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rekttrader··on Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside console.log
Claude code uses a similar design principle, nice to see what they’re doing inspired an open build. These opencode folks are slick.
rekttrader··on Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military
At least 2 less with morals and spines
rekttrader··on New Skydance Worth Less Than Half of Warner Brothers, Paramount Combined
Let’s hope that continued data center debt sell pressure further squeezes Larry.
rekttrader··on TikTok bans Musk documentary account
This is what media concentration risk becomes… media control.
rekttrader··on More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke
You also register -openai -deepmind -meta and -xsi
rekttrader··on Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF
Because they are, I pay anthropic 200 a month, if I were paying by the token like an enterprise it would be close to 11 grand a month. Yes I use 100 percent of my allocation on every window.
rekttrader··on CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse
In fairness, the US probably watched it fall off the back of a truck.
rekttrader··on DigitalOcean Ends Open Source Credits Program
He did support Tommy Robinson and the 2025 British anti-immigration protests… some can view that as a form of racism, especially calling London’s demographic shift a “demographic nightmare” eroding Britain’s national identity.
rekttrader··on High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days
As much of it as possible is done by rail, it’s the last mile problem.

Unless it’s last minute which a surprising amount of it is, but consumers love overnight access to stuff

rekttrader··on AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley, CA [pdf]
EA is basically a nerd sex cult and these humans while great at raising capital are the younger Epstine class.
rekttrader··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Absolutely this.
rekttrader··on Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI
Are you kidding? It’s how we discover things that are similar and yet not seen before, it’s not about shade on anyone’s or agents work
rekttrader··on Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal
Diligence told them they’re buying a almost dead payment processor with ancient tech. Customer lists are worth something but not that much.
rekttrader··on Compromising Signal's Contact Discovery Enclave (SGX)
At least the open alternatives can be fuzzed, intel minix and intel ME are other examples of NSA exploitware
rekttrader··on Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights
https://archive.is/wS6IH
rekttrader··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
They’re just wildly successful terrible engineers who can describe problems well and have unlimited token budgets. If they were paying for their own token use, the software would be better, they simply don’t have financial incentive to be more performant.

A dirty secret of AI data centers are that they’re only getting 40-60% efficiency out of their GPU clusters and because the moneygun go brrrrr they just buy more.

You wonder why they’re so afraid of the Chinese competition… they can’t afford to be as wasteful

rekttrader··on LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
Can we normalize a healthy 4th amendment posture? It’s wild that the Peter Thiel “don’t tread on me” folks are so cool with a China like police state.
rekttrader··on DeepSeek aims to make its own AI chip
I’m considering moving my family to China to be proximate and to witness the next rise of a superpower. I was too young for the 80’s US computer boom, and in collage for the .com one. The Web 2.0 rise only produced a small handful of winners. China seems boundless.
rekttrader··on Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
Elon’s invisible hand strikes again.
rekttrader··on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
Or you have data that HIPAA, GDPR, PII, or have to care about the concern of others training on your data.
rekttrader··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Cool beans boomer alarmist stance. The Chinese models here are doing what they’re supposed to price the market accordingly.
rekttrader··on Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems
So you’re telling me these cells operate independently like distributed Ethereum nodes and L2s… got it.
rekttrader··on AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
Hint: NSA said no.
rekttrader··on Claude Fable 5
Wait till you kick the tires of Qwen Coder.
rekttrader··on Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player
https://archive.ph/MIRs8
rekttrader··on Is China using fentanyl as a weapon against the United States?
Afghanistan didn’t have poppy production till it was allowed by the Bush administration. Their primary exports were food stuffs but it was easy to spoil the Iranians and Russians with cheap drugs that ruin society. This was patterned after the british opium wars but done at a funky scale. Now our chickens have come to roost now that pill based pain medication has gotten so hard… life finds a way.
rekttrader··on Is China using fentanyl as a weapon against the United States?
Great reference there…
rekttrader··on Delve removed from Y Combinator
Ya it’s a total write down, I dunno how much they took from YC, if it was the standard deal this is just the cost of doing business.
rekttrader··on FBI Nabs Contractor for Allegedly Stealing Crypto from Marshals
https://archive.is/0PttN
rekttrader··on Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down
This is the hacker way. Well done to the strong and hearty Ukrainians making solutions for complicated times!
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