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I'm absoltutely not defending the environmental decision, but these datacenter projects seem to be funded mostly by free cash flow (not borrowed money), from the hyperscaler profit…

I've had both. I'd rather have battery operated, especially if you have a big yard. Having an extra backup battery is a good idea as well.

I don't know if this is a hard or soft paywall or signup experience but I was mildly interested in reading and gave up.

The video is silly but the quality is very impressive. We are very close to climbing out the other side of the uncanny valley.

I definitely wish I could use something like this. I am not a great note-taker, and am often distracted during meetings with actual work items, or side pings. Many of us can't just…

Thanks for that, I agree. Will address

SWE manager at $BIGTECH company here. I am curious to know if your software team is finding any real gains outside of individual developers leveraging LLMs and coding harnesses etc…

Totally, Airwindows is a very cool project and his videos are fun to watch. I wanted to bring a nicer UI along with it, using JUCE, and more focus on live usability.

Hey HN, I am creating megaDSP, a huge DAW plugin for all platforms, with the goal of it being a free, open-source, and semi or fully autonomous github project that evolves around c…

Is it lame that (especially for super long discussions), I often open a gemini tab and summarize the comments? I like reading HN comment threads, but I often only have a few minute…

The gap between China's chip manufacturing capabilities and the USA's is only going to shrink, right? ASML obeys some export controls for their most sophisticated machines, but tho…

Something that I think we will see soon (if it doesn't exist already), are programming languages that are specifically designed to be used with LLMs doing the coding, with natural …

I'm using copilot cli because I work at microsoft and it's free for me. It has all the models. I have not loyalty to any of them. Even the copilot harness can be swapped out for cl…

I tried to press space, arrow keys, enter, tab, etc to get to next quote. None of those worked

Found the grok bot

I haven't smoked in about 13 years, but I did from the time I was 13 until 29 or so. It's disgusting and I couldn't be more glad that I quit, but it does sound good sometimes. I al…

I take comfort in the fact that my wife and I have a few decent bookshelves of good novels many of which we have not read yet. I've been hoarding e-books as well.

Yet another reminder that my wife is far more well known than I am

How awesome would it be if it was reasonably priced AND doubled as a large eReader ?

You lost me in the last sentence there. What do you mean?

I have to imagine this is very temporary.

but they are trying to IPO with 2-trillion dollar valuations