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Re:"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:52PM (#49224117)
/s
Re:Tailscale's new macOS home
on Friday April 03, 2026 @06:06AM (#47624903)
"Think Different"
Re:OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1
on Saturday March 28, 2026 @07:58PM (#47559151)
Is there a similar project for Masters of Orion?
A weird outcome of yesterday's AWS outage: Atlassian's Status Page was down
Anthropic offers Claude to 'all three branches of government' for $1
AGI: Probably Not 2027
Alaska Airlines grounds all flights after IT outage disrupts systems
Goldman Sachs doesn't have to hire a $180k software engineer–meet Devin
Goldman Sachs doesn't have to hire a $180k software engineer–meet Devin
California cities trying to figure out how fake voices were added to crosswalks
Re:A Multiwavelength Look at Proxima Centauri's Flares
on Monday April 07, 2025 @05:50PM (#43616328)
> why no radio frequency evidence of other stars
unless the radio beam is aimed directly at us, we may not be able to detect the radio communication of other civilizations.
Re:The software engineers willing to pay $10k to help them land a codi...
on Monday April 07, 2025 @05:45PM (#43616290)
this is such a large red-flag.. with layers of conflicts of interest
Re:A Man Out to Prove How Dumb AI Still Is
on Friday April 04, 2025 @08:11PM (#43589081)
I tried it on gpt-4-turbo and it seems to give the right answer:
>Let's calculate:494,547,645,908,151+7,640,745,309,351,279,642=7,641,239,856,997,187,793 >494,547,645,908,151+7,640,745,309,351,279,642=7,641,239,856,997,187,793 >Answer: 7,641,239,856,997,187,793
Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @01:08PM (#43572620)
it's true.. the S&P 500 declined ~57% from Oct 2007 to Mar 2009
Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @01:04PM (#43572567)
A crown on a fool's head does not make him a king.
Re:How far neuroscience is from understanding brains
on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @03:29PM (#43346817)
it looks like we can now actually use brains as computers: https://corticallabs.com/
Re:The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore's Law
on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:41PM (#43275776)
you may be thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy
Here the machine is using tin, which isn't suitable for fusion (no energy is released beyond iron).
Re:Roman Empire's use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study f...
on Monday January 06, 2025 @10:06PM (#42618725)
I wonder if future historians will see a similar drop after widespread use of plastic
Re:Happy New Year 2025 HN
on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @09:13PM (#42563458)
Happy New Year from the West coast!
North America Population Patterns by Density
I'm genuinely intrigued!
Any recommendations for tour companies? Do you have to bring your own tent? Any need for special masks/filters for volcanic gases?
Re:Bridge Comparisons [pdf]
on Friday August 25, 2023 @02:05AM (#37258614)
I learned more from this wiki page than that pdf:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_bridges
US wants China’s chip industry 5 generations behind cutting edge
Re:Ask HN: Problems for the Next Decade
on Sunday July 09, 2023 @01:18AM (#36651763)
Is fusion really that great? Decades of research and billions of dollars later it's still not commercially feasible.
Whereas solar power is cheaper than coal now. Also on the horizon is thorium reactors.
Re:SVB collapse could mean a $500B venture capital ‘haircut’
on Sunday March 26, 2023 @01:57PM (#35317374)
Real interest rates (nominal interest rate minus inflation rate) is still negative.
Missing Workers from the Workforce
Re:Israel's Dangerous Shadow War with Iran
on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:04AM (#34957972)
Is there no de-escalation mechanism? Maybe through the UN?