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See also: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5977751-trump-f... There's a point where "head in stand" becomes deliberately malicious.

If the AI is going to lie and cheat on the code it writes (this is the largest thing I bump into regularly and have to nudge it on), what makes the author think that the same AI wo…

Where's the antitrust enforcement? This seems blatantly illegal.

What are the 5 NOPs for before the RETI?

The way the execs talk down to employees now is really depressing to read about. That's a really unfortunate culture change since I was there.

Question for @kens -- this circuit you found, how would Intel have designed and tested this?

Quality has not gone up. Products are deliberately made to fail sooner by Chinese manufacturers who are reducing costs on super tiny margins. The mantra that "consumers get lower p…

Dude I think the whole "we're going to fire you" thing is weird on Apple's part. Look at how good the color picker became once it became yours. A bunch of resource string names sho…

Is it anywhere close to swisstables?

Much too quiet here on HN on this post Science underpins technology, people. If you want to see the US rapidly lose its place in the tech world over the next decade, this is a grea…

What's old is new again. Some of the same techniques used to keep pre-MacOS-X applications responsive, back when MacOS was cooperatively scheduled, show up here. This begs the ques…

This looks fantastic. I particularly love how cool things look at the different perspectives -- presumably this is because you did the hard work of making the planet at realistic s…

This is great and all, but will we be addressing the fact that the acceptance rate of these institutions are all artificially low? The size of freshman classes are the same or smal…

Is Apple going to upstream this so it's part of Linux?

The Ford Mustang Mach E is a compelling alternative to a Tesla.

And this is how we operationalize age discrimination. Note the layoffs of middle management announced at the same time. Force everyone into the office, ideally through a difficult …

Why is this not cancelled?

> Modern processors, with their nanometer-scale transistors, are much too small to study under a microscope. So, can we all take up a collection so Ken can get a nice electron micr…

Why would Facebook not just block messages from Nigeria to rando North American towns at this point? Shouldn't the network analysis required to detect this sort of crime ring be a …

Wow this is really great.

All these complaints about laws banning these bags are kind of whiny considering how not a big deal this is. C'mon.

What's striking about this article is Gates's refusal, even now, to say anything bad about Welch. Why is that? The vast majority of the bar culture problems are traceable to Welch,…

This.

Hmm...dealerships who make most of their money on service don't like to sell EVs, maybe? Surprise? Have had a Mach E for going on 3Y with 20K miles on it and it's literally needed …