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> standalone PC

My take is that almost nobody has a standalone PC anymore, especially kids. Kids these days all start with iPads, them maybe they move up to Macbooks once they get to high school or college. Other than the local LLM fanatics I see here on HN, I have no idea who's buying those PC towers anymore, they seem like fringe relics from the past century.

Sorry I'm not familiar with these measurement units, how many football fields is that?

The property management companies are great - you can even haggle with them. I love how clearly they identify themselves on both AirBNB and VRBO. You just have to be willing to give up the (false) security of booking through AirBNB.

I would just like to say that the Simpsons Already Did It: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Blinky

My suggestion is that if you're within a 2-3 hour drive of major cancer centers - just use the US News list https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings/cancer - go there instead of your local community hospital. The top cancer hospitals in the world accept your health insurance (probably), so why not go there? Use your vacations days, book hotels if you have to - this is the time to go all out.

My experience: I was horribly sick for 10 months, none of my local doctors could figure it out, then I drove to Penn Medicine in Philadelphia and they did the right labwork in the first visit. These top centers just have different mindset than your community hospitals.

I think it depends on what countries the owners have connections to. Random ice cream shop I visited in Florida a few years back was staffed by young Turkish women, my wife asked they said there on J1's. Before that we were in the Florida Keys - the local mosque was full of young Uzbek men that worked in the hotels, all on J1s.

This is actually very rare for the New York Times - they're the only major publication that regularly links to the original sources.

Thank you, I just learned a new word.

Rapacious

ADJECTIVE

1 given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.

2 inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate.

a rapacious disposition.

grasping, voracious,

Synonyms:

ravenous

Antonyms: generous

3 (of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.

Browser extension? Try these: http://www.paper2audio.com/ https://freevoicereader.com/ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sza-text-to-speech/... https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/flow-tts/hknidankih...

I found all these on this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TextToSpeech/

I've also see comments like "Microsoft Edge's read-aloud feature is amazing for TTS" but I haven't tried it myself.

Personally I use Kokoro with a python front-end on my Macbook, I linked to it in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818923 it outputs MP3, so I just copy those to my phone and listen as audiobooks.

You might find this interesting, it seems to be exactly what you need to make an audio drama: https://github.com/Finrandojin/alexandria-audiobook

Also the Qwen3-TTS demo is cool, you can describe the voice you want: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS

I came across both on this subreddit, it's very active: https://www.reddit.com/r/TextToSpeech/

I'm personally using this locally: https://github.com/mateogon/pdf-narrator (it's a Python frontend for Kokoro) on my M1 Macbook Air (from 2020, with 8GB RAM) and it's incredible. I make my own audiobooks now - for free!

My favorite voice is am_michael and here's a sample: https://voicerankings.com/voice/kokoro-82M/male/am_michael/s...

When the authorities do that it's called parallel construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

The Google daily and hourly forecasts aren't great, but the weather map forecast is excellent. Where does that come from? What's generating the predicted movement of the storm clouds?

The comment below yours has a custom fonts section: https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader#custo...

Great read, other than Europa I wasn't aware of these other candidate ocean moons.

How do I fix search on OSX? I can never find anything, even when I do the name contains search.

FYI I don't see YouTube ads on Android + Firefox mobile + uBlock Origin

So like others in this thread, I bought a used telescope, a 8" Dobsonian in my case, and it's absolutely massive, like 5 feet tall. Totally different than this SeeStar. And I don't see things like the photos in this article through my telescope. Those nebulas? No way.

So I have to ask - am I getting a more "genuine" viewing experiencing? Are stacking and perhaps AI enhancements reflecting the real night sky? Or is SeeStar/iPhone/Pixel output drifting more towards generative art?

Check this out: https://github.com/sammwyy/bleeding

BLEeding is a tool that allows you to jam Bluetooth (BR/EDR) and BLE devices. It can be used to spam DeAuth requests or L2CAP ping requests. It supports Linux, macOS, Windows and Raspberry PI.

Agreed, this is just dumb and really really hard. Much easier to genetically modify animals like pigs or cows to make compatible blood.

No, a lot of the newer machines don't even ask you to put in a penny, they'll provide you one. I bet enough will be stockpiled to last indefinitely.

Very interesting. Since you've spent some time thinking about it, what's your hypothesis of the connection between high blood pressure and dementia? Any interesting links you could share?

Maybe high blood pressure causing more pressure in the blood vessels of the brain, leading to a lifetime or decades of cumulative damage?

For a lot of people, the alternative to GLP-1's is dying of a heart attack in their 50s, or taking decades off their lives by developing type 2 diabetes, or any number of complications from weight-related diseases.

I'm confused, I work at a big giant Fortune 500, we all get GitHub Copilot subscriptionsn - we can switch between OpenAI and Anthropic models with just a click in Visual Studio. There's no stickiness at all. They just made us go through a training after the price hikes about how to choose between models for the best cost/benefit ratio.

Google doesn't just scrape websites for store hours, they actually call to confirm them: https://support.google.com/business/answer/7690269?hl=en

There was a great episode of the Planet Money podcast a few weeks back that talked about boarding houses https://www.npr.org/2026/06/10/nx-s1-5851902/housing-afforda... they're apparently illegal in most places

Oh wow, it recreates the Google Photos albums? That's the first time I've heard of a tool doing that. I've spent a ton of time organizing my Google Photos albums, that's a big reason I stay with it.

Our Big Giant Enterprise wants to move all our repos from ADO to GitHub for all the nifty AI features, but I'm told the frequent downtime is a major issue so we're slow-walking the migration.

FYI my local library in suburban Pennsylvania has a 3D printer for public use. Check yours.

Prices from OpenAI and Anthropic have really jumped in the past month. I work for a big giant company and our Github co-pilot costs increased as of today, June 1st. Our internal estimates are that our bill will double or triple. How much are we willing to pay? I don't know, but nobody wants to be "left behind".

I think there's actually a big market opportunity here. Somebody, like Dell or HP, should start selling turnkey on-prem LLM servers.