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beAbU··on Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)
If MS can go after notepad++ then Bjarne Stroustrup can go after C#?
beAbU··on Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool
> 28 kW

So not even a single rack by modern standards.

beAbU··on Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage
There is no buy button on that website.
beAbU··on Amazon without the knockoffs
I'm extremely wary of anything written from 2024 onwards by lesser known authors.

I've spotted a book once in the wild that actually had a ghibli-style piss-tinted cover image, which was a dead giveaway, but it's not always so clear cut.

beAbU··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
Game engines most certainly have a stank to them that makes it easy(ish) to identity.
beAbU··on A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]
I've been tying shorts for more than 35 years. I can do it with my eyes closed. I can do it while running, or while swimming. I don't need to look down, finagle an end into an ampersand and whatnot. I don't have to worry about grabbing the right loop+end combo to increase or decrease tightness. I just undo the knot, and redo it according to preference.

I'd argue I'm just about as fast adjusting my shorts than this guy in the video.

beAbU··on Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps
VS code came out just as Atom was gaining traction in the more-than-a-text-editor-but-also-not-a-full-fat-ide market.

After testing vs code for a bit everyone realized what hot shit Atom was and jumped ship.

beAbU··on OpenPrinter
Yet it's the paper handler that constantly jams and the printhead is fine after alignment.
beAbU··on Small Penis Rule
Ferengi is not part of the Federation AFAIK
beAbU··on Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland
Did you read the article?
beAbU··on EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles
Does you EV not have a charge rate setting for AC charging?

Or do you want such a feature when DC charging?

beAbU··on Fable created novel 4D splat format
Your readme is really mobile unfriendly, FYI
beAbU··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
All grocery stores close at 10 here (Ireland) but yes you are right. My local centra, 1km away is used for cheese, milk and beer runs. Everything else I get at the big lidl 15km away.
beAbU··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
A bodega is often (and usually unavoidably) more expensive than a bigger grocery retail chain that's further away.

Price conscious buyers will opt to drive to the bigger, farther away store because it has more variety, and the essentials are cheaper.

I know I do this.

beAbU··on Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
> So the play here is obvious, use the teleoperation as training data for a more general purpose AI controller.

Strong disagree: the play here is to use teleoperation, claim it's AI, make a shit-ton of money and cash out before the house of cards come tumbling down.

beAbU··on Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
Oh 100% haha. Looking at that video on their website I'm pretty sure it's mostly just remote control.

The conditions are ripe for a builder.ai esque scam but with robotics.

beAbU··on In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough
Assuming the mortgage is paid off!
beAbU··on Historical memory prices 1960-2026
Nice to know we still have a ways to go till 1960s pricing!
beAbU··on Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers
The very first paragraph in TFA says:

> ... rules on when and for what reason an employer could contact an employee outside of a normal work schedule.

This is no blanket 'thou shalt not call thy employees after hours' law.

All this is doing is preventing employers from effectively pulling a bait and switch, by implicitly expecting employees to be available 24/7 for whatever reason. If you've ever been in a situation where your boss just fucking calls you because of some asinine reason ("hey I just had an idea...) then you know how terrible it is. Nothing spoilt my weekends as much as a boss calling and I'm thinking "o shit prod is down" or whatever, and then it's just him asking on a delivery date for a feature because he's having drinks with the client now and they were asking.

Now, if there is a requirement for after hours availability, it has to be stated in the contract, and the compensation must accordingly reflect this additional requirement.

I think it's great this is happening.

beAbU··on Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering
I've stopped watching Veritasium after the PE buyout. All of a sudden I'm deeply suspicous of their content and I'm left wondering if there is some Ulterior Motive that we are not aware of.
beAbU··on AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
Is this still a viable attack in 2026?
beAbU··on Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)
It's like a bellybutton!
beAbU··on Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
And that's perfectly fine!

It makes the accidental discovery of C&H all the more special. I remember the day a school friend showed me a C&H book he got from his dad. It was never in the newspapers where I grew up, so I would never have discovered it otherwise.

Not everything in this world needs to obtain global reach and fame.

beAbU··on But yak shaving is fun (2019)
Call it a pivot and away you go!

Stewart Butterfield shaved the shit out of two yaks at his video games company, which eventually became Flickr and Slack.

beAbU··on Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars
Kinda disappointing to see that the top voted comment on this thread is a guy openly admitting he'll pay to have world leaders assassinated.
beAbU··on I Won't Buy You a Coffee
€4 will maybe get you a glass/ladies' pint here in Ireland smh
beAbU··on The $15,000 AI Bill. Your $20 Subscription is a DELUSION [video]
> It would make no business sense to sell API tokens at a loss: nobody knows yet how to price intelligence, so why start in the red when it's the only source of revenue?

The only consistent bullet point in the playbook of venture capital-driven startups for the last 30 years is to sell $1 bills for $0.50 and then hope to make it up in volume.

beAbU··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Pretty sure Pokemon Go and Ingress was played in Kiev long before the war
beAbU··on EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
Interesting that you think this is corruption or favours are being offered up. I wonder how you'll react when confronted by some real corruption.
beAbU··on EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
2 months ago there was a story about a huge family mansion in Meath being demolished after a court found they did not have the proper planning permissions, and the council was unwilling to grant the permissions after the fact. Also just last week a judge ordered the demolition/removal of 26 mobile homes from a site in Dublin set up without permissions.

Friends of mine recently got planning permission for a house they've been living in for about 3 years already.

So you can def roll the dice on such things, maybe you get away with it for decades, maybe your house gets flattened.

My (also an immigrant like you) take on Ireland is that many of these systems are run and controlled by humans, and you can get pretty far by trying to make that human connection with the people controlling your fate. My wife was initially refused maternity benefit, because she did not have enough social security contributions. She works part-time, and she was missing 1 contribution (about €120) out of something like 38 for the year. After friends (the same from above) suggested we phone them and talk to the people, the maternity benefit application was approved. I find that there is a lot less "sorry can't help you, computer says no" here.

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