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Omar Shehata
Personal blog · omarshehata.substack.comaipoliticsweb
Omar Shehata's personal blog at omarshehata.substack.com covers ai, politics and web. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-06, and you can follow it by feed.
professional social engineering, "for good". Launched 4 years ago.
Most-linked posts?
- My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-02
What Hacker News says?
> And then cease being a non-technical user I'm glad you said this because Feynman has a beautiful response to it: basically, there is no such thing as a "non-technical user". Almost everyone is adept at navigating _some_ complex system in their life. I agree with you that they probably don't want to learn. but the reason they don't want to learn is because they don't think there is any value on it, they believe it…
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on “This Message Does Not Exist”Submitted My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes as a story · 210 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter shut off API access; users volunteering their own data for an open API as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fighting Twitter's censorship of Substack (with a proxy) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hulu is A/B testing ads in the pause screen – this is bad for society as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Washington Post collecting TikTok user data from its followers for public good as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What *is* ChatGPT if it's not a chatbot? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beginners can do things that experts cannot as a story · 1 points
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