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genericone··on Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage
It's not only AI that uses em-dashes, but AI only seems to use em-dashes. And there's an ellipsis ascii char in there too (not 3 periods in sequence, a single ellipsis char), somewhat of another AI tell.
genericone··on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
I thought HN was mostly people who hated doing 'the thing' and would procrastinate until they build a system that does 'the thing' and then they would work tirelessly to never do 'the thing' themselves ever again.
genericone··on Elevators
Sid Meier's Elevator Manager was such a great game... so much nostalgia.
genericone··on Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
User: what is the shortest route from my home to the super market?

AI: the user wants to know, how do I make the super market my new home. Failing that, how do I make my home a super market.

genericone··on Show HN: Block/buzz: a workspace built for teams of humans and agents
This looks pretty neat, it looks like the shape of something I want to use. I'm having trouble managing my entire project, and from reading Buzz' project description, I think I understand what my issue is: a lack feature channels. I'm purely using claude-code and I use a bespoke session-wrap command at the end of every major development or as I approach 50% context window. And then in a fresh session I use a recontextualize command to figure out the trajectory of the prior work.

I think Buzz' use of channels and rooms is better, since each feature/concept has its own development pace, velocity, and history. I'll give it a shot.

Do you have any examples comparing different agent workflows vs Buzz? Would love to understand more how you foresee people using this.

genericone··on Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
Typescript is also hugely represented. My projects are TS in a big way, where I have no experience with it at all.
genericone··on Sonoeazy – Validating a short-form audio platform. Experiment 1: "I love you"
I believe there's room for a short-form, raw, AI-free, audio-only platform organized around continuous streams of 5-10 second audio clips.

But before I build the real thing, I'm running a validation to test the core question: will strangers actually record? I'm trying to validate one single prompt "I love you", anonymous, 5-second cap. The clips get mixed and published to a listening page when the window closes. You can enter your email to be notified when the experiment is over. I try to make the recording process as low friction as possible, so give it a try.

Any and all feedback are welcome.

genericone··on The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'
And to all a good tax-writeoff.
genericone··on Oil is near a price that hurts the economy
The accounting only works if you assume the counterfactual is "same industrial civilization, minus fossil fuels." But there's a strong path-dependency argument that cheap hydrocarbons were the bootstrap not just for energy, but for the plastics, fertilizers, and chemical feedstocks that made modern manufacturing and agriculture possible in the first place. Renewables are downstream of that industrial base. You can't net out the externalities against a baseline that wouldn't exist without them.
genericone··on Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
Excessive speeders in the absence of speed-limit enforcement just creates neighbors that don't mind their neighborhood being consumed by speed bumps/dips, I think there's an analogy here in residential areas. And if you have a lot of children in your neighborhood, there IS a 'xx-phobia' for speeders. But speed bumps and dips are an absolute nuisance and sometimes dangerous, so just having cameras identify and a system willing to punish speeders would absolutely be the preference.
genericone··on Long live American Science and Surplus
May 30th, just a few more days!
genericone··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
"Why don't you just read my mind and do what I wanted you to do in the first place?"

Rule by law rather than rule of law?

genericone··on An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
Thinking of it in terms of vector similarity does seem appropriate, and then definition of similarity suddenly comes into debate: If you don't get Harrison Ford, but a different well-known actor along with everything else Indiana-Jones, what is that? Do you flatten the vector similarity matrix to a single infringement-scale?
genericone··on Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners
I struck a column in a multilevel garage while reversing out of a parking spot, my mistake completely, resulting in damage to the driver door, door hinge, mirror, and front quarter panel. Progressive considered the car totaled due to the cost/availability/labor to fix it. Unsure what the cost would be for a toyota or honda, but I was perplexed at the total loss of my still drivable car.
genericone··on WSDA, USDA announce eradication of northern giant hornet from the United States
These topic-adjacent expert responses just reek of point harvesting by an LLM, I didn't do any such downvoting, but in the last year I've changed to this viewpoint.
genericone··on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
Yeah, especially if this breaks Chrome Remote Desktop in any way, seems like that capability would be tied into the Google ecosystem... I wonder how long we will have to say goodbye to the simplest remote desktop that has ever existed.
genericone··on US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023
Since the statistic applies to the whole US, it's biased towards urban population centers.

E.g. the lack of K-12 kids in SF almost caused the shutdown of 11 schools due to the lack of funding that comes primarily from the number of enrolled students, they halted the closures in lieu of other cost saving approaches due to the political pressures of shutting down schools, but the truth remains that there are fewer kids in population centers.

genericone··on 'A fatal miscalculation': masculinity researcher on why Democrats lost young men
Interpreting that to mean that the person said 'it's not for white guys' and parent thinks they meant 'not "just" for white guys'. But the damage had been done regardless of original intent behind the words.
genericone··on Univ. of North Texas' body parts business: Cutting up and leasing out the poor
For the absolute worst case, see: Bodies: The Exhibition

"Concerns have been raised by human rights advocates that the bodies are those of executed Chinese prisoners, and that the families of the victims have not consented."

In one case, it's suspected the government killed the pregnant mistress of a cheating government official and her and the fetus are now a display item.

genericone··on Maker Skill Trees
a la eagle scouts? https://www.scouting.org/skills/merit-badges/eagle-required/
genericone··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
Keurig for microgreens. A system whereby the user provides power, water, and proprietary seed cartridges to a device to manage scheduling, succession, water, light, and other environmental factors to successfully grow microgreens as easily as possible.
genericone··on Baijiu Meets Binary: Why Moutai is Investing in Semiconductors
Asianometry video on Moutai, I recall it being quite informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnOIKAEDv9I&vl=en-US
genericone··on How to build a $20B semiconductor fab
First, attempt to build a $10 billion dollar fab.
genericone··on How engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. saved Ethernet
C'mon HN, I'm counting on you...
genericone··on Abstrusegoose.com Is Gone for Good
Whatever it is, its down now with "This page can't be displayed".
genericone··on Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027
A commoditize your complements strategy that worked!
genericone··on X Bans and Then Unbans Journalists and Podcasters in Latest Free Speech Massacre
"not-negative" ?
genericone··on Fake chips, I got stung
Huh, you learn interesting things everyday in unusual places. Look forward to seeing more google-photos blog-posts from this new discovery. /s I hope.
genericone··on I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (2013)
They wanted you to ask for more time and money? What kind of grift were they actually running?
genericone··on Companies with good ESG scores pollute as much as low-rated rivals
You'll hate statistics even more: https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/02/03/170851048/do-we...
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