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by acheron 7d ago
Reminder that the “Dunning-Kruger effect” is not real. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160437
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by acheron 8d ago
zot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Oracle
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by acheron 9d ago
I mean I got into it because I loved it as a kid in the 80s and 90s. And I still loved it in college. Turning it into a job quickly crushed any love I had though.
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by acheron 11d ago
Can we add “I think it sounds like AI writing” to the list of off topic tangential annoyances? Clicking into an HN thread and having the top comment being about em dashes or something is obnoxious.
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by acheron 14d ago
> It's still bad when mega-corporations attack small guy. No, actually, we decide things based on the law, not based on which side you like more.
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by acheron 15d ago
“political” has a meaning, and it’s not “everything”. Words mean things.
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by acheron 17d ago
99% of people put their iPhone in a case that covers up the color. This is not something anybody actually thinks. Sometimes I tell my teenage daughter “stop inventing things to be mad about”. Good advice for HN commenters, too.
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by acheron 22d ago
Wow, bet they never thought of that. If only the researchers had thought to ask HN first.
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by acheron 24d ago
The Red Sox/Blue Jays game recently when the “fourth out” rule came into play probably could have used an LLM explanation.
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by acheron 26d ago
Well over 50% of the US population has investments. https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...
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by acheron 28d ago
Gatekeeping is good, actually. Not keeping your gate is how your town gets overrun by Mongols.
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by acheron 29d ago
> Android I mean if you use Google products it can be assumed you don’t care about privacy anyway.
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by acheron 1mo ago
Then they are wrong.
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by acheron 1mo ago
Oh, I saw this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ralph
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by acheron 1mo ago
Not to mention shrimp!
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by acheron 1mo ago
Great. Let's get working on preventing/curing alpha-gal allergy though. Or actually let's just eradicate all ticks.
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by acheron 1mo ago
Seriously. 2009 is several years after everyone was already saying “web 2.0”! That is nowhere near the “old web”.
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by acheron 2mo ago
I have it open in a browser tab, and I have the codex cli. What are the features/advantages this has over the old way?
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by acheron 2mo ago
Flagged as a dupe. This was already posted earlier today.
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by acheron 2mo ago
We at Hacker News do not have a sense of humor that we’re aware of.
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by acheron 2mo ago
Yeah, and it looks like the OP is just using it to post religious flamebait comments. If I wanted Reddit I’d be over there.
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The Rise and Fall of AIM, the Breakthrough AOL Never Wanted (2014)(mashable.com)
4 points by acheron 2mo ago|0 comments
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by acheron 2mo ago
As far as "third party service shouldn't be necessary", is it that different from getting the TV Guide in the 80s or 90s to find out when a show was going to be on TV?
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by acheron 2mo ago
Indeed. And “We don’t care, we don’t have to” is a good summary of Google as well.
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by acheron 2mo ago
It’s not actually a rule that every HN thread has to start out with negative bullshit. You can just think it’s cool they found a new tomb!
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by acheron 2mo ago
Don’t feed the trolls.
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by acheron 2mo ago
I’d prefer to pay up front to buy the product, the way everything was sold up until around 2012, and not have a “subscription” scam.
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by acheron 2mo ago
Unfortunately the EU has written USB-C into law, so there will never be a USB-D. I guess we should be glad they didn’t do this 30 years ago, or we’d still be using PS/2 connectors.
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by acheron 2mo ago
There were lots of very in-depth UI studies in the 90s, which were implemented in the second half of the 90s and early 00s. Then someone let “designers” in the door and it was all thrown out.
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by acheron 3mo ago
Launder Google’s reputation, I assume.

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