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ballon_monkey··on Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
Facebook would never have become what it is today if Zuck had lost control of the voting. It would have been sold 10 times over and prob not exist today. I suspect the same could be said for Mask and his businesses.
ballon_monkey··on Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
What failing companies?
ballon_monkey··on Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy
I love HTMX and use it in a few projects, but its amusing how whats old is new again. .NET Framework / Web Forms had update panels to do partial rendering of web pages back in 2005. Outside of .NET developers it got a lot of hate. But to a certain extent HTMX is a super well refined and more capable version of update panels and more.
ballon_monkey··on Which streaming service was that on again?
Streaming is impossible without the efforts of things like JustWatch. Especially when you want to find old movies for the kids.
ballon_monkey··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
The 2 things people need to remember:

1) China can (and does) use the models to influence the west. They train in false information about Taiwan and Hong Kong. Or pretend like history is in favor of China.

2) Ignoring the models containing false information, they are incredible. But you should be scared of running inference via the model creators directly. If you think your data is safe compared to running it via model providers in the US ( either frontier or model hosts like fireworks.ai ) then please let me know your bank details so I can poke around.

ballon_monkey··on Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse
NZ uses AI dictation and according to doctors who were apprehensive at first, they now love it because they feel they spend less time note taking, more time listening to the patient, and can deal with patients better.
ballon_monkey··on Grok Build is open source
It's definitely around Opus level. It's definitely a lot smarter when it comes to review or asking if there's gaps or things missing.
ballon_monkey··on Grok Build is open source
It's definitely a smart move. Could easily leverage this to overtake competition.
ballon_monkey··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
"You can’t buy your way out"

Absolutely you can. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire thing is fabricated to just execute political opponents that don't align with Xi.

ballon_monkey··on I ported Kubernetes to the browser
Why is the title false?
ballon_monkey··on Looking Ahead to Postgres 19
At some point you're going to have to accept content is AI generated. There's heaps of stuff you probably read daily you don't even realise is AI generated.
ballon_monkey··on We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky
It is but they don't like being on a platform where people can disagree with them. They like their echo chamber.
ballon_monkey··on Looking Ahead to Postgres 19
Materialized views in pg with any incremental updates has timing inconsistencies that SQL Server doesn't have.
ballon_monkey··on [dead]
The problem is that people love to follow trends that make them look good. No one is talking about the 100s of 1000s of real genocide happening in the middle east or Africa. So they just don't care. They don't get brownie points for caring about what no one is talking about.

Equally they don't seem to care about Egypt or Jordan having big walls up against Gaza and West Bank and why these countries are not attacking Israel and not helping Palestinians.

ballon_monkey··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
"my company doesn't use it so no one uses it" - typical out of touch HN commenter.
ballon_monkey··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
How did grok 'fail' ? This is news to me.
ballon_monkey··on SubQ 1.1 Small
Its funny that some people on HN think this whole thing is legit. The company is started by a bunch of no-bodies with 0 experience in AI in general let alone ML/Data.

Edit: Typical HN "I can downvote but I cannot dispute facts"

ballon_monkey··on Severe Latency Impacting All Slack Services
This has been happening for an hour and they FINALLY updated their status. It's an outage, not an incident. The system is not usable by people.
ballon_monkey··on Ask HN: I am about to go from SWE to Product Manager, what is your day 1 advice?
Might want to reconsider. PMs are not really needed. They exist for dysfunctional teams that cannot manage their workload. (PMs are not Product Owners)
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