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113··on Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'
> teachers have limited bandwidth

Hire more?

113··on The Water Footprint of AI
You can't drink it once it's gone through a bunch of mouldy pipes, no.
113··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
Good writing shouldn't just be how you talk out loud.
113··on Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina
> come together and build them or pay for them to be built

That's just taxes!

113··on Discord Incident – Resolved
It's not a novel opinion but I'm tired of things being fucked all the time.
113··on HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker
Millions of people died and the main takeaway for the US seems to be giving up vaccines and cutting programs that would mitigate future disasters. Not sure how you've come to that conclusion.
113··on Programming Still Sucks
Of course there is. The person I'm responding to is still rich though.
113··on Programming Still Sucks
You are the rich people.
113··on Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks
I first encountered cyberdecks a while ago and thought they were a fun idea for hacking about but more recently I've started seeing videos of beginners making them by cramming raspberry pis into random cases salvaged from second hand shops.

It's been really cool to see people creating hardware without worrying about the usual limitations of soldering or 3d printing. Some have more technical ability than others and have salvaged screens or other bits from random electronics.

It feels like a rediscovery of hacker ethos without the slightly toxic baggage of maker culture.

113··on New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims
Seems like that's just for protesters.
113··on White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets
Whew! Glad that's sorted.
113··on Artemis II Launch Day Updates
Okay well we have those already and it hasn't really changed anything.
113··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
Not really!
113··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Because it's only an option if you're rich and most of us aren't rich.
113··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
That is a blog.
113··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
Here is a meta-analysis that says trans women don't exhibit significant differences in performance: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/3/198
113··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Does that work?
113··on Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
> I get the feeling that it's not worth looking at because it was probably made using LLMs

This is the big one for me. Small toy website someone has made as a passion project used to be the big draw of HN for me but now I just a assume it's a vibe-coded mess that'll 404 in 7 months.

113··on The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future
> If I had fewer orders, I would work more to increase the quality of my product

Really? Because most of the time what you see is huge layoffs and gutting the company's assets.

113··on Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's
> Workers ultimately have a job because they are useful to managemen

Workers have a job because their labour produces value

113··on Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state
> sloppy thinking and sloppy arguments

If you think this is the result it's probably just because you're not used to discussing political theory. Within academic spaces these discussions are very well developed and nuanced. HN people like yourself aren't very used to being left behind but there are experts that understand what you don't.

113··on AI optimism is a class privilege
That's not a reliable source.
113··on Coding agents have replaced every framework I used
> one to do the work and submit PRs to your repo

Have we not seen loads of examples of terrible AI generated RPs every week on this site?

113··on Tesla is committing automotive suicide
I don't think the problem was a lack of Elon Musk's involvement.
113··on Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE
Polling seems to suggest you're wrong.
113··on Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning
> That’s fine, vent. But don’t confuse that with discussion.

The idea that discussion should be dispassionate and analytical is just wrong. All that does is hides biases. Discussion should be honest; often that means being messy and angry.

113··on Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning
> Police officers cannot be continuously getting into fights with people, especially armed people

That is their job.

113··on Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking
There is nothing to suggest LLMs will be as revolutionary as paper. The PalmPilot didn't lead to new field of science just because people had a new way to write things down.
113··on After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news
> level of extremism of the pro-trans activists

What on earth are you talking about?

113··on European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security
I mean, we were previously working together to invade countries in the middles east, killing millions of people. I wouldn't call that peaceful.
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