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AI Has Changed My Job

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-14/how-ai-is-changing-american-jobs-from-teachers-to-nurses
5•danso•3h ago

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danso•3h ago
https://archive.is/oP1pz

This article interviews 8 people, mostly from non tech jobs. e.g. this salon owner:

Samantha Lackney Salon owner Alexandria, Virginia

I cannot tell you how many times in the last six to eight months that clients have come in and shown me photos of stuff they’re looking at, and I have to explain it’s an AI photo. You’ll see images online where hair looks super voluminous, super dense and thick, but if you look closely, you’ll notice that very few people truly have that length of hair and that volume and texture. Or the color is beautiful, but the longer you look at it, it’s very uncanny valley—way too dark in certain areas and way too light in others. I worry about the impact of all this on the beauty standards we hold ourselves to.

On the business side, AI has been super helpful. I’ve used it to help me fine-tune my employee handbook or to assist me when my lawyer was busy, having it look over a copy of a lease before he could get back to me. It was great at summarizing documents or determining the cost of painting an interior in this ZIP code.

A lot of salons use it for caption generating, but you can tell when ChatGPT wrote something, by the format and how it’s laid out. It sounds like Vanna White telling you what’s on the Wheel of Fortune board—it’s too game-show-announcer-y. It’s like: “Trending now! Come get blond for summer.”

I’ve stopped using it. Sometimes I’ll leave one or two small typos in my captions on social media to prove that I’m real.

treetalker•2h ago
> On the business side, AI has been super helpful. I’ve used it to help me fine-tune my employee handbook or to assist me when my lawyer was busy, having it look over a copy of a lease before he could get back to me.

Bad idea. Relying on LLMs for anything related to legal matters injects (hidden) fragility and increases the likelihood of bad outcomes, which are always lagging.

Why Our CTO Banned Rust After One Rewrite

https://old.reddit.com/r/rustjerk/comments/1koe69y/why_our_cto_banned_rust_after_one_rewrite/
1•taubek•27s ago•0 comments

Severed Fingers and 'Wrench Attacks' Rattle the Crypto Elite

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/crypto-industry-robberies-attacks-32c2867a
1•zerosizedweasle•4m ago•1 comments

As Nuclear Power Makes a Comeback, South Korea Emerges a Winner

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-14/south-korea-nuclear-energy-is-leading-the-industry-comeback
1•JumpCrisscross•6m ago•1 comments

Stateful Connection with Spoofed Source IP – NetImpostor

https://tastypepperoni.medium.com/stateful-connection-with-spoofed-source-ip-netimpostor-ece8b950a981
1•campuscodi•10m ago•0 comments

How AI made your life worse

https://www.miserablyemployed.com/blogs/rants/5-ways-ai-made-your-life-worse
8•pooplic•13m ago•0 comments

Voyager 1 Comes Back to Life After 15B Miles's Space Miracle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e19hIrsRAM
1•ngcc_hk•15m ago•1 comments

Building UI's that behave like video games

1•Charz1•20m ago•0 comments

A letter from the M&S hackers landed in my inbox – this is what happened next

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr5nen5gxyo
5•Bluestein•22m ago•0 comments

Sebastián Velasco's Painting

https://www.sebasvelasco.com/painting.html
1•vinhnx•25m ago•0 comments

Cheap mini PCs have gotten good

https://world.hey.com/dhh/cheap-mini-pcs-have-gotten-really-good-c70ab40f
3•tosh•26m ago•0 comments

Shifty – A brand new Adam Curtis series [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQc8625Y03g
1•valeg•33m ago•0 comments

Why Susan Fowler blew the whistle on sexism at Uber (2020)

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/19/21142081/susan-fowler-uber-whistleblower-interview-silicon-valley-discrimination-harassment
1•Tomte•34m ago•0 comments

Why Starbucks helps mom and pop coffeehouses. (2007)

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/12/why-starbucks-actually-helps-mom-and-pop-coffeehouses.html
1•Tomte•34m ago•0 comments

A Data-Oriented Resume

https://van-sprundel.org/posts/json-resume/
1•ramon156•34m ago•0 comments

Inigo Quilez: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene

https://iquilezles.org/articles/
1•federicoponzi•36m ago•0 comments

Can Britain's neighbours help it keep the lights on?

https://www.ft.com/content/23156681-ad20-4edb-a36d-7db3b2d90f3d
1•mxschumacher•37m ago•1 comments

The Age of Shoddy

https://www.historynet.com/the-age-of-shoddy/
1•Michelangelo11•44m ago•0 comments

Telegram's Extraordinary Business Model

https://www.softpagecms.com/2025/05/18/telegrams-extraordinary-business-model/
4•justindownes•54m ago•5 comments

Craft Basic (Windows 95 and up)

https://www.lucidapogee.com/?page=craftbasic
2•lintalist•1h ago•1 comments

Amazon Mechanical Turk

https://www.mturk.com/
1•simonebrunozzi•1h ago•0 comments

What does the end of mathematics look like?

https://www.awanderingmind.blog/posts/2025-05-18-what-does-the-end-of-mathematics-look-like.html
2•awanderingmind•1h ago•0 comments

Tacking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacking_(sailing)
1•downboots•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Infrabot UI, create and visualize infrastructure using natural language

https://twitter.com/alaeddine_abd/status/1923793696199172187
1•alaeddine-13•1h ago•0 comments

Backlash Against US Government's Block on Huawei's HarmonyOS

https://harmonyoshub.com/backlash-against-us-governments-block-on-huaweis-harmonyos/
2•MachinmaRights•1h ago•1 comments

An engineer's brutally honest pitch for his Typeform alternative

https://forms.md/honest-pitch/
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SQL OFFSET is worse than keyset pagination

https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/partial-results/fetch-next-page
1•fanf2•1h ago•0 comments

How the Heck Do QR Codes Work? (An Interactive Exploration)

https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-do-qr-codes-work
1•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

VACE: An all-in-one model designed for video creation and editing

https://wavespeed.ai/models/wavespeed-ai/wan-2.1-14b-vace
2•chengzeyi•1h ago•1 comments

Iceland's shorter working week has been a success

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/21/iceland-36-hour-working-week-stress-job
5•ColinWright•1h ago•0 comments

Looking for a FiveM HWID spoofer? I found a free one

https://helenuvjfz.github.io/fivm/
4•lukasbim•1h ago•1 comments