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Re:Anthropic just cut off Claude subscriptions for OpenClaw on Saturday April 04, 2026 @01:15AM (#47636015)
And a big discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633396
Last sentence of the article: "A hoped-for by acquisition by Amazon.com in 2023 collapsed over regulatory concerns."
Re:We Can and Should Domesticate Raccoons on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @04:36PM (#41372705)
Raccoons are actually closer to weasels and ferrets than to bears. Procyonidae, the family that includes raccoons, is a member of the superfamily Musteloidea, which also includes weasels and ferrets. Bears are members of another superfamily, Ursoidea.

Here's the family tree (scroll down for the diagram):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musteloidea

Re:Core Python developer suspended for three months on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @01:34PM (#41237500)
Some context: The Point/Counterpoint debate between Curtin and Ackroyd was a recurring feature on SNL, and was a parody of the Point/Counterpoint segment on CBS's "60 Minutes":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes#%22Point/Counterpoi...

Re: on Saturday August 10, 2024 @05:31AM (#41208346)
Re: on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:44PM (#41165906)
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164240

The ruling is already linked from that discussion. Having it as a separate story would result in a lot of duplicate discussion.

Re: on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:03PM (#41165601)
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Re:Google Violated Antitrust Laws in Online Search on Monday August 05, 2024 @04:14PM (#41165110)
Active discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164240 (247 points, 123 comments)
Here's a non-paywalled article that was posted recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41063097
Re: on Friday July 19, 2024 @05:40AM (#41004200)
Currently at the top of the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195
> If you look at the 74 TTL series dies, they look almost primitive. But perhaps these were one of the first attempts at ICs...

TTL wasn't the first attempt at ICs. Before TTL, there was RTL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor%E2%80%93transistor_lo...

The Guidelines say that the Trump assassination is off-topic in several ways:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

This story is about politics, crime and a celebrity. And it is not a new phenomenon in the US, where there have already been several assassination attempts (a few successful) on politicians, including presidents. [1]

The Guidelines also say:

"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

Read the Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-15/historical-political-...

Re: on Sunday July 14, 2024 @07:13PM (#40963940)
Re:Building the Bell System on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:57PM (#40963838)
Volume 1 of this book can be read at archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/bellsystem_HistoryOfEngineeringA...

Another interesting book is "Engineering and operations in the Bell System", which can be borrowed at archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/engineeringopera0000attb

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