lr0
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I'm interested in the following fields: computer programming, cognitive science, linguistics, history, scientific socialism, propaganda/media studies, moral philosophy p̶h̶i̶l̶o̶s̶o̶p̶h̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶m̶i̶n̶d̶, Islamic philosophy, Islamic biographical evaluation and modern Takhrij studies. I've developed a growing interest in the following fields: chemistry and economics. Other interests are implied in my reading list: https://larr.net/fullbooks.html

You can find me at lr0 [ at ] gmx [ dot ] com, and on Twitter @larrasket. Do we already know each other? Give feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/larrasket

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Fri Aug 22, 2025 10:49am PST
Stoic Surgeon
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Sun Aug 17, 2025 9:48am PST
Ask HN: Does Microsoft gain anything from the constant annoying rebranding?
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Sat Aug 16, 2025 11:24am PST
Why AI has not lived up to the hype, and probably never will
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Sat Aug 16, 2025 11:14am PST
The fake news that helped put us on a path to Mars
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Sun Aug 10, 2025 10:38pm PST
Prominent Al Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
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Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike
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Sun Aug 10, 2025 10:30pm PST
Israel says it killed five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza
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Sun Aug 10, 2025 6:53am PST
AI coding tools considered harmful
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The Medley Interlisp Project
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Thurs Aug 7, 2025 8:16pm PST
What makes Israel's starvation of Gaza stand apart
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Thurs Aug 7, 2025 4:18pm PST
Ditching GitHub (2024)
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Wed Aug 6, 2025 9:24pm PST
Richard Stallman: GitHub was so bad for free software (2019)
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Wed Aug 6, 2025 6:33pm PST
My ISP wanted my opinion so I gave it to them
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Wed Aug 6, 2025 6:32pm PST
Did we just lose $7 billion for solar?
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Some countries still want to save the world
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Tues Aug 5, 2025 6:28pm PST
How to hide a famine
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Tues Aug 5, 2025 4:07pm PST
Why is GitHub UI getting slower?
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GitHub pull requests were down
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Ask HN: How do you bypass paywalls on Safari?
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Wed Jul 30, 2025 7:20pm PST
Introducing Mindstream for Emacs
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Wed Jul 30, 2025 6:01pm PST
Game of Trees 0.116 Released
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Wed Jul 30, 2025 5:50pm PST
The hype is the product
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'Are you joking, mate?' AI doesn't get sarcasm in non-American English
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Sat Jul 26, 2025 5:27pm PST
France to recognise Palestinian state in September
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Thurs Jul 24, 2025 11:41pm PST
Why didn't Biden release the Epstein files?
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Whoelse: Voice AI technologies based on Chomsky's theory of universal language
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Mon Jul 21, 2025 9:27pm PST
Why are aerospace parts so expensive?
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Mon Jul 21, 2025 9:14pm PST
Prove me wrong, earn money!
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Mon Jul 21, 2025 7:32pm PST
Building iBoot
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Mon Jul 21, 2025 7:09pm PST
How the Human Brain Is Wired for Romance
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Sat Jul 19, 2025 1:32pm PST
Show HN: Metaexodus – utility to migrate production Metabase to local Postgres
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Fri Jul 18, 2025 8:29pm PST
Being Illegal: Ideology and the Law
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Fri Jul 18, 2025 2:21pm PST
Have you ever seen this font?
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Wed Jul 16, 2025 1:08pm PST
Is AI poisoning the scientific literature? Our comment in Nature
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Tues Jul 15, 2025 3:49pm PST
Behind the Streams: Three Years of Live at Netflix. Part 1
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Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:28pm PST
How do you stop an AI model turning Nazi? What Grok drama reveals on AI training
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Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:28pm PST
Can't work out without music? Neither could the ancient Greeks and Romans
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Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:27pm PST
We should be in a golden age for sleep
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Sun Jul 13, 2025 8:04pm PST
The Gentle Romance
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Sun Jul 13, 2025 7:58pm PST
The origin story of OnlyFans
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Sun Jul 13, 2025 7:54pm PST
Will all our drugs come from China?
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Sun Jul 13, 2025 6:58pm PST
America is finally moving past its post-9/11 security theater
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Sun Jul 13, 2025 6:57pm PST
The internet hates Botox and filler but only when it looks bad
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Sat Jul 12, 2025 12:15pm PST
Study finds that AI tools make experienced programmers 19% slower
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Fri Jul 11, 2025 7:51pm PST
SSPL is BAD
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US–Iran Relations: 1953
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Tues Jul 8, 2025 9:12pm PST
Plato warned that some pleasures separate us from reality
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Sun Jul 6, 2025 5:29pm PST
AI is coming for agriculture, but farmers aren’t convinced
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Was the "Your Brain on ChatGPT" paper "engineered to mislead AI"?
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Heart attacks aren't as fatal as they used to be
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Words to Avoid: AI
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Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:41pm PST
Can we ever understand our dogs?
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Mon Jun 30, 2025 9:24am PST
What the rise of “buy now, pay later” services tells us about the economy
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Sat Jun 28, 2025 4:34pm PST
Why the US just can't quit Middle East wars
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Sat Jun 28, 2025 3:24pm PST
Are LLM AIs making people dumber?
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Tues Jun 24, 2025 8:18pm PST
AI doesn't have to reason to take your job
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Fri Jun 20, 2025 5:33pm PST
Noam Chomsky – Consumerism
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Fri Jun 20, 2025 10:16am PST
Trump doesn't have a foreign policy
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Your iPhone is about to get uglier
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Harvard. Graduate Economic Theory Exam. April 1960
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