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syspec··on Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas
Interesting, the construction worker who found is said he never found one that big in all his years working in the field.

I had no idea that would be rare, what makes it relatively rare?

syspec··on Starcraft: Ashfall
Surprised to see this level of discourse here on HN, reads like a reddit comment.

Copyright sucks, and Disney is bad etc, but how is using StarCraft and its assets in your random AI game okay?

I mean, creators should be allowed to exert control over how their assets and brand are used.

syspec··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
Not disparaging it, sincerely curious as I see it mentioned in this thread a couple of times... why would you need a blutooth remote for a kindle?
syspec··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
I believe there are more Hispanic ethnicities than Mexicans.
syspec··on A14 Technology
What jumped out at me is the 25-30% power reduction vs only 10-15% more speed.

Feels like we're well past the point where a new node is mainly about clocks. Power density is the real constraint now.

syspec··on Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025)
It's good, but man he is pompous. Every question anyone asks is answered some form of "your question is stupid"
syspec··on San Francisco institution 'heartbroken and furious' after erasure of public art
Graffiti is not a culture, it's a blight on shared spaces.
syspec··on Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)
Do you own your home? Here in Ca? You know that property tax is 1.4ish % and goes up by 2% a year, pretty much no matter what?

On a 1.5M house, that's starting at 17K a year and each year it goes up 2%, so it compounds.

That's 17k a year Just to stay in your own home.

People who don't pay property taxes here in ca, act like prop 13 means zero property taxes

syspec··on The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
Does this work with reacts fancy new compiler that is meant to optimize away various hooks?
syspec··on Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)
Agreed, there's zero connection to his biological fathers story and how he grew up. The student visa thing is even more bizzare, it's just a bunch of incongruent sentences
syspec··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Claude / Codex ex tensions inside of VSCode give you what you described. I ageee, I find people that use only the CLI barely read and review the code the agent creates until it's too late
syspec··on U.S. Rescinds Syria's Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism
I'youbsure about that? Different accounts posting the exact same "Syria awaits you" message? Lol
syspec··on Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
Even better, avoid making my friends so you won't receive pesky texts asking you to hangout.

In fact, probably better to just put your desk in the bathroom for maximum efficiency!

syspec··on Slack Code
In what? Like changing the color of the button of a website? How does that render in situ? For anything meaningful you need a preview environment
syspec··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
> German energy company RWE has said it will abandon its offshore wind projects in the US after reaching a $1.2bn (£892m) payout deal with President Donald Trump's Department of the Interior (DoI). > > RWE said that it will now reinvest the sum into conventional gas projects, including $900m (£669m) in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project in Louisiana.

Why not just give that 1.2bn to those "conventional gas" projects they want in Louisiana so bad?

Not that I agree with creating mroe "conventional gas" projects, I don't. Even just the idea of paying a company NOT to do a green energy project is completely stupid. We need more energy period.

syspec··on Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week
That's a hell of a backpack
syspec··on Elixir-lang.org has a new design
I waited for an great editing expert before trying elixir, that never came...

But, now with LLMs I don't have to fear a loosely typed language, I'd love to give it another go.

syspec··on Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)
I read the whole writeup assuming it was LLM assisted, then when I got to the bottom I realized it's from 2021 and was blown away.
syspec··on Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker
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syspec··on How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
Make the checkbox turn green. Make the comment appear in the list. Set the date to the new date the user wanted.

That's the mutation.

Whatever your talking about, is irrelevant

syspec··on David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
Gift article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/arts/design/david-hockney...
syspec··on Steve Jobs in Exile is a fine profile of Jobs' years at NeXT
Some great book recommendations in that article, does anyone have anymore?
syspec··on Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning
Did you read the article?

It's not about enhancing Claude. This article is about creating your own agent, and giving it the ability to create plans and tasks list for its or.

The way Claude code creates plans and tasks list for itself.

The article is about creating that in your own harness for things not using claude code, like say a custom LLM integration in your own web app.

syspec··on How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
Whole blog post is basically: Make a mutation in the clientside, assume it worked, and save in the background.
syspec··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
I don't know any reputable companies in this space.
syspec··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
I'd love a specific recommendation,
syspec··on Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry
Dude, you're crazy! You look great now, prob one of the best procedures of it I've seen.

Also I notice my wife and female friends NEVER seem to notice when someone has plugs.

When I occasionally point it out, they're always surprised.

I haven't done it as I don't need it, but I would say anyone on the fence, just do it.

From what I know it's easier to keep what you have that get a transplant so fire up that HIMs subscription

syspec··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
For someone who's always been interested in creatine, but never tried it due to being overwhelmed by choice... what's a standard go to product?
syspec··on Claude Opus 4.8
I just had Opis 4.8 code up something and actually that's exactly how it coded it!

It looked gross and minimized, the result was awesome but the code looked pretty awful visually

syspec··on How you probably will find Satoshi
Good article on why Satoshi is Adam Back

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-...

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