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by DamnInteresting 4d ago
Update: I filed a report with the FTC. https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/
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by DamnInteresting 4d ago
Oh man, I run a site that publishes long-form science and history writings, and the iLands agent spam has been relentless the past week or so. All kinds of stupid story pitches couched in syrupy LLM flattery. I even had one email me to say
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by DamnInteresting 5d ago
I found this in a dusty corner of my code archive, and it made me laugh, and thought it might do the same for others. I wrote this when I was first learning a fancy new language called "Javascript." Apologies for the juvenile humo
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Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)(alanbellows.com)
77 points by DamnInteresting 5d ago|25 comments
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by DamnInteresting 7d ago
A stand-alone e-ink e-book reader in this form factor would be amazing.
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by DamnInteresting 7d ago
From a mechanical perspective, a screen around the outside would create a wrinkle rather than a crease when opened, and that wrinkle would be substantial. The phone would need some sliding/rolling mechanism to pull the screen flat. Pos
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by DamnInteresting 7d ago
In the FAQ it says "Yes. iPhone Duo will work with Apple Pencil (USB-C). Coming later this year." It kinda sounds like it's a new model of the Apple Pencil coming soon (rather than support coming soon), and older Pencil and
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by DamnInteresting 9d ago
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJSRFWALTI
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by DamnInteresting 13d ago
> I drew a woman born in 715 CE in the Yangtze Basin. It claims that 96% of women were married, the average age of marriage was 18, and 44% of women died before age 15. Clearly these facts can't all be true simultaneously. Yeah, I
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by DamnInteresting 16d ago
Speaking for myself, when I see AI being used, I see industrial-grade plagiarism. Plagiarism is when someone claims to have written something--a book, essay, software, etc--when they did not write that thing. AI is a tool that cobbles somet
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by DamnInteresting 21d ago
Agreed, YouTube Shorts and similar pap (e.g., Tik Tok) seem corrosive to a developing mind...the mindless content, automatic looping, serving up one shallow video after another. It's no wonder the tech CEOs insulate their own kids from
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A Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML File [video](youtube.com)
2 points by DamnInteresting 22d ago|0 comments
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by DamnInteresting 29d ago
Eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by DamnInteresting 1mo ago
I appreciate the pushback!
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by DamnInteresting 1mo ago
My iPhone 13 is likewise still ticking along, most nights I put it on the charger with over 70% battery remaining. Of course, about the only thing I use it for is reading e-books, which isn't very taxing. Also a little photography. If
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by DamnInteresting 1mo ago
The original Shadow Warrior used the same engine as Duke3D, and when 3DRealms hired a company to build an add-on campaign for Shadow Warrior, that company reached out to me to design a level based on the popularity of my NukeCity levels. I
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Ask HN: What are your favorite free daily web-based games?
1 points by DamnInteresting 1mo ago|1 comments
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by DamnInteresting 1mo ago
> Those were the for real LAN party days which I'll never get back I still remember hours-long marathons of Doom2 deathmatch at my cousin's Novell cubicle farm after office hours, ca. 1994. Then Duke Nukem 3D (using Build to
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by DamnInteresting 1mo ago
Common citizens aren't the only ones who prefer not to live near these unsightly noise-and-pollution centers. Look at the satellite views around tech oligarchs' homes, and you won't see any data centers anywhere near those la
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by DamnInteresting 1mo ago
> I suspect llms are too cheap right now but will raise their prices to a point where only big companies will be able to afford subscriptions to use them. "A.I." == "Artificially Inexpensive"
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by DamnInteresting 2mo ago
Hey thanks! I hope the world still has an appetite for original human-generated writing, I'd love to be able to keep doing it. I have hundreds of fascinating true stories still in the pipeline. It's been a labor of love for 20+ ye
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by DamnInteresting 2mo ago
Almost 20 years ago I did some calculations for a theoretical spacecraft traveling away from Earth with an Arecibo-sized receiver pointed toward home[1]. I found that omnidirectional radio emissions--by far the most common kind we emit--AM&
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An abandoned SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the Moon(theconversation.com)
2 points by DamnInteresting 2mo ago|0 comments
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by DamnInteresting 2mo ago
Agreed. As someone who frequently rearranges the structure and order of sentences as I go, I don't even know how to attempt writing by hand. It would be a complete mess. I expect that the common refrain would be wait until the second d
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by DamnInteresting 2mo ago
Almost. The intended use is for Ctrl-F to initiate an on-page search, and Ctrl-G to highlight the next match during a search-in-progress. If you press Ctrl-G when there isn't a search in progress, the developers decided to allow the fa
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by DamnInteresting 2mo ago
I did a similar thing a few years ago, I deleted reddit, social media, and other time-wasters from my phone, and now I keep a queue of books in an e-reader app. When I have a few idle moments somewhere, my options are to sit and think (some
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by DamnInteresting 2mo ago
I don't like generative AI/LLMs. They strip the enjoyable parts out of the work and leave only the tedium, and they cannot be relied upon. Never mind that they're essentially large-scale open source license violators. My empl
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by DamnInteresting 2mo ago
Well, our unwillingness to be beholden to sponsors is just part of the reason we avoid advertising, but it's not an empty concern. We've done stories that big brands wouldn't like (the true story of Colonel Sanders, the New C
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by DamnInteresting 2mo ago
> DI basically predates blog spam doesn’t it? Blog spam origins are murky at best, but I don't recall it being a prevalent thing until nearer to 2010. But of course recollection is an unreliable narrator. I'm also assuming yo
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by DamnInteresting 2mo ago
It's true that some kind of monetization change was inevitable, but I wished at the time they had executed differently. I just wanted fans who wished to see our posts to see our posts, no more, no less. The only options FB gave were to

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