Mea Culpa – Dark Hours(blog.terrygodier.com)

568 points by satvikpendem 2 months ago | 255 comments

Terry Godier's blog post apologizing for problems with Dark Hours, a website he launched to show what can be seen in the night sky.

My Friend Aaron(rorz.io)

562 points by sarreph 2 months ago | 152 comments

A short story by Rory McMeekin on his personal blog about a school friend, Aaron, who obsessed over things like World of Warcraft instead of studying.

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI(danielvaughn.dev)

334 points by danielvaughn 2 months ago | 178 comments

Blog post introducing Huzzah, an experimental editor where you write pseudocode that is synced to real source code by AI on save, with the pseudocode kept as intent.

Bird brains (2023)(dhanishsemar.com)

331 points by DiffTheEnder 7 months ago | 208 comments

Personal blog essay on bird intelligence, prompted by a video of New Zealand kea parrots moving traffic cones near a tunnel by Milford Sound.

The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing(asteriskmag.com)

61 points by k2enemy 1 year ago | 39 comments

I found the music I love on the internet(coryd.dev)

36 points by cdme 2 years ago | 13 comments

Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve(technologyreview.com)

21 points by joozio 8 days ago | 28 comments

MIT Technology Review opinion piece by Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd arguing that age gates on social media backfire and closing loopholes kids use will worsen things.

I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband(themomoftheyear.substack.com)

406 points by minimaxir 1 month ago | 168 comments

A Substack essay by the mother seen in a viral San Francisco Giants game clip, giving context about her husband and family that night.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

The last time my family was replaced by technology(manuel.darcemont.fr)

298 points by megalomanu 26 days ago | 582 comments

Personal essay comparing a great-great-grandfather farrier who became a mechanic with today's developers facing replacement by AI.

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.