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Tangent - I still mourn the death of WeAreHunted. What a great music discovery site that was, unmatched in its ability to give you a curated feed of new artists to check out.

WeAreHunted was sold to Twitter at the time to launch as Twitter Music! What an idea, music discovery, right in your big feed. Brilliant.

Twitter #Music (https://abcnews.com/Technology/twitter-music-app-launches-ip...) barely lasted a year.

This was the time when Twitter also launched Vine - to also shutter it.

Great ideas, killed prematurely as TikTok took them and ran away with them. TT is now my #1 music discovery service, not great, just the only one that actually works.

Well, even Krugman has now acknowledged the need for tariffs: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-06-27/why-krugman...

Reminder, Biden, not Trump, introduced the first round of tariffs to protect domestic production.

It is legitimately impossible to purchase certain movies, especially classic, in any format due to regional blocks.

Simple example: "The Things of Life", a classic French movie from 1970. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Things_of_Life

No way to get it in the US. No physical media, no streaming. It is on Apple TV ... in France.

You can torrent it.

Utterly brokem model.

Music is the same btw, Apple Music and Spotify geoblock music. Workaround is to add to your library when traveling in EU. Insane.

Word of caution, I used Claude to read my MRI images too.

Looked legit.

Until I really dug in, and found that all it did was read the embedded annotations.

DICOM is a container format after all.

His latest thing was https://crazystupidtech.com/ - a joint newsletter with Fred Vogelstein.

Because that is where Carmack posted his thoughts, not anywhere else. Original source.

Wether you like it or not, X/Twitter is still a primary posting ground for many key people in our industry.

Political and personal attack, no substance.

Reid is a mega-donor for the Dems, Elon for the Repubs.

Billionaires fighting, plebs on HN getting riled up.

Lernen Sie Geschichte! -- Fred Sinowatz

It's a shame, as AI will improve healthcare on an unprecedented scale.

I cannot get a specialist without referrals and endless appointments to spend more than 30min to discuss how to fix a serious issues. Claude? Hours and hours of back and forth. Public models now beat the specialized ones like OpenEvidence. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04431-5

Diagnostics is getting blown apart by AI, the best cancer screening will be available in even remote corners of this world.

We were constrained by the available brain mass of highly trained specialists - and this bottleneck is getting removed.

Hard not to be optimistic on AI if you're in healthcare.

This is ahistoric drivel.

China and Russia are simple examples of the fallout of "cutting king's heads".

So awesome in China that they went straight back to a lifetime emperor now.

The French Revolution and its fallout (communism, fascism) killed more humans than any other historic movement, triggering 2 world wars, including numerous genocides.

Esperanto being created by L.L. Zamenhof ... a Polish Ashkenazi Jew. Full circle!

Lingua Franca, like literally. French used to be the language of diplomacy.

Balko was a big proponent of police body cams, as they would clearly reveal massive police abuse and brutality.

Since the bodycam rollout however, we're inundated with videos of justified police actions, over and over again. Proving that most criminals are indeed retarded, unable to follow simple commands and escalate minor stuff into full violance, necessitating the use of force against them.

Balko now of course sees bodycams as propaganda or "copaganda".

Utterly biased "reporting", starting with an agenda and then trying to prove the point by any means possible.

Go Gary.

Picket Fences was similar to that, an early David E Kelley show (after LA Law).

Some of that weirdness was then further carried over by Kelley to Ally McBeal and Boston Legal.

Utter products of their time periods 90s and early aughts.

Odd omission on CRM. They have HubSpot for Campaigns, but basic management of your customers, installed base, sales alignments, opportunities ... nothing there.

SFDC announces "Headless CRM" and Anthropic is like meh.

That is not what I wrote - there was no judgement, just that other cultures weigh cheating morally different.

It is all moralities. There is no absolute one.

Moral code is downstream from culture and not every culture sees cheating as a moral failing.

As Princeton's demo skewed hard into a more international student body, the underlying cultural assumptions have shifted.

The Christian extension of the Ninth Commandment from not bearing false witness to a blanket ban on lying is unique. Islam has explicit exceptions through Taqiyya, Hinduism gets nuanced with dharma and adharma, Buddhism sees it as one of the ten unwholesome actions, ...

WASPs built and defined Princeton, but that is long over.

Partisan, to the core.

How about https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-elim... ? Game changer for RWE. Not Science?

Or this one: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-acce... ? A call for more research on certain compounds. Not Science?

I know the MSNOW daily hate machine is fun, so engaging and gives life meaning. But laying off the emo crack for a while would open your mind beyond partisan viewpoints.

Here: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-newsroom/press-announcem...

Good faith, bad faith ... does not matter. Decisions and changes are public record. Read for yourself.

There has been a string of massive changes under the new admin.

Latest in this area: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-laun...

“President Trump promised to accelerate cures for American families — and we are delivering, especially for children with ultra-rare diseases who cannot afford to wait,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “We are cutting unnecessary red tape, aligning regulation with modern biology, and clearing a path for breakthrough treatments to reach the patients who need them most.”

“This guidance is a critical step the FDA is taking to tailor our regulatory approach to patients with ultra-rare conditions,” said FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH. “It is our priority to remove barriers and exercise regulatory flexibility to encourage scientific advances and deliver more cures and meaningful treatments for patients suffering from rare diseases.”

Now, you can be caught in the fun partisan civil war on emotions or simply look at outcomes. Good work being done at the FDA, just fact.

Crime and Grime - which is what SF is currently trying to turn around, but LA is still in full denial mode about.

Seeing a Fentanyl victim on your way to work ruins your mood.

Using Waymo as a woman because Ubers are legit rape traps anchors fear in your mind (https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/disturbing-details...).

Seeing trash everywhere, alongside every freeway in the Bay Area? Subliminal assurance everything is a mess.

BART?

etc etc etc.

Blank Slate hypothesis is now officially refuted, correct?

Different evolutionary paths between races/regions, with impact on mental health and cognitive performance.

Which is why taking out the political leadership is the better tactic.

You don't need to fight armies - just make it suicide to command them. Decapitation strikes work.

"What if you had a time machine and could go back to kill Hitler?" Well yeah, no need to fight all of Germany.

Would the Ukraine war still be going without Putin at the helm?

The logical conclusion of drone war is take out whoever controls the drones.

Fun fact:

DOW Chemical was producing Agent Orange, but was getting a ton of public pushback - so bad it decided to stop production, forcing the Pentagon to look for an alternative supplier.

That supplier? A German privately owned pharmaco called Boehringer-Ingelheim. It's Chairman at the time? Richard von Weizsäcker, future President of Germany.

The production site was in Hamburg, is contaminated for the next thousand years. Boehringer is legally forced to operate pumps to prevent the dioxins in that site from reaching the water table. If those did, it would wipe out the full population.

Oh those righteous Germans.

Disclosure - Boehringer denies the above: https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/boehringer-ingelheim-di...

Judge for yourself.

NIH on Exposure, AO and BI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230789/

Deeper dive on that BI Hamburg site: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/consumer-health/diox...

"...part of “an insular, hypermasculine culture” in which “women are seen as totally redundant and completely unnecessary.” (A woman who once worked for a gay Republican startup founder describes it like this: “You get about the same amount of misogyny, but not the sexual harassment. So that’s nice.”)"

Tried many times to explain this to women - cis straight men are not your blockers, especially fathers.

Men who legit see you as redundant are.

"Allies" has been such an DEI Orwellian term.

Same with "racism" - up is down, left is right. Discrimination between Asians? Totally fine, zero attention, can't be true.

Maduro and his bodyguards would slightly disagree.

I believe Saddam Hussein would disagree with you, if he could.

Just bonkers how basic history is getting rewritten.

"The great satan USA" has been a slogan since the 1960s. The US dropped napalm and agent orange on Vietnamese civilians en masse - Lyndon B Johnson was what, a good guy?

What on earth are people learning about today?

But Iraq, Afghanistan, Grenada, Panama, Vietnam ... were not a problem?

Ahistorical BS, I am sorry. As if Trump is a radical departure of NORMS. Euros were chanting HO HO HO CHI MIN in 1968 in the streets of Berlin and Paris.

There is a long tradition of anti-American feelings outside the US, like with any hegemon.

The global left had to build walls to keep their people IN, crush them with tanks, from Prague to Berlin to Beijing. So there is that.

HN turning so left is weird to watch, I guess a reflection of PG's stances and moderation/group votes. Well, money does not give a fig.

It's a self-cleaning corporate rolodex.

It solved the long running problems of: a) keeping tabs on people across company moves b) a public, standardized CV

Its moat is the scale of its network. Very, very hard to replicate, massive cold start problem. It killed business cards!

Maybe some AI generated thingy can attack it, akin to Grokipedia vs Wikipedia, but man is that unproven. Zero incentive for users to switch.

Good - Calibri is not open, badly supported on Linux et al.

HN should rejoice in the US gov using a font that is open and truly cross platform.