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Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

Willingham — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:40:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46927731

Points: 5

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Black Hole Recorded Blasting Winds at More Than 20% the Speed of Light

Willingham — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:37:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/XMM-Newton/Flaring_black_hole_whips_up_ultra-fast_winds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46217034

Points: 4

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'The Age of Disclosure' Documentary About UFO's, Gets a Congressional Audience

Willingham — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:20:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/movies/the-age-of-disclosure-congress.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016940

Points: 5

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Upcoming iOS and macOS 26.1 update will let you fog up your Liquid Glass

Willingham — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:26:25 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/new-ios-and-macos-betas-add-tinted-toggle-to-tone-down-liquid-glass/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660463

Points: 2

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New comment by Willingham in "The unlikely revival of nuclear batteries"

Willingham — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:31:42 +0000

It is my understanding that small nuclear batteries output very little energy, so little in fact that they are virtually useless for most applications where a classical battery would be used. The upside is that they can produce power for decades without ever ‘charging’ or in this case, replacing the isotopes. In other words, the use cases aren’t as exciting as one would expect.

New comment by Willingham in "We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness"

Willingham — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 18:05:52 +0000

Amazing how fast humanity forgets basic we’ll know spiritual facts of this universe such as “there are no free lunches” and “you reap what you sow”

New comment by Willingham in "Recovering from AI Addiction"

Willingham — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:40:39 +0000

AA specifically suggests to only come when all other measures have failed, and if you can do it without AA ‘our hats are off to you’ quote from their ‘big book’ which is their main piece of literature. I truly believe and have seen first hand hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on rehab and counseling and medications and therapy and only AA ever brought those individuals into true long term recovery. I don’t like the AA is forced by folks who haven’t already tried, or had the privilege to try ‘all other measures’.

New comment by Willingham in "Recovering from AI addiction"

Willingham — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:24:55 +0000

12 step programs disagree, to grow a flower you water it and give it sunlight and good soil(the 12 steps version of this: reversing selfishness and getting out and helping others) but you don’t actually grow the plant, the DNA, photosynthesis, electromagnetism, soil chemistry…even quantum forces(AKA a power greater than yourself) are ultimately the core of what grows the plant. Therefor when one gets sober and becomes generally content and happy in life when previously they were suicidal, AA suggests that the core of the work was done by a higher power, even though the individual was indeed responsible for watering their flower.

New comment by Willingham in "Recovering from AI addiction"

Willingham — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:46:07 +0000

It’s important to understand that all 12 step programs(all of which are based on AA) approach addiction as a spiritual disease, and the program offers a spiritual solution. 12 step programs also teach that addiction is a progressive disease, and there is no permanent ‘fix’, but rather a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of one’s spiritual condition. Here is a concise summarization of the 12 step design for living: ‘reverse selfishness, get out and help others’. According to 12 step programs, if you stop working the program, addiction will come back in full force.

New band surges to 500k listeners on Spotify, but turns out it's AI slop

Willingham — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:01:31 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/half-a-million-spotify-users-are-unknowingly-grooving-to-an-ai-generated-band/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44427229

Points: 30

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New comment by Willingham in "I deleted my second brain"

Willingham — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:24:06 +0000

I took some blurbs from your comment and added it to my…life/career notes. (:

New comment by Willingham in "Kid gamers to adult gamblers? Investigation of childhood gaming and YA gambling"

Willingham — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:50:33 +0000

Likely correlation and not causation, Gambling addiction is just like any other addiction, and no one has answered the question of ‘why’ one becomes an addict. Most likely the causation is more closely related to the upbringing of the child, and the genetics passed down from the parents.