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Why does almost every submission title in https://digg.com/tech have the word "reportedly" in them?

Apart from the supercar aspirational enthusiasts and the usual inspiration of innovation with concept cars give, I'm thinking of other audiences for this product. What's the actual future of this?

Ask yourself who would see the benefit of a vehicle that can jump over obstacles, other dangers or other cars?

Obstacles including barricades, flooded roads, tank traps, rivers, fences and burning cars. Dangers might include IEDs, mines, destroyed bridges, barbed wire, stinger strips, active munitions being fired at it, etc.

Even without such dangers, jumping over moving cars would be useful in pursuits where getting in front of a target gives an advantage.

And the extra mobility would be useful in humanitarian and disaster applications where getting to and from those in need in a timely fashion may save lives.

The omnicrisis

Could opencode do the same? Thinking of trying pi because of these extensions

Do you think this might be a kind of subconscious origin of your idea? A second of a move you saw in your early life / teens stayed with you as an example of an absurd thing to draw?

If someone is interested in disinformation / propaganda it's worth looking into how we did it before WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Propaganda_Analy...

In short: the west started to train it's countries in identifying and resisting propaganda but stopped because they wanted to use propaganda for their own purposes. Every state continues to use propaganda and misinformation.

Since this submission is kind of on the topic of trolling, I miss good old fashioned forum troll comments like this. non political, not immediately obvious, cortisol provoking (7/10)

Some may find this worth a read (I found it interesting that "unalive" was first around in 2015!)

Algospeak / Slang Replacement

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/algospeak-slang-replacement

2015 "unalive" usage on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10563729

"accessed non-public data without authorisation."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/02/openai-di...

He is popular on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=diamondgeezer.blogspo...

> Michaelmas

is tomorrow!

He's not even leaving "because AI". He's literally leaving to focus more on AI stuff.

> I plan to study how AI agents debug code and whether debugging tools that can make them more effective at that.

> I want to use AI agents to bring some of my hobby project ideas to life.

> I’m keen to reap the benefits of AI

and addresses the anti-AI view:

> AI detractors think that AI won’t really work. I think it will. (ed. for brev)

The main reason then is the concern of the velocity of the rollout and the increased pervasiveness of AI. Too fast, too much.

The custom homepage feeds sound interesting. I wonder if users will be able to specify filters to be used. E.g. "Help me discover new DIY creators who have uploaded in the last week and have videos over 20 minutes". Generally I find myself marking videos as "not interested" on the homepage just to change the algorithm, so being able to explicitly say what I want may help.

And if it can help live streams be found and discovered that would be game changing. "Only show me live streams of people playing Tetris, Minesweeper and Chess, sorted by number of live viewers"

I know it's a joke but if you look at many of the key AI researchers papers (written pre-LLM mass adoption) you can see some similarities with how LLMs structure their output.

I'd love to do some stylometry on this...

Ask questions about how the audience is taking the blog posts. Say that many people seem to really not like LLM writing and ask how are they listening to their readers on this point.

You may find that brings a better and more human focused discussion. Who is the audience and what is best for them? Don't frame it about your preferences but about the real persons that your colleagues seek to talk to.

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I think because someone wouldn't answer "he is a gamesmaster" to the example question, "who is running this rpg", it makes it less odd.

If the Q was "who can run this game?" maybe then it would be ambiguous because it could imply others may also be a gamesmaster.

So the context of dropping the "the" can only really happen when there's no ambiguity.

English would work for titles:

He is President.

He is Doctor. (Dr.)

"He is president" is different than "he is a president" (one among many) or "he is the president" (the one specific).

But it would have to be within the context of titles

With the specific case, the "the" could be dropped - "who is in running this rpg?" points "he is gamesmaster" which means "he is the gamesmaster".

Probably because it's a role, similar to the title?

Past submissions with hundred of comments in total for you all to enjoy: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nohello.net

Adams is a good example of a story with a message. A message with a story is more like today's TV sci-fi.

The way the message is being told has changed because the message is incredibly important.

One thing with some modern sci-fi shows is that it's more of a message with a disguise of a story rather than a story with a disguised message.

The writers justify the change by saying (correctly) that the message is important and that right now is the most important time to say the message. The message became more important than the vehicle that it travelled in so poor story writing is acceptable.

It's like Christian rock music, it's okay and if you are Christian you might enjoy it both for the message and the music but if you just want good music you are likely not going to enjoy it as much as regular "secular" rock.

But there's also rock music that everyone can enjoys which contains (not sure the word to describe it) non obvious but religious-adjacent themes.

(2011)

It's very common for people to get the pressure on eye thing by the way there's a wiki page somewhere.

You can adapt the output if you care to do so. Almost all do not care to do so.

They just don't care to put the slightest attempt because they have a blindness to the problem. They are not doing it to intentionally mislead people.

"UK residents urged to stop panic buying food and toilet roll": bbc.co.uk 05-09-26

I like watching and listening to YouTube videos. Recently my ears have switched into a mode where I'm evaluating if the human speaker is reading LLM copy as they would normally read from a script / teleprompter anyhow.

Often they are not but sometimes I detect that they are and it's very sad to see.

Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7493856

Similar to when GitHub removed their meritocracy rug - it's fundamentally about a view of the world and less about the action. Most universities have signed up to a charter [1] that says that "racism is an everyday facet" of life and needs to be fought against by concrete actions. These universities get official ratings from bronze, silver or gold based on how they do. This current issue is less about the facts and more about a view of the world that's being challenged. People on one side are viewing the world and explaining things through one lens and others are viewing it through another. One problem in this discourse is that on one side they don't know how and why academic institutions operate and the other side sees criticism as justification for and reinforcement of their world view.

The basis for conflict resolution is to encourage people to see their opponents as human similar to themselves and to put themselves in the others shoes to acknowledge common grounds for agreement. It's possible an official inquiry by those experienced in conflict resolution may help this.

[1] https://advance-he.ac.uk/membership/equality-charters/race-e...

I actually like the design. It's the product of a human and it's fun. It also feels like it's playing with jokes about brain-rot aesthetic so communicates a contemporary and young point of view. It's cool.

The thing it's selling doesn't appeal to me in the slightest but they have tried and have some human ideas in the webdesign. Cool design if cringe product

I think we will see a hidden motivation behind this as ultimately so the output can have an author, the author can be attributed and finally the output will be copyrighted and so the LLM has more value.

Everyone who invests in AI companies wants to see the value of their investment increase.

I'd give it about 3-5 years until an AI company claims copyright over code their LLM produces. This is a crucial step in that path.