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dogscatstrees··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
The Ford F-150 Lightning has always been able to do that, way before the Tesla cars enabled vehicle-to-load (V2L).
dogscatstrees··on Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
Let's go! Love the idea. Like the analog to bone conduction earbuds. Just please don't turn into WisprFlow where they route the voice metadata, unbeknownst to many, to a third party partner who stores and mines it for who-knows-what. Good luck fellas.
dogscatstrees··on What we know so far about Spain train crash
> the dispatcher who greenlit the cab driver to go full speed ahead after the train control system on that track had crashed even though they knew that another train was reporting that it was unable to restart and get going

Apologies in advance for what may be a pedantic and possibly dumb question, but is there a failsafe or guardrail against such forced errors?

dogscatstrees··on What we know so far about Spain train crash
Is there an international consortium for best practices in high-speed train control? Surely there are countries that have good systems in place, or have benefited from knowledge-sharing. I have to believe these train systems were built with outside help and then organic improvement or the opposite. Spain, talk to them.
dogscatstrees··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
Here's a dual-axis graph, revenue $ left axis, % share of revenue right axis.

https://www.pasteboard.co/yCGoS8kxEy7Y.png

Google Cloud clearly on positive acceleration for revenue share.

dogscatstrees··on If IPv4 were land
The scrolling scaling-controller on the map is genius. I wish more maps would add this dynamic ability to scale the logical size when there is a considerable ratio delta to the land size.
dogscatstrees··on Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models
It's helpful metadata, what's wrong with it? Dashboards at work do this.
dogscatstrees··on Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)
The output style and verbosity with Opus 5.5 is a very big improvement over Opus 5. I predict Opus 5 will be a version with a sudden churn.
dogscatstrees··on How do traffic signals work? (2019)
I'm sure AI can figure this out better than a human can. Obvious and empirical, we certainly haven't figured it out or optimized it, with all the engineers that CalTrans has. How often have we been in a four-way controlled intersection and the green is on for the empty side. There's no way that's impedance matching, it's more like Good to go boss, call it a day. There's no incentive to modernize traffic light control because it's public works and there's no capital profit motive for it in the same extent as private. I would not advocate privatizing it either because that will bring different consequences. The hero will be that new young Caltrans engineer who's grown up in the AI generation and will probably be fed up with the legacy technology.
dogscatstrees··on Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for UK stone row
Quite easy. They were moved like this:

https://youtu.be/YpNuh-J5IgE

dogscatstrees··on Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
Today I learned another definition of skeet.
dogscatstrees··on iPhone Duo
> "is it better in day to day life"

Speak to a carpenter or construction worker from any country with the metric system. Measure anything by simple powers of ten and simple decimal shifts makes life so much easier. Quick, what is half of a yard-length beam less 12 1/16"?

dogscatstrees··on iPhone Duo
Craig F with his constant foot-shuffling...
dogscatstrees··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
I want to thank the author for this. The difference is night and day. It's not just for adhd, it's just a really practical output in general.

To get it to fully work though, it has to be asserted at every turn in the session. That reminder in the skill is negligible in tokens but uses extra nonetheless. I hope the scientists at Anthropic can figure this out, it's not simply an output style flag.

dogscatstrees··on The Real Luxuries In Life
A clean place to live with minimal clutter opens room for time to enjoy other things. Labor Day and Memorial day are milestones for assessing your hoarding. Or you could just rely on the season change as a reminder.
dogscatstrees··on Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Were they really caught off guard or is it a long-term play by Apple who knows that consumers may just want machines capable of local models. Build-or-buy (subscribe) options. I for one would get a Mac Studio over a DGX Spark because you get a general Mac machine as a bonus. The big news is Apple being caught off guard by Nvidia buying Hugging Face. That should have been Apple's.
dogscatstrees··on Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
Spent 20 seconds on it.
dogscatstrees··on California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year
Ok, does anyone have a list of these new tires that I can source from Costco?
dogscatstrees··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
Yup, same sentiment here. Thank you
dogscatstrees··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
You’re missing the difference between a feature and an application of that feature.
dogscatstrees··on Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
When attaching the offline artifact as an email attachment, say in MS Outlook, will Outlook strip or block the attachment because it sees an HTML file with JS? Anyone encounter email attachment issues?
dogscatstrees··on Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
This is so cool. And it's as simple as telling Claude about the skill: https://bento.page/
dogscatstrees··on Scientists discovered the brain doesn't make decisions the way we thought
Scientists discovered the brain doesn't make decisions the way we thought https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260712011757.h...

Story Source: https://hmntl.illinois.edu/news/illinois-grainger-findings-c...

dogscatstrees··on Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents
Goodbye Salesforce Tableau
dogscatstrees··on GPT‑Live
I do not fully understand the complexity behind achieving full-duplex but I hope this sets the bar for Anthropic to follow. Turn-based simplex is yesterday.
dogscatstrees··on Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852)
Not sure why you're downvoted. Chamath Palihapitiya was a tome of SPAC heyday.
dogscatstrees··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
What is your origin story? How did you end up doing this and how can I do the same?
dogscatstrees··on Local Git remotes
Nice. Claude likes it, especially when the AI detects PII and knows by policy to halt the commit to cloud but not local.

> A related trick worth knowing — one git push can fan out to two destinations:

git remote set-url --add --push origin ~/bares/<repo>.git # add a 2nd push URL # now `git push origin` writes to GitHub AND the local bare repo

dogscatstrees··on Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
What about Azure?
dogscatstrees··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
Oh, you mean like:

Solar Roof: https://electrek.co/2026/05/14/tesla-solar-roof-promise-vs-r...

Tesla Full Self Driving: https://electrek.co/2026/05/18/musk-unsupervised-fsd-widespr...

Hyperloop / Boring Company mass-transit vision

Mars settlement timelines

X as an everything app

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