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In the Dwarkesh podcast about relativity they talked about one of the ways to prove einsteins theory was to observe a total eclipse - stars that should not be visible were predicte…

>> what does this cost for dell to include? 1) a few cents of components 2) the opportunity cost of selling you a high margin dongle 3) minus the risk of a lost sale if you buy a c…

Thank you (and the GP post) for the insight. I wonder if further developing microg or similar would be a better use of resources than Postmarket, Ubuntu touch etc? Would that be a …

https://archive.is/XeR68

“A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive…

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Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826404

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The subject of the article (Dr Sean Olive) has been doing research into actual perceivable differences in audio reproduction - he wrote the book on ideal curves for headphones base…

Wow. A universal, unprivileged local kernel stack use-after-free enabling ~97%-reliable privilege escalation and container escape via a constrained write primitive, control-flow hi…

"By the end of 2026, we expect CXMT to reach roughly 350 kwspm, which is only modestly below Micron’s estimated ~385 kwspm. This would position CXMT close to becoming the industry’…

Its rational for CXMT to not chase HBM right now, because commodity DRAM currently carries higher margins than its immature HBM process. Curious to see how this influences the cons…

Sounds like it’s a low level hardware/firmware hole that can’t be patched.

The lack of open, replaceable software is the main blocker. The article talks about only keeping the motherboard anyway. End users don’t need to replace screens, ports and batterie…

Exactly this. Few phones allow bootloader unlock let alone open drivers that can be brought forward to a mainline kernel. The article seems to refer to a 2023 Pixel Fold as one of …

On lower end cpus (N100) chromium/brave benchmarks 10-20% faster than Firefox.

We need a benchmark that tests a models ability to do LLM research.

I feel like your analysis is correct and it’s overvalued but employees and insiders have already been selling shares (eg on platforms like Forge) for around the $130-135 IPO price.…

I had an old 1st gen Amazon Firestick in a drawer for years, it had updated to the latest software and there were no public root exploits. I spent a day bouncing between Claude and…

For anyone else who was wondering what this looks like: https://fdn.gsmarena.com/imgroot/news/22/12/asus-zenbook-14x... https://fdn.gsmarena.com/imgroot/news/22/12/asus-zenbook-14x…

I used a combination of Opus 4.7 and Codex 5.5 over the course of a day to find and exploit a root privilege escalation on my 1st gen Amazon firestick (android 5) - you shouldn't n…