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Market-making in a market that is highly speculative and illiquid isn’t the same as market manipulation though.

Is this similar to Ampcode’s Orbs or am I misunderstanding the vision?

Brooks's Law states that adding more people to a late software project will make it even later. In your practical experience does this still apply in the age of AI? Does it also ap…

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you." Māori Proverb

I really like this although in my neighborhood it would just be lots of detailed reports of apathetic pigeons perching and pooping.

Unpopular take here but I'm really ok with this. The sale of the high quality brand allows the original entrepreneurs to exit their business to someone that thinks they can run it …

Equity/net worth is not quite the same as the liquid capital needed to cover losses or service debt.

On a good monitor, I got to 0.0032 and then it all fell apart. Here's the related article on how much accuracy is really needed in CSS values. https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-muc…

Yep, meetup.com, eventbrite.com and for the musically inclined residentadvisor.com and dice.fm. The trick for me was to offer to help with the organization of the event, it is more…

Congrats on the launch. Hope you get a moment to answer the questions here. Speaking of which, where can we preview the SDK and documentation? The site is a little light on develop…

I was hoping they'd finally added a feature to their dishes to allow terrestrial interconnect. So when my dish can't getting the best line-of-sight view to the satellites it can pi…

Exactly. For many, the idea of being able to see England, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India in one 50 day trip with man…

The various admonitions to publish to a personal blog, while encouraging, don't really get at the 0xfaded's request which I'd summarize as follows: With no one asking questions the…

It's been interesting to see how often Elon is chided (even by his supporters) because his reach always seems to somehow exceed his grasp knowing full well that this is by design a…

I don't think I'm ready for this, I might never go back to "real" work.

Sting-ER could also work too

If you intersperse the music and fill in with articles from HN or your favorite subreddits it would be a fun listen.

The Indian-born textbook author mentioned (Malkiat Singh [0]) had an inordinate influence on many Kenyan students because his textbooks were the de-facto standard for years. Its in…

Soulseek is still going? I discovered so many artists, international variations of albums, live sessions and bootlegs from that app, it changed my relationship with music. I have t…

Like most people I think, I prefer to prepend and add to the top of the txt file they are working on.

Having spent enough time with marketing and PR folks, I really wouldn't be surprised if this supposed backlash is overhyped as a way to get more people interested in seeing the ad.…

TLDR Unfortunately, medicine took a very long time to realize that vitamin D is not simply a vitamin that prevents rickets. We know today that vitamin D is a powerful nuclear recep…

Hardware: MacBook Pro M4 Max, 128GB Platform: LMStudio (primarily) & Ollama Models: - qwen/qwen3-coder-30b A3B Instruct 8-bit MLX - mlx-community/gpt-oss-120b-MXFP4-Q8 For code gen…