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by krapp 2mo ago
And HN is full of the same hundred low-effort circular arguments, logical fallacies and pointless fence-painting debates being endlessly recycled in slightly different variants, along with people desperate to come up with some witty retort
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It still says something if you have to go back over a thousand years to find a worse case.
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Much of the engagement for AI slop is generated by AI bots. Remember that actual human traffic on the web has become the minority.
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by krapp 2mo ago
The fediverse still has a sense of community to me, and there are alt-webs like geminispace. All of it is anti-capitalist and anti-AI which should at least delay their eventual consumption by the rot, although holding it back entirely is im
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Matter is not a force. Matter and forces are two different things in physics. And the "strong force" is another thing altogether.
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MAGA was just the normalization of politics which have existed within the American right and Evangelical Christianity since at least WW2, and which reached an inflection point with 9/11 and Obama's election. None of it is new and
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No.
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>Corporations are social by essence, and on a much bigger scale than anything that came before. Corporations are transactional by essence, not social. Any relationship within or with a corporation has the singular goal of making the corp
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We have the best quagmires. No one does quagmires like we do. You've never seen a quagmire like an American quagmire. Putin tells me he wishes Russia could do a quagmire as good as this, but they can't. Europe hasn't had a go
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Yes. There is a lot more to a competent game than the graphics. The text often doesn't fit on the UI properly (at least not in my browser,) the music is generic and doesn't fit the motif, and the gameplay itself is terribly simpli
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The US is not a moral agent - it counts authoritarian regimes that brutally punish dissidents among its closest allies.
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All of them. Drives of them. I'm too stupid and obstinate to quit. Sites from when I wanted to do web dev, a Hacker News clone written in Hack. Games games games, most of which are prototypes. A personal website and blog that's st
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Yes but to be fair the vast majority of custom game engines I've seen never even as far as to have a single working game written with them, even by the author. Having a game engine and a "demo" is an accomplishment in and of
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by krapp 2mo ago
Plenty of people on HN want the entire community to match their personal preference. It's why flagging all "political" stories and complaining that any insufficiently technical story isn't "HN worthy" is a thin
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The point is that politicians are rarely if ever sincere in their espoused beliefs, and the Democrats are a center right neoliberal party which has never been comfortable with "leftist" politics because political power in the US h
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I doubt many libraries have the budget for it. Libraries aren't a popular service and are perennial targets for conservative "cost cutting."
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None. And obviously there's no chance of anyone being put in prison for gestures vaguely in the direction of the dumpster fire that is this administration. Remember the President has carte blanche power of pardon over all federal cri
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Imagine using the term "commies" in 2026 and expecting to be taken seriously.
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>Why bother publishing if nobody will read it? The vast majority of blogs go unread, even back on the old web. I used to blog almost every day, for years, back in the early 2000s, and probably no one noticed. But the fun was in the activ
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"We" did do all of that when COINTELPRO was uncovered, at least ostensibly. We had committees, we changed laws, we established judicial ovesight, we "reformed" the system. As Snowden demonstrated later, none of it matt
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by krapp 2mo ago
Democrats betraying their principles because they want to be in the cool kids club is nothing new. They basically threw the election to Trump because appealing to right-wingers was more important to them than having the stink of "lefti
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>The empirical success of the equation in question is strong evidence that the theory captures something about the universe, however it does not prove that the proposition exists, or is true, independently of any language or conceptual f
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OK, what does "_Tools_ have a response to this post" mean to you, in the context of the posted article, and as a response to it? Why would a human being organically reply to the article with that sentence?
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I'm not going to waste my time describing the entirety of the last century of physics, or the numerous technologies we've developed whose operation depends on this being true. We don't have to prove it, it's one of the m
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"_Tools_ have a response to this post" is not a sensible comment that a human would likely make. It reads like a prompt to an AI accidentally pasted into the wrong place.
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E=MC^2 is true in any language, and it remains true in the absence of language.
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>I'm not sure if you could even get an SDL window open and game loop running in 131 lines of (non-golfed) C. The basics (window, events, renderer) can be done in about 30 lines: #include <SDL3/SDL.h> #include &l
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Woke 1.0 was black culture, where the term originated, as far back as the the 1930s. Woke 2.0 was when white liberals co-opted it and used it as an umbrella term for social justice in general, particularly in the context of online activism.
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That is the future of AI. Everyone will use it whether they like it or not because there won't be an alternative.
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Watermarks have always been a joke, but it is kind of crazy how quickly all of the rules went out the window when LLMs came along. If you'd told someone five years ago that people would just give "AI" root access to their sys

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