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khannn··on Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops
Couldn't even keep an em dash out of the title

BOOOOO

khannn··on Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms
The type of person who doesn't have suicidal ideations are on the low end of the pool. They are the type of depressed people that things like hanging around friends, going outside, or eating a diet that's not poo works on.
khannn··on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
AI drawn chart and AI written article
khannn··on Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms
The type of depression that makes the sufferer lie about not having suicidal ideations
khannn··on The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy
I forgot about the rule of 3 but that's obviously AI writing
khannn··on Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)
You sucked up to an autist, what did you think was going to happen? That's like trying to use Disney Dollars at Universal.
khannn··on Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
Hello, we at Flock are very sad to announce that your data was leaked, but due to the fact that we operate in a legal grey area to get around laws and are nothing more than the domestic surveillance equivalent to a PMC operating overseas, we invite you get fucked
khannn··on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
I was on a blood thinner and the medication was very pricey. Didn't have insurance and the "savings card" covered fuck all unless you had insurance. There are three blood thinners on the US market and they all cost a lot.
khannn··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
Watch Netflix keep HBO Max as a separate service
khannn··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
> Whole Foods like eggs.

I think I see why you think eggs went up to $8 a dozen now

khannn··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
I have friends with kids, have siblings with kids, and indeed did grow up in the US. Ate cereal growing up with maybe some eggs on the weekend. My siblings feed their kids exactly what I described. My friends feed their kids the same. I have no idea how that is out of touch, but I grew up lower-middle class and that's my lived experience.
khannn··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
Apples and oranges comparison. RAM works forever while eggs only keep someone full for 4 to 6 hours. I'd honestly like to see the amount of time someone is full from eating eggs vs the average daily screen time vs the cost of both, lets say the service life of the phone is 36 months with the cost of the eggs averaged out for that three year period.
khannn··on 30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript"
I started in 2003, learned C++, then did the majority of my courses in C++ with a class in Java with self-taught Python, C#, and PHP along the way for coursework.

Can someone fill me in, but is there still the derogatory "Java school"? I find that silly because most jobs in programming use some sort of managed memory programming language so teaching everyone in Java makes a lot of sense.

khannn··on The RAM shortage comes for us all
16GB is more than enough on Linux, but Win11 eats resources like crazy
khannn··on Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
I refuse to read the AI slop that passes for journalism about the contracts OpenAI bought, but if they take physical delivery and open actual datacenters built with the RAM they'll be parted out at the minimum, if not absorbed by another AI provider or Big Tech in general.
khannn··on Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
The AI projects that make sense will live. Capitalism is survival of the fittest.

That farm land is dead and gone, best we can do is urban/rural decay.

khannn··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
The average person buys a phone amortized at 36 months minus trade-in value. So they do indeed buy ram every month but it's a line item on a phone bill.
khannn··on Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
I sincerely hope that OpenAI goes down in flames with those DRAM contracts are going to the highest bidder then so probably Google or whatever AI competitor.

Honestly having problems remembering the other AI companies without googling it. I recall MS, Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Anthropic.

khannn··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
"Profiteering"? Truth is... the game was rigged from the start
khannn··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
Parents in the US don't feed their kids eggs for breakfast, it's majority cereal or breakfast bars. Maybe some yogurt but that's almost always upper middle class or above.

"If you’re a typical HN user in the US you might be out of touch with the reality that costs going up $10/week can be a real hardship when you’re raising a family on limited income.".

Skill issue. Oatmeal is very cheap and filling. The aforementioned yogurt. Nothing, yeah nothing, because the average person is obese here and nothing is exactly what they need for breakfast. A piece of fruit like the perennial classic banana for breakfast. Complaining about egg prices comes from the camp of "I tried nothing and nothing worked".

khannn··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
"The price of eggs has nothing on the price of computer memory right now.". A dozen eggs went to ~$5. They are eggs and most people use what, max 12 eggs a month? Get out of here with that trite garbage. Everyone knew that the egg shortage was due to the extreme step the US does of culling herds infected with avian flu and that they were transitory.
khannn··on Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?
The Economist peddling doom n gloom IN THIS ECONOMY?
khannn··on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
"Custom Distro"? That's every distro mate
khannn··on Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla
Your post is so muddled. The cheapest new EV on the US market is a Nissan Leaf at ~30k MSRP new, but I found a used 2025 model with 1341 miles for $17,899 in a cursory search. Nissan has a dealership in my city so I know it can be serviced here or at worst the next largest city near here while a Chinese brand would be a crapshoot until it spreads to my medium-small city. I can only imagine the stink people will put on Chinese cars, even hybrids and American made EVs get poo-poo'd.

I imagine that a Chinese automaker such as BYD would price itself low, something like an EV at ICE prices, to get a foothold in the American market. I really wish BYD was around here so I could drive one and look at the build quality myself, it's almost like the domestic Automakers and the CIA are putting out hit pieces about the brand.

khannn··on Copper thieves are wreaking havoc across America
Addicts are known to carry around battery powered angle grinders. I'm seeing them starting at $35. Interestingly enough, bike locks that are marketed as being angle grinder proof seem to start around $300.

My state regulates selling copper and requires a license for individuals but exempts electricians lmao.

khannn··on Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla
I wish I could get a BYD Dolphin hatch for ~10k USD. Somehow my 12 year old Prius is worth 9k on KBB and that's insane.
khannn··on Post-mortem of Shai-Hulud attack on November 24th, 2025
The site caused my browser to freeze and it reminded me of the 56k modem days.
khannn··on We're losing our voice to LLMs
I know some GPs that use WebMD so it plays out like:

- Google search: free

- Having the schooling, training, and experience to evaluate the results: $300k per year

khannn··on We're losing our voice to LLMs
They're saying that the shared account is enough for OpenAI to provide the same result. Very interesting, I'd like to know more like was it a generic IUD or a specific one in the query. Also, the Doc is a cardiologist, they don't specialize in Gyno stuff and their training/schooling is enough for them to evaluate sources.

Just for reference before AI it was typical for employers of doctors to pay for a service/app called UpToDate which provided vetted info for docs like google.

khannn··on Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
AI slop
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