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Can all the king's agents and all the king's men stop Teams from frequent silent failures to deliver a short message in Year of the Lord 2026?

Yeah, but the "rich people get paid for being rich in proportion to how rich they are" parts of the economy do tend to exponentially run away until a big enough shitshow incinerate…

Pool's closed.

As opposed to posting on HN complaining about reddit, which is where the real money's at? Nah, this shit was dank enough to make it into popular culture. We have: 1. The shamelessn…

I've heard a few traders refer to it as "The Bondi Top" -- she really top-ticked it to perfection. We all wish she hadn't.

This is a story of other careers having salaries pushed down relative to inflating essentials and the resulting economic surplus being squeezed into asset portfolios. It's a story …

> arguments against mercantilism It has been funny to watch the rise of "China is beating us" rhetoric against the steady backdrop of "mercantilism is obsolete/bad" dogma, because …

Overinflated relative to the wet dreams of the ownership class.

The open source tooling got quantization support 3 years ago! It was a lesser type of quantization, but more than enough to prove that the savings just go to bigger models.

Hey, that's not fair! It's also used for degenerate gambling.

> more nuance Not enough to diffuse liability. 15 years ago when recommender algorithms were the new hotness, I saw every single group of students introduced to the idea immediatel…

Also, if I was a corporate simp conspiring to destroy Linux, this is exactly the type of stupid hill I would try to bait the open source community into dying on. If they add a stup…

> I think people are mature enough to be able to read past a headline What trainwreck of misconceptions could possibly compel an otherwise reasonable person to believe something so…

Messaging is attention-weighted. It always has been, but the exploitation of this fact has been on the rise and in 2026 everyone should know it and internalize the consequences: if…

"Convicted fraudster pardons convicted fraudster therefore you can trust convicted fraudster." Wild!

It's interesting that both the USA and China found that the prosperity maximum happened when capitalism was kept in line with a firm hand , even though China approached from the le…

Exactly, it's the Lex Fridman gambit: a reputation for asking safe questions to powerful people tends to snowball because "safe, popular interview platform" is something they are a…

Is there anything in Georgia not named Peachtree?

Brains turn off if you say Voldemort's name out loud. These ideas need to be rediscovered and rebranded.

TechnologyConnections debunked the Phoebus Cartel a while ago. tl;dw incandescent bulbs can be made more efficient and brighter by running them hotter, but this reduces the lifetim…

WWII revisionism is back in fashion these days, even in spaces that historically would have been only mildly to the right of center.

Death of the author.

The point pixl97 was making was that they believed anti-anti-fascist described the Flock CEO. If Flock's reputation spoke for itself, their CEO wouldn't have to play these kind of …