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151•ilreb•2h ago•54 comments

Aluminum foil (2021)

https://dernocua.github.io/notes/aluminum-foil.html
59•firephox•1h ago•13 comments

Road to Elm 1.0

https://elm-lang.org/news/faster-builds
155•wolfadex•3h ago•71 comments

Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

https://www.map.signalbox.io
280•scrlk•5h ago•109 comments

Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability

https://andonlabs.com/blog/fable5-vending-bench
59•optimalsolver•2h ago•18 comments

How Kalshi Infects the News

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kalshi-cnn-cnbc
30•everybodyknows•2h ago•11 comments

Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on "Stochastic Parrots"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/stochastic-parrot
8•digital55•27m ago•0 comments

Why low-latency Java still requires discipline?

https://chronicle.software/insights/blogs/why-low-latency-java-still-requires-discipline
31•theanonymousone•2h ago•14 comments

Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys

https://clojure.org/news/2026/07/02/clojure-1-13-alpha1
70•FelipeCortez•3d ago•1 comments

Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries

https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Support/Nintendo-Switch-2/Information-about-upcoming-battery-relat...
109•akyuu•1h ago•60 comments

When 2+2=5

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/ai-browsers-can-be-lulled-into-a-dream-world-where-guard...
24•noashavit•3d ago•15 comments

Do you really need separate systems when you already have Postgres?

https://postgresisenough.dev/
6•b-man•16m ago•1 comments

Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman After Surveilling Her with a LPR

https://www.404media.co/footage-shows-cop-stalking-woman-he-met-on-a-tv-set-after-surveilling-her...
68•Tasseographer•1h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Scan your AI agents for dangerous capabilities

https://github.com/makerchecker/MakerChecker
24•smashini•1h ago•14 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex

https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2073933490513752151
371•mfiguiere•14h ago•321 comments

Introduction to Genomics for Engineers

https://learngenomics.dev/docs/biological-foundations/cells-genomes-dna-chromosomes/
131•yreg•4d ago•20 comments

Has_not_been_viewed_much

https://iamwillwang.com/notes/has-not-been-viewed-much/
401•wxw•15h ago•104 comments

Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped

https://www.uncommonapps.nyc/p/castro-podcasts-things-i-got-wrong-support
252•dabluck•13h ago•153 comments

Lost and Found

https://walzr.com/lost-and-found
12•walz•14h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Pet Reminder – A macOS reminder app with a desktop pet

https://reminder.w3cub.com/
13•terryXyz•2h ago•8 comments

The Complete Homemade Juggling Beanbag Guide

https://www.joshuaclifton.com/juggle/
46•mrauha•4d ago•5 comments

Resetting Xbox

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/
26•dijksterhuis•54m ago•6 comments

C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/07/05/c-programmers-commit-fresh-crimes-against-readabil...
85•Bender•3h ago•9 comments

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/
47•bookofjoe•2h ago•10 comments

My quest to see all of Tetris

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/tetris-quest/
52•wwilson•3d ago•11 comments

DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/doj-closing-abbott-labs-case-spurs-wider-corporate-crim...
6•petethomas•34m ago•0 comments

X402, a static blog monetization excercise

https://shtein.me/posts/x402-poc/
29•morty28•4h ago•18 comments

Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20049
174•softwaredoug•16h ago•84 comments

Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected

https://www.reuters.com/business/zuckerberg-says-ai-agent-development-going-slower-than-expected-...
309•cwwc•3d ago•558 comments

NASA launches robot to save Swift telescope falling to Earth

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ry4xx7rk8o
14•msadowski•4h ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

The Fear of Dying Before You Become Yourself

https://www.dailicle.com/read/the-fear-of-dying-before-you-become-yourself
27•dotcoma•1h ago

Comments

valdork59•1h ago
The blog post is not just beige— it's filled with em dashes, and here's why that matters.
glimshe•1h ago
AI can do a surprisingly good job at philosophy. I think that the "knowledge join" LLMs are so good at helps the of philosophical works.

That said, the post is pretty boring.

mercanlIl•1h ago
The blog post does the “It’s not X, it’s Y” pattern a few times. It’s hard not to assume the post is just produced by an LLM.

It’s frustrating not knowing whether I’m reading the musings of a real person, or the output of an LLM.

feoren•36m ago
I've taken the stance that garbage is garbage, whether written by a human or an AI. It's not like the internet wasn't chock full of insipid philosophy and astroturfing before LLMs were around. It seems like people are starting to read everything on the internet with a much more critical eye because of LLMs, and I think that might be a good thing. As someone who's always been cynical, I say: welcome everyone! It sucks over here, but it sucked over there too, you just didn't know it.

But yes, this was almost certainly LLM. In real humans, the quality of thought has a stronger correlation with the quality of writing.

CommieBobDole•1h ago
This is the Platonic ideal of an LLM-generated blog post; it's pages long, it uses a lot of flowery language, and communicates almost zero actual information. I can't disagree with the premise, because the premise melts away when you try to pin it down, like cotton candy washed in a stream by a raccoon.

Congratulations, person who wrote the prompt that caused a machine to generate this article, you have truly achieved some sort of perfect something.

xandrius•1h ago
> People say they're afraid of death, but often what they really mean is dying as the wrong person.

Nope, pretty sure it's almost always a mix of a) not knowing what (if anything) is after, b) the way one achieves the state of "being dead", c) high possibility of own consciousness ceasing to exist and d) leaving someone behind.

I don't really care if I'm meant to become the next Luke Skywalker or the pope, I would live just fine if I didn't have to die for something I have no control over and just remain me.

topgrain2•1h ago
> c) high possibility of own consciousness ceasing to exist

Yeah, death being the subjective end of the universe is kinda high on the list of reasons it bothers people, I think.

throwaway27448•1h ago
I think it depends on the person. I can't say I've worried about any of this since I was a teenager except d. Angst over how I live my life definitely ranks much higher than stressing about nonsensical concerns.
deadbabe•1h ago
Humanity will someday solve death: make everything lifeless by default. No more death.
MyHonestOpinon•49m ago
We may solve it for Humans. Earth will continue living without us.
tomrod•46m ago
Or, alternatively, we realize that the best use of our time and the best organizing drive is something that extends beyond us into the far future. A great example would be adopting the principle that sapience and sentience should survive the heat death of the universe.

We are a species driven by memetic thoughts that builds a reality through consensus. Having shared goals helps us in that regard.

gitowiec•1h ago
I like this article, for me it hits the point. I'm tumbling through live, I barely make choices
nicbou•1h ago
This blog became really active in 2025. I struggle to believe it's written by a human.
jjulius•1h ago
There is no self.
__s•1h ago
I've experienced the opposite: wishing I were dead so life wouldn't go on with me falling into just another glum existence. That at the emotionally present moment I snapshot it, preventing inevitable dullness that time moves on

Unfortunately here I am, life moves on, now I'm just wasting away on HN

mountainb•40m ago
This is why, here at GloboCorp, we kill an Excel monkey at the office right after the daily standup. The open office plan makes it so that the whole team hears the screams (and some lucky team members catch a little splatter). Death creates some unexpected synergies. At GloboCorp, our employees learn that death is inexorable. Does one fear the rising of the sun? No. One simply accepts that the sun will rise. So too do our valued team members at GloboCorp simply accept that they will be checking functions until they are reduced during a daily teambuilding exercise.

No one at GloboCorp asks themselves if they will live the rest of their lives as Excel monkeys, because we answer that question for them every day. The answer is Yes, you will fill out the little cells, and then we will kill you. We provide effective solutions to the problem of being. We transform existential dread into acceptance and peace and high performance.