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Why not follow them with xcancel or other pull through cache? If you’re not there for discourse, you just need to retrieve the published content.
Tammany Hall, the building, still stands. Sort of.[1] It hasn't been used for political purposes since the 1970s. It's been through several owners. The entire interior out to the walls was demolished a few years ago, and rebuilt as office space.
Slack was supposed to lease the space, but that fell through. There's now a Petco store on the ground floor. There was a liquor store for a while. Big comedown.
Brex got out of the SMB segment in 2022 and required some sort of "professional funding" for clients (e.g. VC money or sizable angel funding). There was a lot of reporting on it at the time: https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/19/what-was-really-behind-bre...
Indeed. It's the immediate assumption that since you're asking me, it must be important to you - otherwise you wouldn't be asking in the first place.
I want to be the kind of person that helps others where it matters, and here you are, asking, thus proving it matters. Refusing becomes really uncomfortable, so I'd rather go out of my way to make it possible for me to agree, or failing that, to help your underlying need as much as I can.
I realize now this is a form of typical mind fallacy - I wouldn't ask you for something if it wasn't really fucking important or I had any other option available, therefore I naturally assume that your act of asking already proves the request is very important to you.
I guess I just learned I'm a Guesser :).
There is rapidly declining demand for combustion vehicles in China, so if you’re going to make them, might as well make them in the US for now.
China floods the world with gasoline cars it can't sell at home - https://www.reuters.com/investigations/china-floods-world-wi... - December 2nd, 2025
GM's China Nightmare: Sales Crash from 641K to 20K - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECdDIfpBuM - May 31st, 2025
> GM is facing a catastrophic collapse in China, with sales plummeting from 641,000 units in 2017 to just 20,000 in 2024. Once-popular brands like Chevrolet are now virtually dead in the market, as Chinese EV makers dominate. GM's rapid decline underscores the challenges foreign automakers face in China's fast-evolving auto landscape.
I really wish MS had stuck with the Windows 8/Phone direction - bright square blocks that didn't waste space, which felt like it was a full refutation of the transparent everything of Vista that was still there to some extent in 7.
Looking at macOS 26, it's hard not to compare it visually to Vista given the transparency emphasis. Hopefully in a few years an Alan Dye-free Apple will move in a different direction.
It's a small, simple and cheap piece of hardware with no moving parts. A "wooden round".
Sold for $5.15B.
Brex last raised $300M in Oct 2021 at a $12.3B valuation.
I just want to say this isn't just amazing -- it's my new favorite map of NYC.
It's genuinely astonishing how much clearer this is than a traditional satellite map -- how it has just the right amount of complexity. I'm looking at areas I've spent a lot of time in, and getting an even better conceptual understanding of the physical layout than I've ever been able to get from satellite (technically airplane) images. This hits the perfect "sweet spot" of detail with clear "cartoon" coloring.
I see a lot of criticism here that this isn't "pixel art", so maybe there's some better term to use. I don't know what to call this precise style -- it's almost pixel art without the pixels? -- but I love it. Serious congratulations.
Thought not well grounded in objective evidence has a place, both on matters that are not subject to empirical inquiry and in preliminary speculation about matters that are.
But it also runs the risk of building palaces of elaborate BS with no relation to reality and pure garbage filler content, like article presenting three different non-evidence-based ideas of how a dichotomy itself not grounded in evidence supposedly plays out in reality, with no effort to do look at any evidence or do any analysis as to whether any of them or the underlying dichotomy is connected to reality.
They're not?
Commuter train crashes into crane in Murcia, marking Spain's fourth train crash in five days - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46725317 - January 2026
In 2023, ssh added keystroke timing obfuscation. The idea is that the speed at which you type different letters betrays some information about which letters you’re typing. So ssh sends lots of “chaff” packets along with your keystrokes to make it hard for an attacker to determine when you’re actually entering keys.
Now that's solving the problem the wrong way. If you really want that, send all typed characters at 50ms intervals, to bound the timing resolution.
In practice I've never felt this was an issue. But I can see how with extremely low bandwidth devices it might be, for instance LoRa over a 40 km link into some embedded device.
New account, sub 400 karma, less than 30 days old iirc.
I much prefer OpenCode these days, give it a try.
Matt Levine (Dec 2025), https://archive.is/S3MPq
> Your business model might end up being sort of a … startup incubator or private equity firm; you’d spend your time starting or acquiring companies on which the robot could work its magic. Your business model would be “general business, but with AI”.. Either it will sell AI at high margins to lots of businesses, or it will sell AI at lower margins to lucrative businesses that it owns.
I find it disturbing.
One thing you notice if you have ADSL is that some services are built as if slower connections matter and others are not. Like Google's voice and audio chat services work poorly but most of the others work well. Uploading images to Mastodon, Bluesky, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Nextdoor is reliable, but for Tumblr you have to try it twice. I don't what they are doing wrong but they are doing something wrong and not finding out what they're doing wrong because they're not testing and they're not listening to users.
Nobody consulted me about their decision not to run fiber by my house. If some committee decides to make ssh bloated they are, together with the others, conspiring to steal my livelihood and I think it would be fair for me to sue them for the $50k it would take to run that fiber myself.
It's OK if you work for Google where there is limitless dark fiber but what about people in African countries?
It's the typical corporate attitude where latency never matters: Adobe thinks it is totally normal that it takes 1-5s for a keystroke to appear when you are typing into Dreamweaver.
The excerpt you don’t understand is saying that if it has been Google rather than Anthropic, the blast radius of the no-explanation account nuking would have been much greater.
It’s written deliberately elliptically for humorous effect (which, sure, will probably fall flat for a lot of people), but the reference is unmistakable.
Agreed, I found this rather incoherent and seeming to depend on knowing a lot more about author's project/background.
As long as they lose less than they lose by keeping it in $ they're coming out ahead.
That basically matches, in broad outline, what I see from AI use in an enterprise environment; absent a radical change, I think the near term impact of AI on software development is going to be too increase velocity while shifting workload to less (but not zero) code writing and more code reviewing and knowing when you need to prompt-and-review vs. hand-code.
Volume is easy: they have far more people, it is quality that counts.
Enshittification arrives as it always does.
>My "actual job" isn't to write code, but to solve problems
Solve enough problems relying on AI writing the code as a black box, and over time your grasp of coding will worsen, and you wont be undestanding what the AI should be doing or what it is doing wrong - not even at the architectural level, except in broad strokes.
One ends like the clueless manager type who hasn't touched a computer in 30 years. At which point there will be little reason for the actual job owners to retain their services.
Computer programming on the whole relying on the canned experience of the AI data set, producing more AI churn as ratio of the available training code over time, and plateuing both itself and AI, with the dubious future of reaching Singularity its only hope out of this.
This podcast is about the NYC market, but a good deep dive into why this is not a simple proposition.
Looks like it's starting. Kudos for some courage and will on the EU's part.
Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46722594 - January 2026
Macron says €300 billion in European savings flown to the US every year will be invested in Europe from now on. All 27 EU states agreed to establish the S&I Union, a step toward the full Capital Market Union - https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1qjtvtl/macron_says... - January 22nd, 2026
Savings and investments union - https://finance.ec.europa.eu/regulation-and-supervision/savi... - December 4th, 2025
You really, really do. It's quite something.
While converting it is not economical, class c office space (which is least desirable) demand is probably gone in this market due to lackluster demand for office space; the value of the building will get zeroed out by the market, at which point it can trade hands, be demo'd, and new residential can go up in its place.
You can think of class c office space, broadly speaking, as oil wells that have very little life left, and get bought up by folks who intend to extract the cashflow until they dump the externality on the public government and taxpayers (like abandoned shopping malls).
A recent example in St Louis is the AT&T office tower [1] [2].
[1] One of St. Louis’ tallest office towers, empty for years, sells for less than 2% of its peak price - https://www.costar.com/article/642008108/one-of-st-louis-tal... - April 10th, 2024 ("Goldman Group buys 44-story former AT&T office tower for $3.6 Million")
[2] St. Louis office vacancy hits all-time high [21.2%] as major companies downsize their footprints - https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2026/01/15/office-v... - January 16th, 2026
(conversions when the economics pencil out, haircuts for investors when they don't and more investment is needed to wholesale replace a structure)
US office vacancy rates chart supposedly pulled from Moody's: https://old.reddit.com/r/charts/comments/1p8mhmq/us_office_v...
There's a lot of complaints about externalities, especially when a power cut stopped all the vehicles in a city recently.
Poland still has majority coal power production! It's one of last places you can possibly blame renewables for pricing.
"The speed of speed!"
If you want to try out the voice cloning yourself you can do that an this Hugging Face demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS - switch to the "Voice Clone" tab, paste in some example text and use the microphone option to record yourself reading that text - then paste in other text and have it generate a version of that read using your voice.
I shared a recording of audio I generated with that here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/22/qwen3-tts/
Looks like there is an opportunity to convert a lot of that into residential space.
I do sports photography for one of the most active organizations in my community, I pass out a lot of business cards [1] and will probably get more work
[1] https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social/post/3mcy6m4eos22k
There is enough wind potential in Europe to power the world [1]. Combined with interconnects to Europe and battery storage, there is no reason power costs can't be driven down. To not do so is a lack of will. Scotland currently generates a surplus of renewables [2], exported. kieranmaine's sibling comment citations dives into the lack of will part.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38722022 (citations)
[2] In Scotland, Renewable Power Has Outstripped Demand - https://e360.yale.edu/digest/scotland-renewable-energy-100-p... - January 30th, 2024
(at the rate it takes to deploy transmission, might as well start dropping TBMs in the ground and let them grind towards each other from interconnect landings, potentially faster than the approval grind, complaints from locals about land use and right of ways, etc)
I like to say "my code is 200% vibe-coded; the tricky bit is figuring out which 100% to keep".
Decisions matter, both technical and product ones. LLMs don't make as good technical or product decisions as I would, and the way I work with them tries to maximize my strengths and the LLM's strengths. I don't know if I succeed, but it's better than "make me an app like X" as a prompt.
When you print objects with 10's of printers 'tuning your 3D printer' is no longer an option other than to tune it to be 'in spec' You can only tune your designs and the profile for your filament and for a particular model of printer but then all of those have to be close to identical. As soon as you start tweaking your design or filament profile to offset possible issues with the printer you've lost reproducibility.
Incidentally, a lot of the stuff on thingiverse and other similar sites suffers from those kind of issues. They are tuned for PLA on a particular printer without realizing it.
There should be a way to drop any kind of circular citation ring from the indexes.
Even though I like CUDA, I think the point is when do compute centers reach the point that they can run their workloads with other vendors, or custom accelerators.
... biofilms are like the bacterial wall turned inside out
And that's $1000 per year at today's energy prices, which surely will go up over time.
Maybe the monoculture that many kids nowadays think UNIX === Linux?
'Interesting' => 'you're stark raving mad but you're in the room with me so I'm going to be polite to you until I'm out of striking range'.
Kinda funny, I think there was a conference on this stuff a few months ago as I've seen a lot of stuff about HRV go by in my RSS reader lately.
I have a github project
https://github.com/paulhoule/VulpesVision
that does an HRV visualization on a web site if you (i) use Chrome and (ii) have a modern BTLE HR monitor (I got two Polar H10s) You can bring it up with
npm install
npm run dev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer_waves
by the simple method of eyeballing the instantaneous HR chart and breathing out when the chart goes down and breathing out when it goes in, being careful to manage your air supply (not breathe too deeply) so you don't top or bottom out.
Elite HRV is a pretty good commercial app but their "HRV biofeedback" isn't anywhere near as good as mine as it tells you to do "resonant breathing" by sweeping through the frequency range where the Mayer wave happens -- why do that when you can just sync it directly... in fact I can do the same feat eyeballing the heart rate in Elite HRV.
I'm working on a 2-player version of this game because I think it will make a demo that punches well above its weight.
They're advisors with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
> they would consider him a loser
What about Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes?
Another great example of this is British SF, especially 20th century Doctor Who and Blake's 7, vs American SF such as Star Wars/Trek. The British version can be much bleaker. And of course Red Dwarf, which doesn't translate at all into American. (There was a single pilot episode)
Edit: someone downthread mentioned Limmy's Show and Absolutely, to which I would add Burnistoun. Scottish humor is even more grimly fatalist than English.
Yes, there is a certain irony when you look at the cloud workloads with a type 1 hypervisor managing either serverless or container workloads.
> the AI could also create the listing as soon as the item is purchased.
There are businesses doing the other way round: list a bunch of stuff, then once an order is placed find the item to fulfil it with.
My local karate school used them in the COVID era to build an app for practicing at home. I've used it off and on, though the occasional oblique reference to COVID is a bit amusing sometimes. Never mentioned by name but there's an occasional reference to "as we're stuck at home" and such. They use Vimeo to whitelabel the service.
Whatever they're paying for it, it is too much. Video availability drops in and out. Sometimes the video works. Sometimes it doesn't work at all and gives a weird error. Sometimes it doesn't work and it claims that it "can't guarantee the security of my connection", even though other videos work fine. Sometimes videos that didn't work yesterday work today. I've been tempted to go to their app developer and try to show them how to just host it themselves in S3 or something, which would probably still be much cheaper than what Vimeo is charging. The Vimeo player embedded into the app is extremely minimalistic, for instance, it can't cast to anything, which is a pretty useful feature for something you don't want to be staring at your phone for.
I found I can Favorite a video, which then makes me log in to a Vimeo account, then it adds it as a Favorite to my Vimeo account despite being private, and then I can view it through the Vimeo app proper, although that also seems to have lost the ability to cast to anything in my house lately. Casting is a clusterfuck of its own with the mismatched capabilities matrix of what can cast to what under what circumstances anyhow, but Vimeo seems distinctly behind on that front. It's honestly significantly worse now than the default video player a browser offers at this point.
But it was probably relatively easy for them to set it up ~5 years ago, before Vimeo collapsed.
Explains why Sir Keir Starmer is so relatable.
When I was a twentysomething, I had roommates. This saved money on rent and bulk purchases (which let me spend more time having fun and save money) and provided a starter-kit social circle in a new city. It also honed conflict-resolution skills and ability to be civil. And when I got a partner, it made moving in together smoother.
Something I’ve noticed recently is many college graduates living alone. That’s fine. But it’s a weird default for early in one’s career. If I had one general piece of advice for anyone starting their career, it would be to seek out a living situation with roommates.
Side question: are more college students staying in solo dorms?
Agree, I miss the choice we had, and Solaris was my favourite UNIX during those days.
From a half-Indian friend of mine, he described this as "ask vs guess" culture. https://medium.com/redhill-review/navigating-ask-and-guess-c...
Ask culture scales a lot better in a fast changing world full of strangers. Guess culture saves friction, but only in situations where people are mostly guessing correctly because the social structure and expectations are fixed.
As heavy Borland user I am quite sure none of their software was freeware.
Yes they had educational discounts, but that was it.
If you want to piss off even more, those that buy Apple only because they want a shinny UNIX, but don't buy into Apple's culture since Mac OS Classic days, you only need to remind them that Steve Jobs was hardly a UNIX fanboy.
Just like with Microsoft strategies, for NeXT, having NeXTSTEP being based on UNIX was more to check boxes against Sun, and bring software into the platform, not to make it easy to go out, hence the whole userspace stack, even drivers, are based on Objective-C frameworks.
"Why We Have to Make UNIX Invisible."
https://www.usenix.org/blog/vault-steve-jobs-keynotes-1987-u...
> They said a Unix weenie was code for software engineers who hated what we were doing to Unix (the operating system we licensed)—putting a graphical user interface on it to dumb it down for grandmothers. They heckled Steve about his efforts to destroy it. His nightmare would be to speak to a crowd of them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180628214613/https://www.cake....
"NeXT marketing strategy video (1991)"
>This is generally fine as long as they know what it does.
Thanks to their LLM reliance they'd soon not know what it does, and forget even the little they know about coding
We used to have a custom Eclipse-derived tool for embedded development, and it sucked. Poor performance, crashy, difficult to build and debug. VS code is just lighter. As well as feeling more "modern", simply due to being built with the prejudices of the mid-2010s rather than the late 90s. Eclipse 1.0 was in 2001!
Yes. It's very effective, very dangerous, and it's not at all unique to America; the exact same approach results in high-minority vote shares across Europe.
They're not publicly traded (they appear to be pre-IPO "startup", made out of acquisitions), but it seems weird to me that there can be such a thing as secret layoffs.
Are there? It seems like an extremely dangerous place to do journalism.
> That seems incredible. 16GB of ram to run (presumably windows 10) and Eclipse?
In 2010 it couldn't have been anything later than Win 7; Win 8 was released in 2012.
Not everyone is in auctions for the game, some people want to actually get the item. Though I imagine there's less and less of them, as most figured out long ago that auctions are a stupid waste of time.
In fact, I'm somewhat angry at sellers setting up auctions if there's no other way to acquire a specific item. Why they won't put a minimum price they're happy to part with some items for, instead of wasting time of a lot of people by withholding target price and pretending they're earning premium through work?
Much of this is an antitrust problem.
The inputs to farming, especially seeds, fertilizer and machinery, are controlled by monopolies and near-monopolies. There have been too many mergers.
On the sell side, there's monopsony or near-monopsony, with very few big buyers.[1] Farmers are caught in the middle, with little pricing power on either side.
There's not much question about this. There are antitrust cases, but with weak penalties and weak enforcement.
[1] https://equitablegrowth.org/competitive-edge-big-ags-monopso...
When the project is opened, Visual Studio Code prompts the user to trust the repository author. If that trust is granted, the application automatically processes the repository’s tasks.json configuration file, which can result in embedded arbitrary commands being executed on the system.
Sigh. It's so Microsoft to just run random stuff.
Of course, in the Linux world, we have "Install with"
curl https://www.hostilecode.com > bashYou really do need every single site, as search is a long tail problem. All the interesting stuff is in the fringes, if you only have a few big sites you'll have a search engine of spam.
Unfortunately, cataloguing all the knowledge in the world created new knowledge, leading to a sort of Zeno's paradox of cataloguing.
Basically a CONNECT proxy? That's definitely not a difficult thing to write.
> And like GOFAI it’s never yielded anything useful
Err, what?
I'm not sure if there's a way to make forging work.
You can't forge a new ballot, because ballot IDs are necessarily public, and are cryptographically tied to a voter ID in order to ensure votes are valid and that everybody only votes once.
But it seems like nothing is stopping you from looking up ballots at random until you find the votes you want, and then claiming that was your vote. And if someone else got paid for the same one, then claim they're the one lying, not you?
That is a massive red flag to me too. They are basically saying "you are identical to everyone else, and easily replaced."
Does it really matter? Almost certainly no.
...until they start including things you don't want (remember the CSAM scanning debacle?)
There's a town in Alabama that skipped elections for 60 years; they'd just hand it off to a buddy. Someone finally registered to run and won by default, so ten days later they had a secret do-over to avoid a Black mayor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbern,_Alabama#Mayoral_dispu...
> As the romans said - you need bread and circuses to stay in power
“One thing, however, that I will note that Juvenal does not say is that the panem et circenses are either how the Roman people lost their power or how they are held under the control of emperors. Instead first the people lose their votes (no longer ‘selling’ them), then give up their cares and as a result only wish for panem et circenses, no longer taking an interest in public affairs” [1].
[1] https://acoup.blog/2024/12/20/collections-on-bread-and-circu...
Like they did with asset forefeiture, right? Right?
That's how it works in Cook County and a lot of other places: it's touchscreen voting, using "ballot marking devices", which produce a paper ballot you hand to an EJ to submit.
It’s trained to interact with text transcripts, it is not trained to work with that memory you built for it. If it was trained to do so I might be able to break into the real estate office in ten turns.
It seems to meant for end-users like journalists processing files individually like e-mail attachments.
It doesn't seem to be meant for usage at scale -- it's not for general-purpose conversion, as the resulting files are huge, will have OCR errors, etc.
That still makes ethics a human thing, not universe thing. I believe we do have some ethical intuition hardwired into our welfare, but that's not because they transcend humans - that's just because we all run on the same brain architecture. We all share a common ancestor.
It looks like this enzyme uses NAD+ as a substrate?
Consider cosmetics. Historically regarded as pure marketing, not technology. Lipstick and moisturizer. The kind of industry you’d expect governments to ignore entirely.
I don't know about that. I can think of a ~2000 year old Chinese story about an entrepreneur who came across a village where everyone had unchapped hands and faces despite it being winter. It turns out they had made an ointment from some local bush. The point of the story is that the guy guys as much of it as he can and then carries a few valleys away to where an army is encamped and they're suffering from the cold, and he trades the ointment for an estate.
I think a big reason other countries (and especially the US) keep underestimating China is neglecting the fact that they've had a more or less contiguously operating state for millennia.
If you click on the name there is a pop up with explanations and keystroke listing
> that they think is related to some undetermined future nebulously bad thing
I mean, Anna's Archive was pretty clear about the future bad thing.
Spotify didn't "think", it wasn't just "related", nothing was "undetermined" or "nebulous".
Anna's Archive explicitly announced they were going to start distributing Spotify's music files. It's not even a case of hosting links to torrents but not seeding -- no, they were going to be doing the seeding too. You can't get more clear-cut than that.
I'm not taking anybody's side here, as to what copyright law ought to be, but Spotify isn't abusing the legal process here.
> Do illegals (and that is an honest question) benefit from constitutional rights?
Generally, yes. There are rights that are protected only for citizens (e.g., voting rights), but most Constitutional rights restrain what the government can do to people, an are not keyed to citizenship, or to residency status. It is particularly important that due process rights are not keyed to status, because otherwise simply by presuming a status that is not entitled to due process, the government could absolve themselves of the requirement to prove that you actually had the status in question, and proceed directly to the sanctions associated with the status.
> And, lastly, where was the outrage here on HN when, in 2015, Obama awarded a Presidential Rank Award to Tom Homan (the same Tom Homan) for how he handled the millions (!) of deportations under Obama?
The deportations under Obama were manifestly handled differently than under Trump, so one could very consistently object to the latter and not object, or not object as strenuously, to the former.
> By now under Trump only 20% of the number of illegals that Obama deported have been deported.
The main objections have never been to the number of people lawfully subject to deportation who have been deported.
I think this is a bad look for OpenAI. Their log viewer should not be rendering Markdown images in a way that can leak data to third parties, and closing this report as "not applicable" mainly tells me that their triage process for BugCrowd is flawed and decisions are being made there by people who don't understand the consequences of this kind of bug.
I am thinking about stance while sitting lately. I am breathing and speaking more from my belly and that starts with posture which is neither slouched forward or back.