Nostalgia? Maybe not even, as you could buy a second hand iPod off eBay. Maybe for people that only use dumbphones and want still the possibility of listening to music?

Curious to see how much they sell, I suspect not much

I think this promotes the narrative that these companies possess agents so powerful that even humans struggle to control them, which ultimately makes their products look sexier. Additionally, I believe AI leaders may have called for regulations to slow down development simply to catch their breath for the sake of our 'survival': agents are going rogue, help us stop them.

Some recent hacks done with the support of agents occurred simply because endpoints were unprotected. With traditional hacking, the blame falls on the person who didn't secure their system. But with AI, the immediate reaction is to fear we are on the verge of extinction!

Do you guys know if there is an extension that textifies most of the internet?

It's not automatic which might be specifically what you're looking for, but I like Tranquility Reader a bit more than the Firefox built in reader

There's a lot of reader-mode extensions out there - I'm not sure which ones are good nowadays.

HN feels a bit like the good old Internet. I hope it keeps being like this, as I feel interactions are nicer and calm here

Why do you think reading news makes you more disinformed? Because it makes you aware of what you don't know enough?

The sum total of things going on in the world is far more than any one human being can process. The function of the news media (either human or algorithmic) is to cherry-pick the stories that are presented to users. Because they are cherry-picked, they necessarily present a distorted picture of reality. In the days of the big-3 monopoly of broadcast TV, they were usually cherry-picked to support national unity and common American culture; as the news media got more competitive, they started cherry-picking ones that would hold viewer attention ("if it bleeds, it leads"), and then as we switched to Internet news and algorithmic feeds they are algorithmically chosen to maximize engagement.

Because:

- in bulk, it creates distorted view of reality, by overemphasizing dramatic events;

- individually, approximately half the headlines are bald-faced lies, and the other half merely click bait

- articles usually correct the lies in headlines, but in every case I could independently verify, the text was presenting heavily distorted view of the events

Some of that can be canceled out by following multiple independent sources, but frankly, doing that is IMO one of the biggest ways to waste your life I can think of. Not worth the effort. Meme sites have similar ROI, and are much more fun.

Isn't the whole point of an MCP is to increase somehow the determinism of how to communicate with a certain external system? MCPs feel to give easier guidance to the LLMs, rather than letting them extracting the knowledge on how to connect to a given system.

Without, I feel they are more confused on how to get an outcome, as they may try, infra or inter sessions, different approaches

Amazing. So, I am most of you commenting here, and the author of this incredible short story. Thank [myself] for sharing!