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> Thank you. I love it when someone poetically captures a feeling I’ve been having so succinctly. It’s almost like they’re a professional writer…

> If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so. I’m tired of this sentiment. Imagine if people said, why develop your …

> Mac hardware, on the other hand, has never been better than it is right now! I thought the same until trying a framework laptop with Ubuntu. Mac is the “IBM” choice, no one gets …

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> What's Tesla's forward PE? Close to 200? Nope, close to 300 actually…

Do you have a tutorial that you like?

Hacker News serves +4M requests per day using nothing but two FreeBSD servers…

> sometimes they manage to meld it into one goal, because money is power. Money is a measure of power, but it is not in fact power.

GNU Emacs actually self funds from the essence of the universe. You can launch that feature with the command `C-x b r r r`

> No idea. But curious- why would something that was published a decad or longer ago not be of interest today? Because if it isn’t in the “hype” it’s worthless, obsolete, trash… We…

> It’s honestly kind of sad. Google could still print money without the endless spying… They literally couldn’t.

Wow, a phone with a battery that's so bad, they're selling an extra one to strap to the back of it, on launch day... The most innovative thing that Apple has done recently is figur…

This is such a beautiful piece. How did you learn about it? How does one get further into this world?

> The public is not conscious of how big of a deal the war in Ukraine is. My sincerest desire is that there’s a peaceful resolution to this conflict before they’re forced to realiz…

That’s because LLMs are just snake oil… Look at what a flop ChatGPT 5 was. If someone manages to actually make something useful, Amazon has a stake in Anthropic. Otherwise why shou…

> The rebuild will likely end up easier, IMO, because the screens and the logic is all done. Most of it just has to be moved to strict backend and then have the APIs secured correc…

> People really want to bring down the growth of the USA's software industry to EU level. The EU is the only place hiring software engineers right now. Everyone in the U.S. just ke…

> I have a simple rule that something is either 90%>ai or none at all… 10% is the time it works 100% of the time.

Amazing, California can build a wildlife bridge, but god forbid they build higher density housing.

And JDM badges.

And yet he double downs on the troll… Style points for the David Carradine reference though.

This must be a god level troll post.

> Hell, I'd love to learn more about the hardware hacking the OP is talking about. Love to learn about those GPU hardware modifications people do. I know it's hacker news, but I'd …