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ralphingtonon Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says

The anti-ai lab crowd is becoming increasingly cult like and putting their blinders up.

ralphingtonon Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior

Imo, you're focusing on the anecdote, rather than the key question: who decides what is an acceptable reason?

ralphingtonon Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

Sorry, but your reasoning is incomplete. They could have bet millions on the negative result for each of the candidates that were listed. You aren't forced to bet on a winner, you can instead bet on everybody to lose.

ralphingtonon Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire

You just did the tech equivalent of "not to sound racist, but..."

ralphingtonon Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

I looked into ZDR, it's basically a vapid claim with little to no due diligence or auditing. I expect most providers to cave with only a minimal amount of legal pressure.

ralphingtonon How to Write with an LLM

Hyperbole = strong opinions? If you're stating your 'strong opinions' as fact, then you deserve the push back. If you're stating your strong opinions as strong opinions, then fair game.

ralphingtonon Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

It must be considered false for all tech providers unless there is a verification mechanism. There will be big money for whoever sorts that out

ralphingtonon Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

[citation needed]

ralphingtonon Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected

It will scale inefficiently until efficiency breakthroughs occur, but it's really hard to predict when those breakthroughs will happen. Plan on the worst, but be ready and capable of capitalizing when it happens!

ralphingtonon OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber

I don't have a horse in the race, but these comments are remarkably toxic. This reminds me of the RTFM epidemic on early Stack overflow.

ralphingtonon Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson

You seem to have funded your own demise

ralphingtonon Show HN: I created an app for you to be a more unpredictable romantic partner

Sorry aboot that.

ralphingtonon Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now holding the data hostage

What kind of database auth did you have? Wouldn't they have had to access config files or related in order to obtain your passwords, usernames, etc?

ralphingtonon New York Fed Adds $115.14B in Short-Term Liquidity to Markets

[citation needed]

ralphingtonon Space catapult startup SpinLaunch comes out of stealth

They mention in the article of being able to launch objects at 3,000 MPH. That's a tad short of the typical 17,500 MPH used for low earth orbit, and that's not counting the extra Delta-V required to resist atmospheric drag.

I'm very glad that this company exists, but this article doesn't help its case very much other than "Hey look, they got a load of funding".

ralphingtonon Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

The market cap of Netflix is 78 billion USD at the time of this writing. On top of that, they'd have to pay a premium. I suspect that you were thinking Netflix was an order of magnitude or two smaller than that.