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influx··on Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
More Europeans die from lack of air conditioning than people in the US die from guns.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/europe-heat-wave...

influx··on Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
It would be shocking if they haven't been pulling on these threads for as long as they've had access to these models.
influx··on Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions
You get to go through the montage section, that's the best part!
influx··on Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
Would you prefer the term Pelicangate?
influx··on Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian
What are people using Vagrant for these days? The last time I encountered it was before Docker become widespread.
influx··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
And that seems suboptimal for a Japanese company?
influx··on Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)
4:920/35 here :)
influx··on I moved my digital stack to Europe
Anyone that doesn't agree with you politically is insane or stupid?
influx··on System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
At what point do these companies stop releasing models and just use them to bootstrap AGI for themselves?
influx··on After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)
Most people who ran AdSense were extremely careful not to look at the ads on their own site, because Google might flag them for intentionally inflating clicks or views.
influx··on Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
You know the whole point of the space race was to prove that we could send ICBMs to the USSR right?
influx··on OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says
Do most SaaS actually delete or do they just store a tombstone in the database for your account?
influx··on Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls
Aren't they trying to do a Valve with their store?
influx··on Astral to Join OpenAI
You’d be surprised how many features the Python runtime adds each release. It’s not trivial for tooling to keep up with language changes.
influx··on Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL
I would have thought most of those would have been moved to async Python by now.
influx··on US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide
The capital class?
influx··on Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
They could have, but it seems unlikely they targeted one or two repos and probably cloned thousands or more.
influx··on Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
Imagine the outrage here, when a company credit card expires and the cloud provider terminates all their instances, deletes all your storage and blob backups?
influx··on Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst
Exactly, the whole point is to put someone into an interrogation scenario for hours or days, where you control whether nor not they "passed". Unfortunately, it probably has zero effect on psychopaths.
influx··on Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport
I live in Seattle, decriminalizing drugs didn't turn out that way here.
influx··on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
It’s surprising that effective, cheap contraceptives aren’t on the list.

We’ve only had a couple generations where this was widely available, and somehow we’re shocked that populations decline afterwards?

Thats kind of the point.

influx··on America must embrace the Electric Age, or fall behind
Do you think strong unions play into this protectionism in the United States vs China?
influx··on APT Rust requirement raises questions
It really makes me upset that we are throwing away decades of battle tested code just because some people are excited about the language du jour. Between the systemd folks and the rust folks, it may be time for me to move to *BSD instead of Linux. Unfortunately, I'm very tied to Docker.
influx··on When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone
Lumen Field in Seattle just installed some Amazon Just Walk Out vendors this year. I'm happy to report you don't need to be logged into Amazon or have an app. I double clicked my phone to swipe my Apple Pay before I walked in, grabbed a beer and walked out.

It was fantastic.

influx··on Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man
Do you believe the economy is a zero sum game?
influx··on The "Wage Level" Mirage: H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US talent
Given the cost of healthcare in the USA and the AMA artificially limiting the number of doctors, I'm skeptical this fee will change anything.
influx··on Always Invite Anna
Conversely, tend towards saying yes if someone you want to hang out with invites you out, as they usually ask once and never again.
influx··on Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves
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influx··on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
No one should just defer, but you better be right. In the end do they have a better product without him?

Don’t think so.

influx··on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
I followed his posts internally too. It's amazing how many people were arguing against fucking John Carmack. What a waste of talent.
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