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Re:Ember-1 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @03:13PM (#49869874)
Kimi K3 has its own license which is permissive, it isn't at all like GPL https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K3/blob/main/LICENSE
Indeed I use Wordpress and have never heard of automattic outside of HN. I just wanted a simple self hosted blog platform with WYSIWYG editor. There are not many that are free; there are plenty that are not WYSIWYG, then there is the stuff on HN like Hugo that is reserved for experienced Linux devs and no one else.
Re:Meta VR Glasses on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:52PM (#49825233)
They really try hard to hide the tether, it almost looks like it was added back in to the video afterwards.
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Friday September 04, 2026 @06:31AM (#49562748)
>this could bring us closer to the dream of more natural, social computing

What I saw was multiple people living alone in a small box in a warehouse (probably filled with other boxes) with all of their natural, social interactions directed at a wall. I wonder if this is foreshadowing for the future of work, at least it is what work will look like as envisioned by OpenAI.

Re:Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:48AM (#49535460)
Did you fix it? What was wrong?
Re:You Know Who Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:43AM (#49535424)
A SnapClaim executive ran over my dog in his Porsche and offered me a coupon for 25% off my next SnapClaim. I ran over one of his kids which scratched my bumper and hood. Insurance offered me $1250 but SnapClaim got me over $2000. Don’t let these executives get away with anything.
When you say PCB at the beginning are you referring to raw PCBs or PCBAs? Presumably your service will be sourcing raw PCBs from China still and just doing PCBA?

When my pal’s raw PCB company went out of business, you could buy a finished PCB from China for less than the cost of FR4, which also came from China. How do you intend to address this supply chain risk? Once China raises your cost of raw PCBs your price argument no longer works.

Also, are you sourcing components from US sources or using China? Recently I stopped purchasing from Digikey and Mouser because their services are much slower than they used to be, and I now get components much faster and for lower cost in China.

Re:Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27 on Monday July 27, 2026 @06:32PM (#49076328)
I pay a little less than that though I’m limited to 50 kW average load. Delivery is a fixed monthly fee, about $10 USD/month.
Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @05:54PM (#48998886)
Great post. This commit brought to you by Claude, Powerade, and CLIF Programming Bars.
Hardware isn’t hard if the hardware is easy? There’s very few components, one of which is a pre made module, and it took 3 years to make essentially a text logger.
I'm not American so maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't the Constitution apply to all citizens? Is it not then unconstitutional to prevent federal inmates from possessing firearms while incarcerated?
Re:The Future of Email on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:48AM (#48504907)
When I cancelled Proton the subscription ended immediately instead of running out the clock on the time I had paid for. Left a really bad taste in my mouth.
After many years in research science I had an opportunity to work in applied sciences in the petroleum industry. This is an industry that knows that the writing is on the wall for them. Resources are finite and peak demand may well be behind us. (Almost everyone I worked with drove electric cars.) That does not stop the petroleum industry (drug dealers) from responding to economic demand (addicts). When I was younger I saw the petroleum industry as evil, but if there was no demand there would be no supply. Who is to blame? Working in this industry changed my perspective on addiction, drinking, gambling, infinite scrolling. I used to believe that the pushers were solely at fault, and some of them certainly are. But I find it hard to blame only Facebook for their practices.
Steam and other game stores are pretty much the same but Steam is more popular because every one of their competitors has decided to continually shoot themselves in the foot over and over.

Even if Claude and ChatGPT were exactly the same, Claude would be more popular because OpenAI has decided to make some very unpopular moves and try to make money where popularity isn't required. At the moment that popularity still seems to matter.

Here’s a fun video about how one sunken tunnel was built in Vancouver back in the 50s. https://youtu.be/A1igKk8eK0M
Re:Dav2d on Sunday May 03, 2026 @08:42AM (#47996387)
Maybe he should change his name so it's not confused with a popular video codec.
This is actually one of the cost adders of USB3 USB-C devices. They need lane swapping ICs which are basically high speed analogue switches.
Re:A DIY Watch You Can Actually Wear on Thursday April 23, 2026 @01:01PM (#47878218)
To be honest there is not much to it, you buy the movement, put it in a case, and put the hands on it. you can get everything from aliexpress. it's easier and often cheaper to just buy a normal watch if you need one.
Should Tesla pay people to use Autopilot?
Re:Apple Just Lost Me on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @11:24AM (#47518619)
I didn't know what a MNT Pocket Reform and wow! Rockchip, 20 cm wide keyboard, ix ethernet connector, 4 hour advertised runtime, 2 inches thick and costs more than a macbook. You really have to suffer to stick it to the man!
Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality on Friday March 20, 2026 @05:43PM (#47461035)
Well the guy who wrote the blog post seems to have been in charge of windows for the last 2 years so he’s still at it.
I'm sad to see it doesn't work in reverse... nobody can decipher LinkedIn Speak.
Re:AirPods Max 2 on Monday March 16, 2026 @03:12PM (#47403401)
I found this forum last year https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php which opens the door up to a high number of lower cost manufacturers making very high quality products. although the forum audience (audiophiles) generally eschew wireless products and prefer open backed (loud for everyone else and no noise cancelling) headphones, there are all kinds of products discussed.
Re:MacBook Neo Review: No Other Budget Laptop Can Compete on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:57PM (#47342671)
I'd be interested in this but it seems the price is much higher than stated here, or this was some temporary deal. It's also larger and quite a bit heavier but I guess that is a personal preference. The screen also looks pretty lacking (300 nits!). I do see it around $1200 CAD where the new macbook is $800 CAD and in stock. However all said I do not think a lot of people will be buying this new macbook because they are comparing specifications. Laptop manufacturers show off their specifications and have tons of different models because that is how they can differentiate their products from each other. Apple doesn't need to play that game and can deliver usability and value, and good in-person after sales support to the general consumer.
Re:Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @01:13PM (#47251491)
Yesterday I wanted to change a white background to transparent on some clip art. I’m still learning Affinity so asked Google Gemini Nano Banana PRO 2. The output looked ok at first but the grey squares were a little off. They didn’t make a perfect grid. I opened it in mspaint and was able to erase the grey squares. It didn’t change the white background to transparent, it just drew an array of grey squares, but only good enough for a first glance. I have no idea how these AI tools can make anything of use if left to their own devices.
Re:Attention Media ≠ Social Networks on Sunday February 22, 2026 @09:14AM (#47111156)
The idea that community votes will result in the best content floating to the top is flawed, because what happens is the most popular content gets upvoted and not necessarily the most insightful or pertinent. This effect is magnified as the network or communities grow and welcome more a more general audience. The most prominent commentary is often useless jokes, memes, reactions etc. Slashdot, HN, lobsters have similar flaws with different strategies to overcome them.
Re:The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec) on Friday February 20, 2026 @06:27AM (#47086632)
I wonder if this is the first step towards AI as an appliance rather than a subscription?
techbriefs, photonics spectra, photonics focus, EAA Sport Aviation? I don't think it's going to be anything super popular, to become popular you have to appeal to a broad audience. But in niches there is certainly very high quality material. It also won't be (completely) funded by advertising.
Re:Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @09:52AM (#46960438)
About a third of Madoff's fund, a little over a month of Google AI spend, about nine months of Ozempic sales. Fun!
Re:Wind Chime Length Calculator on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:09PM (#46769264)
I don't see the unit shown anywhere, is the calculator unit-agnostic?

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