Hacker News with Generative AI: Personal Reflections

Money was never the end goal – mrdoob – threejs creator (twitter.com)
Personal reflections on moving from Canada to NYC (danfrank.ca)
I’m moving from Canada to New York City this week, and I’m having a mini-existential crisis. There are the personal reasons I feel torn—what if I’m lonely, what if I don’t fit in, what if New York doesn’t magically fix the frustrations I had in Toronto, forcing me to confront the horrifying possibility that there’s no “better place”? But there’s also a bigger reason I’m feeling this way.
Four Years Ago Today (tracydurnell.com)
I’ve taken to ignoring all the autogenerated “memories” that my phone would like to show me from four years ago — because while the system simply matches the date, *I* know that four years ago was the depths of despair of the pandemic.
Move Fast and Abandon Things (engineersneedart.com)
Maybe it’s the change of weather. Fall often finds me looking backward, to the past — and anyway it is as good excuse as any as to why I have found myself peering into old hard drives trying to recover old bits and bytes from games that I wrote some thirty-five years ago or so.
I wish I didn't miss the '90s-00s internet (rohan.ga)
I am 18, born in 2006. This is generally a good thing as I am in the prime of life currently. I am not one of those people who think they were “born in the wrong decade”, I think I was born at the perfect time to take advantage of superlinearly growing technological advancements.
We've had a good day, haven't we? (papanotes.com)
We've had a good day, haven't we?
Please Don't Idolize Me (Or Anyone, Really) (scalzi.com)
Things I learned from teaching (2023) (claytonwramsey.com)
Below the Root: A story, a computer game and my lifelong obsession (2015) (stahlmandesign.com)
Reflections on Luck and Skill from the Part Time Poker Grind (thehobbyist.substack.com)
I want to enjoy Minecraft again (bearblog.dev)
I'm done making desktop applications (2009) (kalzumeus.com)
Why I'm embarrassed to be German [video] (youtube.com)
Do I Regret Being 'Just' a Software Engineer? (jacky.wtf)
Ambitious but at peace (jugheadjones10.github.io)
I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net)
Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I'm Sorry I'm Leaving You (nytimes.com)
I am no longer attending vintage computer festivals (textfiles.com)