At best, that’s reductive and at worst it’s completely wrong. I get that this was probably a joke answer, but I feel like this misconception is unfortunate since it misrepresents ancient Egyptian culture and also undermines the impact of the unique evil of chattel slavery that was practiced in the US.

It’s an interesting concept, but aside from the scalability issues mentioned, I don’t think demographics are necessarily an indicator of a judge’s biases cough Clarence Thomas cough.

For this specific HN post, speedrunning is a bit of a misnomer. He used similar tooling to effectively add support for a physical keyboard and additionally a bunch of keyboard shortcuts that are capable of inputting custom text, songs, and fabric patterns.

There’s a YouTube video where the author showcases this. It’s pretty short and a really interesting watch: https://youtu.be/Yw8Alf_lolA

Why can’t the world have more of this and less of… everything else that’s going on right now? 😕

I don’t really have a point, it’s just sad that humans have the capacity to do such cool, fun, creative things, and instead we’re burning the world down so computers can churn out garbage and blowing each other up because we’re different from each other.

https://youtu.be/1BCXJ3yC65o

But with the rise of AI, the dynamic is changing: We are observing a significant increase in request volume, with most of this traffic being driven by scraping bots collecting training data for large language models (LLMs) and other use cases. Automated requests for our content have grown exponentially, alongside the broader technology economy, via mechanisms including scraping, APIs, and bulk downloads. This expansion happened largely without sufficient attribution, which is key to drive new users to participate in the movement, and is causing a significant load on the underlying infrastructure that keeps our sites available for everyone.

- https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/

This is part of the larger problem that AI tools are trained on (and profit off of) content that is produced and hosted by others who are now seeing their traffic change from humans to bots. For content sources that pay for hosting with ads, this means a loss in revenue to pay for hosting. For content sources like Wikipedia, they are seeing their hosting costs increase significantly due to the increase in bot traffic. Even if you want every website that depends on ad revenue to fail (which I don’t entirety agree with), AI is still damaging the open web in other ways. Websites like Wikipedia for example may soon be forced to lock content behind logins or leverage aggressive captchas just to fight the bot traffic, which makes things worse for those of us that still prefer to use actual websites over AI summaries.

It’s named after the inventor of the internet: Al Gore.

An infestation implies they’re not supposed to be there.

Alternate headline: Alligators survive 36 hours in human infested swamp

This made me look it up as well, and I cannot express how disappointed I am that it isn’t a grinding sound.

I’ve had the same experience. I splurged a bit and got one with all the bells and whistles (warm water, heated seat, etc.). It’s such a shockingly significant improvement to something I do daily. Couldn’t imagine going without it now. I can’t believe they’re not more common.

The title could really use an extra comma and some quotation marks…