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oyster143··on Indie projects exploded after GPT/Claude Code, but traction stayed flat
From ChatGPT's launch to the February 2026 peak, monthly Show HN submissions jumped from 0.9k to 5.8k (6.3x increase), however Show HN posts reaching 20+ points rose by only just 1.6x
oyster143··on Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links
This was 95% made with gpt 5.6 sol high

I actually did the comments internally and will probably post later in the week.

oyster143··on Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links
on the other hand, there are much more links than baseball players. also there are only around 1k hall of fame links, the rest are candidates (i.e. have not met all requirements - 5+ submissions · 3+ distinct submitters · 3+ active years · 2 qualifying breakout events from different submitters at least 720 days apart)

i do accept thought that i have exaggerated in the title)

oyster143··on Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links
some of the older ones are pure gold
oyster143··on Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links
fair comment, i've probably exaggerated somewhat, but i think there are quite a few links outside of top 300 that are very interesting
oyster143··on Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links
i think books already exist https://hackernewsbooks.com/

i've previously done wikipedia and youtube links popular on hacker news: https://www.orangecrumbs.com/ and https://www.orangecrumbs.com/v

oyster143··on Show HN: Matle – A Daily Chess Puzzle Inspired by Wordle
Seems cool, reminds me of this video where top GMs guess the position without seeing the pieces. Some can even name players and the date of the game.

https://youtu.be/_Ntn4jEv7rE?feature=shared

oyster143··on Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games
Learning basic variations of even one opening for white and for black can be extremely useful. There's not much tactics in first moves, but knowing how to set up a solid position will help a lot. Just learn basic stuff, no need to go into the weeds too much. Also the names of the openings are pretty cool
oyster143··on Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
Just to add to the party: Microsoft deck for Nokia acquisition

https://www.slidebook.io/company/microsoft/presentation/f646...

oyster143··on Why Michael Moorcock Despises Tolkien and C. S. Lewis
Every time i re-read 'The Lord of the Rings' I'm amazed at how 'racist' it is in the literal sense of the word. Everything is built around races: the good characters are from the north/west, while the bad ones come from the south/east, etc.
oyster143··on Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
If you use vpn for other purposes,its just a hustle to constantly switch it on and off.
oyster143··on Equinix: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay
They only need the share price to drop significantly in short term. I assume they can close their position pretty quickly depending on how market moves. Look at the Adani Group, share price has recovered significantly since Hindenburg report.
oyster143··on Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
I use chat-gpt almost every day and find it very usefull
oyster143··on CitizenX: Invest in Citizenship
Yep, people who have a spare $1m to invest in Maltese passport, typically would have resources to hire a normal lawyer/ tax consultant
oyster143··on CitizenX: Invest in Citizenship
You will have to move though, in Malta you can just invest and get a passport
oyster143··on Virtual tour of Museum of Failure
Similar vibe, from a different perspectvie: pitch decks and presentations by failed companies.

https://www.slidebook.io/blog/article/on-the-road-to-failure...

oyster143··on Spotify starts divesting from France in response to new music-streaming tax
It seems that fears of music homogenization are overblown, if you check charts on streaming services for different countries (non-english speaking) they would mostly have local music, even for the countries where there are no laws protecting local music. Many of them would have no US/UK artists in top-20 (most Latin American, East European, African countries)
oyster143··on Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop
I did smth similar but took real famous photos as a seed. The results are quite curious and seem to tell a bit about the difference between real world and dalle/chatgpt style.

https://twitter.com/avkh143/status/1713285785888120985

oyster143··on The Iconic Photographs Reimagined by ChatGPT-4/DALL·E 3 (Creepy Transformation)
Using several iconic photos as starting points, we asked ChatGPT for a detailed description of each image and then fed it to DALL·E 3 to create new images. The process was repeated two more times.
oyster143··on History of English Podcast
Best podcast about languages?
oyster143··on How Non-AI firms claim to already use AI (Snap, Spotify, Etsy, Dropbox and more)
Some of the ways non-AI companies are claiming to be already using Artificial Intelligence solutions in the real world (based on their investor presentations)
oyster143··on The unexpected story of PowerPoint, Microsoft's first major acquisition
Turns out PowerPoint was initially released for Apple Macintosh and only later acquired by MSFT
oyster143··on Richest get reimagined as poor people by midjourney
Musk an Buffet look more a less same as in real life
oyster143··on Best Practices for Data Visualization
I found The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics by Dona Wong extremely useful for developing good grasp of data viz basics (especially in business setting)