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by driggs 3d ago
I love a good taste-of-their-own-medicine story like anyone else, but the headline is false. It seems that this is about a YouTuber stalking a Flock employee's vehicle through traffic for 10-15 minutes, which is why the police were c
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by driggs 21d ago
> He's not the fucking pope No, but he did link to the Pope in this very essay. Pope Leo XIV, "On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence": https://www.vatican.va/content&#x2F
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by driggs 1mo ago
It's an evolutionary curiosity that their DNA study identified 17 species within the genus Lanmoa, but L. asiatica was the only species which produces this hallucinatory effect. There are several very commonly found boletes within th
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by driggs 1mo ago
I purchased a bottle of good Vietnamese fish sauce after reading a thread on HN about its mythical flavor profile. Added a few meager drops to a noodle soup, and I was so overwhelmed with nausea that I threw out the entire pot, and threw th
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by driggs 2mo ago
TLDR: The new variant is that the word "repair" was changed to "service" in the user manual.
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by driggs 3mo ago
Seconding this for geospatial dev projects, which may have absolutely massive binary data files.
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by driggs 4mo ago
You've described every recording ever made. I'm describing a band playing a concert to an empty ampitheatre which has been silent for two millennia after its inhabitants perished together in an instant.
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by driggs 4mo ago
The Live at Pompeii "concert" in that empty amphitheatre has always felt to me like they were playing to an audience of ghosts or spirits. If you have the opportunity to see it on a big screen or IMAX, it's an incredibly movi
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by driggs 4mo ago
That really improved things! Now each rabbithole goes deeper and deeper and deeper...
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by driggs 4mo ago
This is why we can't have nice things. Looks like someone scripted `curl` in a loop and generated thousands of permutations of hate content.
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by driggs 4mo ago
It seems like the site's algorithm is that every newly-generate page includes multiple links to not-yet-existing pages. So it doesn't matter that existing pages are cached, all the "leaf node" pages link to multiple unca
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by driggs 4mo ago
That's a pretty absurd complaint. Are you aware of any XML parser ever which preserves the plaintext formatting of the .xml file while magically inserting and modifying an arbitrary amount of XML data anywhere within the document? SV
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by driggs 4mo ago
This site is going to be expensive when a web crawler hits it. A honey pot that burns tokens.
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by driggs 4mo ago
This is fantastic. I couldn't find any obvious way to search for a new page, but you can simply bang out any arbitrary URL slug and the new article will be hallucinated fresh, eg: https://halupedia.com/shortest-cave-in-
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by driggs 5mo ago
Agree, CP/M has nothing to do with the story, nor does the 8080/8086 sidetrack. The whole story is that Microsoft just never bothered to standardize, despite using it themselves.
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by driggs 5mo ago
Zip drives were revolutionary for 100mb and then 250mb storage, at the same time that many people gained widespread access to the Internet. But they were proprietary and required you to have an external drive available to write or read from
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by driggs 6mo ago
The "neuroplasticity" which leads to a relative quietness presumably comes after the psychedelic experience. Interestingly, the paper only lists the following adverse effects: visual perceptual changes, nausea, and headache. Giv
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by driggs 7mo ago
Wow, he admits to using two AI tools: He used Claude Code, which failed because the blog was intentionally set up to refuse AI crawlers, so he pasted the page into ChatGPT. Then he blames ChatGPT for paraphrasing the hallucinated quotes.
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by driggs 7mo ago
Retinal imaging is used to detect damage from glaucoma or other eye disease, by "diffing" the fine blood vessels and nerves.
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by driggs 8mo ago
Particularly relevant to HN is that Bobby's primary writing partner for decades was John Perry Barlow, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): https://www.eff.org/john-perry-barlow A Declaration of t
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by driggs 8mo ago
While predation by rats is curious news, much more common (here in the US at least) is predation by raccoons. Conservation-minded management practice is often to build a "bat friendly" gate at the entrance of a significant bat cav
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by driggs 8mo ago
Windows 2000 or Windows XP - with security updates and modern hardware support - is exactly what I want.
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by driggs 8mo ago
Oof, "zero" is two syllables so we'll have to pronounce it "null".
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by driggs 8mo ago
Because that's for half-time!
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by driggs 8mo ago
This website is a useless exercise, but the idea in the submission title "using fewer syllables to express numbers" has utility. As a musician, I frequently need to count to a rhythm, and the pesky number seven's two syllable
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by driggs 9mo ago
Have you considered that it's used as a unit to represent capacity of our power grid? As in, we have now have the energy capacity for 300,000 fewer homes given this operating data center. So not only is it a relatable unit, but it&#x
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by driggs 10mo ago
PS: Someone changed the title of this submission after my comment. It was originally something like "By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market." This statistic is obviously clickbait and false, even if you count Chrome
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by driggs 10mo ago
"By my count"... Which means pretending that every single "unknown" desktop, which is a larger percentage than the Linux desktops, are Linux. And also by considering ChromeBooks, which also have a larger percentage tha
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by driggs 10mo ago
It's a fascinating thought experiment to consider a desert island populated with newborn babies, growing up to be individuals, forming a societal structure, forming culture, without any pre-existing human input. Obviously there's
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by driggs 10mo ago
It could be the case that society is responding to overpopulation in many strange ways that serve to reduce/reverse the growth of a stressed population. Perhaps not making as many babies is the longterm solution.

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