Author: 7777777phil - Lobster Roll

65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform (philippdubach.com)

HN 503 pts 458 comments by 7777777phil Jan 6, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well (garymarcus.substack.com)

HN 232 pts 334 comments by 7777777phil Jan 13, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread

Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026 (macrumors.com)

HN 194 pts 8 comments by 7777777phil Dec 1, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases (techcrunch.com)

HN 121 pts 51 comments by 7777777phil Jan 17, 2026 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory (papers.ssrn.com)

HN 101 pts 23 comments by 7777777phil Jan 12, 2026 thread

There's no single best way to store information (quantamagazine.org)

HN 100 pts 49 comments by 7777777phil Jan 17, 2026 thread

Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay (philippdubach.com)

HN 94 pts 99 comments by 7777777phil Jan 4, 2026 thread

macOS 26's Cut Corners (daringfireball.net)

HN 60 pts 24 comments by 7777777phil Jan 13, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Pozsar's Bretton Woods III: The Framework (philippdubach.com)

HN 59 pts 33 comments by 7777777phil Nov 19, 2025 thread

Remember when you owned stuff? (doctorow.medium.com)

HN 52 pts 11 comments by 7777777phil Jan 14, 2026 thread

Multiword matrix multiplication over large finite fields in floating-point (arxiv.org)

HN 26 pts 0 comments by 7777777phil Jan 13, 2026 thread

GLP-1 Second-Order Effects

HN 22 pts 9 comments by 7777777phil Feb 23, 2026 thread

The first-order effects of GLP-1 drugs are obvious: people lose weight, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly print money. But what happens when 10-15% of the adult population is on weight-loss medication within a decade? The downstream consequences are less discussed and almost certainly not priced into anyth...

Apple Faces Scrutiny as Sanctioned Entities Slip Through App Store Controls (washingtonpost.com)

HN 21 pts 5 comments by 7777777phil Dec 10, 2025 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

LLM Ad Blockers are coming (idiallo.com)

HN 19 pts 4 comments by 7777777phil Jan 27, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread

How to Debug Your Life (joanwestenberg.com)

HN 19 pts 3 comments by 7777777phil Jan 18, 2026 Programming (General) thread

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info (theregister.com)

HN 16 pts 2 comments by 7777777phil Jan 10, 2026 thread

RSS Tinder (philippdubach.com)

HN 13 pts 8 comments by 7777777phil Jan 19, 2026 thread

Investing with GIFs: A Visual Guide (ft.com)

HN 13 pts 6 comments by 7777777phil Jan 10, 2026 thread

Don't Lie (notes.philippdubach.com)

HN 11 pts 3 comments by 7777777phil Jan 18, 2026 thread

Everything is amazing and nobody's happy (notes.philippdubach.com)

HN 11 pts 3 comments by 7777777phil Jan 16, 2026 thread

Why is flu so bad this year? (nature.com)

HN 10 pts 0 comments by 7777777phil Jan 18, 2026 thread

BERT can Predict HN Post Success with ~70% AUC (philippdubach.com)

HN 10 pts 0 comments by 7777777phil Jan 14, 2026 thread

Ed Feulner, Ed Meese and the Heritage Foundation's Exodus (wsj.com)

HN 10 pts 1 comments by 7777777phil Jan 9, 2026 thread

If you want to understand any society, look at what it creates (notes.philippdubach.com)

HN 9 pts 1 comments by 7777777phil Jan 19, 2026 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Tinder Hasn't Worked, So I'm Putting Myself on Zillow (mcsweeneys.net)

HN 8 pts 1 comments by 7777777phil Feb 15, 2026 thread

How the AI Bubble Bursts in 2026 (wheresyoured.at)

HN 8 pts 1 comments by 7777777phil Jan 19, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread

Ask HN: How can you instantly tell something was written by AI?

HN 8 pts 10 comments by 7777777phil Jan 16, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread

Show HN: One RSS Feed for the Most Popular HN Bloggers (2025 Rankings) (rss-aggregator.philippd.workers.dev)

HN 8 pts 3 comments by 7777777phil Jan 13, 2026 thread

Built this RSS aggregator based on the 2025 HN Popularity Contest rankings by Refactoring English [1]. If there's interest in other slices (top 10, top 200, etc.), happy to add them.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478377">https://news.ycombinator....

Google's First AI Smart Glasses Coming in 2026 (blog.google)

HN 8 pts 3 comments by 7777777phil Dec 9, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread

Ask HN: Are you “addicted” to coding with AI?

HN 7 pts 3 comments by 7777777phil Jan 20, 2026 AI / Machine Learning Programming (General) thread

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