Hacker News: lukehandcoolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lukehandcoolHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:54:15 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by lukehandcool in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"]]>Everyone loves to hate right away when they see something like this. It's a good practice to try to make up a story that gives an alternate, less vilifying explanation to what you're seeing. This is a great response from Erika. Thanks for sharing.

]]>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:07:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858472lukehandcoolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858472https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858472<![CDATA[New comment by lukehandcool in "How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments"]]>The country of Argentina, despite its crippling debt, is able to provide free university education where the majority of classes for most majors are graded with an oral exam.

They've shown that it is entirely possible to scale a system like that, as long as the society sincerely values the role of an educator.

]]>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:20:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854083lukehandcoolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854083https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854083<![CDATA[Ask HN: What is still hard to do?]]>AI has made a lot of things a lot easier to do and there is a common perception, especially among non-tech people, that it's quickly solving all our difficult problems (math conjectures, protein folding, material engineering, etc). I wanted to make a list of things that are still genuinely difficult. What sort of academic / research projects are still hard to do?

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