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littlekey··on Have I befriended a murderer?
It highlighted the flaws in the justice system. Regardless of his innocence or not, it seems to be the case that his appeals are not being taken seriously even when there are compelling reasons to do so. At least that's what I got from it.
littlekey··on Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity
This is what the internet is for, thank you.
littlekey··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
Same experience here, it worked great. Really more of an advertisement FOR claude rather than a takedown.
littlekey··on An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations
This is cool. Makes me wonder what could be done to foster the friendship aside from food. Are there any sorts of games/activities one would could play with a corvid solely for mutual entertainment? And would the bird think of it in those terms?
littlekey··on The Library of Ashurbanipal (2025)
Yes, in fact a lot of names in Morrowind come from those ancient Mesopotamian cultures, mostly the Ashlander and Daedric Shrine names for whatever reason. Just check out this page: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Daedric_Shrines
littlekey··on Eight Books to Read If You're Still Thinking About the Roman Empire
Really just 5 if you don't count the author's own book. Strange article all around.
littlekey··on Three Theses on the Literacy Crisis
I read the first thesis and saw this section on modern civic engagement:

"Consider the nested and divergent forms of literacy required for a 19-year-old trying to participate in the democratic process as an informed citizen today ... they cross-reference short-form video analysis, parse hyperlinked primary sources, evaluate the credibility and rhetorical posture of algorithmic feeds, and weigh the consensus within a comment section"

which seems like a huge stretch. This may be "literacy" in the sense of being "computer literate" but I see very little connection here to actual literacy as in being able to read. First of all short form video is not reading, full stop. "Parsing hyperlinked primary sources" COULD be, but is that really happening? Most of these feeds are just full of talking heads reacting to other talking heads. The only reading going on is the last point about comment sections, and I think the comparison of that to reading a book only makes the impression more depressing, not less.

littlekey··on The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)
Surely "naan" would have been a way better transliteration choice than "non", right?
littlekey··on Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line
I haven't even been to Japan yet and this feels nostalgic haha. I can only imagine how it feels to those who are more familiar with it.
littlekey··on Show HN: 18 Words
Great little game, thanks! I found I'm terrible at the vowel heavy words like audio and ideal, interesting.
littlekey··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
And just wait til you hear about the goblins!
littlekey··on You need a webring
Agreed. There should be a subset of Betteridge's law: if a headline states that you need to do something, you don't.
littlekey··on Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van
Fun and helpful little game, thank you! I did find the last world to be a big jump in difficulty, I don't know if there's a better way to explain it or if it's just the nature of the material. Incidentally I got 1 over par on both "Record a routine" and "The full routine", do you know what sequences would be most efficient for those levels?
littlekey··on Rebuilding the Computer Room
Just wait until people clue into this and start prompting their models to introduce typos on purpose.
littlekey··on The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (2020)
I love slide 18 with the implication that researchers don't create and engineers don't think.
littlekey··on U.S. science is in chaos
Yeah, that's the point I was making; not that those people shouldn't be interested in science funding, but that when you're in that position you're going to end up voting for whoever promises you lower taxes etc. (regardless of whether those promises end up being just hot air).
littlekey··on U.S. science is in chaos
>What kind of person isn't curious about the puzzle of their own existence

A person who struggles to put food on the table and a roof over their heads, for one.

littlekey··on A dumpster arrived behind my university's library
Small nitpick but the books in IKEA are all real, and written in Swedish :).
littlekey··on Rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt, an interactive introduction
Thanks for posting this, a great example of forcing the human element to fit the computer rather than the other way around.

I have my own experience with a similar issue as I work with regular expressions in multiple languages. Getting the cursor to behave while mixing RtL and LtR is a nightmare, and it's always a guess whether the regex engine will evaluate the text correctly. There's also the struggle between forms that look identical but are different unicode points e.g. between Persian and Arabic, as well as the issues with Persian zero-width non-joiners (ZWNJ) which are optional in the language but can look invisible (or nearly so) to the eye.

These are genuinely difficult technical challenges and I understand that there's no quick fix. But I wish there was more of a drive to solve them, rather than the default English-over-everything approach that's so common.

littlekey··on The fun has been optimized out of the Internet
Yeah I had a similar experience, even as a teen I resisted the move from myspace to facebook because it felt so bland and lifeless. Hard to overstate the psychological benefit of having a customizable page that really feels like your own space, especially at that age.
littlekey··on Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game
I thought I was winning and then the bot jumped 5 of my pieces to win D:

Good fun and a great new way to use a Go board to keep things fresh, thanks for making this.

littlekey··on OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break
I'm still trying to figure out what to use it for other than news aggregation...
littlekey··on Regex Blaster
Anecdotal data point, writing and maintaining regex is still a core part of my job. Not useless at all for me :)
littlekey··on The Unmaking of the American University
http://archive.is/X5OLh
littlekey··on My lobster lost $450k this weekend
You ever feel like you live in a different world than people like this? I don't even mean that derogatorily, it's fascinating.
littlekey··on Facebook is cooked
I agree with the people saying that the product is a lot better once you're actively engaging with pages that align with your interests, so that the algorithm can feed you better content.

That being said, it's still sad that this is the default new/returning user experience. Imagine a world where a new user was met with real posts about a variety of interests, rather than a psychic barrage of insane AI posts.

littlekey··on Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
>an LLM that can generate textures to be fed into a human-coded 3d engine

I'm not certain but I think the LLM is also generating the physics itself. It's generating rules based on its training data, e.g. watch a cat walk enough and you can simulate how the cat moves in the generated "world".

littlekey··on Show HN: Lendy – Keep track of books you have lended
I wish I had enough reader friends to have this problem lol.
littlekey··on Ravaan.art
Strange that you need the website (author) to tell you how to interpret it. It's like art itself, you're allowed to come up with your own interpretations.
littlekey··on Size of Life
>for some reason

This is a pretty common fear, just look up thalassophobia (or don't! sorry!)

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