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namphibianon Show HN: I made a simple daily word puzzle

This was fun! Sadly I couldn't share my results (firefox android) - copied nothing to the clipboard?

namphibianon How to copy a file between devices? (2022)

Not necessary anymore, you can message yourself in WhatsApp now. They even sent me a notification in that regard. (That is recent though and I wish I'd known that (clever) workaround before this was possible)

namphibianon Show HN: Name That Nation

Very cool. Are you collecting data on guesses? Would be interesting to see a ranking of countries by how many people can ID them

namphibianon The Political Preferences of LLMs

This is a very good point. Would be lovely to see a) representative survey data on this for countries, where available b) the aggregate results from the websites that do offer this to humans (like political compass.org, which is one of the tests they do).

namphibianon The unending quest to build a better chicken

>The specter of chickens killing us through disease is what first led me into the annals of the industry, and eventually to Peterson. What hope is left, I wanted to know, for those of us who enjoy eating meat?

That's a funny sentence given that non-meat eaters will presumably suffer from the next avian flu as much as meat eaters.

Edit: though to be generous, maybe the author means it in a more broad sense - what hope is there for meat eating given its various drawbacks. Still, strange sentence imo