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hackersnooze1··on America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"
looks like they turned it off
hackersnooze1··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Is that true about the army? Seems like in the navy they do everything they can to stop sailors from drinking (probably resulting in the opposite effect)
hackersnooze1··on Programming Tutorials Are Dead
Sure maybe for another 3 months
hackersnooze1··on Programming Tutorials Are Dead
Learning programming now is like learning how to use a cotton gin or something, its an antiquated hobby at best now, not a profession so it shouldnt be a surprise it isnt lucrative anymore
hackersnooze1··on The JavaScript Midlife Crisis
tldr: interpreted languages are still slower than compiled languages, surprising no one
hackersnooze1··on Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong
Sometimes a bird species will get split into subspecies based purely on differences in song. There is a big movement to reorganize a lot of taxonomic clades based on genetics rather than phenotypical traits. I wonder if that will change this.
hackersnooze1··on App building platform for young kids to learn how to code
Isn’t this just going to prepare children to be unemployed
hackersnooze1··on Don't Just Say Hello
please dont send this to anyone unless you want your whole office to think youre a dickhead lol
hackersnooze1··on EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe
birds migrate
hackersnooze1··on iPhone Duo
I am surprised that foldable phones are lasting so long I thought theyd just be a fad
hackersnooze1··on Project Blinkenlights
They have a link to it on their site https://blinkenlights.de/en/p/links
hackersnooze1··on AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust
are you the same guy who made the fluid simulation thing and the little volumetric display on youtube?
hackersnooze1··on AirPods 5
Seems weird theyd not use the soft tipped pro style design going forward when its obviously much better.

they intentionally handicapped the non-pro version so you might as well wait.

hackersnooze1··on GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
I an 100% sure America will never have UBI
hackersnooze1··on GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
how is anyone going to afford robots if no one can work
hackersnooze1··on The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
Does anyone else immediately lose interest in an article when you realize it was written by AI?
hackersnooze1··on Domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0B birds and 6.3–22.3B mammals annually
Sometimes I feel like people on this website act to be as obtuse and ignorant as possible to prove some kind of point. This is a great example
hackersnooze1··on Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
I am not convinced they do, they keep voting to give away their privacy every year.
hackersnooze1··on 'We are broken': One family's fight against gambling addiction
Surprised ESPN would run this.
hackersnooze1··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
I feel like the M series macs have been some of the most positively received computers ever made. I am yet to meet someone who doesn't love theirs, myself included.
hackersnooze1··on 2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey
There isn’t really a settled definition of “civilization” but usually one of the requirements is developing some kind of writing system without outside influence. As far as we know the people at Gobekli Tepe did not have one.

Granted you can also argue the same about Incans and to some extent Mesoamericans, so it’s kind of debatable.

hackersnooze1··on Claude: System Prompts
Weird that it spends so much of the prompt for Opus explaining that Mythos is better
hackersnooze1··on Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
Is this new? I thought adguard was the only option
hackersnooze1··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
I am glad I am not the only one experiencing this. It seems like it's as good or better at actually writing code compared to 4.8 but it is a lot worse to work with.

Its even more sycophant-y than it was before, if you ask it a question it almost always says "You're right, let me change this..." even though there wasn't even something always wrong with it.

It also seems to pour a ton of resources into developing features I didn't ask for or investigating bugs that aren't related to what I am doing.

Before if you wrote specific enough instructions it would usually just do what you said and flag any concerns, now it just goes ahead in whatever direction it feels.

It also keeps inventing terminology that doesn't exist in writing 10 paragraphs to say one thing.

I really hope it's not trying to drive up token use.

hackersnooze1··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
it got both my city and browser wrong i am not too concerned lol