Hacker News: laurex

What AI is revealing about education, what education must confront about itself

laurex — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:09:06 +0000

Article URL: https://vanessaandreotti.substack.com/p/in-the-digital-waters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120190

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Wealth Inequality in America Drawn to Scale

laurex — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:39:23 +0000

Article URL: https://dreamagainusa.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093831

Points: 10

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The Punks Plan to Reclaim the Internet from 'Big Tech'

laurex — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:22:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-12/reclaiming-the-internet-from-big-tech/106726208

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060592

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Passkeys are a trap

laurex — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:59:48 +0000

Article URL: https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048312

Points: 1145

# Comments: 577

'Artificial' Took on a Big Tech Giant. Hollywood Wasn't Ready

laurex — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:35:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/artificial-exclusive-luca-guadagnino-andrew-garfield-1236721477/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996980

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by laurex in "Don't paste the AI, please"

laurex — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:53:27 +0000

God forbid...? Our technology has led us to compartmentalize information exchange and relational interaction. We just don't have time for the latter. But in text, tone and context are often lost, and it is also less accessible to type for many people. I'm interested in what it looks like when we normalize the actual friction of being in relationship, not just prioitize the "time savings" to recipients of communication by boiling it down to the information conveyed only by the words.

The night the Earth shook, strangers started to draw

laurex — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:19:02 +0000

Article URL: https://sheets.works/data-viz/strangers-draw-maps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786528

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

A Baseless Copyright Claim Against a Web Host–and Why It Failed

laurex — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:56:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/baseless-copyright-claim-against-web-host-and-why-it-failed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562708

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by laurex in "The Future of Email"

laurex — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:11:21 +0000

Could you do a p2p connection via browser that would still send the message to the person's "inbox"? I suppose not everyone even has an on-device mail client anymore though.