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Re:ChatGPT Pro 500 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:18PM (#49898903)
What APIs do you use for this?
Ok I agree that de-banking is not a good thing overall from a political perspective.

But in this case, it seems fairly clear that A/I was providing services to organizations listed as Terrorist Organizations by the US, UK, and Canada. Seems like the best way around this is... don't do business with terrorists? I'd understand more if these were ONLY deemed by the US, but this is an international group.

Re:Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @10:06AM (#49536471)
This has to be fake... or similar.

Their CMO's bio lists "20,000 'qualified' quantum AI contacts on linkedin" as the SECOND line in his bio.

"Business Management by ESADE. Co-Founder and CMO of Multiverse Computing. President, “barcelonaqbit-bqb”, 20,000 “qualified” quantum AI contacts on LinkedIn. VP of the AMETIC Innovation..."

What is the 28% failure rate, is that from the removal of strong typing? Love the idea!
Dude there is nothing "far right" about him.

Way too broad a brush to paint with. If we want to retain any sort of liberal democracy we need to stop with the rhetoric that "if you're not as far in X direction as I am, you must be on the other side". Its destroying the democratic party.

I'm a staunch democrat, and this is just sad to see. Progressive and centrist should both be able to coexist. We should be able to call out ineffective policies within our own movement without being called far right radicals.

Re:MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students on Thursday May 14, 2026 @07:41PM (#48142696)
This has been tried multiple times actually via ISAs and other instruments. Immediately inverts to adverse selection - eg the students who are going for a more lucrative option don't want to participate.

That said, the letter here wasn't about undergrad or expensive college - its about the federal government stripping funding for research for political reasons. Sad. We should be investing in US research capabilities. And like it or not, our research universities are pretty freaking good at... research.

Re:MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students on Thursday May 14, 2026 @07:39PM (#48142676)
We used to build great big crazy things too, lots via research universities due to vast federal and defense research.

That has changed. It should be reinstated. Cut red tape, get back into the business of taking (literal) moonshots as a government.

The CRDT enables eventual consistency on these schema updates, so a new field will be eventually consistent
Re:The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @06:59PM (#47607656)
This seems to miss the plot on so, so many points. Not worth a read if you came to the comment section first.

Doesn't even discuss open-source when a key point its making is "tech is built on the backs of others".

I have a late model Audi, and a Tesla Model 3. Audi has all the bells and whistles.

Doesn't come close to the safety I feel in the Tesla. Not even close. I know anecdotal

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @04:06PM (#46623431)
Nice URL that is a win
Re:The Subtle Injury – Being pretty good on Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:59PM (#46579354)
Being "pretty good" holds us back by atrophying our ability to handle hard things.
The link seems to be down, was it taken down?
Completely agree. This statement is immediately disproven by the authors following points. Eg pointing out that the supreme court, and other authoritative bodies exclusively use serif fonts...

Of course there is no "a priori", the general public doesn't know what a letter is "a priori" until they are taught. At the same time they are taught which fonts are formal and authoritative and which are not.

Everyone knows Comic Sans is not appropriate for a legal brief. No matter if that is "a priori" or not.

The argument here doesn't hold up for me.

The author states "The formality and authority of serif typefaces are largely socially constructed, and Times New Roman’s origin story and design constraints don’t express these qualities."

Yes, formality and authority are both, quite literally, social constructs. There is NO "natural" or "universal" formality or even authority without human social input.

I would also argue that, though most users cannot distinguish between a serif and sans serif font, they DO understand the serif fonts connote formality. eg in high school they were told to submit their papers in a serif font, or where they read a court opinion they also read serif (even if not the same font).

Sure, the State Department could have selected a different serif font. But a reversion to what was previously used seems completely normal.

Secondarily, I do think Calibri looks far too casual for the State Department. Its what I would use if I were quickly printing out my notes...

Re: on Monday December 29, 2025 @08:49PM (#46428559)
Recommend "The Mission" by Tim Weiner for this one. Not as simple as this.

Often the intel community is dead right, but get thrown under the bus by the admin. The intel community can't really come out and say "actually what our pres is saying is false, we told him this would happen".

Re: on Monday December 29, 2025 @08:47PM (#46428541)
They did tell the admin that there was no WMDs. But Rumsfeld didn't want to hear it, and forced them to "find" it.

Almost killed the agency

Re:UniFi 5G on Friday December 05, 2025 @03:11PM (#46166629)
He specifically specified that he was happy with ubiquiti since it was consumer grade hardware
Perhaps it feels so easy given your familiarity with it.

I have struggled to get things like this stood up and hit many footguns along the way

Re:Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving on Thursday November 27, 2025 @03:26PM (#46072956)
This thread, in and of itself, demonstrates the incredible quality of this community. Thank you to all of you, and especially to @dang and @tomhow for thanklessly holding us all together.
Re:We Built the v0 iOS App on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @12:50PM (#46048476)
Their bottom control buttons here feels like the perfect use-case for liquid glass. Really enjoying this new UI from Apple.
Re:Angel Investors, a Field Guide on Friday November 07, 2025 @02:49PM (#45850276)
Kevin Hartz is the most desirable angel in the valley IMO. His advice and generosity with his time is unparalleled.
Re:Itiner-E – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads on Friday November 07, 2025 @12:18PM (#45848611)
This is my favorite type of hacker news content. Something really cool that I never would have stumbled upon myself.

I'm really surprised how built-up Gaul and Germany are here

Re:The Poison Within Patriotism on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @03:47PM (#44892940)
To me, Nationalism and Patriotism mean different things.

At least to me:

Patriotism: the belief in the ideals of your country, in its people and its ability to strive towards that ideal state.

Nationalism: A strong identity tied to ones nation as it exists today (or in the past) at the exclusion of others or other thought

Re:We built an open-source asynchronous coding agent on Friday August 08, 2025 @02:03PM (#44839828)
Very cool! Am using it now and really like the sidebar chat that allows you to add context during a run.

I hit an error that was not recoverable. I'd love to see functionality to bring all that context over to a new thread, or otherwise force it to attempt to recover.

Can you explain what you mean by "not on ur machine as files get deleted on runtime to prevent privacy issues". I may be misunderstanding, but I'd personally want the files to by on my machine, and served to my agent locally instead of being a remote MCP server that I don't have control of

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