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Do you remember the cool newsletters they used to do?

Whenever I see a story about how clever crows are, I'm reminded of that guy who gave the TED talk about crows collecting rubbish after sporting events and picking up coins in return for food. Turned out he made it all up.

I'm an idiot, and a lot of Hacker News goes over my head, but I still read it. Would anyone mind answering this question?

Are databases not a solved problem? Why are there lots of different databases? Why is one faster than the other? What's different between them?

I did some ghost writing for EY. I wrote cheat sheets about international tax transfer pricing, mining and metals, and life sciences for its then CEO Mark Weinberger.

I had no experience and knew absolutely zero about any of those sectors.

One interesting restriction is that it won’t do anything with people’s faces.

I run conferences and I like to have photos of delegates on the page so you can see who else is attending.

I wanted to automate this by having Claude go to the person’s LinkedIn profile and save the image to the website.

But it seems it won’t do that because it’s been instructed not to.

Shaan Puri has also talked about how he's been coaching a youth basketball team on the My First Million podcast recently. He says it's one of the best things he's ever done.

I think you misread the word feather.

Unlikely as it sounds, being normal is a strategy that works on LinkedIn.

The quality bar is very low. People post so much fluff and AI thought leadership that the algorithm has recently started rejecting it, and LinkedIn essentially ran out of content.

For the past couple of months it's been showing people posts from two or three weeks ago due to the lack of suitable material.

What I've found is that it's surprisingly easy to stand out and build an audience if you just post honestly and thoughtfully about the interesting little puzzles or dilemmas you face during your workday.

Some posts of mine that have hit it off:

> Why is it hard to find clothes for men? > Why do people think it's weird when I drink milk on Zoom? > Should I post on X, or do people still frown on it?

Try posting about what you don't know, rather than what you do. People like that more.

So what you're saying is that honeybees just have good bee-R?

I thought this was a fascinating read. To cut a long story short, he thought these cheap bank note detectors would be easy to fool.

But they measure several things at once, which are extremely hard to mimic in aggregate.

Sorry, I realised this is a dupe but I can't delete.

Why is this article flagged?

Hacker News and Daring Fireball have so much in common:

1. Both long-running sites 2. Both serve a curious and tech savvy audience 3. Both run zero graphics 4. Both appreciate / provide long-form journalism

They should be fine bedfellows. What's going on?

Is this true? Shame if so – Daring Fireball and Hacker News are two of my favourite websites.