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ulfwon DoorDash to acquire Instacart

Everything in the US is a monopoly or oligopoly

ulfwon Gemini 4 Carbon

It literally says Argon right where you select all models (3.5 Flash Lite, 3.8 Flash, 3.1 Pro, 4 Argon).

This isn't rocket science. You're just bitching because your account doesn't have the latest model rolled out yet

ulfwon Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

Satya Nadella should

a) be ashamed of himself b) be fired

c) end of story.

ulfwon GPT-6.1 Terra

Do people STILL care about updated versions of LLMs? It's all a commodity now. This week this, that week that

ulfwon iPhone Duo Teardown

I love how you diss the person who has the Oppo (and iPhone) by using some googled results and not believing them

This is peak 2026

ulfwon iPhone Duo Teardown

You've never held an Oppo Find N6 which I have in my hands right now then.

Oppo Find N6 thickness folded 8.93mm. iPhone 18 Pro Max 8.75mm. Oppo Find N6 battery 6000mAh. iPhone 18 Pro Max 5567 (esim-only model) Oppo Find N6 dual nano + eSIM. iPhone 18 Pro Max eSim only (or smaller battery) Oppo Find N6 200+50+50 MP cameras. iPhone 18 Pro Max 48+48+48. iPhone PM has 1/1.3 vs 1/1.56" only on Oppo tho.

ulfwon Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office

LOL be happy you still have a job. Many of us don't. Brave new world

ulfwon US-Israeli browser startup valued at $6.4B

Don't say that or the American Israeli fanboys will come flag and downvote you too

ulfwon New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors

Twice as many hallucinations too?

ulfwon Job loss and cortisone mania

When has that ever been different?

This has been the miserable meaningless life for billions of people over the centuries

Few become an artist or painter or musician or whatever other thing they'd like to do but can't pay the bills

ulfwon German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying'

Germany has been a weird country for so long. Haven't lived there in decades and can't see myself fit in at all anymore

ulfwon Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc

Thank god for the US government who had Huawei start HarmonyOS so that long term there will be competition in the world

ulfwon Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc

Some people have a life outside of work and don't really need "the security of environments"

ulfwon Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc

Why hell no lol?

ulfwon Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc

This is getting ridiculous by Apple.

Just do it worldwide. I go regularly between AU and HK and sorry but it'd be ridiculous half of functionality works in one but not the other

ulfwon Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations

Yea I think that's about as far as the usefulness goes for personal use

ulfwon Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations

Oh I convinced now!

I'll use personal agents for my laundry now. Thanks mate for the samples given

ulfwon 'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs

Viener, really?

ulfwon What shall I teach my son?

How to work with his hands and not his brain

Because as humanity a handful of billionaires have decided to outsource thinking to machines

ulfwon Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations

For the life of me I will never understand why people are so eager to use these things

ulfwon DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order

US Apps, websites, internet services should be outlawed worldwide too. Same shit, different stink. No difference.

ulfwon Why do we have so many meetings?

Is okay.

Soon no more jobs. Then also no more meetings. Happy happy permanent unemployment

ulfwon It's still ok to enjoy programming

I don't enjoy it at all anymore. What's still the point of being in Tech?

ulfwon DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order

Ridiculous statement.

Best greetings from my Oppo Find N6

ulfwon Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

It's Meta. Shipping crap is par for the course. You're fine.

ulfwon The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

Elizabeth Holmes is deceiving

ulfwon Apple HomeView

Who are these fake ad people who live "the Apple life"?

Seriously?

I know nobody who has only friends on Facetime (instead of Whatsapp, Wechat, LINE, Zoom, etc etc you name it)

No Youtube, really?!

I mean who lives like this?

ulfwon Where is all the new, good software?

None of it good by any definition of the word