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e40··on Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net
That’s the impression I got: he doesn’t feel fear like the rest of us.
e40··on Wall Street braced for a private credit meltdown. The risk of one is rising
After every crisis or crash, the financial engineers always seem to find a new way to put us all at risk.
e40··on Convert potentially dangerous PDFs to safe PDFs
Certainly, but that's what, like .0001% of PDFs people encounter?
e40··on Autodesk burns the village to feed AI and the Cloud – cuts 7% of workforce
A crash is the result of collective behavior (greed). Individual behavior is driven by incentives.
e40··on The US national debt will soon be growing faster than the economy itself
Congress? The majority of them are now beholden to the oligarchs and will do their bidding. We are truly fucked.
e40··on 40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households
My mother is in this situation. All of the assisted living facilities in mher area are either owned by Private Equity or are way too expensive. She has no choice other than to age in place. It’s terrifying for both of us.
e40··on The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans
They Live vibes from your comment.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/

e40··on CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story
Sounds like it’s a force multiplier, both on the good and bad side. That lines up with what I have seen. It’s hard to tell if it’s a net positive or negative.
e40··on Autodesk burns the village to feed AI and the Cloud – cuts 7% of workforce
Wall Street are made up of people with incentives. The incentives drive the behavior and not some collective will.

Wall Street will be the last to find out the emperor has no clothes. That is called a stock crash.

e40··on Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
How did you get around the legal issues?
e40··on Convert potentially dangerous PDFs to safe PDFs
Why not upload to Google docs and view there? Way less work.
e40··on Ask HN: How many local logins do you have on your computer?
If your user isn't an admin, then /Applications is a good location so that apps can't change things in the background (it would require a popup to elevate privs).

Otherwise, some apps don't install as much crap when you use ~/Applications/ (looking at your Zoom, which I uninstalled and use the web version, which is super hard to find now).

e40··on Ask HN: How many local logins do you have on your computer?
For macOS:

You: ~/Applications

Everyone: /Applications It’s that simple.

e40··on Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see
I have definitely noticed that I will eat more or less depending on the size of the plate. Maybe it only applies to people who were taught to clean their plate, dunno.
e40··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
I definitely felt like I was watching something unusual and special. Watching it go from "I have this idea" to "I'm hosting the kernel on it" was insanely cool.
e40··on On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]
Double down, it is.

When someone brings a problem to you, it’s quite presumptuous to think they want you to solve it.

e40··on OpenAI is partnering with Cerebras to add 750MW of compute in 10B USD deal
And the data centers created from this initiative will be net positive for the environment and communities, right? Right?
e40··on The White House just said your life is worth nothing. Yes, literally.
This has been in the making for 40+ years. It has baffled me the entire time. I don’t understand what air, water and soil the children of the proponents will use.
e40··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
YT served up the Zodiac video to me a few days ago, too. Interesting stuff!
e40··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
I was monitoring the linux kernel mailing list when this happened. Wild times. It seemed then that something special was happening.
e40··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
Still using my Speed Queen washer and dryer. Bought 30 years ago. You’ve given me confidence to try to fix it when it stops working. Thanks!
e40··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
What country is this? That’s nuts!
e40··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
Do you have two of them?
e40··on US, for first time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025
Why is this bizarre? And the dead person doesn't "owe" anyone. The dead person paid into the fund, which is what pays people.
e40··on Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks, Hegseth says
Like a voiceover from a Terminator-like movie.
e40··on Scott Adams has died
People are dying from recreational Xanax because it’s more and more cut with fent.
e40··on Git Rebase for the Terrified
This "debate" is just insane.

Any workflow that has a review process uses rebase. FULL STOP.

If you don't have your code reviewed and you push code to a shared repo, fine, don't use rebase if you don't want to.

e40··on Anker goes big with new whole home backup system
What about the potential for fire inside your home? That scares me more.
e40··on U.S. mandates more foreign travelers to pay $15,000 visa bond deposits
Hmm, South Africa is not exempt, because they are not part of the Visa Waver program. (No country in Africa is part of that program, according to [1].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Waiver_Program#:~:text=As...

e40··on U.S. mandates more foreign travelers to pay $15,000 visa bond deposits
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