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  1. Observe HN: ChatGPT Fills in My Memory

    I'm easing into my elder years. I forget some words, some celeb names. Sometimes think about it for days. Where I might have used a search engine before, and waded through the results, I've recently been asking ChatGPT,…

    63 points 36
  2. Diabetes risk in later life if fetus born during famine (duckduckgo.com)
    2 points 1
  3. Last Universal Common Ancestor Lived 4.2B Years Ago (sci.news)
    2 points 0
  4. What's the weirdest/best thing you've done?

    Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27762922

    23 points 20
  5. Ask HN: What would a car engine look like that was robot serviceable?

    An ICE is a metal block containing a shaft and attached pistons, with various "peripherals." What would an engine and its immediate surroundings look like to be totally robot serviceable, including diagnostics,…

    29 points 17
  6. Will My Popcorn Explode? (nytimes.com)
    2 points 0
  7. How to organise a large org without hyper-salaried execs?

    Counter example: https://www.thedailybeast.com/frontline-workers-are-going-without-pay-as-hospital-ceos-keep-their-seven-figure-salaries?ref=home I feel that execs and administrators have become parasites. How could you…

    22 points 13
  8. Ask HN: Can I see how Facebook has categorized me for ads?

    We recently became aware of "interested in psuedoscience." Do I have the right to know all my tags? If not in the US, maybe in Europe? Could it be deduced?

    2 points 1
  9. Ask HN: Which FAANG will eventually buy which?
    1 points 1
  10. Ask HN: Why aren't we asking NSA for contact traces?

    Don't they already know who I've talked to?

    3 points 1
  11. Omnitracs Resolves ELD Disruption That Had Drivers Reverting to Paper Logs (ttnews.com)
    1 points 1
  12. Pershing Map (en.wikipedia.org)
    2 points 0
  13. I Sent Pink Floyd's The Wall to the White House

    I hope it helps.

    1 points 0
  14. Ask HN: Why did you leave your “primary” career?

    The recent submission of the postal service LLV mentioned a lawyer who became a letter carrier. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18795323 If you've left your "primary" career, be that software or legal or whatever,…

    13 points 5
  15. The Chinese Farmer Who Live-Streamed Her Life and Made a Fortune (newyorker.com)
    2 points 0
  16. Alfred Russel Wallace Was the Most Admirable Man in Science History (thedailybeast.com)
    1 points 0
  17. Trump budget purposes eliminating ARPA (thehill.com)
    2 points 2
  18. Kedit, the text editor of John McPhee

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDIT https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/magazine/the-mind-of-john-mcphee.html > McPhee sat down at his computer and clicked around. Green text appeared on a black screen. That was all:…

    3 points 1
  19. At Least 6 White House Advisers Used Private Email Accounts (nytimes.com)
    2 points 1
  20. Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart (nytimes.com)
    200 points 191
  21. Unproductive entrepreneurship is increasingly common in America (economist.com)
    3 points 0
  22. Show HN: mantoc: ToC for a manpage, tocman: ToC plus manpage (gist.github.com)
    2 points 0
  23. Ask HN: Ahrefs, linkedin and a brief, minor freakout

    For people who know nothing about web/seo, marketing like me, what is my relationship to ahrefs and linkedin, and is it anything I should think about beyond this post? I discovered a 404 in my web logs, for a document…

    1 points 0
  24. What is your current “bathroom book?”

    Mine is currently The Unix Programming Environment, Kernighan & Pike, 1984. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix_Programming_Environment (Ahh ... blue on white book covers.) It's a pretty good substitute for Unix…

    5 points 9
  25. Spellfucker (spellfucker.com)
    299 points 138