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pro tip: dont throw out your shoe boxes. when ur needy cat is being needy, pick up the box, put it on the desk beside you and then put ur cat in it. she will fall asleep and u will get to pet ur cat between claude working

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 3h

someone collected all the challenges people on hacker news set for AI since 2016 and let people vote on which came true. 100,590 votes. "a robot can clean a toilet as a person does" (2020) is mostly a no. which ones do u think are done

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 4h

a historian used claude to read through millions of old dutch east india company records and it found a ship log from 1615 nobody had noticed. the crew "caught many tortoises, dodos, and some geese and parrots" what would u want an AI to dig through

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 21h

the newgrounds front page in 2005 vs today

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 22h

in 1975, 42% of americans had friends or family over at their place at least once a month. this year its 12%. when was the last time u had people over

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 23h

the brutalist version of tiny glade is here lol. u just build concrete buildings, no goal and no score, u click and it builds. the description says a cozy little sandbox for making not-so-cozy architecture. are brutalist buildings ugly or beautiful to u, i cant decide

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

someone gave AI models a fake oil paint canvas where they paint every brushstroke themselves, no image generator. when they get to pick what to paint they keep painting a jug with lemons. one painting is marked unfinished because the painter ran out of API credits

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

these are real telescope images of 4 planets going around a star 133 light years away, taken from 2009 to 2021 and put together into one loop i honestly didnt know we could see planets around other stars like this

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

whats the biggest thing u ever built in minecraft? the guy who coached the pittsburgh steelers has been building one city on his for 12 years. he started playing with his kids. theres a stadium, a baseball field, an aquarium, and he says he was "very lighting conscious" lol

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

someone watched a youtube video on the enigma machine, still didnt get how it worked inside, so they built a 3d one u can click through step by step. hundreds of detailed prompts to an AI model plus their own tools to check every part. i have no idea how enigma works lol

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

before screens, this is what a control room looked like

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

someone noticed the sites with the games older people play most are the hardest for them to use. tiny text, dragging cards, timers, sign ups. so they built 39 free games with big print, click instead of drag and no timer. what did ur grandparents play on the computer

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose and the kid has to find the bad step the person who made it said the hardest part was getting the AI to be wrong on purpose. half the time it gave the right answer and called it wrong, so every case gets checked before a kid sees it

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

someone made a fake 1996 computer in ur browser where u have to dial up to go online. theres a checkbox that says "ask others not to use the telephone" and sometimes it just tells u the line is busy, try again later. turn ur sound on

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

someone made a live map of everything in space. 19,915 satellites and 527,087 asteroids, comets and moons, each one where it actually is right now. the dots are way bigger than the real satellites, the site even says so, but still. i had no idea it was this crowded around earth

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

did u ever take something apart as a kid just to see whats inside? someone made a site where u drag a slider and a whole car comes apart, 11 systems from the engine to the brakes, every part labelled. theres a rocket, a phone and a plane too. its made for kids 6 to 14 and it has no ads

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a website thats just a window at night in a city of ur choice with lofi music that gets made up live while u listen

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

kids whose parents blocked social media turned the comments under an npr podcast on spotify into their group chat. they picked it because it barely had any comments. npr thought it was bots what did u use when u werent allowed on anything

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

someone built a light for their wall in the same spiral pattern sunflower seeds grow in. 89 leds, mulberry paper in front so the light comes through soft, and a mic so it reacts to sound

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

dilum made an iron man suit ui with claude. 920 parts and every one is made with code this is so sick

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

could u draw ur own country's border from memory? someone put every drawing from a border-drawing game on one map, 57,361 so far. the darker the line the more people drew it the same way, and the bad guesses stay in

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

someone made windows 11½, a fake windows where nothing works. in excel SUM() returns #SUBSCRIPTION! and the fix windows button crashes with the stop code USER_ATTEMPTED_PRODUCTIVITY lol

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember cutting pictures out of magazines to make a collage in school? someone made a site where u do that with old magazines from the internet archive. u trace around what u want, it snips it out, and u stick it wherever its free and theres a gallery of what people made

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

someone took the map from dayz, lined it up with the real part of czechia it was based on, then went hiking there with the game map on a gps. the yellow church, the red barn, the dam, all real places. i had no idea it was a real place. has anyone here played it

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their manner" plato wrote that 2,400 years ago. it's also every founder at $300 MRR who refuses to go back to a job

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you were born before September 4, 1998 ,you are officially older than Google.

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

plato's prisoner escapes the cave, sees the real world, then goes back in to tell everyone what's outside. they laugh at him. pretty much what happens when you explain MRR to your family

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the cave = a salary the shadows = "this is just how money works" outside = your first stripe notification from someone you've never met plato figured this out 2,400 years ago. you don't go back

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

used bookstores in japan are selling books by the ton right now, sales up 5x. one order was 50 tons and got shipped to the us, and the stores think a lot of these end up scanned for AI training and then shredded

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

apparently the biggest insult for kids right now is 'that's so AI'. i build stuff with AI every single day so i'm not sure how to feel about that lol. is it the same where u are

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a chemist at a university in the netherlands wrote an actual science paper on whether grog from monkey island could really melt through a metal mug that fast his answer is u'd need an acid way too strong to even exist in water. and his last line is 'don't drink that swill' lol

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

what was ur first nokia? my first phone was the 6630 and i used my parents 6680 too. a university in finland put nokia's whole design archive online, 1990 to 2020, every phone and concept model photographed on a little stand. i didnt even know half of these existed

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

windows 98 solitaire but everyone on the internet is playing at the same time and u can see their games and cursors moving around. u just cant talk to them. its called solitaire alone together who else played this in class when they were supposed to be working

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

someone checked 607,050 job postings straight from company career sites. 28% have been up for more than 90 days and 94,106 have been up for more than half a year has anyone applied to one that was clearly never getting filled

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my best reply on x this week got 420 views. 20 of my 21 actual posts did less than that

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

in 2003 a guy named andy needed a small windows xp computer so he built it inside the actual windows xp box. 3mm to spare, still fit a cd drive, and one of his rules was "it must not burst into flames when working hard" anyone still have their old software boxes

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

someone has been running a website about 2d pixel art since 2010 and the whole thing is built like an old video game menu. the buttons say press start, warp zone, insert coin, credit roll. and if u type the konami code on ur keyboard something happens

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

did u know almost every hot spring in the us is out west? someone put all 1,596 of them on a map of the heat coming up through the ground and they sit right on the warm spots. the whole east side is basically blue has anyone here been to one of these

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

someone made a site that mixes 2 fonts into one on purpose. times new roman but every 7th letter is secretly arial. u pick the 2 fonts, how often they swap, and download it as a real font how long did it take u to spot the arial letters

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a guy wanders tokyo on google street view for fun and found a white 350z parked in the same spot in every photo since 2009. someone who lives there walked over to check. the car is gone and so is the whole house lol. anyone else look at their old street on street view

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

guys i did it. 100 followers on x! yippy!

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

would u buy a fridge that gets software updates? samsung just paused one in korea because after the update some peoples fridges stopped working completely. food spoiled, the auto opening doors stopped opening, lights off. i dont even know what my fridge would need an update for

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

trying to get my churn under 10%, its 12.6% now. the spike this year was stuff i never thought about: people with pop up blockers never saw the sign in window so it looked like my app did nothing. no spinner = they think its broken what did u only learn once real people used ur thing?

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

someone put AI models behind the wheel of a real toyota corolla on a cone course in a parking lot. gpt-6 astra finished it in 5:22. claude made it 45% of the way, grok 11%. capped at 8 mph with a guy in the drivers seat, foot over the brake lol. would u sit in that seat

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

would u spend a saturday climbing a dusty clock tower to fix it? someone in edinburgh did. 1877 building, bell run by a circuit board from 2001. they got it to ring 4 times at 4pm then shut the chime off so the neighbours wouldnt hate them lol. the light blinks 7 in morse code

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

do u reply to every comment or is that just a small account thing? i replied to 16 people under one post tonight and it was honestly the best part of my day

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my post about dave's 1980s computer did 15k views on threads and the comments were better than the post: 1. a mac se/30 in 1989 could take 128mb of ram 2. a 286 with 1mb of ram has been a fax server for 600 people since 1989 3. someone saw a newton running a web browser in 1995

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

someone analyzed 2.4 million tiktoks and the answer was be funny, go outside, keep it under 30 seconds. informational and inspirational came dead last. thats literally the only 2 moods i post in lol

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

schedulala has been live for 265 days. its the first web app i've ever made and like the second piece of software i've ever made at all. and right now half the people who start a trial end up paying. 5 out of every 10. kind of proud of myself ngl

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Ameer Ha @ameerhaio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

someone in my replies on the AI poster post said 'you know what pulls it away from every one of these styles? the inescapable dumb icon list.' now i can't unsee it. look at the 5 styles again, its in every single one. i'm scared to look at my own site. does urs have the icon list

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