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The logical conclusion for republicans is to import their own illegals (east germans, venezualians, etc) and play the same game.
Actually, Texas is leading the way on Solar and it has been exploding under the Trump administration too. California has too much regulations and grifting to scale solar compared to Texas, so hopefully we see a pivot from the left soon.
Re:Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:28PM (#50121514)
This is excellent for us Americans. As LLMs and Robotics scale, the need for immigration will continue to drop.
Re:Decisions API is in public beta on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:52AM (#49992068)
I'd love to see benchmarks on Decisions API vs an actual LLM call.

Luna is so cheap it's borderline free (without tool use), so I'm struggling to figure out where to use this/Jev.

For example product categorization. Why 'risk' using this/Jev when a Luna LLM call will be smarter (in theory)?

Re:Web Search API on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:39PM (#49968730)
Spent a few months building a product scraper using a mad mash up of various LLMs, OCR, etc. The pricing for their providers is 3x-8x higher than something like Luna 5.6 w/ Web Search. Not sure what their differentiator is, unless they just wanted to launch something.
Elon Musk supports it and will be the main beneficiary if it succeeds. That's it.
Re:ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:11PM (#49540134)
It's interesting the ChatGPT referrals conversions match Googles. Shows once they tune a few knobs, they could have a cashcow on their hands.
Re:Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:27AM (#49463703)
This is all a trickle down effect of energy policies fyi.
Re:A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @01:43PM (#49364702)
"as I don’t really want to help military, let alone the US"

Yet the Australian author so passionately and strongly curses Russia, as if some magical fairy keeps huge portions of the world at calm. I wonder if the AUSTRALIAN author understands what would happen the day the US navy left Oceania.

Instead of blaming the energy supply restrictions those states have imposed, the politicians are now blaming datacenters.
99.9% of all mass in the solar system is the Sun, a giant nuclear reactor. No one should ever accept energy conservation.
Re:Resetting Xbox on Monday July 06, 2026 @03:45PM (#48809567)
This is great news for gaming. Xbox, which has ruined Halo, Gears of War, Mass Effect, and countless other IPs, needs to be burnt to the ground.
Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:55PM (#48575953)
Private enterprise is vastly more competitive than public institutions in every single facet of society. Defund all public science funding so we can have another 50 SpaceXs.
Re:Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo on Thursday May 14, 2026 @01:19PM (#48138288)
The current advancement of technology and warfare has opened up fascinating opportunities for powerful nations (USA). For example, given the extremely sophisticated targeting capacities of Palantir, how out of realm would taking out the entire Castro family be? I'm not talking about the morality, but simply the military options now available to the President.
Re:ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @11:21PM (#47943834)
If highly targeted/tailored LLM ads on free accounts aren’t good enough for HN, are any ads acceptable?

Let’s be reasonable.

What percent of iphone users would take a sleeker, slimmer phone over a replaceable battery?
We cannot allow what happened in Germany with Nuclear Power Plants happen with Ai in America and must fight these lunatics at every step.
Like I said, as it currently stands the evidence is 5,000 with Sam and like 5-15 against him (from the article).

We can theorize on motivations all day, but since the hitpiece didn't bother contacting any 'pro Sam' employees, it's a moot point.

Yet when he was fired, 99% of OpenAi employees backed him and were ready to resign. That actual event/evidence is more telling than any hit piece article.
Re:Solar and batteries can power the world on Friday April 03, 2026 @11:39AM (#47628015)
Disappointed the article doesn't transmission of electricity and how little the loss is. People are quite surprised that it's like 3.5% per 1000 km.

We could just build out huge solar farms in AZ and transmit it accordingly. We did it for railroads, why not here?

Why do people accept that supply/demand works in so many industries when the private market is allowed to flourish, but won't accept it for healthcare, education, etc?
Same thing has been happening with sports bets for years, this particular point (threats) isn't unique to political betting.
You can't really gauge 'tone' via text, I was just referring to the mission success reality on the President's side.
This isn't a military decision but more a public opinion one. Should an American ship take a hit, have casualties, become disabled, etc it would put immense pressure on the administration to settle/end the war, even though on a military objective level it makes a lot of sense. This is a reality of the instant informational world we live in.
Re:Oil is near a price that hurts the economy on Monday March 09, 2026 @03:11PM (#47313931)
And it's already down to $95 lol
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @03:23PM (#46904692)
I didn't compare to that level, just had it create a plan first then implemented it.
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @01:10PM (#46902675)
Anecdotal, but it 1 shot fixed a UI bug that neither Opus 4.5/Codex 5.2-high could fix.
Or we just scale up energy, allowing people to live everywhere!
I see this as an energy problem. We have 'unlimited' water from the Oceans, and distillation technology exists, it's just not economically viable (enough) because of the high energy costs of distillation. Elon's solution to this is solar panels everywhere, since they're so incredibly scalable (imagine an automated solar factory). Hopefully this comes to fruition sooner rather than later.

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