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New comment by obscurette in "Musician says AI company is cloning her music, filing claims against her"

obscurette — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:47:50 +0000

Youtube is one of the best platforms in this regard - it is possible that they react. Good luck with FB, Instagram or TikTok.

The Long Chain of Wi-Fi Dysfunction Gets Longer

obscurette — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:05:31 +0000

Article URL: https://wirednot.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/the-long-chain-of-wi-fi-dysfunction-gets-longer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579094

Points: 2

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New comment by obscurette in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

obscurette — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:08:36 +0000

The gaps in views are certainly widening in societies in general, but my point wasn't exactly that. It was more about differences which always existed. When I was young I was often dumped into large family gatherings which lasted days (birthdays of (grand)grandparents, funerals, weddings etc). I had to practice handling cousins etc who might had very different family backgrounds than me since very early age. We had to find things we had in common and accept our differences. We learned that differences are manageable. It's not common nowadays. Many people don't have relationships with relatives at all and kids don't meet another kids with different background until school. And even then distance is kept often because of overprotective parenting.

New comment by obscurette in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

obscurette — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:36:19 +0000

Yes, managing relationships needs time, but there is another problem I see nowadays. When I was young (I'm in my sixties), it was normal to have friends who could be very different from you. They might have had qualities you didn't like at all, but you could still be very good friends. If I look my students (highschool and college level) now, they are extremely intolerant for differences compared to what I remember from my youth. One "I don't like it" problem is enough to dump any relationship. Why? I guess it's because of a lack of practice – you don't really need to interact with so many different people nowadays and interacting with people who are very different from you is just plain terrifying for many.

Artificial intelligence, cognitive offloading and implications for education [pdf]

obscurette — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:10:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.uts.edu.au/news/2026/03/experts-warn-unstructured-ai-use-in-schools-risks-cognitive-atrophy/contentassets/ai-cognitive-offloading-and-implications-for-education.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490608

Points: 4

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30 Facts About Childhood Today That Will Terrify You

obscurette — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:27:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/30-facts-about-childhood-today-that

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355851

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Money isn't going to solve the burnout problem

obscurette — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:12:52 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/03/07/money-isnt-going-to-solve-the-burnout-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310996

Points: 5

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New comment by obscurette in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

obscurette — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:25:58 +0000

While it wasn't really rare, it was far from common. It was almost full time hobby back then. (I grew up in sixties/seventies.)

Is AI Making Us Dumb?

obscurette — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:04:50 +0000

Article URL: https://profgmedia.substack.com/p/is-ai-making-us-dumb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166251

Points: 16

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New comment by obscurette in "Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format"

obscurette — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:08:25 +0000

WARC is mentioned with very specific reason not being good enough: "WARCs/WACZs achieve static and efficient, but not single (because while the WARC is a single file, it relies on a complex software installation like WebRecorder/Replay Webpage to display)."

New comment by obscurette in "Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (2012)"

obscurette — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:51:29 +0000

Musima Lead Star is a musical instrument, Ural "guitars" were not. I played and owned several ones during eighties. The moment I could finally afford Musima Lead Star and finally get a sound I had in my head, was one of happiest moments of my life.

What I learned when I started assigning the hard reading again

obscurette — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:39:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/youth-reading-books-professors/685825/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975497

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

obscurette — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:54:28 +0000

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923900

Points: 3

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New comment by obscurette in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

obscurette — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:50:48 +0000

> If a data science team modeled something incorrectly in their simulation, who's gonna catch it? Usually nobody. At least not until it's too late. Will you say "this doesn't look plausible" about the output?

The local statistics office here recently presented salary statistics claiming that teachers' salaries had unexpectedly increased by 50%. All the press releases went out, and it was only questions raised by the public that forced the statistics office to review and correct the data.

History teaches us to deal with societal collapse – TEDxTallinn [video]

obscurette — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:05:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPjghax6uA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811160

Points: 1

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New comment by obscurette in "40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]"

obscurette — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:55:52 +0000

That's not THE problem. The problem is that they can't encode/decode text. They lack experience, vocabulary, knowledge and all these little small things needed to communicate via (not necessarily written) text. It's not dyslexia.

New comment by obscurette in "40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]"

obscurette — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:53:03 +0000

There is no fight actually and noone is complaining "kids these days" at the moment. KIds are not the ones to blame in current situation. It's 100% work left undone by previous generations.

New comment by obscurette in "The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says"

obscurette — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:44:39 +0000

Most of comments seem to assume that education system have been functioning up to this point, LLM-s appear and there are somewhere solutions ready to adapt. That's just not the case. For many reasons – parental problems, early development, phones, social media, decline of responsibility, changes in educational principles in general etc etc etc – education is already in free fall almost all over the world.

Average student even in universities is functionally illiterate now, it's not an exaggeration. Even if we assume that there is LLM which would help to learn, how these students should use it?

https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-colleg...

Estonian volunteers struggling to protect Wikipedia from Russian propaganda

obscurette — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:24:32 +0000

Article URL: https://news.err.ee/1609903256/estonian-volunteers-struggling-to-protect-wikipedia-from-russian-propaganda

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538255

Points: 8

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The 'decolonised' essay alternatives dumbing down Britain's universities

obscurette — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:47:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/28/decolonised-essay-alternatives-dumbing-down-uk-universities/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413392

Points: 3

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