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shadowvoxingon Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?

This episode of Big Technology Podcast goes into the reason why:https://pca.st/episode/4090833a-2abd-42b2-a31d-ebb2b4348007

shadowvoxingon PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program

DEI is racist. It's picking people because of skin color instead of merit.

shadowvoxingon Rotating Sandwiches

Please include those amazing sandwiches you can buy in Japanese 7-11s.

shadowvoxingon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

AI-adaptive books at Kyyt Press: https://kyyt.press

shadowvoxingon Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

How can anyone believe the Atlantic? Especially when it's regarding Elon Musk or Trump?

Come on people, lol.

shadowvoxingon Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people

In Canada, mass immigration is creating high unemployment for young people. Don't be so quick to blame AI when government policies are to blame. https://www.kingstrust.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/TKTC-De...

shadowvoxingon Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg would always rush the experts, pressuring them to get to the point asap. I found him a bit off-putting and even rude at times, but it was what made made the show unique and never stagnant.

shadowvoxingon Ask HN: What is the biggest problem LLMs solved in your life/work?

Navigating health and safety issues at work. With the help of AI, I quickly know how to file disputes and what protocols to follow.

shadowvoxingon Alberta no longer sure about big savings from auto insurance reforms

CBC is not a reliable, unbiased source of news in Canada. Most Canadians know this.

shadowvoxingon Tim Cook rallying Apple employees around AI efforts

Apple could easily acquire Mistral and become competitive fast. And I hope they do. The more AI the better.

shadowvoxingon Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant

Standard Notes is a "finished" product imo, but it's not integrated into the Proton ecosystem in any way.

shadowvoxingon Catch Burnout Before It Starts: A One-Page Early-Warning Checklist

Good point. It was originally intended to be a checklist, but changed my mind. Fixed.

shadowvoxingon Google is burying the web alive

They own duck.com. They should revert to that.

shadowvoxingon Show HN: 1 min workouts for people who sit all day

Is an Android version on the way?

shadowvoxingon DuoBook: Generate bilingual stories to learn any language

Disagree. I'm learning Polish -not the most popular of languages- and I think this idea is fantastic and much appreciated.

shadowvoxingon Try Switching to Kagi

I use DDG daily and I'm happy with the results. In fact, I've become quite a fan of it lately. And with my ChatGPT sub, Kagi seems unnecessary.

shadowvoxingon Ask HN: How are you using technology to fight fascism?

Headlines? So are you just reading mainstream news? Diversify your sources and you'll have a much more balanced perspective.

Worked for me.

shadowvoxingon Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act

It's a cheapshot at Christianity. That's all it is.

shadowvoxingon Voters were right about the economy

I'm convinced most HN readers only read left-leaning mainstream publications, and they were all funded by USAID.

shadowvoxingon One of my papers got declined today

Rejection Therapy ftw. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejection_Therapy

shadowvoxingon Perplexity got ads

I use you.com and it has the latest greatest LLMs with no ads.

shadowvoxingon The One Hundred Pages Strategy

I'm learning Polish, and I've so far shadowed Mały Książę (The Little Prince) by Antonio Saint-Exupéry everyday for 37 days straight. My goal is 100 days straight for a Bimodal Blitzathon. The book is approximately 160 pages and it takes me a little over two hours.

It can be done obviously, but it needs to be a priority to finish the book early in the day. The days that I put it off, I ended up finishing near midnight. Not fun, and I don't get as much out of it.

shadowvoxingon The Onion buys Infowars

I know you on HN aren't actually interested in the truth, but here it is anyway. The Onion did not purchase Infowars: https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1857223561754059168?t=7Q-...

shadowvoxingon Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff blasts Microsoft's Copilot: 'It just doesn't work'

You.com is pretty great too. It has greatly reduced my need for Google.