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plombe··on Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive
The design is reminiscent of a Honda e
plombe··on Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
AI slop
plombe··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
Not surprised. There are worse things in the works.
plombe··on My two-part desk setup (2025)
Disagree. Misplaced context
plombe··on Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise
Looks more like AI slop with paragraphs like these; > The pattern is identical across the board. Price for adoption, not for economics. Lock organizations in. Make AI a load-bearing part of every team's daily workflow. Worry about the bill later.
plombe··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
Non-paywalled link: https://apnews.com/article/congo-ebola-uganda-who-africa-eme...
plombe··on Googlebook
When I saw the name, Googlebook I had my fingers crossed that Google had finally built something that could compete with the Apple MacBook. If that ad is anything to go by, this will flop and there will be no shortage of consumers who will go along for the ride.

If it ends up having ML-centric hardware, like a version of their TPUs, the story could change, especially if they don't try to keep it locked within their ecosystem. Local AI is the future.

plombe··on A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
Is there any other African country that’s not this beholden to China?
plombe··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
Not. You don’t need to pay $100 to upload your app to an iPhone, even with XCode for iOS 26
plombe··on Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
Well Claude was named after Shannon
plombe··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
Wasn’t composer trained on Kimi? Has anyone had a chance to compare the latest Kimi model to composer?
plombe··on Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic shouldn't have released it. The gains are marginal at best. This release feels more like Opus 4.6 with better agentic capabilities. Mythos is what I expected Opus 4.7 to be. Are users gonna be charged more with this release, for such marginal gains. It could set a bad precedent.
plombe··on Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence
Looks like a lightweight article. But memory usage went from 316MB -> 502 MB when I hit refresh. Not sure why? Any one have any ideas? Why does it need half a gig of ram in the first place?
plombe··on Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
Interesting post. Curious to know how they arrived at intelligence density = Negative log of the model's error rate divided by the model size.