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New comment by lordleft in "AI misidentification results in wrongful arrest; man seeks justice"

lordleft — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:13:34 +0000

I sincerely hope this man get seek redress for this disgusting miscarriage of justice.

New comment by lordleft in "You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone"

lordleft — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:26:27 +0000

IIRC, Bell ended up wanting to spend his life after inventing the telephone as a scientist and a researcher, rather than tending to the running of Bell Telephone and AT&T.

New comment by lordleft in "Azure Linux Desktop"

lordleft — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:46:46 +0000

The return of Xenix :)

Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang

lordleft — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:51:37 +0000

https://archive.is/bcpZl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387270

Points: 794

# Comments: 1380

Are "Real" Catholics as Conservative as Evangelicals?

lordleft — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:29:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/are-real-catholics-as-conservative

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269378

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by lordleft in "Coding on Paper"

lordleft — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:14:05 +0000

I had no idea Boox made these. I have two of their tablets and one of their e-readers. I can't wait to see e-ink progress as a technology.

New comment by lordleft in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

lordleft — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:57:56 +0000

Yep. And it doesn't help that the people selling AI products act as if they're going to build God. Going, "well AI can't do that" isn't going to fly when you are lax about communicating its limitations!

The 2 Hour [Marathon] barrier has been smashed

lordleft — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:09:18 +0000

Article URL: https://stevemagness.substack.com/p/the-2-hour-barrier-has-been-smashed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920520

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Why I wrote a biography of Pascal

lordleft — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:12:58 +0000

Article URL: https://grahamtomlin.substack.com/p/why-i-wrote-a-biography-of-pascal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920110

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by lordleft in "Why I Write (1946)"

lordleft — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:02:42 +0000

I love Orwell, he ranks as one of my favorite writers, especially his non-fiction. Unfortunately, I think too many writers take his famed writing advice as doctrine, and ignore the possibilies of a richer and more elaborate style.

New comment by lordleft in "Why I Write (1946)"

lordleft — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:01:05 +0000

I've started doing this as a kind of creative and mental exercise. It can imbue even a day filled with drudgery with something worthwhile.

New comment by lordleft in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"

lordleft — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:18:29 +0000

I knew vaguely that Troy had many layers of settlement, but I didn't realize that Troy had an extensive life in antiquity that extended into the classical Greek age (Post-Bronze Age) and Early Roman Age. It's funny to think of Roman and Greek Tourists visiting Troy VIII in 300 BC.

Michael Burry found a $1.7T 'earnings illusion' hiding in tech stocks

lordleft — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:15:41 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/michael-burry-analyzed-1-000-103000667.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805077

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

TypeWhisper 1.2 – Private speech-to-text for your Mac

lordleft — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:54:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.typewhisper.com/en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778994

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by lordleft in "New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows"

lordleft — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:49:24 +0000

I live in Brooklyn and have spent about a grand outfitting my apartment with ACs. I would absolutely take advantage of this if the law passed.

Silent YouTube Premium Price Increase?

lordleft — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:20:57 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1sh8zxt/silent_youtube_premium_price_increase/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717002

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lordleft in "Mario and Earendil"

lordleft — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:14:21 +0000

There's a dark irony in start-ups appropriating names from the work of a devout catholic attached to beautiful, old modes of life.

New comment by lordleft in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

lordleft — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:34:02 +0000

I've used a kindle for years and have bought hundreds of ebooks through Amazon's platform. The convenience of being able to carry a library with me in a single device is undeniable. ~14 years of support seems reasonable, especially in the context of modern tech. And yet decisions like this always upset me. For all the limitations of physical books, I can hand my physical books to my literal children and grandchildren when I die. As long as I tend to the book, I have it. The fact that this isn't guaranteed for DRM-locked ebooks, for all their advantages, makes me feel like we are somehow going backwards, despite our progress technologically. Instead of a future where products get unambiguously better, the future seems filled with products that come with significant trade-offs. The trade-offs are beginning to not feel worth it to me.

New comment by lordleft in "An Example of Statistical Investigation of the Text Eugene Onegin – Markov, 1913 [pdf]"

lordleft — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:07:31 +0000

Pushkin is eternal, to writers and mathematicians alike

New comment by lordleft in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

lordleft — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:17:36 +0000

I genuinely don't understand how one company can be so bad at naming products for multiple decades. It makes Sony's names for its headphones seem downright catchy.