Economics and Similar, for the Sleep-Deprived (2005)(blog.danieldavies.com)

14 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 2 comments

Why most of us won't be inventing little languages(slesinsky.org)

82 points by luu 3 years ago | 75 comments

Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms(dylan.gr)

94 points by James72689 5 months ago | 83 comments

Dynamic Languages Strike Back (2008)(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

39 points by curling_grad 3 years ago | 22 comments

Elastic Binary Trees (2011)(wtarreau.blogspot.com)

22 points by tosh 1 year ago | 8 comments

Double-Checking Dawkins (2007)(blog.jgc.org)

38 points by weinzierl 2 years ago | 4 comments

We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics(simonwillison.net)

474 points by simonw 3 years ago | 373 comments

Simon Willison blog post arguing that people should be plainly told ChatGPT lies, rather than debating terms like hallucination.

Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)(experimental-history.com)

127 points by rafaelc 16 days ago | 56 comments

Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History essay arguing against the claim that new ideas are getting harder to find, saying discovery is still possible.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing(pluralistic.net)

1007 points by jay_kyburz 2 years ago | 473 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog post arguing that if buying digital media isn't owning it, then piracy isn't stealing.

I don't want to read what you didn't write(blog.colinbreck.com)

952 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 394 comments

Colin Breck's blog essay arguing against reading AI-generated writing such as design documents and summaries, and describing where he finds AI useful.

The Post-AGI Era(avidfayaz.com)

10 points by Avid_F 1 month ago | 3 comments

A personal blog essay on Fayaz Notes arguing that AGI has arrived and exploring what the post-AGI era means.

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight(karpathy.bearblog.dev)

637 points by __rito__ 10 months ago | 261 comments

Andrej Karpathy blog post about using LLMs to grade decade-old Hacker News discussions and commenters' predictions with hindsight, presented as an "HN Time Capsule" site.