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"cheaper (eventually) hardware" Best case 2-3 years from now. Otherwise it will take a major global recession to get us anywhere near last year's prices.
Re:Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI on Sunday June 21, 2026 @06:37PM (#48623308)
"the US has become an unsafe place to keep your data"

I empathize with this but curious what would make any other country a better safehaven for your data? I personally like the EU's approach to data safeguards, but are there other locales/data protections you have in mind that would keep your data "safe".

ahhh fourmilab. I still run John's earth screensaver.
Re:Show HN: Stocks Porfolio in a URL and Favicon on Saturday June 20, 2026 @03:08AM (#48607039)
Nice work, clean and simple.

Careful about data distribution/licensing as exchanges have explicit data distribution clauses with Yahoo. If you got permission through Yahoo you're all set.

Re:Ask HN: Open Covid-19 Patient Database on Saturday March 14, 2020 @06:00AM (#22574268)
I just posted an idea similar to this, without having seen yours first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22574128

add geolocation data and location based app awareness and alerting.

The problem me thinks are language barriers and cultural-socio privacy differences.

Next level technology could really help in this space, if we could only get our global sh*t together...

Ask HN: Covid-19 global survivor DB

Why does this not exist already? We need a global database with global testimonials of those that have survived; What their symptoms were, What the experience was like. Preferably with histrionics of their infection(where they likely got it) and their location data histories mapped. We could have an app that geolocates that data to any area and warns people in or getting near that area with...

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