aspenmayer

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by aspenmayer 6mo ago
HyperNormalisation (2016) is a documentary film by Adam Curtis; the word/concept is from a book, so maybe that's what you're referring to? I have only seen the film myself. As to your question about Soviet collapse, I don
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by aspenmayer 6mo ago
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-is-preparing-to-have-to-und... Related: China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920315
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by aspenmayer 7mo ago
I believe you’re referring to Egan’s book Permutation City . It’s pretty decent and holds up well today despite being written in 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
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by aspenmayer 7mo ago
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge and Accelerando by Charles Stross both have a lot of parallels with current AI and Internet developments, and are great books to boot. Accelerando has free ebook versions available, which I am happy to sha
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by aspenmayer 7mo ago
To be fair, we don’t have many government mules these days, but it wasn’t always so, and not so long ago. The current amount of horsepower on the hoof is a rounding error, but before mechanized farming and war-fighting, these distinctions
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by aspenmayer 7mo ago
> I’ll start working on an HN comment in a few weeks and try to remember to post it back to this thread iirc HN threads automatically close, due to inactivity and (/or?) based on time since the original post. I wasn’t able to find a
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by aspenmayer 7mo ago
Wake me up when September ends.
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by aspenmayer 7mo ago
à la the eponymous Hiro Protagonist
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by aspenmayer 7mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260303144625/https://changelog...
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by aspenmayer 8mo ago
I think this might be the repo? https://github.com/zhouxinan/airsnitch Edit: it’s the same repo as linked in the paper, so it seems likely to be the correct repo, though I didn’t originally find it via the paper.
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by aspenmayer 8mo ago
Twitter has settings for who can reply to tweets, which are configurable per post. You can make it so that only people you follow can reply.
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by aspenmayer 8mo ago
I’m not arguing for using an AI, I’m simply asking you to write your own comment. I don’t have a “AI preference” but a preference to read comments as opposed to placeholders and shorthand stopgapped by prompts. There’s a reason why “let me
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by aspenmayer 8mo ago
HN is for people, by people; I don’t use LLMs to create or consume HN content, and I don’t think it’s fair to expect others to do so either. For that matter, generated comments are against HN guidelines. Draw the rest of the owl.
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by aspenmayer 8mo ago
Original reporting is allowed and encouraged by the Wikimedia Foundation sister org Wikinews, which may be cited by Wikipedia. https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Original_reporting
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by aspenmayer 8mo ago
There are some characters from TNG who cross over into DS9, and one of the main characters in DS9 has a grudge against one of the characters in TNG due to events in TNG, whose effects offscreen relative to TNG are explored onscreen in DS9,
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by aspenmayer 8mo ago
I’d be interested to hear more about your project. I’ve heard about other DHT related things like search engines and such using it, but I haven’t explored the space much myself.
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by aspenmayer 8mo ago
> /? find a specific transcript from "The Bit Player" and "Claude Shannon: The Father of the Information Age" IEEE Information Theory Society video where the narrator makes the leap from the Morse dots and dashes
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by aspenmayer 8mo ago
> ages ago, mobs storming the local jail and hanging a suspect wasn't that uncommon. Sometimes, suspects don't even make it to the jail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby_Shoots_Lee_Harvey_Os... h
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by aspenmayer 8mo ago
Parent of your comment became [flagged][dead], which broke your in-context link. A direct link works, however: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970522
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by aspenmayer 9mo ago
It's hardly "regular wood" though, as the structure mentioned was constructed using a specific kind of engineered compressed wood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InventWood > In 2018, [Liangbing] Hu&#x
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Google to pay $135M to settle Android data transfer lawsuit(reuters.com)
4 points by aspenmayer 9mo ago|1 comments
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by aspenmayer 9mo ago
https://archive.is/MlZi9
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'More Than 200 Reported Dead' in Tehran as Regime Opens Fire on Protests(time.com)
6 points by aspenmayer 9mo ago|2 comments
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by aspenmayer 9mo ago
The mismatch seems to stem from the fact that generated comments are against HN guidelines, but automated posts are tolerated by mods, which seems somewhat reasonable on its face, but has failure modes when OPs' own posts, even when th
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by aspenmayer 9mo ago
> Found this similar to ending of Parthenon. The title is Pantheon , and the show is itself based upon a series of short stories in a shared universe by Ken Liu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(TV_series)
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by aspenmayer 9mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drone...
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by aspenmayer 10mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/technology/california-wea...
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by aspenmayer 10mo ago
GL-iNet’s Mudi product line has an internal battery and eSIM and physical SIM card support. Mudi V2: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-e750/ They have an upcoming 5G NR WiFi 7 version: Mudi 7: https:/&#x2F
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by aspenmayer 10mo ago
https://archive.is/ue4An https://web.archive.org/web/20251222092511/https://eiratanse...
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by aspenmayer 10mo ago
Those two novels of Nylund's really captured the "dark forest" concept well, though I won't say more so as to avoid spoilers. I haven't read the source material so I can't speak to the books, but the adaptation

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