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dgeiser13··on I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools
Current "AI" is the manual washboard.
dgeiser13··on Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025
The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit is listed instead of "the Dragon book"
dgeiser13··on Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
Volunteer Fire Departments = Amish Barn Raising
dgeiser13··on Engineers who dismiss AI
If it was truly AI I think people would be less dismissive.
dgeiser13··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
The ole DEIA font.
dgeiser13··on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
The US also has "waiting lists and rationed care".
dgeiser13··on Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
During "the height of Microsoft dominance" Eudora, Outlook Express and Pegasus Mail were seen much more frequently for users than Outlook.
dgeiser13··on Debunking the Myths of the HBO Chernobyl series (2023)
How can a work of fiction about a real-world event have a myth?
dgeiser13··on Why hasn't there been a new major sports league?
Popular American sports need a version similar to Rugby sevens
dgeiser13··on Ask HN: Why are most status pages delayed?
Most service status pages are Layer 8 in the OSI Model
dgeiser13··on [dead]
No.
dgeiser13··on How I keep up with AI progress
Everyone in the whole world has to keep up with AI progress at this level? Holy crap that's a lot of wasted human potential.
dgeiser13··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
You said Carlson twice.
dgeiser13··on AlphaWrite: AI that improves at writing by evolving its own stories
No. There's no thinking behind AI. If anything it throws shit against the wall repeatedly until a human steps in and says "that seems to be an improvement".
dgeiser13··on Twitter.com – Is Twitter Down?
Not after Twitter started forcing you to see accounts you don't follow.
dgeiser13··on Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'
So basically a very small percentage of jobs.
dgeiser13··on Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'
Anyone who makes C-suite money would have no problem working 60 hours per week for a few years. At the level of money making once you get burn out you just retire.
dgeiser13··on The most underreported story in AI is that scaling has failed to produce AGI
It's not under-reported. If they had produced AGI it would be a giant story. No need to report a negative.
dgeiser13··on A simple geometry question that fools almost everyone
What news site? Hacker News or The Guardian?
dgeiser13··on Tennis great Steffi Graf got bitten by pickleball's 'fun factor'
What's next? Professional cornhole?

Oh, wait...

https://www.iplaycornhole.com/

dgeiser13··on I Blog with Raw HTML
Quite the unflex. I remember when everyone wrote websites in "Raw HTML".
dgeiser13··on Deep Fake Detector Extension by Mozilla Firefox
Google appeared to have picked it up on addons.mozilla.org around Nov 22, 2024.
dgeiser13··on NASA Told to to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
They spent None dollars.
dgeiser13··on Ask HN: Why are banks charging so many fees for accounts and cards?
> especially when they don't seem to make significant profits from them.

Where do you get the idea they don't make significant profits from them?

dgeiser13··on Please don't force dark mode
Exactly.
dgeiser13··on Please don't force dark mode
It's not a trend.
dgeiser13··on Please don't force dark mode
It's interesting how they don't want forced dark mode yet they have no problem with forced light mode.
dgeiser13··on Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?
Simon Willison’s blog was going to be mine but apparently 2 people beat me to the recommendation.

In that case it's not really a blog but I will go with WEB CURIOS by Matt Muir

https://webcurios.co.uk/

dgeiser13··on My Colleague Julius
I read the whole thing and never saw any twist. What did I miss?
dgeiser13··on My Colleague Julius
Julius sounds like repeated application of The Peter Principle except he never went past any level of competence because he was always incompetent. Polished but incompetent.
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