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don't we inflate this problem away? storage should get more abundant and cheaper and the old media looks comparitevly small compared to higher fidelity and higher definition formats that come later. so it doesn't matter if your gmail stores 20 years of useless emails.
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:45AM (#50326193)
How do you get any work done?
so Edison's dream will finally come to be
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:03PM (#50247128)
curious on when a company can lie legally? asking for a friend
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:01PM (#50247097)
can't help but feel like the negativity in this thread will age like the AirBnB one or the DropBox one from the earlier era. but who is to know...
Re:A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:27PM (#49913910)
that's a perverse way of looking at the cost of a service offering.
Re:A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:26PM (#49913888)
it's saas with authenticated market data.. there's nothing to crack
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:02AM (#49817232)
"pace the frontier" is the new "flatten the curve"
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:02PM (#49633336)
just buy this phone and don't open it up
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:00PM (#49633307)
As a recent Android foldable phone owner (Google Pixel), I'm excited that the Duo will get developers to actually design apps for foldables. Right now, some apps don't work at all and others are just stretched. I feel a better use of the screen space is around the corner for both Android foldable and Duo users.
Re:216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] on Monday September 07, 2026 @04:03PM (#49602387)
Can this be blocked with DNS / firewalls? Anyone done any work on that?

Is there a DNS setting in LG? Could it be as simple as switching to a local DNS server on your network running nextdns.io?

Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record on Monday August 24, 2026 @07:15PM (#49427113)
Lets hope that those touting a "reversion to the mean" are right.
so whats the best and most efficient coding harness and against which model? what are folks doing to keep costs low? I spent $1000 just this weekend on my personal projects for sota Claude but I feel like I can probably get much more juice if I start looking elsewhere.

and resources or tech stack tips from HN?

Re:A New Alzheimer's Therapy – Or Is It? on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:33PM (#49306738)
anyone know exactly how this works?
You need to feed it high quality data. Try Gemini Notebook, but this time load up a spreadsheet of fundamentals information for all US stocks or ETFs. The answer will differ and be much more nuanced.

I dont think you can rely on an out of book chat agent today to have all the necessary information at its disposal - even if you can pull a stock quote in ChatGPT, it doesn't mean it's going to look at PE multiples on 5000 stocks...

Re:How to Spot AI Writing on Saturday August 01, 2026 @11:07AM (#49135105)
> With every update, our study shows, AI writing is becoming more similar to human prose.

Any possible vice-versa: There's a meta problem with AI writing detection. I have found my (non-AI-assisted) prose possibly enhanced or modified by my learnings and observations at how LLMs write. In some sense they have made me better at structuring my thoughts and how to communicate them.

Thank you for sharing. This type of stuff gets me pumped up. It just shows that tech improvements usually 10x - or in this case 1000x - some old metric. In this case its cost. I think the same sort of rule of thumb applies to things like speed, features, user experience, etc... Getting this type of cost advantage eventually translates to a better UX, as you've alluded to. Way to go.
Re:Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro? on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:03PM (#48961771)
> Apple somehow reigns supreme still.

Apple reigns supreme because of China - and the two are inextricably linked. China would not have its high-tech manufacturing prowess if it were not for Apple. The book Apple In China [1] highlights how millions of cheap laborers and the country's engineers took the lessons of working with Apple to solidify its edge in this space in a way nobody can catch up to today.

China took the long-term greedy approach to invest in the relationship. We see the US today taking equity stakes in Intel and trying to play catchup by using elements of the same playbook. The US's advantage remains in the more "intangible" side of the process: creativity, design, new tech. In a global economy with free trade, this is all fine. But China never "westernized" itself as was expected from the increase in global trade. Now the US is back pedaling, trying to jump start its manufacturing. It will take a long time...

The book is a good page-turning read. I recommend it.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1668053373

First off, congrats. This sounds incredibly fulfilling on many levels.

Second, I'm curious how your business changes with AI coding tools. I would wager humans will seek out your offering in greater numbers.

Re:Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders on Saturday July 18, 2026 @06:53AM (#48956843)
Berries are most certainly not seasonal anymore. They should be but we thoroughly engineered the seasonality out of them. They're always on the shelf. Do people's purchase habits follow the natural seasonality of the product anymore? Probably something that can be found in this dataset as well.
Re:Codex Micro on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @05:31PM (#48927301)
FYI: This type of keyboard has been around for a few years https://worklouder.cc/
This is all heading in the right direction. Much of AI coding feels magical. But when the costs begin to accrue we start asking questions. We dig into it and try to understand what's going on. I can't help but feel Anthropic is "token maxing" from its side: it controls the levers and with every version upgrade it can build in its own token growth almost unbeknownst to the user. This actually harms it on the long run because it necessitates a cheaper option.
Re:I think I have LLM burnout on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @10:38PM (#48840328)
It's burnt me out too. I'm generating 10x more features and multitasking across 4 disparate projects. My greatest concern is I don't really have a strong connection to the underlying fundamentals anymore. I need to see how the things works to internalize it. Now I just trust that the agent wrote this piece correctly.

The productivity drive and the sheer feature set you can generate in record time makes it easy to forget proper sdlc hygiene.

Re:Half-Baked Product on Friday July 03, 2026 @08:58AM (#48774489)
> When Everything Is Urgent, Nothing Is

The most resonant line for me. This line for me is about how good project management meets team culture. You want a high performant team: one that remains focused and motivated - but the goals are carrots, not sticks.

Re:Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf] on Monday June 29, 2026 @10:49AM (#48720007)
the FCF slide is for hyperscalers - which excludes TSLA, NVDA
Re:Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf] on Monday June 29, 2026 @10:48AM (#48720004)
I guess "nothing lasts forever".
Re:Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep on Sunday June 28, 2026 @06:56AM (#48706249)
Love this. I'll try it.

Ive found great success with the Military Sleep Method where you progressively shutdown your body from head to toe.

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