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Soon there wont be any hardware for us to get when hyperscalers are getting everything.
So a gig economy but for compute? The problem with this, it will be a race to the bottom and will not pay enough to support the people. Not to mention the energy costs and wear and tear on the compute parts.
While it is out of context, there is truth to his statement. There is something vile about people who become very rich very fast and they lose all sense of self-awareness and humanity. He wants all the resources for himself and his company. We're back to the "You'll own nothing and be happy" statement.
Re:Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:25PM (#50120436)
Does anyone know if there was a project having LLMs play Cities Skylines and see how well it manages to design and build a city?
I hear there is a shortage of blades for the turbines.
So does anybody actually have a good alternative to Grammarly?
Makes you wonder if that could actually work
Re:Steam Frame starts at $1059 on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:30PM (#49705111)
The comparison difference of terms and conditions was hilarious and spot on. Well done GN!
Re:Jellyfin 12.0 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:28AM (#49610841)
Is Plex/jellyfin even necessary for Infuse? I've been using Infuse for years now and it has direct access to my NAS to look for media content and just directly plays it. It's a such an amazing app and it plays everything I throw at it without any buffering or transcoding issues. The Pro version pretty much has all the necessary codecs, including all the dolby things for hdr/atmos. It just works so well.
Re:O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11 on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:16AM (#49565013)
I'm approaching a year now on CachyOS and it has been a wonderful experience. All the games that I play run just fine, maybe a few FPS drop compared to Windows, but it's not a big deal for me. I also don't play any competitive online games that require 3rd party anti-cheat spyware. Biggest positives, I got very comfortable with terminal and CLI work. My development work has definitely improved.
I've been slowly developing my hermes agent to do something similar but is very customized towards my needs. I should spin up another agent and give this one a shot and see what it's capable of. This is hilarious.
Nexsar is taking over Tegna. Currently tied up in courts, but it's pretty much sinclair-like propaganda machine.
Re:Claude Sonnet 5 on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:13AM (#48742515)
Would love to read that blog post. I'm toying with running local AI model with Claude and GLM as well depending on a task. Pretty decent success but it could be better.
We're in late-stage capitalism here. The pitchforks are already out and spreading across the globe. Unless the big companies get broken up, this nation will split into either a police state or socialist state.
I have to admire the double-dipping business model of private companies getting paid by local governments to setup surveillance cameras and harvest data. Then the same goverment will pay to get warrantless access to that same data.
Re:Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot on Thursday June 04, 2026 @12:31PM (#48401006)
Do you have a brand of those laces? The original ones on my Brooks runnign shoes are usually pretty good, but overtime they start getting more loose.
The tidbid they're not talking about are the fact that wages are down .5%

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/cpi-inflation-april-2026-.ht...

Re:Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:46AM (#47865299)
Wouldn't that be WINE?
This just reminds me of that old meme where a product manager says something like "Why am I paying you $200k/yr when I can just copy code from StackOverflow?" and the engineer responded "You pay me that because I make sure the code you copied is the right code". I have a feeling we're in a similar situation here for AI. Sure, anyone can create AI slop code, but to fully take advantage of it, you need someone that understands the whole chain of design and development to make it fully work and integrate with existing systems.

I think we're in for an era where many folks will be filtered out and those who know and understand code, will be in high-demand.

What about all the age restriction stuff coming online here in the US in various states? Those are cool right?

This service is definitely a honeypot for tracking.

Genuine question, what is stopping users from using AI to generate a fake face or ID to bypass this restriction?
Wait, was this an oversight on his part about the biometric unlock? My MacBook biometric gets disabled after a bit and requires a password if the lid was closed for substantial amount of time.
I honestly think that Waymo's reaction was spot on. I drop off and pick up my kid from school every day. The parking lots can be a bit of a messy wild west. My biggest concern is the size of cars especially those huge SUV or pickup trucks that have big covers on the back. You can't see anything incoming unless you stick your head out.
Re:OMSCS Open Courseware on Saturday December 06, 2025 @10:42PM (#46178963)
You'll get there! Some of them you can take two at a time. I myself only need 3 more!
Re:Framework Sponsors CachyOS on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:29PM (#46167588)
I got Battle.net working through Steam. The way I have it is I add the battle.net installer into steam, add proton compatibility, once you run it it installs, but next time you run it, it just opens the launcher unless it needs an update. Then you can install World of Warcraft and other games there and run.

So far so good running CachyOS and KDE Plasma.

Re:Student Perceptions of AI Coding Assistants in Learning on Saturday November 29, 2025 @09:39PM (#46093086)
Every school has students work off their Chromebooks here in Colorado, regardless of how rich community is. This started with the Covid lockdowns and is pretty much standard now.
Re:Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaming on Saturday November 29, 2025 @09:18PM (#46092953)
How does it compare to CachyOS? I'm not too familiar with how immutable OS actually works or what is the deal with flatpacks.

I have a system that I kind of want to have Linux forward with Windows on secondary m.2 drive to dual boot if I need something there. Following protonDB, I see all the games that I play work just fine and are either gold or platinum status.

Would you recommend Bazzite or Cachy? I main do gaming, development and web stuff. I tend to run multiple dockers, multiple different versions of python and other packages. How would immutible OS affect me here?

Re:Implications of AI to schools on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @12:19PM (#46048098)
This stuff is getting more pervasive too. I'm working on my Master's degree right now and any code I submit, I make sure it has spelling mistakes and make it god awful because I don't want to get flagged by some 3rd party utility that checks if it was AI generated or copied from someone else.
Re:Why CUDA translation wont unlock AMD on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @09:15PM (#45988058)
What is powering Gemini?
Re:Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @08:58PM (#45987901)
Is this related to the upcoming EU-Inc initiatives next year?

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