Why “idea” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
I love the game, but it was truly impossible back then (pirated, no manual, no idea what I had to do) and even today, with an emulator and every hint on the internet ;) I know i…
by the_af · Sep 3, 2026
I am using LLMs more and more to help me write docs at work, simply because I do not have time to start these docs from scratch. And it pains me so much that my writing no longe…
by cbarrick · Sep 3, 2026
You know this has taken time to sift in my head, personally I disdain it as for me it seems more similar to a real product or a PoC. My definition of a tech provocation would be…
by doc_ick · Sep 3, 2026
Congrats on the launch. I had a vague idea about personalized medication, did not know it was the VC style scaling of 10m$->100m$ ARR business! There are some messages here comp…
by ghm2199 · Sep 3, 2026
I think it was the Uplift series by David Brin that has an idea where the old galactic races all speak a perfect language that has no ambiguity, and because of that they have no…
by Brian_K_White · Sep 3, 2026
Progressive corporate taxation would give the market an incentive to do spinoffs and undo the merger wave. Or we could just roll antitrust policy back to what it was before Rona…
by schmidtleonard · Sep 3, 2026
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An idea is the result of thought. Although the word is used in common usage, in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object. Many philosophers have considered ideas to be a fundamental ontological category of being. The capacity to create and understand the meaning of ideas is considered to be an essential and defining feature of human beings. Read more on Wikipedia