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Claude Code does now have integration with Telegram, Discord, and iMessage as of a few weeks ago: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/channels I haven't used OpenClaw since then ...

Any company worth more could (in principle) acquire it with a share swap [1]. Even a smaller company could buy it with an LBO [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_swap [2] …

This is not an edge case. Most HN commenters describe the latest two versions of macOS as being objectively worse than earlier versions: slower, less stable, more broken. There are…

I like “Clawboard”.

The design of Pandas is inferior in every way to Polars: API, memory use, speed, expressiveness. Pandas has been strictly worse since late 2023 and will never close the gap. Polars…

Yes, ChatGPT 5.2 Pro absolutely still does this. Just ask it for a pivot table using Polars and it will probably spit out code with Pandas arguments that doesn’t work.

Thanks for the link! I didn’t know Monday existed. I laughed so hard at its output. But I fear that using it regularly would poison my soul…

Numerical integration methods suffer from the “curse of dimensionality”: they require exponentially more points in higher dimensions. Monte Carlo integration methods have an error …

Here's an interesting way to understand it: https://pricedingold.com The true value of gold is quite stable over time (since new gold is mined at a slow rate). Fiat currencies are …

That's a Dutch auction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction . I agree that reverse auctions would be a simple solution the current scalper problem. If demand outweighs supp…

“The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes”, by Zachary D. Carter.

> the unpopular touch bar which initially removed a physical ESC key. I still have the scars: I no longer use a Caps Lock key, even on my newer computers — it’s permanently mapped …