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1270018080··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
Their stock is down 13% today from this news and only up 2% over the last year.
1270018080··on I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
Are you unsure if he is evil?
1270018080··on Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers
I was a huge AI skeptic from the beginning through ~2025. But once Opus came out, it's pretty obvious writing code by hand is an obsolete skill on its own. You still need to know how to read code, how to know what good/bad code looks like, and if it matches what you're truly asking for. But there's really no reason to be typing code with your own fingers in 2026 and beyond.

2024 me would be shocked at current me saying this.

1270018080··on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
I love not socializing. I've never enjoyed a party in my life, I hate dating, I don't want to lose any time in the day to hanging out with anyone. But what I wonder is if am I fundamentally an antisocial person, or am I a product of my cursed environment and trapped in the momentum of the antisocial tidal wave that has been happening since before I was born?
1270018080··on Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis
NYC, and a handful of neighborhoods from the other top 5 cities, are the only places in the entire country that have semi-functioning urban design. The entire population of America who wants human centered urban design only have a few square miles to pick from. So of course the cost of living will be high.
1270018080··on Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis
This is the most impactful economic discovery of the century. You can raise taxes as much as you want if you add a layer of seperation to it and print currency.
1270018080··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
This is a nepotism war
1270018080··on Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over 'Anticompetitive' Fees
All fees and taxes and tariffs end up being a direct cost to the consumer
1270018080··on Show HN: I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative
Leetcode seems so pointless in the AI era. It was already pretty pointless but there’s nothing to it now.
1270018080··on AI has torched the market for junior programmers
Same. I don't think it will happen for as long as my company exists.
1270018080··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
> Are those exams a contest?

Yes

1270018080··on U.S. science is in chaos
I don't think this era of ignorance and anti-intellectualism can be compared to a previous point of time in modern America.
1270018080··on U.S. science is in chaos
Are people really moving to China? A country that will never give outsiders citizenship?
1270018080··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Hasn't cursor's revenue declined? I think they already peaked.
1270018080··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Cursor became obsolete pretty quickly as Claude has improved. Good on them to find an out before they collapsed. $60 billion is a huge overpay.
1270018080··on Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over
Ironically an HR department is detrimental to unionization efforts
1270018080··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
There is nowhere else for that money to go
1270018080··on The dead economy theory
The jobs they worked turned into capital which is where their leverage comes from. So it's still applies.
1270018080··on The dead economy theory
For a frontend developer? What is there to scale? The app is already done.
1270018080··on US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City
> What solution

The nobel prize winner hopefully figures that out

1270018080··on How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next
Writing is still an art, and AI will never be able to do it well like all other forms of art.
1270018080··on How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps
Headlines right next to each other on my HN feed

"Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

"How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps"

1270018080··on BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers
China is going to take over the world economically off of this energy crisis. They print solar panels like America prints money.
1270018080··on OpenClaw is changing my life
It reads like articles that pretended blockchain was revolutionary. Also the article itself seems like AI slop.
1270018080··on CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)
Other than people hallucinating relationships with a stream of text, not really.
1270018080··on Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
Were you born pre-industrial revolution?
1270018080··on A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity
As Tony Soprano once said, "Alright but you gotta get over it"
1270018080··on U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
I've always been fine with Tiktok dying, surely that will be expedited under their leadership
1270018080··on Global Peace Index 2025
A funny one is the "Positive Peace Index"

"Positive Peace is defined as the attitudes, institutions and structures that create and sustain peaceful societies. The Positive Peace Index measures the level of societal resilience of a nation or region according."

And the United States scores very high. Losing a bit of credibility there.

1270018080··on A single, 'naked' black hole confounds theories of the young cosmos
It's effectively impossible to have no angular momentum with these processes.
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