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github.com 22d ago

Because I Got High

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lore.kernel.org 7mo ago

Marcan (Hector Martin) appears to be contributing to the Ashai Linux project

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www.trevornestor.com 1y ago

The Problem with Microsoft

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github.com 1y ago

Notice: CDK CLI will begin to collect anonymous telemetry data on or after 8/25

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swapi.dev 1y ago

Star Wars API cert has expired

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www.nj.gov 1y ago

New Jersey Governor Signs Legislation for Deceptive AI Deepfakes

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www.npr.org 3y ago

Putin grants Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden

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www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu 3y ago

“I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquired by Avast

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blog.darksky.net 3y ago

Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

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www.businessinsider.com 4y ago

Silicon Valley healthcare startup Cerebral harmed hundreds of patients

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Tell HN: News sites may have a “lite” version for low-bandwidth users

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apnews.com 4y ago

Silicon Valley finds remote work is easier to begin than end

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devblogs.microsoft.com 4y ago

Conversation about the .NET open source project

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microsoftedge.microsoft.com 5y ago

Old Reddit Redirect for MS Edge Contains Malware

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arstechnica.com 5y ago

Airbnb cancels all DC reservations to prevent return of rioters

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pharmacy.amazon.com 5y ago

Amazon Pharmacy

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 5y ago

Steelcase furniture giant hit by Ryuk ransomware attack

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Why should my company use source control?

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help.blackboard.com 6y ago

Internet Explorer is no longer supported by Blackboard

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notepad-plus-plus.org 6y ago

Notepad++ Releases cannot be downloaded

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zachholman.com 6y ago

UTC Is enough for everyone, right? (2018)

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Website / GitHub for shaming websites that do not work in Firefox?

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www.denverpost.com 6y ago

Denver experiences its first reported fatal scooter crash

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: What's the best way to share application secrets in 2019?

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np.reddit.com 7y ago

After 6 months of working fine, Tesla software update drives at barriers again

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media.gm.com 7y ago

General Motors Accelerates Transformation

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Is it worth joining a startup that plans to sell in the next 5 years?

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GM just did this in the last 30 days [1], and their sales are likely going to be just fine. In fact the auto industry has repeatedly automated jobs over the last 100 years, and they still make decent sales numbers.

If you decided to boycott every company that replaced staff with automation, you would be forced to exit the economy. Every company does this to some degree and the customers who vote with their wallet do not seem to care about a reduction in force.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/gm-installs-robots-at-fla...

This seems to be less about K8’s and more about the infra as code movement. It doesn’t matter if you use K8, CDK, or terraform - you get the same benefits the OP stated across the board.

It is nice to be able to have a consistent deployment pattern, with traceability, rollback support, and production approval checks. It’s nice to not have some archaic something stuck in someone’s head. It’s also nice to be able to see how something works by reading the code, which is usually up to date and deployable.

Similarly, I used gen ai to review a real estate purchase. I provided Zillow listing photos and serial numbers of all appliances, the electric panel, and a few additional not pictured areas that I took during the walk through.

I prompted the AI to write a report as if it were a home inspector and it actually did a better job and identified some issues the paid 750 usd inspector missed.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 3 months ago

I wonder what will happen to the entire legal system. It used to be fairly difficult to create convincing photos and videos.

AI can probably fool most court judges now. Or the defense can refute legitimate evidence by saying “it’s AI / false”. How would that be refuted?

GitHub Stacked PRs 3 months ago

CLI is great because now I can tell my AI agent to do it. “Fix all dependabot security issues (copy logs) and run tests to validate functionality. Create each dependency as its own stack (or commit) so that contributors may review each library update easily.”

Wait 10 minutes and you’re done.

Am I the only one that uses a thunderbolt dock and a keyboard + mouse + monitor setup? The Macbook itself is always closed in clamshell mode.

The only time I ever use a Macbook as a proper laptop is during meetings, and even then it is brief - looking up materials or taking notes - not nearly enough time to encounter long-term strain in the wrists.

If you are working on a computer for 6+ hours a day professionally, you owe it to yourself to get a proper workstation setup. Hunching over a laptop for hours a day is terrible for your posture and health.

So if this is free to use on linux, what is to stop someone from doing what Colima did to Docker? Aka make a tiny Linux VM on MacOS and package Little Snitch within that?

Modern vehicles make disabling data collection fairly difficult. And even if it is disabled, there is no guarantee data is not being sent despite your user settings.

I would love for investigative groups to target the auto industry’s data collection practices and have meaningful legislation created and implemented as a result.

200-500k would make a large negative impact in healthcare. Specialty doctors cannot be trained in a snap, and there are limits on how many MDs and DOs are churned out of schools.

So healthcare industries turn to H1Bs to hire specialty positions in underserved / rural areas. The alternative is to shut these facilities down, which has other negative aspects to communities.

As a current parent, I assumed this was due to people having fewer kids, not AI. Additionally, with childcare centers becoming more expensive, many more families are looking to be stay at home parents or using grandparents / relatives to watch their kids during work hours.

Stop Sloppypasta 4 months ago

I do this quite often, but I also instruct Claude to limit its output to 2-3 sentences or paragraphs, depending on the context. Also "Write this for a team of software developers / MBA's" goes a long way too.

I also do the extra step of eliminating things that are not needed, or we review this during backlog refinement.