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Shadow of a Doubt

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/07/shadow-of-a-doubt-ocd-andrew-kay/
14•samclemens•3d ago

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absurdo•7h ago
This is a bait article. Avoid.
Night_Thastus•7h ago
I'm not an expert on the topic of OCD, what makes this 'bait'?

It's a bit long-winded and flowery for my taste, but otherwise OK?

I guess what I took away from it is that the underlying low-level biological causes of high-level behavioral problems is a very, very hard (ie: impossible) problem to solve with current technology. Like trying to debug a massive simulator that was written by randomly flipping bits until things worked, and has no manual, using only a hex editor.

That and despite current instances of it manifesting about modern things (phones, germs, whatever) OCD has likely existed for a very long time and just happens to 'cling' to something specific in a given person.

absurdo•6h ago
It’s an article whose discussion points are engineered. It’s not in good faith, and it’s a more frequent problem with articles in general.
marcellus23•6h ago
You still haven't really explained anything. What discussion points are engineered, and in what way are they engineered? What specifically do you have a problem with? If you don't explain your reasoning, why comment at all?
throw310822•5h ago
Maybe it's a joke about having a paranoid OCD feeling towards the article?
y-curious•3h ago
I read the entire thing. I like the author's prose, and learned a little about their theatrical exposure therapy. Can't say I left with much else, but it was an enjoyable read

Claude Code now supports Hooks

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/hooks
42•ramoz•47m ago•8 comments

Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion

https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/wifi-motion
226•bearsyankees•5h ago•161 comments

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering

https://www.philschmid.de/context-engineering
324•robotswantdata•3h ago•189 comments

I write type-safe generic data structures in C

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures/
215•todsacerdoti•7h ago•83 comments

There are no new ideas in AI only new datasets

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-are-no-new-ideas-in-ai-only
290•bilsbie•10h ago•153 comments

The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port

https://www.linaro.org/blog/hidden-jtag-qualcomm-snapdragon-usb/
112•denysvitali•6h ago•16 comments

Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus

https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/dkc2-open-bus/
187•colejohnson66•9h ago•44 comments

Entropy of a Mixture

https://cgad.ski/blog/entropy-of-a-mixture.html
25•cgadski•3h ago•2 comments

The Original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) Compressor Source Code Has Been Released

https://clownacy.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/the-original-lzexe-a-k-a-kosinski-compressor-source-code-has-been-released/
48•elvis70•5h ago•3 comments

End of an Era

https://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/end-of-an-era.html
66•marcusestes•5h ago•14 comments

Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/i-was-shocked-melbourne-mans-unbelievable-find-after-buying-house/m4sksfer8
35•cfcfcf•54m ago•11 comments

Beneath the canopy: Pioneering satellite reveals rainforests' hidden worlds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-d7353b50-0fea-46ba-8495-ae9e25192cfe
4•ZeljkoS•2d ago•0 comments

Jim Boddie codeveloped the first successful DSP at Bell Labs

https://spectrum.ieee.org/dsp-pioneer-jim-boddie
12•jnord•2h ago•0 comments

Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's Tiktoken

https://github.com/M4THYOU/TokenDagger
243•matthewolfe•12h ago•66 comments

GPEmu: A GPU emulator for rapid, low-cost deep learning prototyping [pdf]

https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p1919-wang.pdf
13•matt_d•2h ago•0 comments

Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/24/japan/japan-rice-price-falls-below-4000/
63•PaulHoule•4h ago•86 comments

Creating fair dice from random objects

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/your-next-gaming-dice-could-be-shaped-like-a-dragon-or-armadillo/
29•epipolar•2d ago•8 comments

They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder

https://kevinboone.me/dtc-700.html
71•naves•6h ago•59 comments

Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta

https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/new-enso-first-public-beta/
212•rpastuszak•13h ago•81 comments

A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

https://spectrum.ieee.org/carmax-used-pcs
62•rubenbe•8h ago•64 comments

People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2025-06-03-people-keep-inventing-prolly-trees/
14•lifty•2d ago•2 comments

14.ai (YC W24) hiring founding engineers in SF to build a Zendesk alternative

https://14.ai/careers
1•michaelfester•7h ago

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

355•david927•1d ago•1113 comments

The provenance memory model for C

https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/the-provenance-memory-model-for-c/
198•HexDecOctBin•15h ago•106 comments

Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?

139•jamesxv7•6h ago•70 comments

The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish

https://scottandrew.com/blog/2025/06/you-can-now-play-plot-of-the-phantom-the-text-adventure-game/
174•SeenNotHeard•3d ago•34 comments

Jacobi Ellipsoid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobi_ellipsoid
25•perihelions•2d ago•4 comments

New proof dramatically compresses space needed for computation

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-proof-dramatically-compresses-space-needed-for-computation/
176•baruchel•3d ago•92 comments

Public Signal Backups Testing

https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-signal-backups-testing/69984
23•blendergeek•4h ago•2 comments

400 million Windows PCs vanished in 3 years. Where did they all go?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/400-million-windows-pcs-vanished-in-3-years-where-did-they-all-go/
4•breve•19m ago•0 comments