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Anon84on The university degree is losing its lustre

Anon84on Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?

The US Army Field Manual: https://archive.org/details/TM9-237

Anon84on The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs

Interestingly, you can trace “American” English becoming its own thing [1] to the publication of the first Webster dictionary that made a conscious effort to simplify spelling. American and British dialects have been diverging ever since (although British has been becoming more American since the turn of the millennium).

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figures?id=10.1371...

Anon84on Ditch the 40-Ounce Water Bottle: You're Probably Hydrated Enough

https://archive.md/mfnIP

Anon84on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

https://archive.md/LWDUq

Anon84on Tarot Was a Courtly Card Game. How Did It Become a Tool for Divination?

https://archive.md/KQlMU

Anon84on Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

What about wrists, knees, etc? My joints all “pop” easily

Anon84on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

HN likes to remove “How” and “Why” from titles. You need to edit them back right after you post it

Anon84on Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

Yes, there's a team of agents, each with a different role.

Anon84on Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

And the associated GitHub repo: https://github.com/DataForScience/LLMs

Anon84on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

     Location: NYC
     Remote: Yes
     Willing to relocate: No
     Technologies: Machine Learning, Python, LLMs, LangChain, CrewAI
     Résumé/CV: By request
     Website: https://www.data4sci.com
     GitHub: https://github.com/DataForScience/
     Substack: http://data4sci.substack.com/
     Email: bgoncalves@data4sci.com

Anon84on US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference

You can, but the trick is to ask it to write a python script to generate the "visualization". The added set of constraints imposed by library structure, internal data/shapefiles, etc keeps it from hallucinating

Anon84on FDA panel is reviewing if 7 peptides should be made more accessible

https://archive.md/KOUwE

Anon84on The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter

“Social Physics” is Alex Pentland’s term for this kind of analysis. He’s been using it for a decade or two https://a.co/d/0jcnmbap it’s almost a trademark at this point. Most people (including me when I was working on this stuff) refer to it as human dynamics

That being said, August Comte came up with the name back in the 19th century before settling on “Sociology”

Anon84on Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

Cool way to get names associated with IP addresses

Anon84on What I Learned from Being Burned Alive

https://archive.md/TFggj

Anon84on How Does One Brain Speak Two Languages?

https://archive.md/01wQN

Anon84on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)

     Location: NYC
     Remote: Yes
     Willing to relocate: No
     Technologies: Machine Learning, Python, LLMs, LangChain, CrewAI
     Résumé/CV: By request
     Website: https://www.data4sci.com
     GitHub: https://github.com/DataForScience/
     Substack: http://data4sci.substack.com/
     Email: bgoncalves@data4sci.com

Anon84on AI scans 400k Reddit posts and finds hidden Ozempic side effects

If by “one day” you mean Feb 2026… https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

Anon84on The Problem of Marital Loneliness

https://archive.is/eRYSu

Anon84on Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once

https://archive.md/Diezu

Anon84on Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son

I can’t confirm or deny the Guardian story, but I do personally know someone who found a small baby in a bus in Kenya and preceded to adopt and raise her.

Anon84on Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025)

As a wise man once said, the difference between a dialect and a language is that a language has an army and an navy

Anon84on Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025)

Similarly, I’ve been told that “te quiero mucho” can mean very different things depending on where you are

Anon84on Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025)

British English is quickly becoming Americanized… (at least according to my results a few years back https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00781v1)

Anon84on Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025)

A few years back I analyzed how (informal, social media) written Spanish differs from place to place and (re-)discovered that the vireynados were a thing a while back :)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Anon84on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

     Location: NYC
     Remote: Yes
     Willing to relocate: No
     Technologies: Machine Learning, Python, LLMs, LangChain, CrewAI
     Résumé/CV: By request
     Website: https://www.data4sci.com
     GitHub: https://github.com/DataForScience/
     Substack: http://data4sci.substack.com/
     Email: bgoncalves@gmail.com