ikesau0 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Making the Internet Boring

Blocking recommendations is the one thing I'd add to this list. You can easily do so with uBlock Origins, and it's made the biggest difference for me.

Water still finds cracks, but it's about reducing the likelihood and increasing the time between binges (so that they mentally register as necessarily intentional and abnormal)

JohnFen0 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Altman says countries have to use AI: 'I think it ...

So far, all I've seen from these companies and tools is that they're making everything worse on every front. Even these guys who are making these absolutist proclamations can only justify them by vaguely saying "it will make things better someday".

They're just cheerleading what they imagine will be, and ignore the real problems these tools are causing right now.

We can't just pay attention to theoretical future benefits. We have to pay attention to the costs as well. The cost/benefit ratio is all that matters.

vb-84480 minutes ago | parent | context | on: LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost

> Only if you aren't schooled in reading graphs ...

So we can say the about the authors "AA’s plot is misleading" claim, he is "not schooled in reading graphs"?

> How exactly would you zoom into a section of a graph and just show that section?

When building a chart is good practice to provide log scale switch and zoom&pan capabilities, so the reader can decide how to look at it.

saidnooneever0 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Poisson Disk Sampling

funny you mention. blue noise was also the first one that popped in my mind. spent a lot of time looking for blue noise without knowing it at some point ::) while working on a system that was also using poisson disk sampling.

cagey0 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Retirement Is Dead

[Speaking as a US citizen]

> ... BS like "high yield savings account" there is no such thing as long as I am alive ...

HYSA are in 2026 readily available.

> ... well "money market accounts" seem better and kind of like of HYSA, but the hell those are not really that easily available.

Likewise readily available: open a free brokerage (or "cash management") account at Fidelity.com online (it is easy and acts similar to a bank account: your paycheck can be direct deposited there, it offers a billpay service, you can use it for electronic transfers, and outgoing wire transfers are free; no minimum balance and no monthly fees), cash by default goes into their SPAXX money market account yielding (its 0.42% ER (Expense Ratio) is higher than some, but its 3.33% yield beats most savings/credit union savings rates; EX: Ally bank is yielding 3.00% these days). If you want more of the yield to go into your pocket you can buy (with no transaction fee) a ETF like Vanguard's VBIL which invests only in short duration US Treasury bills (now yielding 3.63% w/ER 0.06%). And if you're up for slightly higher effort, you can buy T-Bills directly at Fidelity with auto reinvestment, at no extra cost.

The preceding (including HYSA) are all near-zero risk, and as a consequence, do NOT pay truly "high" yields (which I think was your real point), they just pay yields that are at the upper end of 'near-zero risk'. These are NOT where you invest for long-term gain/appreciation. For the latter, conventional wisdom says: invest in the stock market, where the risk is much higher, but the historical long-term return is too. ETF's make this easy and efficient. One candidate for "fire and forget": VTI, Vanguard's Total [US] Stock Market Index ETF (as before, with an easy to open account at Fidelity, you can trade these for almost no cost; Fidelity has many competitors, I am merely a happy customer of theirs).

bookofjoe0 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Study of Brain Proteins Spurs Optimism for Autism ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/science/autism-treatments...

almostdeadguy0 minutes ago | parent | context | on: AI Policy

Oh agreed, I'm mostly explaining why someone who was a skeptic would make the calculation that they can afford to opt-out of using AI (and why you might weigh on the side of opting out even if you didn't think using LLMs had a morally unsavory valence).

Avshalom0 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

Paint.net is closed source

sorenKaram0 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Ju...

I feel like we didn't need a study to tell us this but its always nice when science confirms something we know to be true.

Rodmine0 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

3.7-flash has been useless many times, specially when context gets bigger. 3.1 is the only Google model that has seen use from me. With extended thinking, 3.7-flash is kinda usable but not without many problems. I find myself falling back to 3.1 often. I don't believe in any benchmarks because whatever they are doing to award 85% to 3.7 on anything, they should seriously reconsider that test for anything.

zzo38computer0 minutes ago | parent | context | on: I Don't Have a Smartphone

I do not (and never had) a smart phone, either.

I have been at one restaurant that had a QR code to view the menu, although they did provide a iPad to any customer who needed it. (At the time, I was with someone else who had their own iPad.) It was not very good food (and badly managed) so I do not intend to return there in future.

If you do not want to print the menu in multiple paper copies, then you might consider a single epaper display somewhere that the customers can easily see (anyone with a camera or a camera phone can take a picture; someone with pencil and paper might copy it out by hand).

w4zz0 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

I suggest you fork it to improve

tim3331 minute ago | parent | context | on: What's within a 10-minute walk in 50 European citi...

I think it rates Soho top for going out but says to live in Deptford which is kind of interesting. I've lived around London most of my life but not hung out there.

delichon1 minute ago | parent | context | on: Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Ju...

I was positive that I remembered an old hobbit woman scowling and calling Gandalf a storm crow in the films. Then I found a clip of the scene and it just wasn't in there. It was actually Théoden that said that. But the version in my head is better, so if I make such mistakes please don't correct me.

Schnitz1 minute ago | parent | context | on: Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides You...

With music it’s especially bad because people will assume the music itself is AI generated, when in your case it isn’t.

rrr_oh_man1 minute ago | parent | context | on: Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS

Thanks, Boris

nikanj1 minute ago | parent | context | on: Discontinuation of third level domain registration...

"2.1. What effect, if any, will the proposed service have on the life cycle of domain names?

None. There will not be any effect on the life cycle of domain names."

Well, aside from deleting all of them. But no other effect on the life cycle.

"3.6. Have you communicated with any of the entities whose products or services might be affected by the introduction of your proposed service? If so, please describe the communications. No. Not applicable."

I guess communication is not applicable when you just cease a service.

rrr_oh_man1 minute ago | parent | context | on: Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS

I agree with your sentiment, but it's totally fine if no one uses it.

It was founder therapy first and foremost (and an exercise in serious play).

Defletter1 minute ago | parent | context | on: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

I originally had "self exiles" but thought the pun was funnier :P

jnwatson1 minute ago | parent | context | on: Discontinuation of third level domain registration...

Can't anyone set up a "registrar" for a subdomain of a domain they already use? They control the DNS record, right? Why is ICANN even involved here?

I don't see how this is any different, other than the second-level domain owner delegates their registrar job to the first-level domain owner.

There is something weird though if you control smith.name, that you don't control john.smith.name. The DNS system does convey some indirect concept of responsibility.

alephnerd1 minute ago | parent | context | on: The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified

Why do you think GCCs are a thing and Google India wages [0] are now reaching Poland levels [1] for mid-career Googlers.

[0] - https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...

[1] - https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...

Sha1rholder1 minute ago | parent | context | on: LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost

The more dimensions you take into consideration, the larger the proportion of the Pareto frontier becomes across all distributions, and making it harder to choose.

12_throw_away2 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Fine, I'll build my own text editor

> Sounding and being are not the same thing.

I'm familiar with his stated opinions regarding both generics, and syntax highlighting. They check both the "sounding" and "being" boxes quite nicely.

javier_e062 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Playa Phone

All is missing is the white pages phone book tethered by a chain. Pick a name at random and dial it and say: "Michael Davenport?, It's me!"

Henchman212 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee...

This feels like too much credit to Apple?

kuroguro2 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

he probably means the nitter part, not the literal domain. never occurred to me before tho.

branon2 minutes ago | parent | context | on: I Don't Have a Smartphone

Perhaps that's the grandparent commenter's idea but I don't think it's the point the article is making:

> So, seriously, I do really like the smartphone idea. It’s just that I don’t have any browser or "social" app on it. And I don’t want anything else than what I have.

> I wish I could say it is all I have, that I’m a true minimalist.

He defines true minimalism as having an _ideologically conformant_ computer, not no computer at all.

rectang3 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Ju...

The concept of memories blending together resonates after watching a recent Kurzgezadt video entitled "How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain?". It makes the point that the very act of recalling a memory changes it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqtggjVAi8M

> But memories are not static like photos. Like dioramas made from wax, each time they’re under the spotlight of your attention they can melt and change a tiny bit.

robertn7023 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

I highly recommend just getting out of Anthropic's (or anyone's) vendor lock-in. Use opencode or pi. You can still use your subscription pricing using a proxy. I switched to opencode and haven't looked back.

inigyou3 minutes ago | parent | context | on: I Don't Have a Smartphone

So you filled out a form with your personal data and were about to press the submit button to send it to them, but you don't consent to them having that data?