Pg – UN vote shows how isolated we are from world opinion(twitter.com)

30 points by flurly 2 years ago | 11 comments

ChatGPT is apparently going off the rails and no one can explain why(twitter.com)

52 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 24 comments

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer(twitter.com)

829 points by apitman 4 months ago | 394 comments

A post on X by John Carmack saying he admires Fabrice Bellard, quoting a thread about Bellard's work on FFmpeg, QEMU and other software.

John Jumper to join Anthropic(twitter.com)

147 points by artninja1988 4 months ago | 111 comments

Former GitHub CEO Friedman and Scale AI CEO Wang Declined OpenAI CEO Role(twitter.com)

189 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 106 comments

A mass surveillance system for national security based on advertising/RTB data(twitter.com)

37 points by wchr 2 years ago | 15 comments

Jake Seliger has died(marginalrevolution.com)

908 points by A_D_E_P_T 2 years ago | 189 comments

Alex Tabarrok's Marginal Revolution post remembering writer Jake Seliger after his death from cancer, noting his advocacy for faster drug development.

I don't like passkeys(hawksley.dev)

676 points by ethanhawksley 1 month ago | 665 comments

A personal blog post by Ethan Hawksley explaining why he dislikes passkeys and the tech industry's push to make users adopt them.

Dead Internet Theory(kudmitry.com)

597 points by skwee357 9 months ago | 638 comments

A personal blog post by Dmitry Kudryavtsev reflecting on the Dead Internet Theory, starting from his experience browsing Hacker News.

Facebook is cooked(pilk.website)

1416 points by npilk 8 months ago | 777 comments

A personal blog post arguing that Facebook is now dominated by AI-generated slop content and has been abandoned by younger users.

Bram Moolenaar has died(groups.google.com)

4020 points by wufocaculura 3 years ago | 383 comments

A vim_announce Google Groups post from Bram Moolenaar's family announcing his death on 3 August 2023 and his upcoming funeral arrangements.

The past is not true(sive.rs)

375 points by swah 3 years ago | 319 comments

Derek Sivers essay recounting how a car crash memory he carried for years turned out to be false, arguing our memories of the past are unreliable.