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Stop bragging, The Onion already reported on a one man company who is $1B in debt.

"CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YERfTT4McsU

This came up in my feed related to this legislative change in how guns can now be purchased online.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/02/new-...

I love that Firefox is the best.

I don't use kicad. But, this project, as a web-first version of kicad, seems like it offers the best opportunities to create a shared learning community. Is that part of the long term goal?

I would love to experiment with kicad, but I learn best through watching others and asking questions. Can I do that with this? Is there a way I could "watch" other sessions as the build progresses? Or, chat about what I see there with other people interested in learning and teaching?

Very nice work!

Up until now these crazy cases have been rejected by the courts. But this feels like a crack in the dam. A judge actually sentenced someone to 30 years for hiding zines, zines that had been published for years. This was under the pretense hiding those zines was hiding evidence of criminality. And the criminality was worth 75 years. For someone who was at a protest where a federal agent was shot, but was not the shooter.

Does anyone have a link to details on the case because there must have been more details, like these two were accused of planning a murder in advance, because otherwise this seems insane. It seems insane no matter what, but if this was a judge making a bunch of logical leaps while guided by DOJ lawyers, something is really broken

I'm not an apple person so this surprised me. I guess I have fallen for the "apple gear is expensive and must be the best" fallacy.

What are good options for similar wireless bud headphones?

No disagreement there, good point.

Crime surged during COVID. But, what type of crime?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2330443X.2022.2...

Hint: homicides and car theft. Burglary and larceny actually went down.

But, homicides surged prior to the start of the pandemic. If there is no correlation between the economic shutdown and homicides, then the crime surge was basically just car theft.

Car theft does not come from random homeless people. You don't steal a catalytic converter unless you know where you can sell it. You don't steal a car to make money, and then look around on where you can sell it. And, car theft, unless it is a car jacking, is free of violence. During COVID I think a lot of "noveau criminals" came out of the woodwork, people that were probably barely surviving with legitimate jobs that disappeared during the shutdown. I saw an article where police jailed someone that was just a father and son, caught stealing multiple cars. Those men had no prior record and that seemed very strange to me.

I'm saying all this because this attack could be by Lazarus, as another commenter pointed out. Or, could it be someone using an LLM to create a similar attack by prompting "Make me a post-install attack that looks like something the Lazarus group would do." Could LLM create a new class of local criminals? It is trivial now to setup a website that looks like a legitimate AI business (because AI businesses all have to sound ridiculous to be taken seriously). Creating the assets to make this attack work can be done with a $20/mo Claude account and a local LLM for the dirty bits. It would leave a trail for sure, but I imagine someone that has worked on tracing those trails could come up with an imaginative way to hide just the right things.

I've experienced the "best economy in the history of the US" for the last several years. To me, it looks like we have been in a recession for years, that was before the AI boom. When a massive group of people face drastic and sudden unemployment, which is what it looks like to an aging tech worker like me, I bet at least some of them would consider this. The tech sector has lost more jobs in the last 6 months than in 2025. And, that group has zero North Korean nationals. It might be someone living in a suburb in Phoenix, Arizona that can't pay their mortgage anymore.

Who knows if this attack was seasoned professionals. But, when we talk about AI creating or destroying jobs, couldn't AI create a bunch of "jobs" which are stealing banking credentials on behalf of 55 year olds, no longer able to find jobs in the tech industry?

If nothing else, this feels like it would make a good contemporary sci-fi story.

Would be very interested to see how this affects post-50 workers. That's a protected class and I would imagine an ambulance chasing lawyer would be excited for a class action lawsuit.

Oops, yes, correct!

Please watch/listen to the Pablo Torre podcast about this one for additional context:

https://www.pablo.show/p/inside-james-dolans-deep-state?utm_...

If you don't know, Pablo recently won a Pulitzer for his reporting on Steve Balmer's deal with Aspiration. If you listened only to mainstream media, you would think "Poor Steve, he was duped!" But, Pablo's reporting might change your opinion on that one.

The incredible volume of high quality, well researched shows are so refreshing as an antidote to Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn, who seem to come into every interview with just the right amount of ignorance to let every guest spew whatever propaganda they want. Pablo never lets that happen.

This is a good place to start reading about dual gpus.

https://github.com/noonghunna/club-3090/blob/master/docs/DUA...

So close! My machine with 192GB RAM + RTX 3090 24GB can almost run this. It says it needs 24GB of VRAM and 256GB of RAM for MoE offloading.

https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/glm-5.2#usage-guide

In a prior thread, someone said it would take $500k in hardware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629970

I did an inpainting project for a client a few years ago. They were trying to inpaint banner ads for concert promoters, and find a way to make it easy to produce a bunch of different sized ads for a variety of placements. I was tasked with inpainting Xmas themed ad for a few major singers.

The weirdest thing was when the inpainting tool added strange people to an image. This singer was all decked out in tinsel and red, and the inpainting model added a grumpy old man in a top hat. I don't recall clicking the "Add creepy old man" button.

At the time this was Stable Diffusion on the backend, run by a variety of model hosting services, Amazon being one. They all had different requirements for the input image and that made things really complex. For some the aspect ratio was impossible to meet, and it would fail if the banner was 200x60. For others, you had to resize it before input, which meant you were adding an image with poor resolution to start. Garbage in, garbage out.

All of this to say, there is a lot of preproduction that went into it, and the client never ended up using my attempts.

How are people running this locally? I just checked llama.cpp and it appears unsloth has a version but it hacks a bunch of things to make it work and isn't optimal.

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/24730

Forgejo. A single tiny golang binary, I think about 200mb. It has 75% of the functionality of gitlab with 5% of the resource requirements. I migrated to it and have never missed gitlab.

Has anyone tried to 3d print vinyl?

Do they pinky promise not to bail out their investments with taxpayer dollars?

Last year's gains of 1.5M jobs created was revised down to just 150k. Can anyone explain to me why that happened and why this isn't the same?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/largest-jobs-revisio...

TL;DR: this is a 23B model, and in this case the B stands for "pinto beans."

The author made these using Janet (discussed on HN in the past):

https://bauble.studio

https://toodle.studio

Those two fascinating art tools got me very excited about Janet a while back.

What's to prevent terrorists from going through TSA, waiting in the scanning line when everyone is still going through, and then planting a bluetooth device into someone else's bag? I never open my carryon once I have packed it.

This reminds me of the SNL sketch where TSA employees had no answer for someone bringing two separate bottles of 3.9 ounces onto the plane.

I'm sure Sean Duffy, of Real World and now Sec of Transportation, will fix this.

I had not heard of pi, which is referenced on the llama.app page. Another coding agent? How does this compare to opencode? Any idea why the llama.cpp devs recommend that?

You really need to put this on an RSS feed! I wish there was a way you could get paid for views for this stuff. I will be sending people this link when they ask "why are you so mad about that terminal scene in that movie?!?!"

Really interesting to see that the ham radio spectrum prohibits encryption.

Fascinating to read about the laws created to prevent this. Laws that certainly didn't anticipate corralling tech in this way. You could probably assume ignorance of these laws was the root of the failure to comply, but then you would also have to assume Gebbia doesn't understand the tech. And, those two things, as the author of the article says, most certainly aren't both true at once.

Very fair point!

Not trying to be snarky but why not just opt out instead of vibe coding your own analytics platform? I'm uncomfortable with people using my data to train AI, but those concerns revolve around where my data goes, and whether I'm notified/aware. Posthog is giving me good answers to those questions here.

See also Matt Stoller on fire truck private equity:

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire...

Steve Jobs transformed four industries.

One transformation, for example, required getting permission to sell songs for $1 each when the labels all wanted to price each song differently. That required getting alignment from various titans at the record companies.

The way he accomplished this was to take these leaders on walks in the hills behind apple hq. Read about it in the biography of Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

All that precise language when addressing usually some old guy in black robes (I intentionally put it that way, I'm not in front of the court) reminds me a lot of Japanese formality rules.

It drove me crazy to try to remember and assess not just how to say it in Japanese, but how to change the subject to be honorific, or extra honorific. Or change my own pronoun to ore, boku, watashi, watakushi depending on whether I wanted to try to be intimate or not. Or, remember that damn conjugation rules around converting the sentence to passive, or whatever.

Those rules made me constantly insecure when talking to peers, even when they weren't technically peers. When I did aikido, I was starting as a 1st year in aikido, though I was a 3rd year in college. So, many of my "senpais" were younger but I had to address them a certain way, even when we weren't in the dojo.

All these rules from this article seem like they are designed to give the judges power over the people addressing the court. That seems really strange when I think about it that way. Why do we need to lionize the people, can't their brilliant legal minds carry the full weight of the arguments and decisions?