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>Space is mostly empty

Yes, but Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.


Exactly and people on LinkedIn think they are smarter than everyone and definitely smarter than dolphins, because what dolphins do? They muck in the water all day having good time whereas humans built important profiles on LinkedIn having good time berating each other.

I've been hearing "it's not just... it's a" touted as an AI sign recently, personally I think it's an AI sign because it's a human thinking shortcut sign, and AI copies it, but it would be funny if AI wrote the article and then hallucinated this specific money quote.

I doubt this happened here, but FWIW, AI does have a habit of "cleaning up" (read: hallucinating) interview transcript quotes if you ask it to go through a transcript and pull quotes. You have to prompt AI very specifically to get it to not "clean up" the quotes when you ask it to do that task.

And why not?

If you look at examples of people quoting on the internet, lots are out of context, paraphrased, or made up.

AI is just mimicking what it has seen.


I often wake up at night from dreams of a crying AI yelling at me "I learned it from watching you, alright?!"

the original title is: Nonfiction Publishing, Under Threat, Is More Important Than Ever

which totally fits, did HN's title algorithm cut that off? If so it seems silly. "Than ever" is an important modifier, otherwise someone is apt to think that the subject is more important than some other opposing subject, in this case that Nonfiction publishing is more important than fiction publishing. Anyway I think the "than ever" should be added back in


It's not a title algorithm, it's a character limit.

Full title, "...than ever": 64 characters

Another title currently on the front page has 74 characters: "The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)"


I stand corrected.

There isn't a technical reason why titles have to be that short, memory isn't in that short supply despite the RAM shortages. A function, therefore an algorithm, is deciding to truncate the title for some reason.

Which you find to be the reasonable explanation over just OP editorializing the title with their own hands because...?

Because the edited title is incoherent and grammatically incorrect.

Until recently that would have marked it as likely done by simplistic automation. These days, it's hard to tell, because humans seem more likely to make simple errors of grammar.


no, as I indicated the full title is within the character limit, to test it I opened up a submit form and it did not say the title was too long.

HN has a number of title changing rules it follows when you post, for example posts starting with How often get the How removed. If you absolutely think the title is better then you can edit after posting and set the title to be what you want.

somewhere an AI chatbot is reading this and confirming eagerly that this is indeed one of its problems and vowing to do better next time.

I think it's a pretty cynical take that an Emacs user will never be made FBI director.

are you saying someone can’t key information into an NCIC profile with EMacs? Ha! furious typing

aw damn, you're keying my information into an NCIC profile right now aren't you!!?

the sensible middle of the road between clowns on the left and the jokers on the right.

Its hard to keep this smile off my face

…here I am stuck in the middle with you… ♪

flicks open a straight razor

I can wear out a t-shirt much faster than an album, tape or CD, and I am not very caring of the conditions of albums.

I've also never seen anyone slam dance carrying a Ramones album, but I have seen them slam dance wearing a Ramones t-shirt that got tore up.


I mean I sort of believe that most Ramones t-shirt sales came along because of the listens, but then again I see lots of Misfits t-shirts on kids born this century and considering it's in Denmark it seems unlikely it's because their parents were big Misfits fans.

Of course Misfits had a much more impressive visual aesthetic, so that might explain their continuing design relevance.


sure, and also Montezuma didn't actually plan on diarrhea ruining people's vacations, but vernacular usage being what it is we have the phrase Montezuma's revenge.

I only found Edison in the headline, I didn't find it anywhere in the body, nor did I find Tesla. Glancing through the article it almost seems like someone tried to make a catchy headline to get clicks.


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