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If you ever find yourself buried beneath the rubble of an earthquake’s aftermath or expiring in a remote cave, salvation may not arrive in the form of a dashing rescuer or detection dog, but of a hulking, hissing, spiky-legged cockroach.

Scientists are developing cyborg paramedic cockroaches designed to find people trapped in places human rescuers can’t reach, with the latest recruits capable of delivering medicine by firing syringes from a harpoon system on their backs.

Re:Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days? on Saturday August 15, 2026 @02:35AM (#49308263)
brutalist.report these days
Re:Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @05:07PM (#49189017)
I did not get this email, I'm on PAYG.

Adds up.

Takes a lot of IaaS to support the GPUs and workflows, all of that kit is immediately re-useable as general purpose compute to exit the commercial DCs they operate out of today.

Much of their current debt fuelled expansion isn't singular to AI. The circular narrative ignores this.

Off topic: I just wish people understood what a troll is rather than using the term for anyone abusive or bigoted. Like you aren't getting trolled simply by getting hateful engagements on social media.

On topic: As long as it's not considered racist just because they are African American. It's like where I live a woman at a sports match threw a banana at an indigenous person, completely ignorant to any race issue. Yet the media ran it way out of proportion, I would say it was the media that were racist, they set a narrative which followed which was deeply saddening to me.

Re:Use a Mikrotik as Your Home Router (2017) on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:21PM (#16962971)
I would definitely not run linux windows macos netgear cisco juniper because they once had a RCE.
Re:Musk says Tesla will be profitable in Q3 and Q4 on Saturday April 14, 2018 @07:38AM (#16836912)
Musk has said a lot of things that didn't ring true.
It's seeking equality of outcome which is basically communism and in no way equality as the nurse had every opportunity to also become successful in free society.
Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? on Saturday December 09, 2017 @06:02AM (#15885259)
Seems pretty popular in places like India.
It's very biased, so the people that get the UBI won't be able to afford nice things or to live in nice suburbs near good social/health/education services as people with earned money will be competing for those. Choosing not to work is choosing to not take part in society, social services are part of a society.

It still needs some sort of utopia to work, that's where it has some similarity to socialism, but there is no utopia.

Re:Parity's Wallet Bug Is Not Alone on Friday July 21, 2017 @11:06PM (#14825174)
I don't always get mobile visitors, but when I do I use 750k images.
It's about $5000 in tax per household to fund a $38B rollout, and you don't get a choice. That's the unfunded half-ass costed guesstimate which was largely skewed by politicians to make it look better. Why not let people choose to spend $5k on fibre if they want?

The majority of connections opt for 12 or 25mbit anyway, sorry couldn't find url for nbnco statistic.

Technically, dropping billions on fibre in this day and age is stupid given that so much (vast majority) of the population is already in areas that can get faster IP (over 100mbit) from LTE, wireless technology is the future, imagine if it was spent on LTE sites.

Many people use the argument only fibre can do it, when that's just intellectual dishonesty about different types of layer 1.

4 million of Australia's households (roughly half) already have HFC that when upgraded will do gigabit.

It is illegal to compete with NBN.

The NBN was unfunded in its commitment. The same party implemented a $20b/year national disability insurance scheme which was also not funded. All these arguments saying it was bungled, but only the hollow commitments of the unionist/socialist party that implemented this were bungled. A lot of the angry people also don't pay a lot of net tax either which is the usual narrative of the ALP.

So it wasn't properly costed or funded, all these great things that party promised in power, but they still lost the next election anyway, so the people spoke.

Also NYT is fake news. :)

Re:Play store doesn't download when roaming on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:17PM (#13322131)
I thought by the title it was this issue; https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=211226
Re:StartSSL starts LetsEncrypt competitor product on Thursday June 16, 2016 @07:12AM (#11915345)
StartSSL charging to revoke their free certs after heartbleed, won't forget that.
Re:Australia’s Offshore Cruelty on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @03:43AM (#11768255)
They call them refugees but a big point of contention is often they migrate half way across the world and pay for a people smuggler, when 25000 genuine refugees were accepted that didn't try to push their way in. This leaves a black mark against your name and takes away the chance from a genuine refugee that couldn't afford to migrate and pay a smuggler to get asylum.

Can we take more? probably.

Should we let people that can afford to migrate to Indonesia and pay a people smugger to jump the queue get preference? Hell no.

Re:How did Slack become so popular? on Monday April 04, 2016 @05:31AM (#11420440)
100/150 user cap on hangouts and no administrative ability.
Re:Slack raises $200M, valuing the company at $3.8B on Friday April 01, 2016 @09:26PM (#11409780)
PE ratio of infinity no doubt.
Re:Google Maps Error Sees Wrong House Demolished on Friday March 25, 2016 @05:51AM (#11359227)
website error prevents page being visible.
So sad for those that virtualise firewalls.. Although they also seem to ignore many requests to include 8021q in the kernel, and bridging just mashes all the interfaces together (groan).

Alternative - https://www.linuxserver.io/index.php/2016/02/06/snapraid-mer...

Re:There are no acceptable ads on Sunday March 06, 2016 @04:43AM (#11233081)
I disagree. The best monetized site I've seen had a direct relationship with the advertiser, no ad blocking as the banners were local content, spot on topic and tasteful.
Re:Shodan: The World’s Most Dangerous Search Engine on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @06:17AM (#11201988)
As soon as that subscribe overlay goes up I close the browser tab, every time.
Re:Show HN: Detect Adblock on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @03:54PM (#11075896)
It's not about the ads, why don't you put this much effort into not using "free" online tools and quality checking the content your customers recieve.
Re:What's holding back the world economy? on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @02:25AM (#11063705)
AFAIK there is still an ecomony, economising, and has been the whole time.

1. Mainstream (maybe lobbied) view that growth is constant and without it we're all going to die. 2. Incurred debt trying to achieve #1

Re:Are Airlines Overcharging for Fuel? on Sunday February 07, 2016 @04:38AM (#11052321)
Depends what they hedged at.
Re:Why lost phones keep pointing at Atlanta couple’s home on Sunday February 07, 2016 @03:14AM (#11052150)
Like us on facebook close sorry didn't read it, treat your visitors better.
Re:NoVNC: HTML5 VNC Client on Saturday December 12, 2015 @04:57PM (#10724318)
No context, not news.. it's been around for years. Why post it?
Re:The Emerging Neuroscience of Social Media on Thursday December 03, 2015 @03:28AM (#10668519)
I've seen south park, do you know you're an ad?

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