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by burkaman 1y ago
I think the reason to invest is that they think it's an attractive browser feature and they think it might be acquired by Google or Arc or OpenAI.
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by burkaman 1y ago
Yes, immediately. The em dash and emoji in the title are hints, but I know some humans write like this too. > (what?!) This is a classic LLM-style exclamation trying to create an emotional reaction where it doesn't really make sense
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The military has told Congress they don't know either. > [The department officials] said that they do not need to positively identify individuals on these vessels to do the strikes, they just need to prove a connection to a designat
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Sulfur cave spiders build an arachnid megacity and possibly the largest-ever web(phys.org)
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I guess the complaint is that electricity production is not zero emissions in most of the world, so it could be considered misleading. I don't think it makes sense, ICE vehicle emission ratings have never included the drilling, refinin
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by burkaman 1y ago
Seems much too early to draw any conclusions. Lots of sales that would have happened in October (and probably the next couple months as well) were shifted to September to take advantage of the credit. Also: > Dealership managers told the
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by burkaman 1y ago
We seem to be very good friends with Saudi Arabia and Qatar now.
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Joan Kroc's donation had zero strings attached.
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Also, this app uses photos from a combination of government databases, but there are millions of citizens without photo ID who won't show up in any of them.
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It's about this app, they won't tell anyone who developed it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Fortify .
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by burkaman 1y ago
They do disclose them when they are relevant to a story. For example, https://www.npr.org/2025/10/08/nx-s1-5564684/macarthur-overd... and https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda&
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by burkaman 1y ago
Imagine reading a thoughtful and substantive HN comment about the benefits of a new product, and then later realizing that the commenter failed to mention they are a major investor in the product. You would feel mildly annoyed or misled, ri
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The issue is not whether or not the White House needs a new room, it's that the private funding model is an incredibly obvious avenue for bribery. Every single "donor" has immediate business with the federal government, and t
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That would be much worse for passengers who can normally just sleep through the whole thing, it would take much longer to do the transfer, you'd need a larger and more complex ferry with bathrooms, seating, luggage storage, and more st
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Oral exams and quizzes are hard for reasons unrelated to understanding the subject matter. Language barriers, public speaking anxiety, exam stress, etc. All things that students should hopefully learn how to overcome, but that's a lot
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It was not temporary. The victims spent substantial amounts of money suing and still lost: https://www.eenews.net/articles/appeals-court-says-epa-can-r... . Technically litigation is ongoing but there is no reason to be
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by burkaman 1y ago
I don't know if they've attempted to claw back any NSF grants yet, but they have done this with EPA grants. There was no lawsuit, they just ordered banks to freeze the funds and the banks complied: https://www.eenews.ne
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That is a subset of thieves. There are still plenty of situations where it is beneficial to have a lock that can't be opened in 5 seconds with a paperclip, like a school or gym locker room for example. Nobody is bringing a sawzall into
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by burkaman 1y ago
Why was the clause included if it's completely redundant? PSF's decision is based on the government's demonstrated track record of what they consider to be "illegal DEI", not what the law actually says. Grant cancel
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by burkaman 1y ago
I think this is aiming to be Claude Code for people who use Excel as a programming environment.
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I'm excited to see what national disasters will be caused by auto-generated Excel sheets that nobody on the planet understands. A few selections from past HN threads to prime your imagination: Thousands of unreported COVID cases: http
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by burkaman 1y ago
The coiner gets to pick the combination that sounds the best, there is no correct choice. We could have gotten breakfunch and mototel, but some person or collection of people decided that brunch and motel work better.
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People did understand what to do, it just turns out their understanding was wrong. We might still be wrong though, one study isn't definitive proof of anything. We have to make decisions with the knowledge we have at the time, and it&#
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by burkaman 1y ago
Yeah the whole article is awful to read. Everything the LLM added is completely useless fluff, sometimes misleading, and always painful to get through.
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I agree with you, but keep in mind that's probably what 40-year-olds in 1903 said about planes after hearing about the Wright brothers. Sometimes things do actually change.
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This one is artificial and is kept full by a solar-powered well system (according to the stream description).
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They'll get exclusive interviews, they'll get to be visible on TV asking questions to important people, they'll get invited on trips where they can film in front of a cool background like a military base or something. I think
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Your original document would have made a great blog post. The only thing the AI did is make it unpleasant to read and generally sound like a fake story.
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There's no reason to believe he didn't have an archive strategy. I'm guessing he did have one, and his photos and videos are backed up somewhere, but he was relying on not being dead to be able to retrieve them.
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How is it not backed by its cult value? It's the same as gold, only valuable if enough people agree that it's valuable. The technical foundations make it cool to think about, but not valuable without a large community of like-mind

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