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neveson Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

A cheap one from AliExpress.

As promised, they are opening the Gates of Hell.

I seriously recommend the brilliant Zeynep Tufekci lecture about this https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dy...

Society must have power over this and we all must not fall to the easy talk of CEOs.

neveson Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

Mosquito sound repellents are useless for insects, but solved my bat problem.

A bat loved to defecate in my son's bathroom. The most internal room of the house. I've put a sound repellent in the bathroom and it stopped happening

neveson Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses

And it is so hot that you can't use your phone full of addicting apps that ruin your sanity.

neveson Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial

Hope they also go after the betting companies.

neveson US bans new foreign-made consumer Internet routers

Snowden already denounced USA gov spying using Cisco routers

neveson Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

For me the worst is Microsoft Start news. I've already turned it off multiple times and it always come back.

To add insult to injury, it always displays terrible gossip, sports or far right news.

If any developer that works in MS news service is reading this message, please know that I hate you.

neveson US bans new foreign-made consumer Internet routers

Best reason for not buying a router made in usa

neveson Astral to Join OpenAI

uv has a lot of sensible defaults that prevent clueless developers to shoot their own feet. Uv sync, for example, would uninstall packages not in pyproject.toml

neveson Astral to Join OpenAI

Don't understate its importance. I've been using Python for more than 30 years. They solved a problem that a lot of smart people didn't solve (). Python developer experience improved an order of magnitude.

() Sure, they were on the shoulders of giants

neveson 'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)

I've had the privilege to watch it at São Luis movie theater in Recife. The place is really a character of the movie. The theater was at full capacity. 10% of the public was with a yellow t-shirt that Wagner Moura uses for 10s :-) I forgot how good it was to see movies in a theater. Everybody laughed or clapped together. I've never more seen a movie with so much popular appeal. People seeing their lives and history in the big screen. If it had won an Oscar, maybe São Luiz would exhibit it frequently. Like the Casablanca theater in Morocco that just exhibits Casablanca movie.

Pure cinema.

neveson Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

In Colombia and Venezuela you also have the Caribbean. These countries are great.

neveson 5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy

Peru is a marvelous country, and one of the greatest trip destinations in the world. A travel guide described Peru as the Egypt of the Americas. I went there just knowing about the Incas, but they one just one among dozens of civilizations. It blows your mind.

The greatest sadness is to see the amount of wonders destroyed by the Spanish invaders.

neveson Most of the US economy is in a recession

And which growth benefits spreads for a great percentage of the population instead of a handful of billionaires

neveson Most of the US economy is in a recession

Nice moment for an oil shock.

neveson Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk

Is this the reason Claude models disappeared from AWS cloud in Brazil?

neveson Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

At least it has been decades since China Gov bombed innocent people in other countries. A peaceful and responsible government.

neveson I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported

The worst ad is the one you don't know is an ad. It will be presented as a definitive answer.

They are persuasion machines

neveson I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported

Also forgot the part where they start to disguise that an ad is really an ad. The ad is just melted in the content.

neveson I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported

Nice. Do you know this Princeton research group?

https://ai.sociology.princeton.edu/research

Here is a quotation:

> "It has become clear that at least some of the companies will bring over the engagement model of social media to chatbots, monetizing ads, shopping recommendations, affiliate links, and sponsored answers. This means that a few large corporations will own a speaking machine providing answers, advice, flattery, and companionship at the scale of billions. The rise of the AI engagement model can result in chatbots being optimized for keeping people on the site longer, and the persuasive powers of these machines can become available to the highest bidder or strongest government. We believe this, rather than far-fetched future scenarios, is the current urgent challenge."

neveson The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

It makes sense. Now is the perfect time for China to invade Taiwan.

neveson The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

https://bsky.app/profile/70sbachchan.bsky.social/post/3mfwas...

Does anybody can trust andnegotiate with USA?

neveson The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

Iran has marvelous cities, sim of the greatest humanity archeological treasures.

It hurts my heart to see Americans destroying them (and the thousands of lifes).

neveson I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

USA is trying to use IA for something so evil that a for profit company is risking to loose a lot of money and even close. Nobody are allowed to know what these evil things are.

And people here are debating legalese...

neveson I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

"strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act"

How going against the most powerful army on Earth is coward?

neveson Be wary of Bluesky

This was the reason I went to Bluesky. I understand the political advantages of decentralization, but centralized services work better.

Remember that SMTP, the most decentralized platform that worked, now is centralized in a handful of companies.

neveson CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate

Uber

neveson Gemini 3.1 Pro

Gemini interesting with Google software gives me the best feature of all LLMs. When I receive a invite for an event, I screenshot it, share with Gemini app and say: add to my Calendar.

It's not very complex, but a great time saver

neveson Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate

You are wrong. Any company that wants to do business with USA must also join the embargo.

neveson Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate

A friend of mine works at SAP, the major German software company. Because they do business with American firms, he had to complete required corporate training on U.S. government restrictions regarding certain countries. The restrictions had different tiers, with only two nations placed in the most severe category: Iran and the peaceful island of Cuba.