In the USA the national speed limit was implemented by Richard Nixon in response to the oil crisis of 1973. The motive was to reduce energy consumption, not to reduce fatalities.
IMO posting "This article is AI" does not add anything to the conversation.
The HN guidelines[1] include:
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage.
and
Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.
I'd argue pointing out that you think an article is AI is very similar in value to pointing out any of the above. None of us like AI slop. But I wouldn't be surprised if, by the end of 2026, 90-95% of articles posted online are AI slop. Pointing it out is useless. As useless as pointing out that the article breaks the scrollbar (which happens often) or that the article is formatted badly or has poor text contrast, or that an article is Chinese propaganda. Probably true, but posting about it adds nothing to the discussion, and is not allowed on HN.
All we really need is to add "Don't complain that an article is AI" to the guidelines.
> Just ask Claude to dump out assembly, or a compiled binary, but no, they don't trust the LLM that much
No, people do advocate for this. It may simply not be as portable however as something that is high level able to be compiled to assembly for many machines.
Absolutely this. To the extent I would be surprised if the effect they describe here measures what they think it does. Any ground-level effect from altering route recommendations is mediated by drivers’ willingness to comply.
People go along with your wacky reroutes because you’ve conditioned them to believe you’re saving them—individually, not collectively—time. The moment people believe you’re giving them the runaround to save everybody else a few seconds, I feel quite sure you’ll see compliance disappear. Your intervention loses its relationship to your outcome.
At which point the second-order effect leaves you worse off than the status quo: once you’ve shattered the trust, people don’t believe you even when you truly are routing them around a traffic jam to save them (individually) time. At which point you lose the collective benefits that were a happy side effect of drivers having better information to use in their own self-interest.
I cannot even express how much hatred I have for bad charts, and getting tricked by one anyway when I go in already expecting it to be lying to me is incandescently indescribable.
On Wikipedia there's a very progressive-looking chart that is measuring in TWh/year and going up up up. And as you say,
>Ireland lacks any energy storage so none of that wind can be used for baseload
You always measure baseload in GW or if you're fancy, TW.
So what that chart is really saying is that Wind is adding on average about 70 KW of capacity per year, when amortized over 24 hours. Which is probably on the order of an additional .3GW of capacity per year when the sun is shining and bupkis the rest of the time.
Although given how overcast that region is, maybe measuring solar in TWh/year is a bit excusable, and then they end up measuring everything else that way?
This is my side project turned solo bootstrapped startup that I've been working on over the past 2.5 years. Pastmaps has been solely a US-focused platform since it's initial launch but I'm currently working on launching to the UK and Ireland within the next week. If all goes as planned then I should have a first wave of 30K fully digitized, hi-res, and fully georeferenced 1800s ordnance maps available soon to help folks discover the history all around them.
I'm likely going to need to start building out my own global LiDAR dataset next though. My coverage for the US is quite stellar thanks to the data provided by the USGS' 3DEP program but I'm way out of touch with what's available and possible in the EU. It's gonna be a challenge but I'm excited to dive in.
What happened is that you can get a set of 5 custom PCBs for about $2. The quality is much higher and you don't have to deal with nasty chemicals. I'll never manually etch a board ever again if I can help it.
It’s funny how you’re always policing me and not the thousands of other people that are posting much worse things.
I’d be happy if there was a version where I can just see links, comments and add posts to favourites. That’s all I need really.
Saw three years worth of my work be classified as "slop" because a few months ago I subscribed to and started using Claude. Got flagged so much I became the second most flagged user on the site according to their own statistics. Got told to delete my account by the website itself. Got directly told to leave by other users. I think the only reason I didn't is enough people messaged me privately to ask me to stay.
It got to the point I'm sitting on reviewed and tested patches for Mesa that I'm too ashamed to submit because of Claude's participation.
Vanilla JavaScript makes sense for personal projects, but if you're working on a team, I wouldn't trust other team members to not create their own frameworks that may not be as well documented.
Especially nowadays with LLMs, the team would benefit more from the LLM innately knowing a widely used library/framework than having to spend context each session teaching the agent your custom setup through context files and skills.
everyone look at this guy, he's that much smarter and more expert than me, how could i have missed something so basic. i hope to aspire to your level some day.
Even if you did, how would you even enforce it? Say it was a pure text article, do you count the number of em dashes? Even AI detection scanners purpose built for this are extremely faulty.
