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natas··on France is getting download tax for content providers (€0.055/GB)
This will severely undermine technological innovation and the development of new technologies.
natas··on Patrick Stewart has died
Patrick was and always will be one of the brightest stars.
natas··on Zillow to pay $212.5M to settle class action for real estate venture
probably lower than their anthropic bill
natas··on Sabre Wulf Remastered
Knight lore and Alien 8 were awesome, so hard though.
natas··on Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
So basically the state of New Mexico is taking $25B from Meta's market cap, therefore whomever invested in META; and where will this money go here?

I don't deny that META did something wrong, but I don't see where taking $25B and allocating it to a state's declining economy will do anything good. Put people in jail may send a better signal, but here it feels more like a heist than a punishment; and the investors will take the hit, not the company.

natas··on Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it's on Steam
please release it soon!
natas··on Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs
This has been tried by Cray like 15 years ago and the university of Colorado 11 years ago; there were also other initiatives, all failed.

I'm not excluding that now we have more budget/time/AI to make it work (if it can), I'd just say exercise caution reading this (very AI slop) article (and anything that looks too good to be true)

natas··on Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
I wish there was some picts.
natas··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
The billionaire tax is an experiment, they did put the bar pretty high to measure how many families will relocate (that's super easy to track); once that's measured, it's easy to build a model to adjust this threshold to whatever is advantageous for the state and keep things in balance this way, where the outflow is carefully measured and weighted against the tax threshold. The "hard part" was just getting this to pass the vote; then they can adjust this threshold anytime as voters have already approved it. What isn't measured is that billionaires create jobs "around them"; and, implicitly, jobs will be created somewhere else; unfortunately this model will not measure that.
natas··on OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices
I really like to see those old dmesgs, quite amazing work supporting this in OpenBSD (at the time)
natas··on France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
As always with the french government: don't trust the numbers they give you.
natas··on Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100
pretty much the worst of both worlds: a non-working viewfinder and a terrible camera.
natas··on Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
you should never discuss your personal life at work or with your coworkers.
natas··on JetZero
Flying OceanGate.
natas··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
This is a slippery slope, and I will stay away from Codeberg, because who knows what they'll ban next.
natas··on Shinjuku Station in 3D
looks like a doom level
natas··on A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows
For sure, I'm glad we have those emulators, real hardware is hard to find or expensive or faulty. Having emulators helps a lot.
natas··on A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows
don't they still give some hobbyist licenses?
natas··on A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows
Would be amazing to implement a JIT in hercules (would make it 10x faster potentially as fast as z/PDT which implements a JIT); good timing as IBM is retiring z/PDT!
natas··on A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows
I wish this could make it to qemu's main branch; always fun to preserve new systems. I wonder if it runs openvms/ia64 too!
natas··on SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading
shocking, who could have predicted that?
natas··on Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches
Windows source has leaked (so many times) and someone ran claude code on it to find vulns, as expected; few million more patches coming; those exploits sell well $$$

Hence, there is a huge monetary incentive to leak window's source; especially if your RSUs are not really bringing money home.

natas··on 45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC
I won't make the mistake to buy any other sony product.
natas··on Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
I bought it yesterday, not too hard to get running on linux, and played for an hour, it's immense fun.
natas··on Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years
it's a bit skewed, I suspect 25% are bots and the like that don't present an identifiable user-agent. Also, a lot of bots probably identify themselves as windows to "blend-in".
natas··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
fortunately I'm old, I drive a 2007 car, and won't live in this new world for much much longer!
natas··on Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
I'm done with sony, forever. Cameras, consoles, whatever, I'm just done. Goodbye!
natas··on AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report
I feel like we've already had this discussion with respect to Crypto; crypto used more energy than banks (which proved to be false, but whatever); and water. Now AI uses magnitude more energy than crypto (or humans) and somehow they're now saying it's okay?
natas··on OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B
Napkin maths.

Alphabet: ~$4.5T value / ~$403B revenue ≈ 11× revenue

Microsoft: ~$2.9T value / ~$282B revenue ≈ 10× revenue

OpenAI: ~$850B value / ~$13B revenue ≈ 65× revenue

Can someone explains that logic?

natas··on Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts
pretty cool!
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