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Can you point the way where Free Speech is being countered here?
> “ Musk is only the most recent in a long line of semiliterates”

Jesus Christ. You people, smelling your own farts. It’s just ridiculous.

A bunch of nobodies, pending they are some sort of intellectual powerhouse, reining down on a guy that revolutionized, electric vehicles, space communications and space travel, like THEY are actually his mental superiors.

Re:Why do we assume everyone should be working? on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:27AM (#49239958)
The problem is not really if someone is working or not, but that someone is able to demand that someone else works to provide for them.

If you don’t want to work, but you are somehow able to get by without having your existence assured by redistributing the property of someone else, more power to you.

Highest score is calculated by the number of days you last before everyone starves and destroys the wall built to prevent the citizens from escaping to a capitalist country.
Re:Europe's fires are just the start on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:43AM (#49120183)
“French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu warned the country "is going through an unprecedented fire season", with 116,085 hectares (286,852 acres) burned and 13,566 fire starts recorded since January. The minister revealed in a post on X that nine out of 10 fires "are human-caused and most arise from carelessness: a cigarette butt, a barbecue, work carried out without precaution".”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg34128nvpo

Re:Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick on Thursday July 30, 2026 @01:50PM (#49113307)
I tried going that route, but most apps for streaming are Android. And that was only one of the issues.

It was a rabbit hole and in the end I got back using my NVIDIA Shield. This is about 10 years now, but it’s actually still the best option.

> they don’t really have a choice

This kind of discourse is so intellectually poor…

And in Italy, she has 90 days to do it legally and for free.

And please stop that rape red herring. The overwhelming majority of abortions are carried out as contraceptive methods.

So, providing information on how to carry out abortion after the 1st trimester in a country where abortion in the first 90 days is legal and free is not the disturbing part to you… it’s trying to prevent abortions after those 90 days.

I believe there’s something very wrong with your moral compass, pal.

They are not catching up to US models. The only Chinese models that attain a modicum of competence are all, sooner or later, are discovered to be trained by exploiting US models (in fact Deepseek itself admitted so about 1 year back).

Chinese models are not innovating anything, they are just doing what China does everywhere else: copying the West… poorly but cheaper.

Re:Future euro banknote design proposals on Saturday July 25, 2026 @04:13AM (#49045582)
I do hope we get Charles Martel though.
“China’s great leaps in AI that are surpassing the US” are actually just what China always does with every technology: copy the west… poorly.

And before the Chinese astroturfing starts (it already started, that’s clear from the comments and voting): the point is not even that the US companies have the right to intelectual property over their models (they should, but ok, that’s not even the point). The point is that China is incapable of innovation and any innovation into AI we can expect, will always come from the US.

Shows about the same level of technical mastery that present days painters.
Re:Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @03:31AM (#48828743)
Would these measures have prevented, for instance, the generalized Rape Gangs they had in the UK and that were hidden by the authorities to keep some weird idea of social peace?
This title is very misrepresentative of the actual article.

This is an article about initiatives to attract scientists to the Netherlands, not about some supposed ongoing brain drain.

And in a decent society, the state forcibly taking your money away with the threat of violence is called a robbery.
It’s an analogy, it’s always going to be imperfect!

Jesus Christ.

It’s like Bill Gates criticizing Apple… if you really want to split hairs about the analogy used.
I mean, I can see some issues with SpaceX valuation, but I find it really funny that we are now taking advice from the LinkedIn founder on HN.

Ideology is truly blinding.

Re:Steam Machine on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @03:33AM (#48641573)
But, will it properly support NVIDIA GPUs? That’s was the biggest pain point for years.
Why undemocratic? I thought parliamentary elections in UK worked like in most of Europe: you vote for a party, not a candidate.

At least here, it already happened, to have the PM resigning and then someone else from the party to pick up the role and that’s legally sound.

Re:How to feed a dictator on Saturday June 20, 2026 @06:45AM (#48608196)
To spare the ones that still didn’t lose all their good sense to have to go through the all article. It ends with trying to put Trump in the same bucket as Pol Pot and Sadam Hussein (this is all so tiresome).

So, it seems clear this film does have a side to pick and will be of dubious accuracy.

“Neel did give some thought to including Donald Trump in his film – even though, “to be clear, he is not a dictator,” he says. “He wants to be one, but he’s not. I did find a chef who cooked for him before he got elected.”

I’m not sure about the law protecting them or not, but it’s deeply hypocritical from their part.

It’s just people used to virtue signaling that aren’t willing to pay any price, no matter how small, for what they defend. They really think they are up to something when all they do is speak and “look good”.

If they think their company is doing something really problematic, then resign.

Re:SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable on Thursday June 18, 2026 @03:46AM (#48582143)
Realistically, what should be expected if I run this in my desktop with AMD 9000x CPU and a NVIDIA RTX 5000x GPU?
Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:48AM (#48569730)
People are going nuts. How is this comment even remotely acceptable?

The same people crying that “Trump is a fascist” go on in tangents on how Jews control the world and vote for candidates with actual Nazi tattoos.

It would be just the usual Silly Season if it wasn’t so serious to be this detached from actual reality.

Re:Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive on Thursday June 11, 2026 @12:13AM (#48486112)
How do you achieve that? Any special tooling or just skills?
Then again, our laptop battery only lasts 1/3 as much on MacOS.

I know, I know. The community keeps pretending this isn’t an issue for the last, hum, 15 years? But it is, and for people that are looking for a tool and not for a statement, it quickly drives them away from Firefox back to Chrome browsers.

Re:Claude Fable 5 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @03:35AM (#48472810)
Claude Opus is already close to unusable for me. On the standard plan, the usage limits are so low that I can’t do almost anything agentic meaningful with it.

Sure, it does last a lot more when asking simple questions about the repo and doing simple surgical fixes. But as soon as I start doing bigger tasks that need plans written, it just exhausts the limits too fast (and unlike codex, if it’s in a middle of a task, Claude actually stops, while codex, even after hitting the limits, finishes the present task).

Codex is better, but still, getting worst in this regard.

So, I’m not that thrilled with this new model unless it means they are increasing opus token limits to what sonnet is at the present, and this new model gets the limits opus are at now.

BTW: the only skills I have in use are Obra Superpowers. I’ve been thinking if that’s at the origin of high token usage, but I doubt it.

They were actually distributing an opinion piece titled “Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!”

They weren’t distributing a scientific article.

Link: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Mi...

This is part of a paragraph of the article being distributed:

“These proposed cuts would eliminate the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, which they claim “is replete with DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] expenditures,” the Fogarty International Center, which is responsible for funding degree programs in foreign countries that benefit the health of all, including Americans, and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, whose charge includes supporting research and offering information about complementary health approaches in the setting of whole-person health.”

This is ideological. It’s got nothing to do with medical science and research.

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