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That is a significant leap in logic. A vibecoding tool is not a McDouble. Nor is Chris Kempczinski the same person as Dario Amodei. The biggest difference is that there are only so…

I suspect you are greatly overestimating the average organization's ability to run a Git server themselves and keep it secure, while also overestimating how evil GitHub and LLM's p…

> Starlink residential service is about 10x slower than my home fiber connection at the same price. How is this technology going to compete with data center level infrastructure ev…

It's easy to see the benefit in DC's in space if you look at a few ingredients: 1. The recent Iran drone attacks on AWS data centers 2. Growing anti-AI and anti data center sentime…

Agreed. The "Tesla backed into objects, one into a pole or tree at 1 mph and another into a fixed object at 2 mph" stood out to me in specific. There is no way that any human drive…

Bingo. I elaborated on this idea more in my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884246 People are acting like a space data centre would be running a traditional workloa…

My dark theory is that the goal is to run an AI overlord in space such that it is difficult to counter it from Earth. If you assume that these people aren't completely stupid, then…

So far in this thread the majority of Hacker News users have decided they don't like the tone of your comment, therefore they have downvoted your comment. If you don't see the iron…

You are getting downvoted for tone. By tone I mean the polarizing terms like: "cesspool of stupid opinions" and "low-thinking idiots", etc. When social communities allow the type o…

No. This is a real issue. If a robot is fully AI powered and doing what it does fully autonomously, then it has a very different risk profile compared to a teleoperated robot. For …

"the disconnect between a solid economy and an anxious public" Maybe... the economy isn't actually as solid as he thinks?

In case anyone else is wondering about practical ways to reproduce these effects, I did some quick searching: Most chocolate / cocoa products are processed in a way that destroys 8…

This is coming from Swiss Re, which is the world's largest insurance company for insurance companies. Basically you pay an insurance company premium so that if you have a health em…

I'm more fascinated by the question of whether it scales up... imagine much smaller and more efficient electric engines for cruise liners and cargo ships.

You'd be surprised how technical farming can be. Us software engineers often have a deep desire to make efficient systems, that function well, in a mostly automated fashion, so tha…

I'm right behind you on the escape to the mountains idea. I've actually already moved from the US to New Zealand, and the next step is a farm with some goats lol. That said... I do…

Yep, it's just a question of whether on average the "new thing" is more good than bad. Pretty much every "new thing" has some kind of bad side effect for some people, while being g…

> It is estimated that more than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (59.3 million in 2022; 23.1% of the U.S. adult population). https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/stat…

Running stuff on an underpowered Raspberry Pi is a good way to sniff test whether an infrastructure or software setup is sane. Powerful computers can hide horrible decisions for a …

> Objects that need new hard drives every 3-5 years to store, replenished on a constant cycle The replenishment of these hard drives is baked into the cost of S3. If there is a maj…

ChatGPT 5 still says "My knowledge cutoff is June 2024" There is a reason these models are still operating on old knowledge cutoff dates

I just ended an eight year stretch of working for AWS. I quit in order to move out of the United States to New Zealand, so indirectly I quit over RTO. I wanted to work outside of a…

The graph showing the difference between home price index, and consumer price index does not consider that many of the items in the consumer price index are heavily subsidized by t…

I've seen this regularly on fringe articles that are clearly being manipulated. I don't have direct links right now, but things I have seen in the past: * A sketchy online universi…

I think the explanation is simple: there is a direct correlation between being too lazy and demotivated to write your own code, and being too lazy and demotivated to actually finis…