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I do not care about Liquid Glass or the half-baked Apple Intelligence cruft. I don’t like them, but they are easy enough to look past. My issue is specifically the bugs. My M2 iPad Pro never gave me a…

Isn’t this the major takeaway from the entire social media era of the last 20 years? Content that triggers strong emotions, especially anger, fear, and moral outrage, reliably increases engagement. Se…

There is another issue. The 2-stroke gas engines in backpack leaf blowers emit very toxic exhaust. Much worse than a 4-stroke. The landscapers are breathing that in all day.

I agree. This outlook also implies a greater degree of meritocracy than usually exists in a competitive corporate environment. Doing a good job and taking initiative sometimes leads to promotions, but…

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Words are cheap. When someone tells me they’ve changed, I need to see at least a year of consistent behavior before I take that claim seriously. Far more often, what looks like change is just a honeym…

In NYC, they found red honey which was coming from bees drinking at a maraschino cherry factory: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html Unrelat…

The admiration some readers have for Jay Gatsby (even though he’s meant to be a tragic figure) reminds me of how some currently view the character of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho as aspirati…

These are all great. We have good taste.

It’s uncommon to love your customer. Customers are demanding. Have you ever spoken with the locals in a resort town? Their economy depends on the tourists… who they generally loathe.

Adapted to writing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Akin%27s_Laws_of_Art... …

My lifetime browser journey on x86: Netscape → Internet Explorer → Firefox → Chrome → Firefox. I switched to Chrome because it’s fast. I switched away because of Manifest v3. I’ve been back on Firefox…

These days I generally use LLMs as a universal recommendation engine. I put together a list of things I like from a category and ask “What is missing?” Or sometimes I’ll input some of my blog posts an…

Is it fair to say that the “Rs in strawberry problem” will not be “cleanly” solved unless we advance beyond tokenization?

Things HN likes (in my experience): - Reverse Engineering (legacy code analysis, hardware teardowns) - Bug Post-Mortems - Systems Internals (database engines, kernel scheduling, compiler edge cases) -…

> The folks who urge haste occasionally need to be reminded that there is nothing faster than doing it right the first time. Hence the military axiom: “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.”

Already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46204853