Hacker News with Generative AI: Mental Models

Brain on GPS (theglobeandmail.com)
Having an omniscient navigational tool in your pocket at all times has changed not just how we find our way around, but how we construct a mental representation of the world around us
Navigation, Psychology, Technology, Mental Models
3 points by jack_peplinski 5 days ago | 0 comments
Sail-Trim Simulator (atterwind.info)
Learn and get a better mental model about wind-gradient, apparent-wind, sail-twist at changing speeds and course
Sailing, Simulation, Wind, Sailing Techniques, Mental Models
140 points by stass 30 days ago | 28 comments
Personality Basins (near.blog)
Personality basins are the mental model that I use to reason about humans within their environment. They are an elucidating way to think about many concepts: from modelling why people are they way they are, how they change over time, how mental illnesses and addiction function along with how we should look for their cures, and how the attention economy optimizes itself to consume all of your free time.
Psychology, Human Behavior, Mental Models, Addiction, Attention Economy
166 points by qouteall 183 days ago | 111 comments
My mental model of setf was wrong (simondobson.org)
Programming, Mental Models, Software Development
171 points by nemoniac 299 days ago | 91 comments