I remember reading this story around 2013 and being quite inspired by it: https://web.archive.org/web/20040217174948/http://www.csd.uw...
Readit Newssirodoht commented on Stories for a Computer Audience (2016) web.archive.org/web/20040... · Posted by u/sirodoht
Reminds me of this classic HN thread [0] and accompanying amazing resource [1]
sirodoht commented on The death of partying in the USA derekthompson.org/p/the-d... · Posted by u/tysone
If anyone wants to be invited to house parties in London, UK, I'm happy to invite anyone who emails theo+hn@torchandzen.com!
Number of people ranges from 10 to 50, activities from talking and eating to picnics and dancing.
sirodoht commented on Peter Thiel and the Antichrist nytimes.com/2025/06/26/op... · Posted by u/sirodoht
I seem to be liking Peter Thiel's ideas more and more. I found this conversation quite fascinating. It feels like he is focused, intentional, clearheaded, well-read. I disagree with a lot of his premises, but if we want to take technological progress seriously, I find Peter Thiel amongst the few sensible voices in Silicon Valley.
For example, it's quite common in a discussion for people to not really listen but just jump from one topic to another just so they can have more space to speak. I like this part where Peter subtly calls out Ross on this:
> Thiel: We’re jumping around a lot of things. So, again, the critique I was saying is: They’re not ambitious enough.
I loved the Antichrist-Armageddon analogy too:
> But I think we have an answer to this plot hole. The way the Antichrist would take over the world is you talk about Armageddon nonstop. You talk about existential risk nonstop, and this is what you need to regulate.
sirodoht commented on Peter Thiel and the Antichrist nytimes.com/2025/06/26/op... · Posted by u/sirodoht
sirodoht commented on Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor · Posted by u/mariano54
Thanks for working on this! Language learning really needs a breakthrough.
Now, I tried the web app and chose to learn Greek as a beginner. And while I had better experience with your app than with ChatGPT or Gemini voice modes, I still got lost 5 minutes in because the AI tutor doesn't seem to have a plan for me, nor does it "see" my struggles. For example, after asking me about a hobby, it gives me a long sentence in Greek about how how it is nice to hike in mountains. Being absolute noob I cannot reply to it, nor even repeat it. And I don't even know what it is expected from me at the moment. A human tutor here would probably repeat a part of the sentence with a translation and ask me to repeat, or would explain something. The AI just sits there waiting for me to make a sound, and when I make it, it goes on on a tangental subject of beach vacations. :)
Again, this is still relatively not bad, and I'm going to give it another try.
Funnily enough I said my native language is Greek but then it responded with an error and reset my onboarding guide. Then, I lied that my native language is English, which worked. But now it calls me Anton, rather than the name I said I have!
https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1958599969151361126?s=46