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What about Azure?
Oh, you mean like:

Solar Roof: https://electrek.co/2026/05/14/tesla-solar-roof-promise-vs-r...

Tesla Full Self Driving: https://electrek.co/2026/05/18/musk-unsupervised-fsd-widespr...

Hyperloop / Boring Company mass-transit vision

Mars settlement timelines

X as an everything app

Re:SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud on Saturday May 16, 2026 @01:48AM (#48157198)
The main problem with these SQL calculations is that they are deterministic shortcuts for a probabilistic problem. Fraud is not usually a “true because rule X matched.” It is more like "what is the probability this is fraudulent"? SQL patterns are useful, but they are blunt instruments. I really don't think banks use deterministic heuristics but more data science stuff.
Re:A History of IDEs at Google on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @07:47PM (#48129221)
I think it's also worth mentioning Piper, Critique, and the infamous monorepo.

[1] Piper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_(source_control_system)

[2] Crituque: https://books.google.com/books?id=V3TTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA399#v=on...

[3] Monorepo: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2854146

Fans of Nassim Taleb will know his disdain for Foucault.
Another stupid meme-latching name. Don't normalize these *maxxing nonsense words and just use plain language. Let's see, maybe just say they were optimizing for token count?
Re:Rediscovering the Handcart on Sunday April 26, 2026 @05:09AM (#47908719)
I'll see your handcart and raise you one yatai.

https://youtu.be/FEgTg_IyHwQ

Re:3.4M Solar Panels on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @10:32PM (#47871697)
Beautiful methods. Very nice.
They should have used Claude Code for Excel.
Re:SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:50PM (#47855757)
Value shifting. Search for SolarCity and cousin Lyndon Rive.
Re:Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding on Monday April 20, 2026 @04:11PM (#47839866)
This kimi website, it looks like a stylesheet from the 90's. They could learn a thing or two about typeface design. Steve Jobs would be incensed at this.
Re:The Shinkansen on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @05:58AM (#47763475)
I'm drawn by the style and aesthetics of the charts in combination with the fonts used in them.
Re:The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @02:12AM (#47761868)
It was just yesterday that this top post [] was decrying the "peril of laziness lost", that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness.

So which one are they?

[] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743628

Re:The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived on Monday April 13, 2026 @11:12PM (#47760798)
> As they did so, they also learned how to improve the prompts they gave AlphaEvolve. One key takeaway: The model seemed to benefit from encouragement. It worked better “when we were prompting with some positive reinforcement to the LLM,” Gómez-Serrano said. “Like saying ‘You can do this’ — this seemed to help. This is interesting. We don’t know why.”

Four top logical people in the world are acknowledging this. It is mind-blowing and we don't know why.

Re:Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? on Thursday April 09, 2026 @05:15AM (#47701135)
I don't understand why ships can't just run on Oman's side of the strait, isn't there a dash-line down the middle for territorial waters integrity?
Re:A dot a day keeps the clutter away on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @08:25PM (#47595268)
Hmm, is there a useful analog here for my custom Claude Code persistent memory system?
Re:Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green (2025) on Thursday March 26, 2026 @02:17PM (#47533882)
This article is a gem, thank you. Now off to Sherwin-Williams to see what the equivalent color names are. I wonder if there are matching formula.
Re:Hubble Snaps a New Dazzling Photo of the Crab Nebula on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @01:37PM (#47520638)
This kid built a custom telescope platform and was able to photograph the Seagull Nebula, Bubble Nebula, Rosette Nebula, Horsehead Nebula, Crescent Nebula, Soul Nebula, various galaxies, all from Earth.

https://youtu.be/5A3D06D97jo

Re:Worldwide Sidewalk Joy: Adding whimsy to neighborhoods on Friday March 13, 2026 @04:33AM (#47361928)
i love it!