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Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

https://akiraux.vercel.app/
1•s4074433•4m ago•1 comments

"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

https://post.substack.com/p/there-must-be-something-like-the
1•rbanffy•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't Netflix add a “Theater Mode” that recreates the worst parts?

2•amichail•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

1•alan_sass•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Steam Daily – A Wordle-like daily puzzle game for Steam fans

https://steamdaily.xyz
1•itshellboy•15m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
1•spenvo•15m ago•0 comments

Just Started Using AmpCode

https://intelligenttools.co/blog/ampcode-multi-agent-production
1•BojanTomic•16m ago•0 comments

LLM as an Engineer vs. a Founder?

1•dm03514•17m ago•0 comments

Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-crosstalk-cells-pathogens-evade-drugs.html
2•PaulHoule•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Design system generator (mood to CSS in <1 second)

https://huesly.app
1•egeuysall•18m ago•1 comments

Show HN: 26/02/26 – 5 songs in a day

https://playingwith.variousbits.net/saturday
1•dmje•19m ago•0 comments

Toroidal Logit Bias – Reduce LLM hallucinations 40% with no fine-tuning

https://github.com/Paraxiom/topological-coherence
1•slye514•21m ago•1 comments

Top AI models fail at >96% of tasks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-failed-test-on-remote-freelance-jobs/
4•codexon•22m ago•2 comments

The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/
1•NaOH•23m ago•0 comments

Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115820462402673&w=2
2•birdculture•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: a glimpse into the future of eye tracking for multi-agent use

https://github.com/dchrty/glimpsh
1•dochrty•27m ago•0 comments

The Optima-l Situation: A deep dive into the classic humanist sans-serif

https://micahblachman.beehiiv.com/p/the-optima-l-situation
2•subdomain•27m ago•1 comments

Barn Owls Know When to Wait

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-barn-owls-know-when-to-wait/
1•fintler•28m ago•0 comments

Implementing TCP Echo Server in Rust [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOBZ_Xzuio
1•sheerluck•28m ago•0 comments

LicGen – Offline License Generator (CLI and Web UI)

1•tejavvo•31m ago•0 comments

Service Degradation in West US Region

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status?gsid=5616bb85-f380-4a04-85ed-95674eec3d87&utm_source=...
2•_____k•31m ago•0 comments

The Janitor on Mars

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/26/the-janitor-on-mars
1•evo_9•33m ago•0 comments

Bringing Polars to .NET

https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET
3•CurtHagenlocher•35m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We had 20 Claude terminals open, so we built Orcha

1•buildingwdavid•36m ago•0 comments

Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-07-your-best-thinking-is-wasted-on-the-wrong-decis...
1•iand675•36m ago•0 comments

Warcraftcn/UI – UI component library inspired by classic Warcraft III aesthetics

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
2•vyrotek•37m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•41m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•45m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•47m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You're a Moron?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/magazine/ai-commercials-ads-loneliness.html
35•lxm•7mo ago

Comments

orionblastar•7mo ago
MIT study on AI and Intelligence: https://archive.is/ClSRM
hammyhavoc•7mo ago
Solutions designed for a perceived demographic via dogfooding the same technology?
8bitsrule•7mo ago
Advertisers have tried to manipulate our social fears and anxieties since Edward Bernays invented it a century ago, to get more women to smoke cigarettes for Lucky Strike. Along the lines of 'you'll wonder where the yellow went...' or 'the heartbreak of psioriasis' ... The old SOB lived to be 103 years old.

It's sort of the opposite of 'On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.'

absurdo•7mo ago
This theory about Edward Bernays and the lucky strike being some PR mastermind striked me as bullshit and still strikes me as bullshit. People have convinced themselves of how this one guy is behind it all because it’s an easy answer - that’s the bigger con.
plausibilitious•7mo ago
This happens a lot in historiography. Easy tales become handles for epochs and then denounced as contrived, then revived. Reminds me of the xkcd about levels of rebuttal.

The guy indeed was behind the "Torches of Freedom" campaign. And was indeed an influential person. Would it have happened without him? Most likely. But he did do the things. Is History driven by personalities? By structures? Big debate there. Nonetheless, Bernays' story is not bunk.

djhn•7mo ago
I’ve also always wondered what a more critical and impartial review of source material would reveal about Bernays’ impact.
stdbrouw•7mo ago
Sure, but I think the bigger point is that, if you've got a really great and really useful product, why would you need to convince people to use it by highlighting barely realistic use cases and exploiting their fears and anxieties?
throwaway798214•7mo ago
https://archive.ph/Yy2Bb
rasz•7mo ago
Its a filter, like in that Microsoft "Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?" paper.
amai•7mo ago
The paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
bni•7mo ago
Morons are the ones most impressed with "AI", so its core demographic and low hanging fruit to sell to.
bombcar•7mo ago
Many business ads especially are aimed at CEOs and CEOs think their employees are morons, or should be.
thunky•7mo ago
It's easier to sell to a moron...

A lot of morons think AI is useless, too, but in that case there is nothing to sell to them.

seniortaco•7mo ago
"If, for some reason, your brain stops functioning, Meta’s got you."

This is a great slogan haha.

doright•7mo ago
> the less funny assumption is that someone could be more moved by an A.I. letter than by the unpolished emotion of an enthusiastic child.

You'd be surprised. Tiger parenting is definitely a thing. That the technology validates this mindset only adds more fuel to the fire.

_mlbt•7mo ago
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

-George Carlin

codelikeawolf•7mo ago
> Why doesn’t he ask his girlfriend what a thermodynamicist is? (She should know: That’s what her dad does.)

My dad worked a lot of different jobs at the same company before he retired a few years ago. I know at some point one of his jobs had "logistics" in the title. I only ever had a vague notion of what his job entailed. Unless the job title is obvious, like "plumber", I wouldn't expect this woman to know what the hell her dad does.