helsinkiandrew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJsgM-3L38U

Wow. The wikipedia page has a nice list with links to videos:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggling_world_records#Balls

A big fraction of senior executives' work is vulnerable to replacement by AI.

A big fraction of a senior executives' work can also be delegated to others in the company (or outside consultants and services), the thing that can't is being ultimately responsible for making the final decisions - product, people, direction etc.

Gift article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/trump-to-...

Gift article, should work for atleast a week after posting: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-07-10/meta-s...

Gameification of war is the literal worst thing I ever heard.

Is this much difference from a combat mission being written up and soldiers being promoted/awarded medals.

The point of this is to see who is successful and what drones/weapons are the most effective. With a limited budget and much larger enemy it comes down to kills per dollar.

Units can also collect e-points to purchase more equipment:

The allocation changes regularly, but as of June 2025, Business Insider reported that destroying a tank was worth eight points. A multiple launch rocket system counted for 10. Killing a regular Russian soldier earned 12 points. Wounding a drone pilot was valued at 15 and eliminating him netted 25. In the final step, the payoff, units use the points they’ve earned to purchase equipment—drones, drone jamming devices, ammunition, and other goods—on Brave1 Market, an online shopping platform not unlike Amazon.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarjacoby/2025/09/19/kyivs-e-...

Always another rich guy funding a search with promising results.

Although 9 days later:

Archaeologists believe no Spitfires buried in Burma

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-21074699

The new Siri isnt that exciting at least on my iPhone 15 Pro Max

On my Pro 16 it has its ups and downs - I still can't get it to "play my running playlist on shuffle" whilst running (this is the only thing I used Siri for before the beta and it would improve my life immeasurably if it worked). But it responds to things like "how long will it take to drive to the AirBnb booking in my inbox", and "when is X playing a concert in Y - add a calendar entry with details" perfectly.

This is a beta and I have hopes, but I can imagine it will run better on a 17 and later

Why should I pay an order of magnitude more to use pi.dev?

The monthly plans are heavily subsidized by the API users - why should Anthropic subsidize your use of pi.dev?

I remember when Llama was gaining popularity, everyone here was praising him for releasing open models. Same for other works in this area. Also remember praise for some VR devices

Neither of which have been great commercial successes. Open source LLM's and VR devices have have been cool products for HN readers, but haven't made much impact on the public or Meta's revenue.

Whilst Instagram and Facebook Ad revenue is coming in it means Zuckerberg could spend billions pivoting the company to country and western themed steak houses and the share holders wouldn't (couldn't) do anything about it.

The catch, as you’ll doubtless have guessed, is that the author has to pay a fee for their appearance, variously described as a “spot fee” or a “spotlight fee” or a “spot-securing fee” or a “participation fee”.

Am I being too naive to assume that legitimate book clubs shouldn't be doing this anyway - or is all online activity just a way of generating income now?

but nobody wanted to invest in anything better.

Not sure if you mean nobody wanted to develop mRNA flu vaccines, but at least Moderna and Pfizer are:

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/18/nx-s1-5863570/flu-vaccine-mrn...

You mean that thing that the US has been rapidly phasing out for two decades

Although the US Government is funding 2 new coal power plants.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-announces-850m-moderniz...

To those not familiar with cricket and why this is so scandalous the English/Australian/New Zealand phrase “it’s not cricket” is used to describe an action or behaviour that is “unfair, dishonest, or goes against basic moral principles”

In Finland the datacentre heat is boosted to 60–90°C for district heating (new builds tend to use heat pumps) [1]

A 75-MW data center in Mäntsälä has provided 2/3 of the heat for the town (2,500 homes) for a decade [2]

1. https://www.creatingsustainablecities.org.uk/post/case-study...

2. https://www.sustainabilitymenews.com/waste-management/how-fi...

I think quoting is fine, but it's surprising coming from a senior adviser at a U.S. Government department.

“What we have right now is this ginormous ongoing outbreak of Sporothrix brasiliensis in Brazil,” Lockhart, a senior adviser at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This video has the greatest "Sources and references" section I think I've seen in a YouTube video - 16 videos, over 50 webpage links, and 4 references that don't have links.

In the next 6 months another 45%-50% of Space X stock is unlocked, increasing the amount of shares on the market ~10 fold.

Although many will be long term believers who won’t sell. I can’t see how this couldn’t deflate the share price further

Quantas and Airbus pages for the Airbus A350-1000ULR

https://www.qantas.com/en-vu/onboard/fleet/a350

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/stories/2026-06-countdown...

Leave 9am Sydney arrive 10pm London (8pm in northern hemisphere winter)

In other words, people not only click share buttons, but do it quite often?

And thats for gov.uk sites - they're websites where you mostly go to do something rather than browse for interesting content. I'd guess social media, local news and sites with cat videos would get more shares.

Gift article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-12/spacex-re...

The At a Glance summarises and is quite depressing reading.

https://foodfoundation.org.uk/sites/default/files/2026-06/BP...

Healthier food remains nearly twice as expensive per calorie as less healthy food, and the gap is widening.

Households with children in the lowest income quintile would need to spend 85% of their disposable income on food to afford the Eatwell Guide.

Fast-food outlets make up 1 in 4 places to buy food in England, rising to over 1 in 3 in the most deprived areas.

In an average English Reception class of 30 children, three will be living with obesity. In Year 6, this more than doubles to seven children.

10-year-olds from the most deprived backgrounds are over 1.5 times more likely to have short stature.

Slop Jockeys? or would that be better for people passing off AI content as their own?

More on Robert Boschert:

https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/industrial/boa...

To start his own company, Boschert knew he’d have to leave his 50-hours-per-week job at Microwave Associates in Sunnyvale, Calif. The ultimate motivator came when he became the custodial parent of his children. Boschert Inc. was formed in 1970 as he entered the consulting field. “I was designing power supplies to make money so we could eat,” he says.

I'm not sure why people assume the coming AGI super agents will be infallible.

There's no sign that highly intelligent people can't be conned - Bernie Maddoff fooled leading scientists and CEOs working in finance. Software engineers and lawyers fall for pig butchering schemes and spoofed emails with altered bank details every week - so why would an AGI trained from human content be any different.

Then I imagined the real-but-unknowable chance it was all set up by some kid just getting into computers, just seeing what’s possible, getting excited by a much bigger world at reach

Perhaps people like this should be called "Bot Kiddies" or "Agent Kiddies" - in a similar way to "Script Kiddies" for 'hackers' using/doing stuff they don't quite understand

I remember studies on animals have shown the same but can't remember which. I found sheep at least do:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/who-knew-but-sheep-pref...

The overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone heavy theaters of war is a tiny sliver (or zero?).

But presumably the images/models at ground level can be used to train/improve the general performance of Vantor's aerial (satelite based) navigation system so it works better elsewhere?

Non paywalled story on other site:

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ground-robots-teste...

This "Ukrainian military equipment aggregator" site has some interesting related products: https://vpk-mac.com/en

How does that work if a digikey order takes 1-2 days, and ordering a PCB even longer?

In this case, Hardware hackathon means wiring up the digital or analog input/output pins of an Arduino/Raspberry pi to something and writing software to control/interface with it. Perhaps with a few simple components on a prototype board