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myst··on Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots
Master Mazu sat on the chair. Baizhang stood up and rolled up his sitting mat. Mazu stood up and went back to his quarters.
myst··on Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots
Which “that”?
myst··on Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
Having offline for free, why would we need online for a price?
myst··on Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
Offline is a shared experience.
myst··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Whining on the order hand is always easy.
myst··on How to Exist
You are onto something, brother. Nirvana is samsara, samsara is nirvana. Buddha mind is every day mind.
myst··on Why a philosopher turned down Anthropic (AI industry asking the wrong questions)
https://archive.is/ToWC4
myst··on Germany is quietly falling apart
That’s everyone’s approach in fact. As soon as “reaping rewards” becomes “resting on laurels”, one loses the ability to do anything but protectionism.
myst··on How to Ask Good Coding Questions That Get Great Answers (2016)
www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html (90s and on)
myst··on The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth
There’s no second Don Knuth vOv
myst··on Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)
I’m genuinely confused. Was there any doubt before this study that sport makes people healthier?
myst··on Fate – a joke horoscope generator utility for Linux pids
This is the funniest “fun project” I’ve seen <3
myst··on Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion
Until you can sleep on the road.
myst··on Turning Claude Code hooks into a live racing dashboard
I cannot believe he wasn’t paid enough.
myst··on I analysed 20 years of my chats
Doing it late(r) only adds to the pain of missing out before.
myst··on Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis
AI has no doubt.
myst··on Resist Less, Not Try Harder
Very Zen. Will sell well.
myst··on Why Physical Reality Is a Collective Construction
Someone’s got an AI psychosis.
myst··on Greg Brockman interview [video]
What do you get if you drop a teaspoon of business into a barrel of X? A barrel of business.
myst··on The IBM-ification of Google?
I hear this every 5 years for the last 15. And IBM is far from irrelevant.
myst··on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
Just in case you are not aware, a joke loses its fun factor if you explain it.
myst··on Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]
Apparently the world went dumber in the last 20 years and staged commits are DIFFICULT now.
myst··on Cisco workforce reductions
The message is for the investors.
myst··on How the world has avoided an oil catastrophe so far
It is almost as if Trump is shorting oil...
myst··on Arene Base
The repo has `.DS_Store` files committed. I am questioning the competency of the author(s).
myst··on Ask HN: Would you use non-SaaS downloadable chatbot app?
Privacy is not the issue. Limited use beyond trivial tasks is.
myst··on It is distressing that AI does not know the seven cardinal virtues
I have not known them either.
myst··on The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
> In the world of computing, we tend to abstract away complexity. Doing so seems liberating. It enables us to focus on the bigger picture. Unfortunately, in doing so, the fidelity of our understanding often decreases. We sometimes end up blinding ourselves.

Some “Java in the 90s” understanding of abstraction. Proper abstractions break complexity into composable elements. Hence, fidelity of our understanding increases.

myst··on The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
I had to burn out to obtain the insight :-/
myst··on A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
Does everybody _need_ to do it?
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