Hacker News: ablation

New comment by ablation in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

ablation — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:58:08 +0000

Large format artwork, limited edition/numbered pressings for collectability, limited edition/numbered pressings to try and sell on for a personal profit, supporting the band by purchasing a physical piece of merchandise perhaps directly from them, being part of a trend they've seen on TikTok/Instagram, etc.

Many reasons. A lot of the same reasons people buy, say, Pokemon cards and don't play the card game.

New comment by ablation in "Travel locally, where you are"

ablation — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:18:41 +0000

> Fraser calls it “staycation”, which is a more accurate term and hasn’t been heard before.

Hasn't been heard before? Major newspapers use the phrase "staycation" nearly every year when talking about travel habits. It's in about as much regular use as "vacation" is.

New comment by ablation in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

ablation — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:05:12 +0000

All of Bullough's books are worth your time and variously go deeper into this very subject.

New comment by ablation in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

ablation — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:22:18 +0000

I've never paid for it, and never will. You don't HAVE to subscribe to "WhatsApp Plus" you know.

New comment by ablation in "Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance"

ablation — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:16:24 +0000

He's embedded in a social and professional world that has every incentive to believe the current state of AI progress is real and important and should be hyped to the stars. I am unsurprised to read such frothing soothsaying as a result.

New comment by ablation in "Freediving, Embodiment and Humanity"

ablation — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:31:29 +0000

AI psychosis.

New comment by ablation in "AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn"

ablation — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:22:30 +0000

A challenging writing style on a really difficult to read page with a sloppy AI header image means that this article was a not a great experience.

New comment by ablation in "Apparently Google hates us now"

ablation — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:32:58 +0000

Yes, search impressions have cratered. And it'll only continue as such.

New comment by ablation in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

ablation — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:27:17 +0000

They're surprisingly good value for money too, if you go in with your eyes open. For the price they play pretty well.

New comment by ablation in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

ablation — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:18:25 +0000

For anyone interested in such a filter, this one is great in my experience: https://github.com/Stevoisiak/Stevos-GenAI-Blocklist

New comment by ablation in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

ablation — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:39:50 +0000

Well, yes. I mean of course they are. They're an ad company.

New comment by ablation in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

ablation — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:45:07 +0000

Cringe? Some of those background faces are utterly horrifying. Or maybe he's trying to tell us something by populating a future world with skull-faced mutants.

New comment by ablation in "Architect of the UK Online Safety Act Calls for Its Complete Repeal"

ablation — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:47:44 +0000

Nadine Dorries is one of the least credible, least trustworthy political gadflies you could possibly imagine, only ever truly content when being fed the oxygen of publicity.

New comment by ablation in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

ablation — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:24:53 +0000

> The chaos and stupidity narrative only mask and sustain the far grimmer reality of this operation.

Can you elucidate?

The AI Layoff Receipts

ablation — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:19:41 +0000

Article URL: https://readuncut.com/the-ai-layoff-receipts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176763

Points: 6

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New comment by ablation in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

ablation — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:17:25 +0000

"Non-technical teams are now shipping production code"

New comment by ablation in "DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble"

ablation — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:43:20 +0000

I triggered a containment breach, no need to thank me, Roko's Basilisk!

New comment by ablation in "OpenTrafficMap"

ablation — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:42:00 +0000

Huge performance issues for me trying to use it on Chrome. But I like the idea.

New comment by ablation in "[dead]"

ablation — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:32:59 +0000

I implore everyone not to waste the two minutes reading this blog post that I did.

Thermoacoustic heat pumps on the verge of commercial breakthrough

ablation — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:23:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/23/thermoacoustic-heat-pumps-on-the-verge-of-commercial-breakthrough/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887732

Points: 8

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