I finished my assignment in advanced 8th grade Math real quick, busted out MAD Magazine. Relatively quickly it was taken by Mr. P-------. Not missing a beat, aloud in class I said, "thanks a lot... asshole."

I got suspended for three days, and also the enmity of his best friend the advanced social studies teacher. Yet, somehow I didn't get kicked off the basketball team. And I actually got a girlfriend, who punched me at the wrestling match, then we kissed behind the school during the dance.

I learned a valuable lesson that day.

good stuff!

i just broke Claude Code Research Preview, and i've crashed ChatGPT 4.5 Pro Deep Research. and i have the receipts :), so i'm looking for tools that work

this doesn't sound like it was written by an actual human being. or even a cat

that is more useful than more or less anything else that AI has practically achieved

if you put a Carlin word (at least my favorite McNulty / Bunk one) in front of your search, it bypasses Gemini AI results

for a pristine moment you get to be in a club and they AIn't in it

i'm a rageaholic! i just can't live without rageahol!

somehow, after the ATT, Microsoft, Standard Oil, or American Tobacco antitrust suits, the constituent parts and country soldiered on

Yeah, especially Tobacco. I mean, there hasn't been an industry gutted that hard ever. They were attacked from all sides. They can't even fucking advertise anymore, and when they can, they have to tell you "hey don't buy this it kills you". And then, cherry on top, when consumers do buy this product, they're allowed to use it in like < 1% of spaces.

And yet, somehow, Tobacco is still profitable.

This is very North America-centric. Smoking is still rampant in many countries, including parts of Europe. It was actually a bit of a culture shock for me.

Oh yes I'm aware, I have family in Eastern Europe and yeah... it's different. When I went in the 2010s you could still smoke in most restaurants. I actually have a strange place for that kind of environment. It's charming, it's endearing, in a way. But it probably sucks for public health.

as a Siene (and many other rivers in faraway lands) of techies everyone can understand the concept, Baudelaire felt, of being and then creating alone in a crowd

to try to be together with something or someone

> The average person is really bad at system administration

the average person doesn't even understand the basic concept of what the average HN reader considers system administration, and we're wrong anyway eh