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A girl with a will to live: the love, hope and pain of raising Elsie(theguardian.com)
1 points by ljf 9h ago|0 comments
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South Africa's weigh-and-pay shops are tackling 'poverty tax' head on(theguardian.com)
2 points by ljf 3d ago|0 comments
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Satellite images show extent of damage to major Saudi pipeline(theguardian.com)
9 points by ljf 3d ago|0 comments
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by ljf 4d ago
Because we very rarely use the term here - it might have been coined here but it has only limited traction. Most people will call them quote marks/quotation marks, and realised that they mean the text is a direct quote of something tha
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Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'(bbc.co.uk)
45 points by ljf 7d ago|100 comments
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by ljf 8d ago
In the UK we use quotation marks when we are quoting some verbatim. Scare quotes are an Americanism that is gaining traction her, but normally we use it for quoting speach.
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25 years ago, two strangers met in the twin towers and escaped on 9/11(theguardian.com)
46 points by ljf 9d ago|1 comments
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by ljf 10d ago
That is also true for me on struggling to complete books, but don't forget when books first become cheap there were letters to the newspapers deploring that young people were reading rather than 'living' by talking with frien
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by ljf 10d ago
A quick reminder as to just how bad I am at classic chess, but this is really fun and brain bending
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by ljf 13d ago
Interesting that this remains on the front page @dang - this and the other 3 sites the poster submitted (two others yesterday and one 12 days ago) all appear to follow the same AI generated pattern, all newly registered, AI written and with
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by ljf 14d ago
Sorry for the typo - "Jakob Greenfeld" - autocorrect was too agreesive on my phone and I missed that misspelling.
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by ljf 14d ago
The person you need to google is Jakob Greenfeld - who posted this and other AI spam sites to HN - chasing engagement or proving a point? I'm not sure what his end game is, but it doesn't look great (see his post history for other
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by ljf 14d ago
We should check out the ownership of this site, plus the others that the poster posted in the last 12 days...
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by ljf 14d ago
Check the posters recent history with show dead on, he's running a a few different AI generated 'research' sites - while they might have some points, they are essentially experiments in blog spam
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by ljf 14d ago
What is Jakob's end game, to chase clout or get a job out or this? As Jakob says on his own site: The bar is shockingly low You’re competing against people who barely care and barely try
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by ljf 14d ago
More AI spam research from the same poster... Not a good look for jakobgreenfeld / Jakob Greenfield who I assume owns/runs these sites amongst others?
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by ljf 14d ago
Both by the same poster? Check out his other recent posts...
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by ljf 14d ago
Look at the posters recent posts, these are 4 very similar AI sites, all similarly (badly) written by AI. I'm surprised his submissions aren't flagged.
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by ljf 14d ago
More AI research spam? Do you own all these sites you are posting here? What is the end game, to chase clout or get a job out or this? As Jakob Greenfeld says in his own site: The bar is shockingly low You’re competing against people who ba
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by ljf 17d ago
I used to spend hours pouring over the https://ikeahackers.net/ site - but never actually hacked much of our furniture (no more than adjusting the height, or changing handles/worktops). As cheap as Ikea was, being in L
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by ljf 27d ago
As a note, if you click on the 'time ago' to the right of the posters name on a post you like, you can get to the post specific screen where you can favourite comments.
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by ljf 1mo ago
To add to this, in the same way that Rome and the Roman Empire in some ways lived on through the Catholic Church, I think the 'church of capitalism' will mean that the American empire lives in far far into the future, and retains
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by ljf 1mo ago
Totally agree!
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by ljf 1mo ago
I'm only on the edges to be honest and watching others - I'm not as technical as I once was, and I don't have the time I'd like to invest in this right now - too many competing hobbies. Looking forward to the day this be
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by ljf 1mo ago
What will we feed the farmed fish (at the moment they are mainly fed wild caught fish and fish oil). Would be amazing if we can feed them something else, but currently wild caught is cheaper, and closer to their natural diet.
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by ljf 1mo ago
Intrigued, I checked my cupboard for the brands we have: * Alva (from Sainsburys) - 75p - Sardina pilchardus - Packed in Morocco, caught in Eastern Atlantic Ocean * 'The Fishmonger' (from Lidl) - 59p - Sardina pilchardus - Packed
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by ljf 1mo ago
Really? I need to look into how much sardine I can get for a £1. Here in the UK, for my lunch I've just had a 49p tin of sardines in tomato sauce from Aldi - I used to each smoked mackerel about 3 days a week for either breakfast or lu
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by ljf 1mo ago
Very much this - we are firmly at the centralised stage - when I have truly local AI running on my devices, my cost will be the energy they use - if I use open source models. I follow a guy on instagram who is doing this today, with old mob
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Summer 2026 on course to be UK's hottest on record, says Met Office(theguardian.com)
3 points by ljf 1mo ago|0 comments
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by ljf 1mo ago
An amazing book - well worth a read - I found a first edition years ago, and hadn't expected it to become quite so valuable. Luckily you can read the entire book on his daughters site, or at least you could in the past. Unrelated but s

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