It's not just Thiel and Musk misreading classic sf/f. It's most of you. How many you have actually read Mary Shelley closely enough to realize that Victor Frankenstein was the villain of the piece? How many of you have…
I had a cat named Molly who would flip switches.
At risk of sounding like a typical HN pedant: you already had the words you needed. There was no need to use the word "content", or is the max size on the title textbox so small that there wasn't room for "Ask HN: where…
Why does the law even permit him to do this?
If you prefer to avoid Substack because they still host neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, you should avoid seeingthesystem.com as well because it's hosted on Substack.
I'm not a boomer, but I've got my tiny violin. What I want to know is what this guy did to be tasked with writing for Fortune about the effects Boomers have on the economy. That has got to be the journalistic equivalent…
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This is the closest we're likely to get to justice for Near being driven to suicide by these assholes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_(programmer)#Death <joke…
tl;dr: *non serviam* Had I been part of Harvard's class of 2026, I'd boo Conan O'Brien on principle. He just stuck his head into Hume's Guillotine, trying to derive an ought from the "is" that is GenAI screwing over…
> My clients don't send spam. I can understand this being your viewpoint. Nevertheless, I disagree with you. I use Fastmail instead of Gmail or Outlook, but as far as I'm concerned, everything in your list but…
It's almost as if some lawmakers are the worst kind of cynics; they know the price of everything and the value of nothing. But this is a democracy, and as H. L. Mencken put it: > “Democracy is the theory that the common…
My leverage is in not depending on "AI", and in possessing the experience, judgment, and discernment no LLM can emulate. That, and my willingness to maintain complete confidentiality; no LLM can be trusted to do that.…
> At the same time, companies are desperate for high-leverage hires. ClickUp, let go 22% of their workers, and introduced new $1M salary bands to attract agentic-native humans. I'm sorry, but what does "agentic-native"…
Given that my playlists are hand-curated from MP3s I rip from CDs or buy via Bandcamp, I'd love to see AI slop even try to come for my playlists. This only a problem if you depend on streaming instead of picking artists…
> I merely think about something and would you look at that, a new post / video / comment / blog / article / etc. about what I’m thinking about, but trying to ragebait me for attention. It also tries to get a reaction,…
It's not just Thiel and Musk misreading classic sf/f. It's most of you. How many you have actually read Mary Shelley closely enough to realize that Victor Frankenstein was the villain of the piece? How many of you have…
I had a cat named Molly who would flip switches.
At risk of sounding like a typical HN pedant: you already had the words you needed. There was no need to use the word "content", or is the max size on the title textbox so small that there wasn't room for "Ask HN: where…
Why does the law even permit him to do this?
If you prefer to avoid Substack because they still host neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, you should avoid seeingthesystem.com as well because it's hosted on Substack.
I'm not a boomer, but I've got my tiny violin. What I want to know is what this guy did to be tasked with writing for Fortune about the effects Boomers have on the economy. That has got to be the journalistic equivalent…
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This is the closest we're likely to get to justice for Near being driven to suicide by these assholes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_(programmer)#Death <joke…
tl;dr: *non serviam* Had I been part of Harvard's class of 2026, I'd boo Conan O'Brien on principle. He just stuck his head into Hume's Guillotine, trying to derive an ought from the "is" that is GenAI screwing over…
> My clients don't send spam. I can understand this being your viewpoint. Nevertheless, I disagree with you. I use Fastmail instead of Gmail or Outlook, but as far as I'm concerned, everything in your list but…
It's almost as if some lawmakers are the worst kind of cynics; they know the price of everything and the value of nothing. But this is a democracy, and as H. L. Mencken put it: > “Democracy is the theory that the common…
My leverage is in not depending on "AI", and in possessing the experience, judgment, and discernment no LLM can emulate. That, and my willingness to maintain complete confidentiality; no LLM can be trusted to do that.…
> At the same time, companies are desperate for high-leverage hires. ClickUp, let go 22% of their workers, and introduced new $1M salary bands to attract agentic-native humans. I'm sorry, but what does "agentic-native"…
Given that my playlists are hand-curated from MP3s I rip from CDs or buy via Bandcamp, I'd love to see AI slop even try to come for my playlists. This only a problem if you depend on streaming instead of picking artists…
> I merely think about something and would you look at that, a new post / video / comment / blog / article / etc. about what I’m thinking about, but trying to ragebait me for attention. It also tries to get a reaction,…