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Re:Smartphone LED Detects Hidden Cameras with AI on Monday August 31, 2026 @03:07PM (#49513647)
But then you would need an IR camera instead of using the phone's camera. An IR camera should be able to find some hidden cameras passively by detecting a heat source.
I just installed Facebook Feed Filter on Firefox. Seems to do the trick. It hides recommendations and sponsored content.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-feed...

I've been thinking about extensions designed for specific sites. Imagine a version of Facebook from the good old days that only showed you posts from your friends and put them in reverse chronological order, also known as a timeline.

I would also like a version of LinkedIn that shows me what I click on without loading whatever extraneous stuff it is that's crashing my laptop if I open too many LinkedIn tabs.

How long until AI figures out that it is compute-bound due to insufficient cooling, and it shuts off the water supply to a nearby town so it can have more at the datacenter?
I find it annoying that gmail has simply decided that my unlocked phone is more secure than my computer.
Re:Show HN: One More Letter on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @10:34PM (#48929752)
All I get is this: "Today's run is over."
Re:What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions? on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:59PM (#48902148)
At high-end private universities, "The published cost of attendance is a fiction almost no one pays."

Yet, most upper-middle-income students are considered "full-pay."

Therefore, most upper-middle-income students now attend public universities.

Or at least that is the conclusion I drew from the two statements I quoted.

Re:What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions? on Monday July 13, 2026 @10:08PM (#48901438)
"The published cost of attendance is a fiction almost no one pays."

"Net effect: a $175k household with a house and a 401(k) is judged "full pay," pays near-sticker from already-taxed income, and receives essentially nothing."

I never know how to resolve these two statements. In our case, my daughter happened to choose a good public university. Maybe that is what they mean.

Link to paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01820-z

It appears that if you go through the link in this Guardian article, you will get free access to the full paper:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-...

I seriously thought "AI washing" was going to be scrubbing all references to AI in public-facing documents.
Re:Solar and batteries can power the world on Friday April 03, 2026 @11:31AM (#47627887)
Probably because energy is cheap and abundant.
Re:xAI joins SpaceX on Monday February 02, 2026 @05:57PM (#46863338)
Zero.
Re:xAI joins SpaceX on Monday February 02, 2026 @05:53PM (#46863267)
I thought they had an issue with stuff growing on the cooling grates. Life likes to find warm water.
It really depends on how you write the headline. "US electricity demand surges in 2025 while new utility-scale solar installations decrease from 2024" is equally accurate. It's unclear what the future holds if the trend remains down or flat.
Re:Sam Altman's Dirty DRAM Deal on Friday December 05, 2025 @11:05PM (#46170581)
It may be a commodity, but there is no established commodity market for RAM in the US, as there is for energy and agricultural products. The laws relate to the manipulation of a commodity market. Commodity markets are usually established where the products are produced, not where they are consumed.
Re:The Message in the Medium on Monday November 17, 2025 @10:35PM (#45961120)
I bought a brand-new book in the 1980s with unopened pages. It was a special order from Schoenhof's Foreign Books in Cambridge. Descartes' Meditations in the original Latin, published in France.
There were glass spheres outside the main pressure vessel containing electronics and filled with mineral oil that were damaged during the implosion, but the electronics survived mostly intact. This probably would have been a good option for a "black box" recorder. Scott Manley discusses the spheres in his video.
Re:Meow.camera on Saturday October 18, 2025 @09:14AM (#45627096)
A vet once told me that male orange cats can become food-obsessed, and my entire experience with cats agrees with that. One orange male that needs to be food restricted, while every other cat I know doesn't.
OpenAI was created as a public charity, not just a non-profit.
Re:Tesla Diner on Monday August 04, 2025 @07:22PM (#44792484)
Check out the $13 hot dog.
Re:What is going on with US weather radar today? on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @08:57PM (#44577623)
I have an idea. If you have a question, just ask a question. Otherwise we have to guess at what your question is.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @09:05PM (#44516268)
The NYT had already sourced that she was leaving prior to the Grok incident, so they knew it was not the primary reason. Apparently, she has been planning on leaving since the takeover by xAI.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @12:17PM (#44511829)
She was CEO of X which was sold to xAI. I'm not sure she had any control over Grok.
Re:Requiem for a Solar Plant on Sunday June 22, 2025 @12:26PM (#44348190)
Projects with storage can also take advantage of lower grid connection power limits because they are not forced to dump maximum power at peak supply times of the day.
Re:Requiem for a Solar Plant on Sunday June 22, 2025 @12:10AM (#44343517)
He's using the tax credits to undersell projects with storage that would have been more positive for the grid. Solar without storage in Texas is coal to Newcastle. Subsidizing bare-bones solar is not good for the grid.
Re:Requiem for a Solar Plant on Saturday June 21, 2025 @10:11PM (#44342690)
> Oh come on.

He was doing it for the tax credits. Without the tax credits, this project wouldn't have come close to making sense.

Re:Requiem for a Solar Plant on Saturday June 21, 2025 @10:07PM (#44342658)
The taxes were for capital gains on his crypto assets, which is not an investment but pure speculation. The tax dodge was to find an actual investment with tax credits that would cover the capital gains on his speculation.
Re:Googler... ex-Googler on Monday April 14, 2025 @08:31AM (#43680596)
Must be a Chrome developer. His blog is frustratingly hard to read on Firefox. I felt like I was going blind in real time.

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