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New comment by ownlife in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"

ownlife — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:45:17 +0000

You want to the documentary to end with David Attenborough saying that it is too late to revert the destruction of natural habitat?

New comment by ownlife in "An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road"

ownlife — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:03:52 +0000

Arguably, it devalues this list of books because it calls into question its credibility and its author's seriousness.

New comment by ownlife in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

ownlife — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:30:25 +0000

Kettle? Cattle?

Misattribution of Arousal

ownlife — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:12:38 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misattribution_of_arousal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007215

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn't Know, Either

ownlife — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:22:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know-either

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46979516

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Anthropic's plan to scan and dispose of books

ownlife — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:42:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46860309

Points: 6

# Comments: 5

Joan Didion: Only Disconnect

ownlife — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:46:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/103/didion-per-harrison.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724920

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by ownlife in "90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet"

ownlife — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:55:35 +0000

> Why is that? It's a fair question.

I think most of those students would answer that they are protesting the US government's complicity in this particular injustice -- which doesn't apply to the other injustices you list. I have a hard time imagining that most people asking this fair question can't think of that obvious answer.

Dartmouth Announces AI Partnership with Anthropic and AWS

ownlife — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:35:12 +0000

Article URL: https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/12/dartmouth-announces-ai-partnership-anthropic-and-aws

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46144803

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ownlife in "Show HN: Jeffrey Epstein's Inbox"

ownlife — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:52:29 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New York Lacked an Affordable Housing Portal. So These Teenagers Made One

ownlife — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 19:50:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/realestate/affordable-housing-rent-stabilized-website.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45940078

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ownlife in "Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure (2019)"

ownlife — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:50:44 +0000

Surprising how little he's in the office - it probably only works since he’s already a CEO who does a lot of stuff, is beloved, etc

New comment by ownlife in "M.C. Escher Prints Digitized and Put Online by the Boston Public Library"

ownlife — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:46:50 +0000

This is a great development -- it's surprisingly difficult to high quality scans of a lot of Escher's work.

Illuminations of a 3D Alphabet

ownlife — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:02:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gnsi.org/lluminations-of-a-3d-alphabet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45564570

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ownlife in "After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View"

ownlife — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:38:14 +0000

Did Jimmy Kimmel celebrate the assassination? (He did not.)

New comment by ownlife in "'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary"

ownlife — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:03:57 +0000

counterpoint: I’m surprised “delulu” wasn’t already in OED and certainly would not consider it “cutting edge” slang in 2025 (quite the opposite). Just because one person hasn’t heard certain words doesn’t mean they don’t belong in what is meant to be a comprehensive dictionary. In fact, if you needed to know the meaning of every word that is added to the dictionary, then you would have no need for a dictionary! Never having heard a word has nothing to do with whether OED “called it too early.” To make that judgment one would want to find external evidence.

Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

ownlife — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 18:59:37 +0000

Article URL: https://ch.at/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44849129

Points: 269

# Comments: 72

New comment by ownlife in "An end to all this prostate trouble?"

ownlife — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 01:01:11 +0000

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2408423

New comment by ownlife in "Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024)"

ownlife — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:06:54 +0000

Are most submissions here news stories?

New comment by ownlife in "An election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up”"

ownlife — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:43:05 +0000

Huh? It’s evidence-based speculation. Of course it’s conceivable that a 68-year-old would have less concerns about putting her career on the line. I’m trying to understand how you think a conversation on HN should operate