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Some people take the old cases from defunct macs and modify them for modern hardware. Here's a shop [0] that sells conversion kits for them. Here are some "sleepers" that people ha…

As a customer of Konfig, I am super bummed about this. I think we may even have been their first customer (referenced in the init commit). Dylan and Anh-Tuan solved a number of rea…

I was looking forward to that as well, but Siri refuses to read ChatGPT's responses to me...which makes it substantially less useful. It's just as frustrating as being told "sorry,…

I've been compiling a list of ways in which physical reality is similar to game engines or mechanical simulation in general. Here's my list so far: - The observer effect, quantum e…

This is probably the most delightfully interesting thing I've read in weeks.

One of the biggest contributors to pollinator decline is loss of habitat for native bees. Most bees are actually solitary (don’t live in hives) and live in little crannies or holes…

Thank you, that was a fascinating talk and I learned quite a bit. However, it did not provide a convincing argument as to why LLMs cannot be a part of a "doomer" AI. In fact, I got…

As much as I can appreciate Doctorow’s exasperation, I find his dismissal of the doomer vs accelerationist debate rather pithy. I would love to be convinced that “dumb” LLMs can ne…

Reminds me of the butter robot on Rick and Morty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HmltUWXgs&t=33s

Fossil Fuels Brewing appears to be no longer in business. Anybody know what happened to their yeast? https://untappd.com/FossilFuelsBrewing

Sure, but it would be more constructive to explain why it's wrong. GP's comment has some interesting ideas and it would be better to directly refute them than just claiming they're…

Kable has been super helpful for my company so far! Our billing is pretty complicated because it's usage-based and we're customizing pricing for every single customer at this point…

On the face of it, no, it doesn't sound revolutionary. "Just switch to renewables" is something I've been hearing for 20 years and I never believed it could work until I read this …

It's not really that electricity is more efficient (is IS more efficient in most cases, but a key point of the book is that we can't "efficiency" our way out of the climate crisis)…

Yeah, that's basically the point of the book. Acknowledging that our dependence on fossil fuels is hard to break, but outlining an actually realistic plan for doing so.

While on the topic of green energy, I recently started reading Electrify by Saul Griffith [0] which outlines a pretty comprehensive plan for addressing climate change with a broad …

Seems like a strange bit of feedback to me. My company uses Django as the backend for our REST API and it's simply phenomenal. Django isn't a complete solution out of the box, but …

Seems like there's a 50 character limit, it may have truncated your message to fit.

Just because it often works doesn't mean it's a good idea. Updating a single package is officially unsupported [0] and it's burned me personally on a number of occasions. [0] https…

Previous discussions: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27075180 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086553

I was hoping that link would explain how to actually make a transaction with the lightning network. Can you do that with the Bitcoin-Qt client?

All the talk of implants makes me wonder what's possible without a direct physical link to the brain. Like using an EEG to measure brain signals and transform them into instruction…

> The newborn’s skin was blue and he wasn’t breathing. A few years earlier, the doctors would have documented the baby as stillborn, not believing there was anything they could do …

Another good one: Barrett's Privateers [2] [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w