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neilpmas··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
It's just for a headline. There is a folder with what they will actually tariff hidden in their treasury somewhere. Expect it to smash red states and things they want to protect - Expect Harley Davidson to take a kicking again. They can't reveal the contents of the folder until they are willing to announce the tariffs - it doesn't work.
neilpmas··on Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13
True this - without hacker news I might have emptied the dishwasher.
neilpmas··on Show HN: Strange Attractors
Well that's my productivity blown for the day. Love it.
neilpmas··on JetBrains Matter
I'm a bit sceptical about yet another project from JetBrains. I got quite excited about both WriterSide and Fleet - I think both are dead? I'm not sure about Fleet. Isn't there a testing tool that got killed too?

From the video I can't work out what this tool does. Does it have actual GUI tools in it, or is everything prompt powered? What if you just want to change a fill colour - do you need to use AI, or can you edit it? How do you refer to single GUI items? On figma you click or use the menu from the left? Do you have support for components?

Can you start a new website from scratch on it?

How do you plug the AI in? Is there an MCP server, or is this just with Jetbrains AI agent - that's been a bit frustrating so far. Can you run it on copilot or will companies have to onboard a new AI tool.

neilpmas··on A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing
I do
neilpmas··on Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances
I'm sceptical of single study medical research and especially that which involves the crazily political world of birth. It might be better to wait until the Cochrane collaboration does a meta analysis on multiple studies before anyone changes what they are currently doing.
neilpmas··on Steve Wozniak launches Efforce, a blockchain-based energy-saving platform
Yes - crypto kitties https://www.cryptokitties.co/

I’m not sure it strengthens arguments for blockchain etc but on a tight economic value add it’s true.