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I can’t quite parse what you’re saying in your second paragraph, but if you are saying “[Zuckerberg then] pushes for export controls on China” then that’s different to what he’s sa…

I’m not refuting your point but, ironically, wasn’t gcc first developed at a time when hackers were trading favors for CPU time on shared mainframes and the hardware was impossibly…

When I finally buy myself a $300m yacht you can bet it will have a full spectrum software radio that captures and transcribes all calls on all frequencies, not just the one I happe…

Volvo EX90 has a lovely lil bump above the windshield collecting LIDAR stats for some future purpose … Volvo … Li … Geely … PRC … feeling sleepy … can’t stay focused … everything i…

Reminds me of Iain M Banks’s Feersum Endjinn , where the castle resisted investigation by leveraging its smart fabric to hurl ghosts at the workers trying to drill out its walls!

Thank you for the quote. Here is the verse in full… In Memoriam AHH, Tennyson I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never kn…

It is odd to see a blog post that cares so much about typography and yet uses a pair of hyphens in place of an em-dash. Interesting idea though. The title examples feel a lot like …

The thing I like most about your post is it has prompted me to read an example of a user script. Thanks! In the excludes, did you mean *.bank.com, or *bank.com? Or maybe even *bank…

I wish libinput gave the option for pointer inertia, where the pointer glides to a gradual rather than a hard halt after you stop moving it. I’m limited to a trackpad these days an…

To be fair, there have been a few democratic developments since the founding fathers were around. 27 at the last count.

Another reading is that the US is exceptional not because of any qualitative measure. It is the exception to all other countries, by definition, because it is the country where Ant…

If everyone has access to the same offensive tools, everyone is able to run their own pentests and patch themselves before the bad guys get to them. It’s like a vaccine where you g…

Debian Airport is debating whether to allow aircraft to land on autopilot. On the one hand it’s nice that autopilot gives more people the chance to fly, and it lets experienced pil…

The counter argument: dinosaurs were around for a staggering amount of time, no pun intended. 165 million years is reasonably long enough to ensure they left behind some nests, bon…

I sort of agree with your analogy but in another sense, think of Firefox. Could I have made it myself? No! Am I grateful that I can have the output of Mozilla’s internal efforts — …

Incredibly depressing, but a good and important thing to read! Not to sound overly cheerful, but shout out to my Makita DHP484 combo drill/driver and 100 piece bit set that, for a …

I tried searching for Flatbush on streeteasy.com and typing “Fla” into the neighborhood typeahead gave me: Chelsea [blank] Flatiron Murray Hill Flatbush Delete the three letters an…

I bought an iBook G3 specifically for running Debian back in the early 2000s. It worked absolutely perfectly and one of the huge features I miss was that the small option key to th…

You should write up and publish your notes on how to fabricate connectors from cat5 wire, in the field. It would be a hit.

As much as I would like to “evolve”, I don’t want to buy an RTX5090, I don’t want to run a model trained on stolen IP, and I don’t want to pay a monthly subscription to a tech bro.…

Company IT policies really got it the wrong way around with “bring your own device”. My personal phone is the last device where I would want them to have a presence. Conversely, ha…

Comments like this make me really worry for the future of Hacker News. Here we are, on a seemingly informative thread, and you’ve jumped in with baseless political propaganda no do…

In general (I’m not saying this is the case with this project) if you don’t have their prompt history and you can’t re-run the LLM “compilation” yourself, is it open source? It fee…

I will show you fear in a handful of dust