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sorry, but buymeacoffee.com has existed forever at this point and your website has zero information to make me believe it’s legit (it probably is, but why would i take this risk)
they’ll probably get Congress, and hopefully the presidency in 2028. then they have two years to convince the people who begrudgingly voted for them that they’re doing well, all while those people sit down and watch Fox News every night tell them how awful everything is now.
Re:Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:50AM (#50273546)
raspberry pi has turned into a rich nerd “gotta collect them all” scheme, not a cheap entry level computer for young hackers.
turns out, they’re into it. they were in favor of it in the 60’s and still are.

the 2nd amendment (the entire Bill of Rights) was written to protect us from our own government, but it’s way more convenient to just shoot brown people or people who speak a different language.

I think we’ll see a pivot from the right on solar soon, once they realize how cheap it is and how much money they can make. They’ll spin it as home-grown local jobs stuff but regardless it’s a win-win.

  > It is estimated that each inspection will take six work hours and cost $510 per aircraft, putting the cost across the US fleet at over $1 million, not including the price of replacement parts.
trivial, to ensure that hundreds of people don’t die, so of course several airlines pushed back on the requirement.
Re:Meta to Pay Zuckerberg's CA Wealth Tax on Friday October 23, 2026 @09:49PM (#50217664)
but its a stock split, he’s getting one new share for every old share with the expectation that the share price halves, at least according to their CFO on the earnings call.
Re:The Kevin Bacon on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:26PM (#50217158)
Same! It was more of a guess, since I’m not a movie buff, but was cool to see him in the top 10.
Re:Meta to Pay Zuckerberg's CA Wealth Tax on Thursday October 22, 2026 @06:11PM (#50201787)
can someone please explain how meta is paying the tax for him?
Re:Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:34PM (#50190480)
i wish they would ban additional “rules” in the check in/out instructions. all rules should be up front before booking or after booking with free 24 cancellation or something.

  > Or, it could just be that Meta’s automated systems suck.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”. I don't think people acknowledge how often shit like this happens.
Re:Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:41AM (#50072501)
Why even call it a GPU anymore?
Re:'The eels were climbing out of the water to die' on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:49AM (#50006495)
It’s not surprising. The people voting for these regulation cuts spend their whole lives in air conditioned boxes (be it their mass built houses, their massive cars, or the office), and their idea of nature is a well manicured golf course. the people they vote on only care about enriching themselves and their corporate donors.

at some point we’ll be living in a dust bowl eating barely nutritious food and people will think “man, how could the liberals have done this to us?”

Spoiler it’s not social media anymore, it’s just media.
Re:Meta's Muse AI agent is building a dossier on you on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:57PM (#49984018)
This is a really poorly written article. Yes, they keep a memory; that’s the point. What use would a personal assistant be if you had to give it your full life context in every chat?

If you have issues with this, especially when it’s a Meta product, then don’t use it. But this isn’t anything open claw wasn’t doing.

I saw a theory, just a theory, that it may have accessed the message via its notification preview, which I think was similarly used to leak Signal messages recently?
Re:Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:49AM (#49953477)
a common comment i read is something like “if <youtuber> was my teacher/professor i would have learned so much better!”

and no, i don’t think so. you would have been entertained, but your teacher was making you learn. ability to explain concepts is important but it’s only the first step on the pathway to learning.

Re:What Meta Got Right with Muse on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:46AM (#49953465)
All it wants to do is buy stuff, book stuff, reserve stuff, do anything that indicates willingness to spend money. That’s what will get companies to sign on with Meta’s AI, so that’s what it will do.

Agents talking to Agents talking to Agents, spending our money. That’s the future Meta wants.

  > He decided to go ahead with the event, telling an audience that the company’s research into AI models has found “structures that mirror results from human neuroscience”
almost like it’s a machine trained to parrot human language...
Re:California Legalizes Balcony Solar on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:26PM (#49916577)
So I buy three 400 watt panels, an inverter, and plug it into an outlet. That’s it?
idk if it’s just my eyes getting old, or my LASIK, or the sky just not being dark anywhere anymore, but these trips don’t look the same to me as they used to. today it all just seems kinda static-y and fuzzy, but i remember my first night in the grand canyon being an absolutely amazing experience.
Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:05PM (#49903097)
An Immense World. It’s not as jaw-dropping as I’d expected (yes, I know rattlesnakes can “see” heat), but it’s also not an easy/fun read either. So I’ll probably land at around 3/5 rating.
people would not vote for someone who took away their doom scrolling addiction dealer, that’s why.
Re:Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @12:39PM (#49818763)
the ratio of new voice models i see on hackernews to the number actually deployed in any product i use is approximately infinity.
Re:The new CC, an AI agent built for families on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:46PM (#49810230)
Why in the world of all bad naming would they choose the two letters that abbreviate one of their largest competitors product
Re:T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees on Saturday September 19, 2026 @11:37PM (#49772326)
i assume this means crocodiles from the same time period?
Re:Mac Mini Alternatives for Local LLMs: M6, M5 and Strix Halo on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:26PM (#49768451)
trade in value at Apple might be low, but these things are selling at or above previous msrp on ebay etc
Re:T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:42PM (#49744810)
How do we know its body temperature was 97 degrees, and simply not the environment was 97 degrees?
Re:Small Programming Tricks on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:48PM (#49731268)
Definitely. The whole Unix philosophy of each command doing one thing and being easily composable always seemed to break down in my mind when it came to find. find does a lot.

similar to ripgrep, though, fd is a modern replacement that’s a bit friendlier to use.

Re:Giving up on smart rings on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @08:01PM (#49720500)
I have a Pebble Index, it’s my first “smart” ring and first ring at all. All of these problems are things I didn’t anticipate either.

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