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New comment by navaed01 in "The Importance of Being Idle"

navaed01 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:24:33 +0000

There is also a general mindset of worklife balance and enjoyment from life.

as someone who spends a lot of time in Spain but lives in the US, the Spanish prioritize social interaction much more than the US (sweeping statement I know) - you go to many towns and cities in Spain and locals are socializing multiple nights per week in vibrant bars and cafes an having so much fun. London has a bit of this with pub culture but less family friendly.

The US on the other hand, the focus is on work and friends rarely get together and we study why people are socializing less (bowling alone etc. ).

New comment by navaed01 in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

navaed01 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:07:37 +0000

I can relate to this so much! IMHO Foursquare genuinely did gve the better recommendations for food and drink and I still think this recommendation problem is far from solved.

New comment by navaed01 in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

navaed01 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:03:36 +0000

I don’t disagree with you, but this has been going on for a while… Google monetized the the by indexing it and monetized what you wanted to find. Facebook monetized the eyeballs from the pictures and posts you added. Now LLMs will monetize all web content. To play devil’s advocate - LLMs do give something back. Those with ideas and no coding experience can now build entire businesses for little to zero cost. This seems different

New comment by navaed01 in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

navaed01 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:58:46 +0000

It does feel like the collaborative, free open nature of the web has gone and the optimism that brought… it feels like no one would build Foursquare today. But then I wonder if I’m just old an jaded and to the younger generation creating content, for them the web is open and expressive- just in a different way

New comment by navaed01 in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

navaed01 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:52:30 +0000

The natural world was not meaningfully abundant… Way before the industrial revolution land which was once used for opening hunting was closed off by the ruling class. Even before the Industrial Revolution you had a new class of merchant and factory owners who earned riches to buy land and keep the poor from hunting on it. Much of the natural resources out of reach for the majority and only accessible by those with deep pockets

New comment by navaed01 in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

navaed01 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:10:21 +0000

What’s interesting is this feature (Spotify DJ) really excels when you give it qualitative input “workout music that pairs well with a sunrise” - and can deliver stronger results that hunting for a playlists

New comment by navaed01 in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

navaed01 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:02:03 +0000

I’m fairly certain Spotify’s core meta data adheres to the US music industry largely set / reinforby Nielsen. I’m curious why the author would want to happen with the feature if not move from 1 artist to another

New comment by navaed01 in "Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw"

navaed01 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:26:52 +0000

Dench, is that you?

New comment by navaed01 in "Traffic to top tech publications has plummeted since 2024, new analysis shows"

navaed01 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:05:57 +0000

I wouldnt have inagined AI overviews would impact tech news site heavily. I can say personally I have gone from being a daily reader of sites like The Verge to virtually never visiting, the experience and quality of the content fell off a cliff and I try to seek out more meaningful content. Maybe this is a story more about people having alternatives and the rise of Substack and seeking out quality over dross?

New comment by navaed01 in "I wrote 200 scrapers for city permit APIs to map US construction activity"

navaed01 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:52:51 +0000

Really interesting project! Did you use AI at all to build the scrapers?

New comment by navaed01 in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

navaed01 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:46:54 +0000

To play devils advocate - why should a government supplier and private company (Anthropic) and 1 man there - get to decide what an organization with elected officials can and can’t do? Dario has no idea of threats facing the US and where national security needs to go. Dario has personal views on weapons and surveillance- that’s fine but national defense tactics by their nature is something many people are uncomfortable with.

New comment by navaed01 in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

navaed01 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:30:51 +0000

I agree in part with the hype train thesis, but what I hear is that open claw is better at solving problems and people love the interaction pattern - that may not be any new invention but it is what will mean we go from having Claude Desktop use mainly by engineers to something used by many. This will not be the final iteration of it, but it seems to be the direction of this to come

New comment by navaed01 in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

navaed01 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:23:31 +0000

These glasses are doing incredibly well from a sales perspective. Social norms have shifted, user generated content is huge, being a video influencer is a real job - so seeing people filming is more accepted than 12 yea ago. It doesn’t mean I like it but these are not going away. I do think they lack a killer app, but there’s a part there with conversational AI that can act on your behalf

New comment by navaed01 in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

navaed01 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:30:48 +0000

Fundamentally how is this any different from what Google or Meta or Comcast or AT&T do? Comcast knows everything that goes to the TV and sells that data. At&T sells your browsing data… Those are services you pay for monthly.

Sure the method is different but it’s the same goal. Company x learns your interests so It can monetize you by selling to advertisers

New comment by navaed01 in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

navaed01 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:48:59 +0000

I have this book for my kid and love it!

New comment by navaed01 in "Claude Memory"

navaed01 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 02:44:27 +0000

Seems the innovation of LLMs and these first movers is diminishing. Claude is still just chat with some better UI

New comment by navaed01 in "Show HN: I got tired of Googling every landmark, so I built an AI audio guide"

navaed01 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:13:03 +0000

Congrats on the launch. I love this idea, excited to check it out. I wonder how this fits in with the probable rise of AR glasses

New comment by navaed01 in "Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time"

navaed01 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:36:38 +0000

This has been my go to podcast for bedtime or when I can’t sleep… the broad topics, depth of discussion and tone are all fantastic… the ONLY thing that bugs me is the volume of guests microphones not being equalized, so you get some guests on the same episode being so much quieter than others

New comment by navaed01 in "30 minutes with a stranger"

navaed01 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:28:23 +0000

The Pudding is one of the bright spots of the internet for me. Does anyone have any recommendations for other new / blog interestings websites on the same level?

New comment by navaed01 in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"

navaed01 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:41:13 +0000

My old boss was a tour rider in the early 90’s - he told me in 2012 that tiny motors were being used. I believe him.