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Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 8,149 posts.
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How Big is Email?
Estimating the size of the world’s communications.
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Withnail's Coat and I
He may have had tailoring from Hawkes of Savile Row, but Withnail’s coat has a more complicated history.
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Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else.
People hate change. They have something of a tendency to dig their heels in and be against it just because it is new and different. They as...
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Gnome Turns 25
Around the end of 2020, I looked at GNOME's commit history as a proxy for the project's overall health. A year and a half went by since then, and it's time for an update.
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No Socials November
November seems to be a ripe month for challenges. Some people grow facial hair. Some people write many words daily hoping to come out with a novel on the other...
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Fuck Cloud Messaging
Ever tried to send a push notification to your phone? How hard can it be? I was surprised when I tried to push a simple push notification without involving a third party. It's not just hard they have made it near impossible to send a simple push notification without subscribing to their service. Moreover it doesn't…
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Making Millions by Distributing Pirated Movies
Introduction Did you know that piracy is about making money? Most people don’t seem to be aware of that. Piracy is about money. It’s serious business. It doesn’t have to be though…
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Stop Writing Twitter Threads
If you've clicked on the links, you've probably noticed a pattern: they are all Twitter threads. And Twitter threads are an absolute abomination.
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Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little
Previously published at GBH News. I have nothing against Substack. The newsletter platform seems like a clean, simple tool aimed at helping independent writers charge subscription fees for their wo…
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Snowden-haters are on the wrong side of history
In the autumn on 1963, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, worried at Martin Luther King’s growing influence, began tapping his phones and bugging his hotel rooms. They hoped to discredit him by gai…
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More people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows
People of earth, waving at Saturn, courtesy of NASA . “It Doesn't Look Like Ubuntu Reached Its Goal Of 200 Million Users This Year”...
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The end of the subscription era is coming
You’re overpaying for your porn (and journalism)
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Lee Ross and the “Fundamental Attribution Error”
...and to the psychologist who put it on the map.
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An Inside Look at CloudKitchens
A co-working space for restaurants of the future.
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America needs supply-side reform
It's can't just be an excuse — we need to improve our policies
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Everyone's Packing Up
I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others about leaving Dis...
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The Antitrust Hearing, the Role of Congress, CEO Questions
Congress is exactly where discussions about tech and society should be happening. Then, a list of questions for every tech CEO.
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Why Read Classic Books?
This is my first attempt to “think out loud” about the question I get most often: why bother reading the Classics? This is still very much a work in progress: I think people don’t consider and adapt their own beliefs often enough (see also: mental liquidity ). I consider my opinions here to be very much loosely held…
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How factories were made safe
The fundamental cause was a wrong attitude towards the core question: who is responsible for safety?
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Google Should Fire Sundar Pichai
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.
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This Page Is Why The Internet Sucks
James Bond was orginally called Barry Clams [Note: Typo in original headline at post time.] Go look at it. According to Letter Count, the entire item people are meant to read — including head…
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Where are vacation homes located in the US?
As of 2023, the US has around 142.3 million housing units: roughly one home for every 2.4 people in the country.
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Tumblr "Disappears" Microsoft's Danah Boyd
Update: Tumblr called me, apologized, and restored my account. More details below.
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PGP needs to be retired in honor
personal ramblings, noone cares about
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Why none of my books are available on Audible
And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55.