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{{youtube:https://youtu.be/cjOrSb7hUS8}} The peon speaks In the physical world, I’m a mere peon.

This post is getting some love on HN - welcome!

Video version of this article: {{youtube:https://youtu.be/tpdWersuhjQ}} Surely if there are two technologies which are inseparable, it’s Bitcoin and the Internet.

Somehow I never bothered to hook up an LLM to my shell until recently, and now I regret waiting so long.

Definition Sammy’s Sensation: the sudden urge to pause and ask whether there’s already an established name for a pattern you’ve just noticed.

Update: Hello HN, MR, and ACX folks!

Summary China manufactures more than the U.S.

This quote from a recent paper caught my attention: First, while the current literature, such as Dell’Acqua et al. (2023) and Chen and Chan (2024), reveal the productivity effects of AI by randomizing access to LLM chatbots, they are not multimodal, do not

I came across a comment on Hacker News the other day that intrigued me: Average “healthy” body temperature is down more than half degree exactly because of reduction in inflammation.

I’ve talked to other developers and listened to some popular content creators, and there seems to be a common pattern emerging: we’re letting AI coding tools produce more and more of our overall code.

Avoiding Psychological Dependence on AI Can AI tell you what you need (but don’t want) to hear?

This post was partially written using GPT 4.5 DeepResearch.

I originally posted this in Jun 2015, a month or so after my father passed away far too young at 55.

Over the past year and a half, I’ve been exploring a diverse collection of books and audiobooks.

Claude Code wrote this post for me - without even being asked!

TL;DR This post was originally written in June of 2019.

This post won runner up in the 2024 Interintellect Essay contest. publish: true type: “blog” I learned a lot this year, but I’ve decided to share two well-known concepts which I’ve unlearned this year.

I’ve never been a designer.

This afternoon my feed exploded with news of Claude Code.

Background AI will dramatically increase the popularity of open source systems, and this has absolutely nothing to do with ideology.

I used to be 300 lbs.

Summary I use Umami, an open source alternative to Google Analytics.

Summary Substack has no API and doesn’t fit into my publishing flow, so I self-hosted a newsletter management tool called Listmonk.

Table of Contents Table of Contents Day One The Quest The Plan The Problem The Partial Solution The Late Night Battle Day Two Day Three The Mistake The Proper Solution The Discovery The Bitcoin Hunt The Unexpected Reward Day One The Quest I had just walked

As I was writing about the Zonos TTS, I took a screenshot of the interface, then realized I didn’t have a method for displaying it in my post.

I noticed a few folks mention the new Zonos TTS release today, so I wanted to try it out locally.

I’ve been using lots of different AI tools to help me code lately, treading close to outright “vibe coding.”