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by evil-olive 4mo ago
for context: "Donut Lab's 'solid-state' battery exposed as regular li-ion in investigation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451404
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by evil-olive 4mo ago
that's confusing "subscribers" and "paid subscribers". from Zitron's own website [0]: > I have 84,000 subscribers and a 55-60% open rate, as well as an 8-11% clickthrough rate. if the 84k number was all paid
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by evil-olive 4mo ago
> It seems to be a lot of folks in the community are just lethargic to anything created by LLMs. I dislike "overpromise and underdeliver". LLMs can of course be used for other things, but for the type of person who overpromises
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by evil-olive 4mo ago
initial commit 2 days ago [0] added 5500 lines in a single shot. shows every sign of being entirely LLM-generated. with apologies to Andy Warhol - in the future, everyone will have a universal protocol for agent memory that is on the HN fro
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by evil-olive 4mo ago
I worked for several years at a company that builds and launches satellites. I worked almost entirely on the ground systems, so I don't claim to be an expert in the design of flight hardware etc, but I picked up quite a bit of general
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by evil-olive 4mo ago
your show HNs are getting flagged for being AI slop, and even this post asking why smells like you had an LLM write it for you: > Are there common mistakes first-time or low-karma users make when posting Show HN projects? > For people
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by evil-olive 4mo ago
I'm going to die N decades from now, where N is hopefully "several" or a similar order of magnitude. if I pay you for this service...what stops you from closing up shop a year or two from now, and just walking away with the m
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by evil-olive 4mo ago
> The 1970 epoch is one of those things everyone uses and nobody has ever actually written down. if I go to the Wikipedia page for "Unix time" this is the first reference cited in the "Definition" section: https:&#x2
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by evil-olive 4mo ago
> But you have to have a healthy hormonal balance to be able to do what he did. uhh...do you? I suspect there are plenty of child rapists in the world without a "healthy hormonal balance" or who don't pay careful attention
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by evil-olive 4mo ago
> The evidence indicates that “Of the 240 declarations submitted by plaintiffs, all stated that they heard the n-word at the Tesla Fremont factory” well, that sounds bad, but the plaintiffs might have cherry-picked those declarations and
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by evil-olive 4mo ago
> as a “spiritual advisor” who should answer questions with both modern and traditional faith based references right, you primed it with input tokens that mention religion, so you get output tokens that mention religion. the authors of t
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by evil-olive 4mo ago
> study claims an https://xkcd.com/1288/ style replacement - "study" in a news headline increasingly just means "a blog post except formatted with LaTeX to look scientific-ish and uploaded to arXiv&qu
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
I guess the "peace talks" with Iran are going poorly, then?
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
right at the very top: > Bun · Rust codebase audit · May 21, 2026 · AI generated nice of them to be up-front about it, I guess. the port is AI slop, littered with 13k unsafe blocks. and this blog post is more AI slop, claiming to present
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
direct link to the executive order (pdf): https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/5.21.26-AI... 3 pages of "whereas, " preamble, then: > 1. Within 90 days of the issuance of this O
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
it is very much in Bezos's self-interest to frame the question in terms of "whose taxes should we cut" he wants to avoid at all costs a discussion of "whose taxes should we raise"
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
> significant portions of this license were refined or rephrased with the help of artificial intelligence. I am not a lawyer and have no formal legal training. This is why I'm posting here — I need real legal professionals to review
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
> and earn > side income that's an immediate nope. make it actually engineering-focused. don't mix in any side-hustle hashtag-grindset passive-income nonsense.
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
> “I know what many of you are feeling about that. I can hear you,” Schmidt responded as the boos continued. “There is a fear in your generation that the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are ev
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
on your pricing page: > Start with one repo. Price the rest when the signal is real. which makes it sound like possibly the $150/mo price is per-repo? I think that could use some clarification - if I have 10 services in a monorepo v
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
no, absolutely not. orbital datacenters are never going to happen, it doesn't matter whether you try to frame them as compute or storage or whatever else. the extreme density of these SSDs is actually an anti-feature in the context of
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
> They found that when agents were subjected to relentless tasks and warned that errors could lead to punishments, including being “shut down and replaced,” they became more inclined to gripe about being undervalued; to speculate about w
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
it looks like you are violating Wikipedia's copyright by using text from their articles without attribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Reusers'_...
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
> First: these actions are not taking place today. We will be notifying everyone next week about whether their role is impacted this seems like a pretty terrible way to do a layoff. announce on a Thursday "25% of you will be laid of
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
> We just launched this week so is this description: > Coding agent that teams trust to develop mission-critical systems misleading (or aspirational, if you want to put a nicer spin on it)? in other words, are there any teams that tru
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by evil-olive 5mo ago
site seems very clickbaity (embedded tweets from the Daily Mail...in an article about archaeology?) > The site, known as Âsowanânihk (“a place to cross” in Cree) googling that name turned up an article from last year about illegal scaven
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by evil-olive 6mo ago
actual source, linked by Slashdot, is the tabloid rag NY Post: https://nypost.com/2026/04/07/us-news/ghost-murmur-a-never-u... an /r/AskPhysics thread from 2 weeks ago has pretty much universal
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by evil-olive 6mo ago
really interesting write-up, but for anyone like me who thought "hmm, I've got $20 and a spare SFP slot, maybe I'll play around with this" - the $20 price tag in the headline is a bit misleading: > The key piece is an
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by evil-olive 6mo ago
> so I can add some fixers for some sites like youtube, personal stuff if you want to release a browser extension for widespread consumption, don't bundle "fixers for personal stuff" into the same extension. since I assume
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by evil-olive 6mo ago
> Mathieu Kassovitz, who is currently working on an AI-enabled film in two years, everyone on Earth will eat Oreo cookies, according to a prediction by the CEO of Oreo cookies. > But Kassovitz, 58, whose 1995 film La Haine won three C

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