lobsters has remained a quiet success. As much as I love HN and the work Dan's done to keep it how it is, I welcome to variety. There are vanishingly few places for polite and earnest discussion online these days.

I think using ones circle of friends voting habits as a proxy for the rest of the country is a doomed premise to begin with, respectfully.

Someone else could come in here with the exact opposite anecdote; it's just not a very interesting point to make.