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Alexa+ is pretty terrible. It's surprising how no one has beat them in the home device market. Alexa stagnated and died a product death while still being the standard market option for 5+ years. I was hoping LLMs would improve it but I haven't seen any evidence, even after purchasing their new line.

I might try Google's home option again but I'm not a fan of giving Google second chances since they seem to care even less about committing to products.

> aimed at Starlink users and that it was the No. 1 bidder on Starlink traffic in more than 100 countries, including several where Starlink itself was banned or restricted.

Some counter espionage program? Maybe spies use Starlink instead of radios these days.

Gizmodo has a better article

> Its limited four-theater release in New York and Los Angeles on October 9 had a respectable opening weekend gross—each screen earning an average of $17,225 for a $68,900 total. Expanding to more theaters in more markets was the logical next step, which its distributor Bleeker Street Films did last Friday, raising the number of screens to 472. But Musk’s wider-debut was an unmitigated flop, netting a paltry $614 per screen, for an abysmal second weekend total of $290,000. Box Office Mojo has the film’s to-date total up to $571,902, as of this article’s publication.

https://gizmodo.com/it-seems-like-the-critical-musk-doc-just...

The article also questions this showbiz411 article

> Showbiz411’s post claims the doc is “gone from almost every theater in America,” save “one or two odd places that didn’t get the memo.” It attempts to substantiate its case by saying the list of theaters on Bleeker Street’s website for Musk showtimes “shows that all 472 were listed as playing the movie today. But no more.” There’s no elaboration as to what that means. The only sort of receipt we’re offered is a blurry, unzoomable screenshot below of… the list of theaters showing the doc prior to the purported change.

> The blog also has an unsourced line that “online, people started commenting earlier this week that shows they’d bought tickets for were canceled without warning.” I was able to find a Reddit post backing that up. But no other outlet of good or ill repute is saying Musk’s been pulled.

> Robocurve raises $10M to independently evaluate frontier AI in the physical world

that would be an interesting business to run.

> The Cambrian explosion of cheap, affordable robots

That's a good way to describe it

I don't take headlines that seriously. I only care if they wrote something interesting.

Drive-by HN commenters always obsess about accuracy of headlines, I prefer reading the actual articles and judging it on that. I read the whole thing and it discussed some difficult open source work they are doing on Ruby in a way that kept my attention, shrug.

Your loss, it's a well written article.

The expansion of unitary executive power has been the worst development in the US IMO and it opens the door to corruption. Biden overextended his power a number of times, Trump now does it far more than his first term and started doing it as a matter of policy. If you follow SC rulings it's obvious both ends of the SC support that expansion in different ways, often on partisan grounds rather than a consistent concept of separation of powers. Which is the worst part.

Best way to avoid this is having a competent congress, one that actually responds to public concerns so it's not forced upon the president. Which is always the root cause of all of this bad policy from the WH getting shut down by courts or risky incomplete policy being ignored by the courts for the greater good (like abortion rights never becoming a hard law through congress).

It only goes a half mile out at max range, it's not that far. So basically whatever is immediately in front of the truck.

Congress is the one who is supposed fix things by making long term policy instead of everyone relying on brash executive orders or the supreme court cleaning up messes. So it really is their responsibility most of all.

If history is any example we already know congress won't do much unless it involves spending money. We saw that with the republicans expanding ICE funding instead of making careful country wide immigration reforms in collaboration with state governments who are needed for proper enforcement. Most likely if/when the democrats win we'll see them fund a new flashy anti-corruption agency, which gets added on top of the other 400+ federal agencies who already have multiple overlapping responsibilities.

Bureaucracy is rarely ever fixed in those old institutions, even with changing leadership. The only common examples you see are usually a result of technical innovations that they fight against and later adopt 10+ years late, not from organizational reform.

Corruption is polling near the top as an issue in the US midterm [1] when previously in the last election it was immigration followed by economics/inflation. Politicians are experts at ignoring the obvious issues until they get so out of hand it become impossible to ignore. Then they usually just campaign on it to get elected instead of prioritizing long term reforms.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/713933/record-high-say-governme...

SpaceX got their last big sole source contract from NASA under Biden ? The grants were even earlier.

This article is about a phone hacking in 2017 when he was still a federal employee. Russia hacked his iPhone X around then.

Plus ironically all of the batteries and solar panels for the West's climate mission will be made in China who didn't deindustrialize, has far lower energy prices, and less aggressive local rules around things like air pollution that let them be manufactured at all.

Meanwhile they are also rapidly going green by adopting this tech domestically since it's highly price competitive due to their manufacturing investments. They also invested heavily in Nuclear (which the government there openly welcomed).

SpaceX has taken $20M state/local grants and about $100M for R&D on various NASA space programs. https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/space-explor...

That's over their entire lifespan. While they just made $4B in earnings in a single quarter in Q3 2026, probably $30B around in revenue for 2026... They've definitely paid far more than their subsidies back in taxes over the years.

The ground ones are usually called UGV (unmanned ground vehicles).

“Drone” is well associated with flying in common language. The headline (Ukraines claim) is accurate enough.

Great game. It took me way too long to figure out I could use keyboard to control the positioning instead of mouse.

I've noticed a number of your politically charged comments tend to rank highly on HN these days, jacquesm. So just to be clear, you are implying that this temporary account suspension is a plot by Mark Zuckerberg to suppress a major political group in the US and Meta is okaying this internally to gain preferential treatment from the US government?

I miss being able to dismiss right wing QAnon posters as just dumb American Facebook boomers.

Conspiracy posting is now sadly fully mainstream in multiple countries, especially (ironically for Meta) among the youth raised on social media, and it's exhausting reading it all them time.

When news is only consumed before any facts are established this is the end result...

According to Meta their account was deactivated "for just over 1 hour" before being restored https://about.fb.com/br/news/2026/10/a-meta-nao-esta-interfe...

The rest of the complaints are around exact term search/AI results which are notoriously inconsistent if you've ever done SEO/AEO. So not exactly the strongest evidence.

I'm not fan of Meta or their severe lack of transparency in moderation, but this stuff is so political it's basically impossible to debate on facts. Likewise Brazil's courts are notoriously political, notoriously pro-censorship of social media (including fining FB well before Trump for not deleting posts on gov demand), and your first link is a judge appointed by one of Lula's ex staff (Dilma Rousseff).

Strong claims need strong evidence. So the choices are between a) Some conjecture that a social media account was briefly taken down as part of a right-wing conspiracy by a major publicly traded US corporation OR b) yet another example in a long history of accounts being auto-flagged by overly-aggressive algorithms and then later being restored by a human moderator without proper transparency.

So your theory is Meta let some protest organize on their social media for years, then 90 minutes before one of their many protests start they'd take down a single page on only one of their platforms (Instagram), as a way to stop the protests from happening? Then Mark Zuckerberg told them to restore it within a short timeframe for plausible deniability?

> what do you think you're adding by repeating what the article said?

That auto-moderation of social media always has false positives like this? This was always a predictable outcome from aggressively moderating social media with algorithms. Humans only ever get involved after the fact (in this case after 90 minutes).

The only reason this is newsworthy is that the media could spin it as some sort of intentional move by humans at Meta, without evidence, because it happened to vaguely coincide with some event date. Otherwise this happens every single day if you search social media for "my account was suspended".

(for 90 minutes)

Which reminds me of this month's HN post about Lula's FB account getting taken down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864642 , which turned out to only be for a couple hours after some content post got auto-flagged, before being restored by Meta. But the HN thread was a long discussion about it being a conspiracy by the US government to conduct election interference in Brazil.

It was an "organized gang" who already had a police tracking GPS on their vehicle from another criminal investigation

> In addition to DNA, the investigators were also able to benefit from a happy combination of circumstances since “the burglars, after abandoning in the hinterland, near the ski resort of Gréolières, the stolen vehicle that was used for the breakage, took back theirs which was, possibly in the context of another case, equipped with a police beacon,” the lawyer told AFP. The police were thus able to track the car.

https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/le-principal-suspect-...

People have been saying that would happen for as long as Elon has led both companies at the same time. So not exactly a novel prediction.

I don't spend much time thinking about transit but I believe the dynamics of it will change dramatically when ever car is self-driving and whether western city governments finally allow the sort of building density and pace that is in demand.

I don't see much difference between a more affordable autonomous bus or van option vs a subway. The benefit will eventually be access to the tunnels more than the fact it's large and on a track. But in cities it's also incredibly expensive to build anything without a hundred stakeholders interfering so a large amount of new tunnels is probably DOA just like most high speed rail projects have been.

I like my Apple watch but Apple health app is pretty bad. It's just noisy and complicated. Withing's chart's in the app was good enough.

I'd probably prefer a second more fitness dedicated watch otherwise so that data integration was better.

A $100 scale isn't really that captive, especially if continuing to use it costs that much per year. There's no shortage of scales for tracking weight loss and the Apple health integration in my Withings is pretty useless from experience.