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UnAutomating the Economy: More Labor but at What Cost?

https://www.greshm.org/blog/unautomating-the-economy/
1•Suncho•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gettorr – Stream magnet links in the browser via WebRTC (no install)

https://gettorr.com/
1•BenaouidateMed•4m ago•0 comments

Statin drugs safer than previously thought

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2026/statin-drugs-safer-than-previously-thought
1•stareatgoats•6m ago•0 comments

Handy when you just want to distract yourself for a moment

https://d6.h5go.life/
1•TrendSpotterPro•7m ago•0 comments

More States Are Taking Aim at a Controversial Early Reading Method

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/more-states-are-taking-aim-at-a-controversial-early-read...
1•lelanthran•9m ago•0 comments

AI will not save developer productivity

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4125409/ai-will-not-save-developer-productivity.html
1•indentit•14m ago•0 comments

How I do and don't use agents

https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/2019975917863661760
1•tosh•20m ago•0 comments

BTDUex Safe? The Back End Withdrawal Anomalies

1•aoijfoqfw•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Compile-Time Vibe Coding

https://github.com/Michael-JB/vibecode
3•michaelchicory•25m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ensemble – macOS App to Manage Claude Code Skills, MCPs, and Claude.md

https://github.com/O0000-code/Ensemble
1•IO0oI•28m ago•1 comments

PR to support XMPP channels in OpenClaw

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/9741
1•mickael•29m ago•0 comments

Twenty: A Modern Alternative to Salesforce

https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
1•tosh•30m ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi: More memory-driven price rises

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
1•calcifer•36m ago•0 comments

Level Up Your Gaming

https://d4.h5go.life/
1•LinkLens•40m ago•1 comments

Di.day is a movement to encourage people to ditch Big Tech

https://itsfoss.com/news/di-day-celebration/
3•MilnerRoute•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI generated personal affirmations playing when your phone is locked

https://MyAffirmations.Guru
4•alaserm•42m ago•3 comments

Show HN: GTM MCP Server- Let AI Manage Your Google Tag Manager Containers

https://github.com/paolobietolini/gtm-mcp-server
1•paolobietolini•43m ago•0 comments

Launch of X (Twitter) API Pay-per-Use Pricing

https://devcommunity.x.com/t/announcing-the-launch-of-x-api-pay-per-use-pricing/256476
1•thinkingemote•43m ago•0 comments

Facebook seemingly randomly bans tons of users

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/
1•dirteater_•45m ago•1 comments

Global Bird Count Event

https://www.birdcount.org/
1•downboots•45m ago•0 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
2•soheilpro•47m ago•0 comments

Jon Stewart – One of My Favorite People – What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk
2•consumer451•50m ago•0 comments

P2P crypto exchange development company

1•sonniya•1h ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
2•jesperordrup•1h ago•0 comments

Write for Your Readers Even If They Are Agents

https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/02/06/write-for-your-readers-even-if-they-are-agents.html
1•ingve•1h ago•0 comments

Knowledge-Creating LLMs

https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-01-29-knowledge-creating-llms.html
1•salkahfi•1h ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•1h ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/slop-news
7•keepamovin•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Empusa – Visual debugger to catch and resume AI agent retry loops

https://github.com/justin55afdfdsf5ds45f4ds5f45ds4/EmpusaAI
1•justinlord•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Instagram public accounts with less than 1k followers can no longer go live

https://www.engadget.com/apps/instagram-public-accounts-with-less-than-1000-followers-can-no-longer-go-live-133049758.html
19•bookofjoe•6mo ago

Comments

bediger4000•6mo ago
Pulling up the ladder after getting in to the tree house.
pixelpoet•6mo ago
Fewer than
bookofjoe•6mo ago
>'Fewer' versus 'less'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less

>However, modern linguistics has shown that idiomatic past and current usage consists of the word less being used with both countable nouns and uncountable nouns.

pixelpoet•6mo ago
Modern linguistics will also say that literally meaning the same as figuratively is fine, and "I could care less" is perfectly acceptable to convey not caring; if you dare question it, you're just declared wrong by the descriptivist cargo cult. Proof by authority, the modern linguist's favourite logical fallacy!
bookofjoe•6mo ago
But is prevalent usage not a valid measure of acceptability? And is acceptable not the equivalent of correct?

For example, "nonplussed" has evolved to mean — correctly — not only its original meaning of "surprised" but also its polar opposite.

pixelpoet•6mo ago
> But is prevalent usage not a valid measure of acceptability?

It's exactly this central dogma that I question; an arbitrary number of people can be wrong about something without it magically becoming correct.

The final nail in the coffin is: if anything goes as long as it's popular, then I can just go right ahead and be "wrong" with my preferred usage of logic (could care less) and consistency (up means up, you can't suddenly declare it now also means down) anyway.

Before literally came to mean figuratively, there was a transition period where that usage was wrong, and then suddenly became correct when some imaginary threshold was crossed; so I'm just temporarily wrong and will, any day now, also see my preferred meaning of "up" (to mean down, of course with no new word for the original meaning of down because why bother with anything sensible) come to be canon. I just need to make enough viral tiktok videos and then truth vs falsity is my plaything :)

bookofjoe•6mo ago
See also: https://archive.org/details/alicesadventur00carr
resoluteteeth•6mo ago
> It's exactly this central dogma that I question; an arbitrary number of people can be wrong about something without it magically becoming correct.

Language is arbitrary and when enough people agree that a word means something, it does.

Do you insist that "nice" can only mean "foolish" and not kind because that was its original meaning, or do you accept that it now means "kind"?

If the latter, you also actually agree that the meaning of words can change once enough people use them a new way.

qwe----3•6mo ago
Go read some prose from 200 years ago and tell me that consensuses don’t chsnge
chistev•6mo ago
What makes "less than" wrong? Interested to learn.
gs17•6mo ago
It's that followers are countable. "Less" and "fewer" get more mixed in usage, but "many" vs "much" is more clear IMO. "I don't have many followers" is considered more proper than "I don't have much followers" (but you could say "I don't have much of a following").
krunck•6mo ago
This could be a way of censoring regular people who "report" on live events such as police brutality, ethnic cleansing, etc.