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Nowadays I am more concerned about measles and ebola viruses. Over-indexing on covid makes little sense in 2026.

Covid policy at Rust All-Hands [0] > On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, at the All-Hands and Unconf, we expect all attendees to test themselves in the morning. I thought Covid is lo…

Ghostty provides official nightly builds from the main branch [0]. You do not need to build it yourself. [0] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/releases

> Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI And introduced how many new bugs? thanks to AI ...

Just to clarify -- this article is about Indian government order.

> Could you elaborate? I don't understand your implication. Amazon in particular hosts open weight models via Amazon Bedrock (e.g. Ministral 14B 3.0, DeepSeek V3.2, ...) It means G…

The list of companies that signed this letter is telling (including Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft). Equally telling is the list of companies that did not sign it -- including Google, Ama…

> but we should really stick to Standard time. There are some arguments to stick with "half-way" time -- 30 minutes in the middle between standard and summer time. It does not nece…

Thanks for the link to the paper published in 2010 (16 years) ago. The OP article from Brown reads as if they were the first to establish importance of Special Relativity for heavy…

> Implementing eigenvalues needs complex numbers This is exactly why eigenvalues are less flexible than singular values. You can have a real valued matrix that does not have any ei…

> You don't want conductive graphite particles shorting out electronics nor do you want flammable dust or wood flakes. For decades mechanical pencils use non-conducting polymer bas…

There are multiple HN submissions on this topic and none of them gets traction. Weird...

> As the US declines, it’s not that a new leader will come in. What's about EU? EU is bigger than the USA in total population and it has comparable if not larger total GDP. Why did…

> > For the first time, California discharged just over 12,000 megawatts, equivalent to 12 large nuclear plants, of energy from its battery arrays. Clueless journalist conflates po…

> My favorite hilarious metric is measuring the amount of work done by counting lines of code written per day Or by hours spent in the office

UX in my Audi Q5 (2024) is terrible. With two phones in the car you never know which one is connected and whose google maps is being currently displayed. And then come the buttons …

> pricing depends on so many factors like reserved/dedicated/spot/on-demand instances have all different prices. Or you can have your own negotiated private pricing which is a whol…

When I ask GPT-5.5 about its knowledge cutoff date it says "August 2025". Really?

Just asked Claude Code with Opus-4.6. The answer was short "Drive. You need a car at the car wash". No surprises, works as expected.

There was a Tacker Carlson interview with Sam Altman where Tacker probed him on Balaji's murder and Sam quickly got confused and disoriented. Make your own conclusions.

An opportunity for Apple to resurrect Airport line of WiFi routers (I love Airport Extreme) and on-shore their production.

> and uv forcing it into a single project directory made it quite inconvenient and unnecessary duplication of the same sets of libraries. Actually, uv intelligently uses hardlinks …

> How is pixi better than uv? pixi is a general multi-languge, multi-platform package manager. I am using it now on my new macbook neo as a homebrew _replacement_. Yes, it goes bey…

Would be more logical to use FYN_ prefix

From fyn's roadmap: > 2. Centralized venv storage — keep .venvs out of your project dirs I do not like this. virtual environments have been always associated with projects and colo…