Triphibian

My son does not have a great opinion of any edtech -- AI or not. I would wager that if you asked any kid his age they'd rather have better air conditioning than another expensive bit of software they hate using.

Re-read this recently and wholeheartedly agree. It is an ur-text for the Fallout wasteland for sure.

I had this same question and am very curious about what triggers a certain cultural work's resurgence.

Only semi-related I forced my son to explain to me why so many young people knew the song "Big Iron" by Marty Robbins.

Narcissus and Goldmund has a similar shape to Siddhartha -- covering similar ground with two protagonists instead of one. Also great.

Just finished: The Castle by Jon Ronson, very funny and enlightening look at the unraveling of some men.

Just started : Catch the Devil by Pamela Colloff, true crime about a con artist in Florida who traded overheard (probably fabricated) jailhouse confessions for a seemingly endless chain of get out of jail free cards.

This feels like stolen Worth1000 content.

When that Dinosaur Jr. album cover showed up it made so much sense.

Show HN: I hated the really small font on this website so I coded a fix for it.

The hardness of guessing what headlines are about.

File under: false metal

This tells me you should always pay cash if you are having a beer.

This is fairly timely since you'd probably be hard pressed to do the same thing with the new Spider-Man movie, which was apparently shot in Glasgow?

Interesting timing on this article considering The Big Walk comes out this week. Obviously the game is not as intricate as a Myst game, but it feels like the perfect mixture of a game where design really matters and reaction to what the market wants. People like playing together and collaborating to make their own fun. It is not hard to imagine a version of Myst like this -- the most fun I have had playing a PC game was sitting next to a friend as we played Riven beginning to end.