MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia(jan.miksovsky.com)
2012 points by pabs3 | 241 comments
Blog post by Jan Miksovsky describing MomBoard, an e-ink display showing family messages, date and time for his mother who has amnesia.
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The Onion buys Infowars(nytimes.com)
1766 points by coloneltcb | 1095 comments
New York Times article reporting that satirical outlet The Onion bought Alex Jones's Infowars out of bankruptcy.
Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time(news.virginmediao2.co.uk)
643 points by ortusdux | 234 comments
Virgin Media O2 press release announcing Daisy, an AI voice persona of an elderly woman designed to keep phone scammers talking and waste their time.
Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess(dynomight.substack.com)
626 points by crescit_eundo | 424 comments
A Dynomight newsletter post examining how well large language models play chess and why results vary strangely across models.
Thomas E. Kurtz has died(computerhistory.org)
556 points by 1986 | 137 comments
Computer History Museum blog post in memoriam of Thomas E. Kurtz (1928–2024), co-creator of the BASIC programming language at Dartmouth.
AI makes tech debt more expensive(gauge.sh)
436 points by 0x63_Problems | 213 comments
A Gauge blog article arguing that AI coding tools make technical debt more costly rather than less relevant.
FireDucks: Pandas but Faster(hwisnu.bearblog.dev)
378 points by sebg | 162 comments
A blog post introducing FireDucks, a drop-in Pandas replacement claimed to be up to 100x faster, compared with Pandas and Polars from a finance data perspective.
I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100(elliott-king.github.io)
356 points by thunderbong | 215 comments
Blog post by Elliott King describing how following the official AWS Amplify guide led to an unexpected $1,100 AWS charge.
Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#(github.com)
356 points by porterde | 136 comments
GitHub repository for AvaloniaVisualBasic6, a recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE and language written in C# with Avalonia.
Lessons from my first exit(mtlynch.io)
348 points by saeedesmaili | 102 comments
Michael Lynch's blog post reflecting on lessons learned from selling his indie hardware business, TinyPilot, his first exit.
Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs(arxiv.org)
346 points by JSeymourATL | 445 comments
arXiv economics paper by Hunter Ng using Glassdoor data and an LLM-BERT technique to estimate that up to 21% of job ads may be ghost jobs never meant to be filled.
SQLite Index Visualization(mrsuh.com)
274 points by mrsuh | 23 comments
Interview with gwern(dwarkeshpatel.com)
234 points by synthmeat | 183 comments
Go-Safeweb(github.com)
177 points by jcbhmr | 67 comments
BERTs Are Generative In-Context Learners(arxiv.org)
131 points by fzliu | 38 comments
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JSON for Classic C++(github.com)
89 points by davikr | 66 comments
Looking for a Job Is Tough(blog.kaplich.me)
85 points by skaplich | 114 comments
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OpenMP 6.0(openmp.org)
78 points by mshachkov | 8 comments
YouTube Premium Showing Ads(old.reddit.com)
66 points by rvnx | 36 comments
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