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DOE is investing heavily in SMRs right now. There's 4 which have reached criticality so far. Chris Wright the DOE head is a o&g political appointee hack, but the career employees a…

Oof hit a nerve with the jeffbots on this but it doesn’t change the fact that everyone is laughing when you know the layoffs are predictably coming in with each earnings call.

The non-programmers at amazon I know are all just getting onto kiro. I guess there’s two versions of kiro(?) one aimed at devs and the other more web/mcp friendly. Ic and managers …

No info about planned GW or cross compare metrics to see how for $295B goes. I also don’t think the blow quotes is that fair given that this is state-funded vs private-funded and t…

I've noticed over the last ~week that if I try to navigate to HN without active logged in session that I am often blocked from resolving the site, instead seeing a "sorry" page. Se…

This is awesome. My partner runs events in Seattle and has talked about how there is a big need to do classes on teaching basic household handyman things but also her thing is turn…

I applied for a mortgage today through my bank. Before the automated “next steps” email could hit my inbox my phone was already ringing and ringing and ringing. About 10 minutes st…

Still building with metal in my free time. This months project is an 8ft tall corner plant stand. Picked up some really unique looking boards from seconduse I need to sand and stai…

I’m a few days late to comment here but I’ve been creating metal furniture again this summer. Mostly tables, end tables, night stands, some benches and stools. It’s a hobby thing a…

Resumé filters aren’t a new thing but with better and more fine tuned filtering I wonder if I should be making changes to my resumé? If you have made changes, what type of changes …

Thanks for the tip that’s a good idea I’ll see if there’s any retro arcade groups or meetups and see if they want any of this. I’d love to give it away to a group like that. I’m no…

Long story short I am left with cleaning up a hoarders house. I have two pallets of old electronics and equipment. I believe most of the hardware is all for arcade equipment of var…

This was a big reading year for myself, I got through 25 books. They are not technical books like most listed here. I focused on reading memoirs, literature, fiction stories, prima…

I used to be a mechanic and owned a shop and was knee deep in car culture, but motorcycles really stole the spotlight as I've aged. They're less fun to work on imo but so much more…

Also as far as price goes, you're positioned cheaper than and Ariel Atom and a t-rex although it is smaller so that is expected. But I think it's a good price target for people who…

This trike is awesome! Love the way it looks open and closed. I have an electric motorcycle and it's crazy fun. I've driven t-rex trikes before and those are so much fun too so the…

I clicked a dot by my house which is not in california and it shows $929

This Glen Greebwald who "quit" in protest to his false Hunter Biden witch hunt? The guy lost all credibility pushing that fake bullshit story so far he lost his job at his own news…

Black tongue comments are really getting tiring to read on here.

Thanks for writing this is up! I've been thinking about enrolling at WGU for their CS degree and was just chatting about it yesterday. I'm also self taught but with only half a deg…

The CIA also has a venture capital firm for investing in startups. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

> Every single day this is posted there is a raft of comments that either use ad hominems to attack the source without addressing what it had to say or red herrings Those comments …

I went the other way into programming from the trades. Sometimes, especially when I read about people leaving this industry to go work in the trades it makes me nostalgic and miss …