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Re:Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:03PM (#50294974)
But Ads is still 73% of their company revenue when you factor in YouTube.

YouTube did ~$60B in revenue last year.

Re:Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:42PM (#50293922)
Is google cloud revenue curve really that smooth?
Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:50PM (#50293152)
So this is "Commons Clause" effectively?

https://commonsclause.com

Re:Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:52AM (#50291052)
I know Perplexity isn't often talked about anymore but their design of every sentence needing to be able to be referenced back to an actual source (like an academic peer reviewed paper) seems like a super power for trust.
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:36PM (#50280532)
You're talking about the number of CPUs, I'm talking customer segments.

Up until today, Apple's positioning was:

* Consumer = Air (light workloads, no pro use cases like video where you need best display)

* Professional = Pro (heavy workloads, need best display for color correctness)

After today, it's what exactly? Is it:

* Consumer = Air

* Business = Pro ???

* Professional = Pro with PROLED XDR

Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:07PM (#50279214)
I don’t understand Apple’s market positioning here.

Apple has always positioned the Pro as having the best display in a laptop. Now that’s no longer true.

Are we really moving to 3 tier of laptop displays: Air, Pro, and Pro with ProLED XDR?

That seems unnecessarily confusing for consumers.

“Pro” used to mean you were getting Apple’s best hardware, designed for "professionals".

Now “Pro” doesn't mean that anymore.

Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:03PM (#50279155)
2019, 13" MacBook only weighed 3.02 lbs

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111945

Re:Hex Raises $100M on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:03PM (#50267650)
thanks for sharing.

any other tools that are also key to your stack that you wouldn't mind sharing, so others can learn from and try out?

Re:Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:26AM (#50258912)
I thought Apple "Pro & Tell" day is tomorrow.

Makes me now wonder what's in store for tomorrow's pro launch.

Re:Diamond Transistor on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:25AM (#50258891)
I guess I just think of "synthetic grass", like AstroTurf and associate "synthetic" with non-real.
Re:Diamond Transistor on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:06AM (#50254902)
Is “synthetic” the right word?

I thought they are “lab grown”.

(Synthetic implies non-real, when at a molecular level the lab grown are 100% real)

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:05PM (#50249272)
That's no longer the case though anymore according to the S-1.

  2025: $0.50 revenue per $1.00 of compute
  2026: $1.82 revenue per $1.00 of compute
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:45PM (#50248905)
Valuations are a function of growth rate.

Anthropic growth rate is truly unprecedented at it's scale.

They are 10x revenue YoY.

  2024:   ~$0.4B
  2025:   ~$4.0B
  2026: ~$100.0B
Note: I'm not justifying it, just explaining how the markets are rationalizing it.
Re:Diamond Transistor on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:36PM (#50247700)
do you mind explaining more
What does "partnership" even mean in this context?

Does it just mean that the NBA will accept sponsorship money from these sites and how does that even work, since typically sponsorships want exclusivity?

Re:Diamond Transistor on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:55PM (#50246986)
Isn't the power consumption needed to create pure/no-blemish lab diamonds so great, that this wouldn't be feasible to scale.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:34PM (#50246639)
~400 pages.

How many folks use Claude to summarize.

Re:OLED iPad Mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:11AM (#50245127)
The outer dimensions are largely the same, it's mostly a reducing the bezel size to increase the display size.
Re:OLED iPad Mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:08AM (#50245065)
The iPad Mini has never had a camera bump.
Re:Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:27AM (#50242506)
> ONE BLOCK = ONE METRE

Aren’t most high-resolution aerial imagery (Google Earth), 1 metre resolution.

I think there is a parallel between engineering systems (specialized) and commodity cloud hardware (general purpose).

While no doubt, you can get better performance using a specialized hardware … there becomes a breaking point when the commodity / general purpose is good enough while allowing you lots more flexibility as well as typically being cheaper that is become hard to justify the specialized solution.

> The streaming era has proven an extremely difficult transition, with traditional films and TV shows losing watch time to user-generated and increasingly AI-assisted or AI-generated content flows.

Isn’t this the wrong conclusion.

It’s that streaming as the monetization vehicle no longer creates an opportunity for movie maker to make huge returns.

Once, a blockbuster movie could make $1 billions.

Today, the movie maker only gets a sliver of the $12/mo subscription fee.

Re:Crystal 1.22.0 on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:21AM (#50196647)
Glad to see the continued progress on adding support for Windows.
Re:Claude Duet on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:25PM (#50186193)
These AI companies appear to be "shipping their org chart".

Shouldn't this just be native to Claude, not a separate app/UX, as well as using the latest model (not Opus)?

Re:Does Ruby on Rails still make sense? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:53AM (#50180092)
I'm surprised dhh hasn't vibe coded sometype of "convert Rails to Rust" open source project, given how pro-AI he is and how pro-Rust he is lately.
Re:Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @12:10AM (#50175986)
A user on X claims:

  Temporaly mitigation

  php.ini: session.upload_progress.enabled = Off

https://x.com/k_firsov/status/2112718728232329240#m

https://xitter.cf/k_firsov/status/2112718728232329240#m

Re:The Future of CSS on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:37PM (#50175782)
Maybe I’m alone, but all of those suggestions seem to make CSS needlessly complex (or more like JS).

Especially functions.

Makes me think of a previous post from the author, who wrote 100k lines-of-code to power their blog.

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/how-i-built-my-blog-v2/

Re:Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:25PM (#50172905)
Actual title: ”Inside Prometheus: Meta’s Journey to a Gigawatt-Scale Supercluster”
Note that OpenBSD is on 7.9 now and all releases are possible breaking changes.

They release every six month and increment by 0.1. And after 0.9 they rollover to the next whole number.

So don’t think of version “8.0” as a major release per se, since OpenBSD is a fixed schedule release - not a Major.Minor release.

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