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New comment by Triphibian in "AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment"

Triphibian — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:55:40 +0000

My son does not have a great opinion of any edtech -- AI or not. I would wager that if you asked any kid his age they'd rather have better air conditioning than another expensive bit of software they hate using.

New comment by Triphibian in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

Triphibian — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:00:10 +0000

Re-read this recently and wholeheartedly agree. It is an ur-text for the Fallout wasteland for sure.

New comment by Triphibian in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

Triphibian — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:58:09 +0000

I had this same question and am very curious about what triggers a certain cultural work's resurgence.

Only semi-related I forced my son to explain to me why so many young people knew the song "Big Iron" by Marty Robbins.

New comment by Triphibian in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

Triphibian — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:52:27 +0000

Narcissus and Goldmund has a similar shape to Siddhartha -- covering similar ground with two protagonists instead of one. Also great.

New comment by Triphibian in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

Triphibian — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:35:36 +0000

Just finished: The Castle by Jon Ronson, very funny and enlightening look at the unraveling of some men.

Just started : Catch the Devil by Pamela Colloff, true crime about a con artist in Florida who traded overheard (probably fabricated) jailhouse confessions for a seemingly endless chain of get out of jail free cards.

New comment by Triphibian in "Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)"

Triphibian — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:54:14 +0000

This feels like stolen Worth1000 content.

New comment by Triphibian in "Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents"

Triphibian — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:18:39 +0000

When that Dinosaur Jr. album cover showed up it made so much sense.

New comment by Triphibian in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

Triphibian — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:12:33 +0000

Show HN: I hated the really small font on this website so I coded a fix for it.

New comment by Triphibian in "The softness of metal"

Triphibian — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:48:52 +0000

The hardness of guessing what headlines are about.

New comment by Triphibian in "George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts"

Triphibian — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:06:13 +0000

This group photo from the opening gala doesn't have all the stars that were present that night, but what a wild assortment of talent this is. https://deadline.com/2026/09/lucas-museum-opening-hollywood-...

New comment by Triphibian in "Destroy After Reading: photocopiers,cheap paper and DIY gave metal it's look"

Triphibian — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:36:52 +0000

File under: false metal

New comment by Triphibian in "DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits"

Triphibian — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:09:36 +0000

This tells me you should always pay cash if you are having a beer.

New comment by Triphibian in "Every exterior shot in The Taking of Pelham 123"

Triphibian — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:16:16 +0000

This is fairly timely since you'd probably be hard pressed to do the same thing with the new Spider-Man movie, which was apparently shot in Glasgow?

New comment by Triphibian in "No one can afford to make Myst games anymore"

Triphibian — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:29:38 +0000

Interesting timing on this article considering The Big Walk comes out this week. Obviously the game is not as intricate as a Myst game, but it feels like the perfect mixture of a game where design really matters and reaction to what the market wants. People like playing together and collaborating to make their own fun. It is not hard to imagine a version of Myst like this -- the most fun I have had playing a PC game was sitting next to a friend as we played Riven beginning to end.

New comment by Triphibian in "U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative"

Triphibian — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:18:57 +0000

Sounds like a job for the U.S. Department of Shitposting

New comment by Triphibian in "Amen Break"

Triphibian — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:58:41 +0000

See also: Nate Harrison from 2004 https://youtu.be/XPoxZW8JzzM?si=ymsROOuIHx4qA9ES

New comment by Triphibian in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

Triphibian — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:50:40 +0000

If only there were some institution full of independently minded individuals who could tell us, plainly and evenhandedly, without undue influence, about products we might be interested in.

New comment by Triphibian in "I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp"

Triphibian — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:44:05 +0000

The whole paragraph that starts with, "Smartphones are anti-enchantment devices" is gold. Love where you are coming from with this.

New comment by Triphibian in "CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026"

Triphibian — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:32:42 +0000

I bought Ween's Brown Box collection in this period. A band's entire studio output on CD for $50 felt like a great value. When I see single CDs at Barnes and Noble with a MSRP of $18 and more I feel otherwise.

New comment by Triphibian in "The kids with phones are alright"

Triphibian — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:19:21 +0000

He has a Lightphone which he hates. That's how I know it is working. He built a gaming PC last year, so I am aware that Pandora's box is open there. But look, it has been thirteen years of playing whackamole with YouTube. I can't keep him off it. They watch it at school. They give him chromebooks that I have no control over. And the stuff I do have control over the control is tenuous. I have largely given up. He is pretty much grown now. But man, has it felt like gaslighting when people are like, "Do parenting. Use the settings. Get a dumb phone. Problem solved."