Stuff about how we think (or don't)

First up, there was this article called "The Death of Daydreaming". It talks about how with phones and constant stimulation, we never get bored anymore, and maybe that's killing our ability to just zone out and daydream. Some people in the comments were saying that actually having time to be bored is kind of a luxury these days for a lot of people, which is a different way to look at it.

OpenAI and AI stuff

Then, OpenAI had a post about "Evolving OpenAI's Structure". Standard corporate announcement stuff, but the comments section went pretty wild. Lots of chat about Universal Basic Income and whether superintelligence is gonna wipe us out. Kinda jumped from the main topic, but hey, it's AI talk.

Speaking of AI, there was a cool "Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency". Someone built a system where you can talk to an AI and it responds super fast, almost like a real conversation. People in the comments were sharing links to other similar projects and digging into the tech behind it, like using llama.cpp.

Also on the AI front, there was this post "As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often". The author, who knows a lot about large language models (LLMs), says he actually doesn't use the chatty, generative part of them that much. The comments had people agreeing, saying they use them more like a smart command line for specific tasks, not just chatting or writing essays.

And some AI drama: "Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI". A judge apparently ruled that Meta training its AI on copyrighted books without permission was against the rules. Big discussion in the comments about fair use and whether putting something online means anyone can just use it for anything.

Techy bits

There was a post about "Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)". It's basically arguing that for simpler setups, you might not need something heavy like Kubernetes and could just use systemd, which is already on Linux systems. Lots of debate in the comments about when that makes sense and when it doesn't.

And a classic: "The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)". Someone talking about how great Pi-hole is for blocking ads and tracking across their whole network. Comments got into how to block things like DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and whether it's really possible to stop everything from calling home.

Yeah, so that was some of the interesting stuff. The AI copyright thing is pretty big, and the daydreaming one got me thinking. Anyway, just wanted to give you the heads up!