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Terrible AI prose

People started treating HN as a tech subreddit. It’s Reddit crowd

A subscription dumbphone? Sounds dumb, I can just buy a better dumbphone

I actually saw a little excerpt of a video interview that I failed to find to give you the link where he was asked about his current project. He showed a stack of cards that became Ada and talked about the main theme being passage of time

Please add Helium

pi, oh-my-pi, opencode - none of them have subsidized Claude though

Fixed header isn't always a good thing, it can also be a mistake. Since content is the product, let the content take up all available space and use your browser navigation capabilities to navigate if necessary

Please look at the example that is literally on the front page of the lefthook website: https://lefthook.dev/

I recommend Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

Not to have him cancelled in the first place. No need to pretend that doing something under the mob pressure is the same as doing something entirely willingly

Michael Hobbes, host of IBCK is guilty of those inaccuracies too. Here's him being fact checked regarding claims in the Maintenance Phase podcast: https://spurioussemicolon.substack.com/

https://kagi.com/orion/faq.html#oss

The lead Ladybird dev endorses white replacement theory

Lying used to be something that people are ashamed of

I get the idea of making a frankenstein computer, I just disagree that 6502 is THE platform to do it on. Practically, there's no way for me to find it. Other comment mentions ARM, which is a much more interesting proposal to me

If I scavenge any machine today, how likely would I be to find a 6502 vs something more modern? I’d argue that some people might have a NES at home and one could get a 2A03 from it, but in a hypothetical scenario where I need to scavenge some computational power, I’d find an Android phone

Except when they ship v8 and you'll be forced to restructure your app to the whims of the library creators in case you need to update.

Claude code with Zen MCP. Kiro, but you don’t get a second LLM opinion.

I tried this myself and IMO, this might be basic and day-to-day for you, with unambiguous correct paths to follow, but this is pretty niche nevertheless. LLMs thrive when there's a wealth of examples and I struggle to Google what you asked myself, meaning that LLM will perform even worse than my try.

Try this prompt: Create a detailed step by step plan to implement a boilerplate Zephyr project skeleton for Pi Pico with configured st7789 SPI display drivers

Ask Opus or Gemini 2.5 Pro to write a plan. Then ask the other to critique it and fix mistakes. Then ask Sonnet to implement

Many things require one to reject self-imposed boundaries. For example[1]:

There's a story that, IIRC, was told by Brian Enos, where he was practicing timed drills with the goal of practicing until he could complete a specific task at or under his usual time. He was having a hard time hitting his normal time and was annoyed at himself because he was slower than usual and kept at it until he hit his target, at which point he realized he misremembered the target and was accidentally targeting a new personal best time that was better than he thought was possible. While it's too simple to say that we can achieve anything if we put our minds to it, almost none of us are operating at anywhere near our capacity and what we think we can achieve is often a major limiting factor.

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Art is nothing like shooting. My first instinct looking at Guernica is that I also feel nothing, but one can limit oneself and say: if I feel nothing initially, I will feel nothing at all. If you prime yourself to be open to an experience of putting yourself into the shoes of the author, you might start feeling something.

[1] https://danluu.com/culture/

Why do you care to connect with another human? Try to feel his emotions, what he tried to express? If you see no value in that, there's no discussion to have, honestly. For most people I know there's value in connecting with others and emphasizing with their emotions

It feels deeply wrong to put Kahneman in the same list as Socrates, Aristotle, and Bacon.

Thank you for the link - I'm familiar with the commenting rules. I just don't think that people follow the spirit of those rules.

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Also, I don't seem to be able to login - stuck at "Syncing to this device."

The link to your blog doesn't seem to work

Okay, propaganda, sure. Propaganda is a different argument - it compromises the quality of search - and I will happily agree with you. I want to emphasize, that the claim was: using Yandex through Kagi is supporting war criminals. Which war criminals? Which war crimes is Yandex complicit in? I plainly do not accept that propaganda === war crimes.

Is Yandex directly complicit in war crimes?

By "Luddite," you mean "resist progress, therefore bad." Progress is not inherently bad. Luddites didn't say it is; this blog post doesn't say it is either. We are currently rushing forward with implementing AI everywhere, as much as possible, and what these posts (thinking about Xe Iaso) urge you to think about is how this new revolutionary technology affects us, society, the people who will be displaced by it. If it will yield a disproportionate amount of misery, then we should oppose it on the moral grounds. There's no guarantee of ASI heaven or hell, so it's merely prudent to think about the repercussions. We didn't think - damn, we couldn't even approach imagining - all of the repercussions of replacing traditional agriculture with industrial agriculture, of the industrial revolution, of the internet, so maybe, with technology this powerful, it would be sensible to think about the repercussions before we upend the social order once again.

We adapted, that's why the pesticide industry is so big. I'm not a great agriculture expert, but from my understanding it's an uphill battle against nature and we are winning for now.