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Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:30PM (#50008917)
Youth unemployment was over 9% in 2025 [0]. 30% seems off

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SLUEM1524ZSUSA

Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 scrubbed on Thursday July 16, 2026 @06:58PM (#48941384)
Hold triggered after deluge started and ignition (4 engines appeared to not light). Launched scrubbed for the day
Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:56PM (#48940134)
Is K3 marked as a proprietary model because its weights have not been released yet? Were there indications from Moonshot that K3 would or would not be open weights?
Re:CSSQuake on Saturday June 20, 2026 @02:20PM (#48611540)
I noticed my cursor was continuously sliding upward first in Neal.fun's latest canvas multiplayer game and I experienced it here as well. Anyone else see this behavior?

And maybe a skill issue but I was unable to jump out of the slime...

Re: on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @05:49PM (#48200150)
12 hours 93 subagents 2.6B tokens processed <$1k API costs

Fixed video and keyboard drivers in a live demo to play DOOM.

Re:Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:25AM (#47714312)
If you ship an old laptop with an old HDD, decent chance it will die in shipping.
Hank Green's visualization[0] a few weeks ago cite several statistically significant risk increases to CRC incidence (omitting ultra endurance athletes):

- Sugary drinks (≥2/day as teen) - 2x

- Sedentary lifestyle (>2hr TV/day) - 1.7x

- Childhood antibiotics (recurrent) - 1.5x

Have any studies tracked the growth of these behaviors in recent decades, potentially lining up with the increase in early onset CRC?

[0] https://www.hankgreen.com/risk-factors

Re:New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @01:30PM (#47155630)
Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!
Re:Qwen3-Max-Thinking on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:40PM (#46769724)
Benchmarks pasted here, with top scores highlighted. Overall Qwen Max is pretty competitive with the others here.

  Capability                            Benchmark           GPT-5.2-Thinking   Claude-Opus-4.5   Gemini 3 Pro   DeepSeek V3.2   Qwen3-Max-Thinking
  Knowledge                             MMLUPro             87.4               89.5              *89.8*         85.0            85.7            
  Knowledge                             MMLURedux           95.0               95.6              *95.9*         94.5            92.8            
  Knowledge                             CEval               90.5               92.2              93.4           92.9            *93.7*      
  STEM                                  GPQA                *92.4*             87.0              91.9           82.4            87.4           
  STEM                                  HLE                 35.5               30.8              *37.5*         25.1            30.2           
  Reasoning                             LiveCodeBench v6    87.7               84.8              *90.7*         80.8            85.9           
  Reasoning                             HMMT Feb 25         *99.4*             -                 97.5           92.5            98.0            
  Reasoning                             HMMT Nov 25         -                  -                 93.3           90.2            *94.7*      
  Reasoning                             IMOAnswerBench      *86.3*             84.0              83.3           78.3            83.9           
  Agentic Coding                        SWE Verified        80.0               *80.9*            76.2           73.1            75.3           
  Agentic Search                        HLE (w/ tools)      45.5               43.2              45.8           40.8            *49.8*     
  Instruction Following & Alignment     IFBench             *75.4*             58.0              70.4           60.7            70.9           
  Instruction Following & Alignment     MultiChallenge      57.9               54.2              *64.2*         47.3            63.3           
  Instruction Following & Alignment     ArenaHard v2        80.6               76.7              81.7           66.5            *90.2*      
  Tool Use                              Tau² Bench          80.9               *85.7*            85.4           80.3            82.1           
  Tool Use                              BFCLV4              63.1               *77.5*            72.5           61.2            67.7            
  Tool Use                              Vita Bench          38.2               *56.3*            51.6           44.1            40.9           
  Tool Use                              Deep Planning       *44.6*             33.9              23.3           21.6            28.7           
  Long Context                          AALCR               72.7               *74.0*            70.7           65.0            68.7
Re:Skip Is Now Free and Open Source on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @05:06PM (#46712266)
At current prices, if you do not already have 32GB RAM, it will cost over $300 for DDR5, and over $200 for DDR4...
Both versions are grammatically correct. "Lagged behind" is common for everyday speech, while using "lagged" as a direct verb is a standard, formal way to describe data gaps in business or news. So yes, the headline uses just "lagged" to save space.
A particularly egregious offender is Kalshi ads. They regularly play for a minute, sometimes up to two minutes before they can be closed.

I would not be surprised if the incentives are in place for ad networks to push for longer ads and for advertisers to create longer ads.

MKBHD in his review mentioned a very odd instance of overheating, seemingly random and unrelated to any stressful workload. Anecdotal evidence points to iOS bugs.

https://youtu.be/cBpGq-vDr2Y?si=B0Tv1iRcd6Iran6B&t=669

Modern day California, and by extension Silicon Valley, would not look the way it is today without the California Gold Rush [1], as horrible as its externalities were.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush#Longer-te...

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:28PM (#25663518)
I have seen this article [1] being thrown around among my conservative friends, and while I do not have the statistics background to understand the detailed analysis, it seems to suggest some strange behavior around the reporting of mail-in votes. Not exactly evidence, but something that may have warranted investigation at the time.

[1] https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-...

edit: I'm looking for folks to give their take on this analysis since I nowhere qualified. A good summary is the final two sections of the article.

My thought is that such a body would act like existing organizations that, for example, certify medical professionals, engineers, accountants, or even colleges. For online news it may look like a journalism credential, requiring sites to follow basic and sound journalistic ethics when publishing. By these standards it should be easy for the large papers (NYT, WSJ, etc) as well as your local news and tv to receive accreditation for their sites. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accreditation

Ask HN: Is there any accreditation body or credential for online news sites?

It seems like much of the fake news controversy that surfaced around the election could have been prevented if there was an organization that gave sites credentials verifying that they are legitimate news sources. This way, Facebook and Google (and any aggregator for that matter) could give higher standing to articles from accredited sites and lower to those from sites not accredited. If it...

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