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Interview with Marc Andreessen on learning to love the humanities, and RSS
The real challenge to building on the frontier? Figuring out human behavior.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 13,066 posts.
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The Long Shadow of Checks
A lot of more modern financial infrastructure follows the paths blazed by checks, at least in the U.S.
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LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators
LA Metro’s design specifications state that its escalators go 90 feet per minute, slower than nearly everything we found.
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Rogue Amoeba responds to Phil Schiller
Visit the Rogue Amoeba blog to read more.
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It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use
This 404 report justly been getting considerable coverage. Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training dat...
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The resource leak bug of our civilization
A couple of months ago, Trixter of Hornet released a demo called "8088 Domination", which shows off real-time video and audio playback on t...
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Bring Back Webrings
I built a webring for personal websites.
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Let's all meet up in the Y2K
Back in 2024 I posted a few of these on Twitter (thread reader) after digging out old photos from the dot-com boom. I was working in London at a digital agen...
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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Finding the biological roots for pathological social withdrawal, Hikikomori
Researchers identify a number of key biomarkers in Hikikomori patients and show their promise for predicting the severity of the condition
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Pieces of Shit
I listened to this song last night.
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How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure (2011)
How did the Dutch get their cycling infrastructure? This question keeps coming back because it is of course relevant to people who want what the Dutch have. Road building traditions go back a long …
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Forget coding, we need to teach our kids how to dream
Tom Goodwin on the five key attributes we should help kids develop instead of focusing on knowledge.
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If the news is fake, imagine history
Access to the Network has changed our perception of the present and the perception of the past.
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Stab a Book, the Book Won't Die
On the resilience of books in the face of apps, attention monsters, and an ad-driven online economy
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This Apple-HTC Patent Thing
There are two aspects surrounding Apple’s patent litigation against HTC that demand further consideration. First, the severe problems with the U.S. patent system as a whole, particularly regarding software patents. Second, the strategic implications of Apple’s decision to file suit.
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DHH Is Worse Than I Thought
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
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An oral history of the AIM away message
Speed up product development from ideation to launch. Align teams, break tool silos and ship what customers need in one AI-powered visual platform.
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The history of Alt+number sequences
Code pages and custom keyboard handling.
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The button that isn’t
Is there a big red button that can launch nuclear war? No — but thinking about why there isn't is a nice way into the complexities of command and control issues.
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We Can Choose an Internet Without Surveillance
The internet is not just a network of computers—it’s a network of people. We hold great power in deciding its future.
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