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How Did Elevators Lose Their Music?
My informal survey reveals the decline of an insipid but historic genre
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 13,072 posts.
Society, Policy & Culture
Any year
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Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)
One of the hottest commodities in the military, or even for civilian contractors, is having a vehicle down range when you are deployed in the Middle East. Anyone who is someone has their own Ford
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Poisoning Well
An experimental strategy for contaminating Large Language Models
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California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS
These solely represent my own interpretation and opinions. Some parts might be wrong — actually — some parts will be wrong. Please tell me somewhere.
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If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It?
Another long week in the all-stick, no-carrot revolution
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The future of GNOME
Having just returned from GUADEC and now having the desktop as my job focus I been thinking about where we are going and what to do next. Benjamin managed to get quite a bit of press for his abysmally negative post, but I think his mis-stated the situation quite badly. As Dave Mason said during...
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SF author Greg Egan reviews Avatar
Avatar Review by Greg Egan
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Against All Applications
Imagining better ways of picking people
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New Texas Abortion Law Likely to Unleash a Torrent of Lawsuits Against Education
In addition to the drastic restrictions it places on a woman’s reproductive and medical care rights, the new Texas abortion law, SB8, will have devastating effects on online speech. The law creates a cadre of bounty hunters who can use the courts to punish and silence anyone whose online advocacy,...
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Thrun pivots Udacity toward vocational education
Internet applications and technology and their implications for individuals, organizations and society
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Xi Jinping’s War on Spontaneous Order
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal published a letter I wrote to their editor in response to Kevin Rudd’s exposition on Xi Jinping’s “Common Prosperity” campaign:
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Is Social Media Worthless?
The Voice of the Customer (VoC) helps businesses understand who they are selling to and what they expect. Use the following tips and best practices to better understand what the Voice of the Customer is and how you can implement a successful VoC program.
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Prestige in US Today
Lauren A.
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Travel locally, where you are
Many people dream of traveling to faraway places to experience new cultures and sightseeing.
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How to stop advertisers from tracking your teen across the internet
When children turn 13, they age out of the data protections provided by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Then, they become targets for data collection from data brokers that collect their information from social media apps, shopping history, location tracking services, and more.
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Baiting the bot
LLM chatbots can be engaged in endless "conversations" by considerably simpler text generation bots. This has some interesting implications.
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