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Re:Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:16AM (#50352287)
I have a fondness for businesses that served a distinct purpose for a specific amount of time. RadioShack was one of those.
Someone has to already be doing this right?
Agreed. Not sure it leads to anything truly groundbreaking, but more than likely will lead to very fascinating implementations that lead to even more interesting results 6-8 months from now. Think openclaw -> how people utilize now versus when it was first announced
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:36PM (#50343342)
I just want to say, absolutely incredible work by the authors! And the presentation is also very well done. Kudos and congratulations!
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:27PM (#50343222)
The answer will be :

It works! In mice

Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:27PM (#50343213)
Throw out whatever timeline you previously had
Re:Byesky: Wipe your Bluesky account clean on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:48PM (#50342620)
This is probably more about online hygiene than anything else
The moat is about a week before the frontier models integrate the same capabilities. They aren’t snapping up projects like this for talent acquisitions anymore, they will just build it themselves.
Yeah was about to say, if your a major chain this is on you
Yup, every time this issue comes up the first question is can it be used for anything? Turns out, the answer so far has been a resounding “no”. It’s a super interesting problem from a purely analytical perspective as you run into roadblocks any time you think of a potential use case
Did they finally figure out, while possible, it is extremely impractical?
Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:49PM (#50320054)
Yeah, this is the first thing I looked for and when I couldn’t find it I easily decided it’s something I would never come back to. Add this feature and it’s something I would come to frequently
Yes… I also deleted all of those MP3s I downloaded in the 90’s and 00’s…
IPO = exit for a lot of people
Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:15PM (#50307006)
Curser is owned by SpaceX, who’s leader also owns Twitter. It’s bad for business to publicize your own company’s errors so they are suppressing it
Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:29AM (#50305310)
Yup
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:45AM (#50304697)
Or, they have bot scanners constantly looking for vulnerabilities and acted quickly once one appeared
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:43AM (#50304677)
They have it, as long as no one tries to withdraw it
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:43AM (#50304666)
That is looking more and more like that is was what happened.
Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:27AM (#50304416)
Seeing as SpaceX owns Curser, I’m surprised there wasn’t a hack on SpaceX… Yet
Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:35AM (#50303678)
Incredible. Looking a bit more and more like this was the actual case. Wild stuff
Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:07AM (#50303338)
Is that the rumor? Does the timing line up?
Re:Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:21PM (#50293613)
I’ve had this exact experience a couple of times in the past few weeks. Their “sponsored” ads of a kind of product that I was looking for (based mainly on description for the use I was intending) gave better results than any AI model I tried to use to find a product that fit my specific use case.

Found it interesting that I’ve flipped my search tool usage in such a short time. I use models for most “searching” but then utilize Google Search as the last resort.

Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:08PM (#50280916)
So Anthropic responds sometime between now and when their stock starts trading on Nov 16th. The only question is how much of an improvement will their next release have?
I’m starting to be convinced it’s due to 100 different reasons, but each of those reasons is due to people doing things the extreme.

Eating too much processed food? There are studies showing an increase in risk. Sit too much every day? Ditto. Long distance running? When taken to the extreme it increases colon cancer risk (recent research)

A measured, balanced lifestyle regarding your activity and habits is the best thing you can do to put yourself in a good position to avoid diseases or health complications.

My doctor’s favorite phrase :“Here is your prescription - Eat a little better and move around a little bit. You’ll outlive your enemies”

That was the first thing that I thought of and it does make way more sense than a few people wanting to make a name for themselves as an actual Polling org. I don’t see the incentive in producing fake polling unless there are ulterior motives
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:13PM (#50247296)
I actually don’t doubt the usage will be there, it’s a matter of will they be able to charge enough to cover the costs once competition gets even more brutal. If there is that much margin to be had per GPU, the market will figure it out and suppress them accordingly
Re:Eunice is almost here (William Gibson, Agency) on Sunday October 25, 2026 @06:12PM (#50236533)
One of the benefits of any sort of “smart glasses” personally would be to have it automatically track my caloric intake.
Re:Flapping Airplanes on Sunday October 25, 2026 @02:31PM (#50234563)
Now valued at $6 billion dollars apparently, not having shipped a single thing. What a time to be alive

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/year-old-ai-lab-flapping-a...

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