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Alexandre Testu

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news.ycombinator.com 1mo ago

Tell HN: Happy Father's Day

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www.wsj.com 1mo ago

US Towns Paid for Teachers and Cops to Use Weight-Loss Drugs. It Broke the Bank

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www.wsj.com 2mo ago

I Let AI Look at My Breasts–and I'm Glad I Did

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www.wsj.com 4mo ago

Apple's Push to Build an All-American Chip

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www.wsj.com 5mo ago

A Plan to Save Elephants Sparked a Deadly Conflict

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www.lemonade.com 6mo ago

Lemonade Unveils Autonomous Car Insurance, Slashing Rates for Tesla FSD by 50%

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realfood.gov 6mo ago

Eat Real Food

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www.superagent.sh 1y ago

ReAG: Reasoning-Augmented Generation

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techcrunch.com 1y ago

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

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walkingtheworld.substack.com 2y ago

Walking Phoenix: A quick retreat from an expansive hell on Earth

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github.com 2y ago

Turbo 8 has been released

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Why don't more smartphones have matte displays? [video]

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help.kagi.com 2y ago

Kagi Enrichment APIs: find non-commercial websites and “small web” discussions

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www.wsj.com 3y ago

Die-Hards Refuse to Let Go of Their Pagers

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www.nbcnews.com 3y ago

13yr old groomed publicly on Twitter and kidnapped, despite chances to stop it

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www.theverge.com 3y ago

Sonos’ new product category is commercial audio

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protectthestack.org 3y ago

Protect the Stack

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www.theregister.com 3y ago

The world was promised 'cloud magic'. So much for that fairy tale

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www.reuters.com 3y ago

France plans to impose a €3 minimum delivery fee for online book orders

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www.sketch.com 3y ago

Sketch vs Figma

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

I Made an Internet Time Machine

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www.axios.com 3y ago

NFL launches subscription streaming service

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

Siberia or Japan? Expert Google Maps Players Can Tell at a Glimpse

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

Turing Award Won by Programmer Who Paved Way for Supercomputers (Jack Dongarra)

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braedon.dev 4y ago

Domain spoofing on Gannett sites

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maxread.substack.com 4y ago

Mapping the Celebrity NFT Complex

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www.theverge.com 5y ago

Medium union effort stalls, falling one vote short of majority

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www.bloomberg.com 5y ago

World War II-Era Obstacle Is Curbing French Startup Diversity

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www.oversaid.com 6y ago

Oversaid – Keeping track of who said what in tech

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openid.net 6y ago

Apple Successfully Implements OpenID Connect with Sign in with Apple

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Claude Fable 5 1 month ago

Prob related to this part of the blog post:

We will require 30-day retention for all traffic on Mythos-class models, on both first- and third-party surfaces. We won’t use this data to train new Claude models, or for any non-safety-related purpose, and we’ve instituted new privacy protections including logging all human access to the data and ensuring its deletion after 30 days in almost all cases (see this post for further details). The data will help us defend against complex and novel attacks (including new jailbreaks and attacks that operate across many requests) as well as help us identify and reduce false positives.

Apple WWDC 2026 1 month ago

From Apple's website:

iOS 27 coming this fall.

Siri Al coming in English later this year.

So they're already admitting it won't be here in time for iOS 27.

That’s exactly why I’m getting downvoted, and I get it tbh. I knew people would ask for recommendations. It’s ok.

I haven’t used any of the tools you mentioned. We started using coderabbit just this year. The new PR review UI just came out. It’s made for big AI reviews which internally we’re trying to rein in. I like the direction they’re moving in with that, it uses AI to help you rather than bypass you. So you have the automated review that catches a bunch, and then they have a tool for you to step in and do your own review faster.

It’s funny there’s someone replying to me saying coderabbit is the best they’ve ever seen and in another thread someone else says it’s the worst. If that’s not AI for you… you just gotta try it

Harris Teeter is an example of a large chain that has promotions (not coupons) that are applied at checkout only if you have your VIC card (their free membership program). There’s a lot of BOGO, a few dollars off etc offers that are tagged to the price label throughout the store.

You're combining state and local sales tax. State sales tax in Louisiana is 4.45%. Some municipalities add nothing on top of that, some add more. I said California's state sales tax is the highest and that's true.

Sizing chaos 5 months ago

I’m not affiliated with it but I recommend americantall.com They only do clothes for tall people.

The Codex App 6 months ago

I can answer for Conductor: you're getting the full Claude Code, it's just a GUI wrapper on top of CC. It makes it easy to create worktrees (1 click) and manage them.

Bread is mostly sliced bread in the US which lasts long. Can be frozen. Lots of meat / fish is frozen.

Milk lasts for weeks in the store, same at your house (until you open it). I know in France milk is sold in bricks or bottles that aren't even refrigerated.

Most veggies can be frozen. And they weren't picked a couple days before you bought them, they can clearly last a long time.

I think that will fade. I don't know if you remember how mocked the airpods were when they first came out ("They look like q-tips"). All it'll take is a few celebrities spotted using one and they'll turn cool in no time.

Same for Snap, which is surprising given its reputation:

Despite their systems’ similar mechanics, neither TikTok nor Snapchat recommended the sex-heavy video feeds to freshly created teen accounts that Meta did, tests by the Journal and Edelson found.

This imo proves that Meta isn't even trying:

In some instances, Instagram recommended that teen accounts watch videos that the platform had already labeled as “disturbing.”

This could be a very simple toggle, it's disingenuous to blame everything on the "black box" of the "algorithm."

Beyond the data, OpenAI is getting access to the most valuable users on the planet. Everyone using this will see that "ChatGPT" is what's used when Siri is not smart enough. It really puts their brand out there in a big way. They want to be a household name, like Google.

It's also smart for Apple because they can slowly improve Siri (one can dream) so that it falls back less and less on ChatGPT. They can also make a deal with Google (Gemini) and others, so that they can start giving users the choice of what LLM to use, which means they can start charging Google or OpenAI another 10Bn++ for being at the top of the list, or being the default choice entirely.

Yes I think I agree. You're describing data startups more than "AI" startups (although of course to investors and prospects they are AI STARTUPS).

If you build a good system to collect hard-to-gather, rich proprietary data then improvements in AI will help you squeeze more and more insights out of it.

Omnifocus has repeatable tasks and you can pick whether they repeat based on the due date (once a month, like the mortgage), or on completion date (I use this for cleaning chores, so if I'm late to clean the bathroom, don't tell me to do it in 2 days because it's Saturday, tell me to do it 1 week from now)

I'm in that first group and I don't see how it makes the most sense. They are not more convenient. I can "charge" my gas car in 2 minutes basically anywhere in the country.

I'm going on vacation next week, driving with 2 young children. It'll be about a 11 hour drive which is not crazy for a US vacation. I don't want to plan where I stop and stop for 45 minutes to fuel up with 2 toddlers in the car.

And they're all much more expensive than a nice 5 year old gas car.

A big difference I think is that religious truths by and large don't really change. For Christians, Jesus is Lord and always will be. It's been 2,000 years.

In those last 2,000 years virtually all "scientific truths" have changed. Scientists used to believe the Earth was flat, that it was the center of the universe. Doctors prescribed cocaine. And you can dispute those examples maybe but i hope you see what i mean.

It's not completely unreasonable to see how that might lead some people to not believe current scientific consensuses.