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vanshg··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
How would it work indoors?
vanshg··on Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
We already have: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/02/elon-musk-sp...
vanshg··on Find SF parking cops
Explained here: https://walzr.com/sf-parking/about/
vanshg··on Perhaps acquiring Pixelmator is about competing with Creative Cloud
Apple has ads in their OS too. Inside Settings on iOS, they constantly push Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, AppleCare+, etc at the very top of Settings
vanshg··on Moments in Chromecast's history
Google TV is already the name of their software platform (based on the Android TV OS) that TVs run
vanshg··on OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster
In reinforcement learning, Q* represents the optimal action-value function
vanshg··on OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role
He confirmed he's returning: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1726345564059832609
vanshg··on Google Pixel Fold
Samsung tested their original Galaxy Fold to 200,000 folds [0]. At a generous 100 folds per day, that's about 5.5 years.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14136/samsung-galaxy-fold-can...

vanshg··on Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points
That should be for the merchant to decide, though, not Apple
vanshg··on New GPT-3 model: text-DaVinci-003
Yes, it does rhyme in American English
vanshg··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
It doesn't need to be game-chaning to be considered V2. It just needs to be "the next version"
vanshg··on How Precision Time Protocol is being deployed at Meta
> It’s absolutely essential to ensure an open sky and install a solid stationary antenna

What effect, if any, might a major earthquake have on the time calculation?

vanshg··on The Browser Company’s Darin Fisher thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser
I've been using a new WebKit-based browser called Orion. It is super snappy, has compatibility with Chrome and Firefox extensions, has power-user features built-in, is privacy focused (collects 0 telemetry as a tenet -- they are donation based), and continues to add features at super fast pace. I highly recommend giving it consideration if you are looking to move away from Chrome.

Some features I love: tree-style tabs. cross-window pinned tabs. low power mode which auto suspends tabs. in place editing of websites. profiles are their own application instance. extensions work on iOS. per-page user-agent. built in notes. preventing auto-playing videos. all this while retaining a native macOS UX.

https://browser.kagi.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28799049

vanshg··on Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
I'm coming from the POV that a financial decision boiling down to one individual on behalf of some company is different than a purchase made by an individual
vanshg··on Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
Could this be the largest purchase ever made by a singular individual?
vanshg··on Software I’m thankful for (2021)
If you want to avoid the rigamarole of self hosting, I recommend NextDNS. It's a paid DNS service with tons of customizability (i.e. Ad blocking) and visibility (i.e. logs)
vanshg··on Uber investigating breach of its computer systems
So that you're protected from data breaches of the service itself (e.g. revealing a reused password)
vanshg··on Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31
Apple now offers a WeatherKit REST API

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi

vanshg··on The end of the manual transmission is near?
That's exactly what Olympian Motors is doing. They're a YC company.

It's beautifully styled imo and has only physical controls inside

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/olympian-motors

https://olympianmotors.com/

vanshg··on Ask HN: Is my software stack choice sound?
Isn't this exactly what SQL is supposed to be for? Why not just submit SQL queries and get the response directly from the DB?

That is to say, what differentiates GraphQL from SQL?

vanshg··on Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price
Model S is aging in what aspect? It was just refreshed. Do you want change for the sake of change?
vanshg··on Mechanical Watch
Same question. The balance wheel/hairspring has to be losing energy overtime to friction (however miniscule). Otherwise we have ourselves a perpetual motion machine
vanshg··on GitHub: Private Profiles beta
It's a beta of the "Private Profiles" features (as opposed to the status quo where all profiles are public)
vanshg··on Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
He got it from Marc Benioff, who purchased in 1996. I'm assuming as a favor or private transaction, given that Richard and Marc know each other (from Salesforce) and the seed round.

https://www.protocol.com/you-dot-com-benioff

vanshg··on Tesla AI Day [video]
At least in California, it is not illegal to change lanes in an intersection, given that the maneuver does not pose any other risk
vanshg··on Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand security force
But what if they don't?
vanshg··on Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
Apple should embrace this fully and create their own decentralized network
vanshg··on Salesforce Is Down
Not even the fact that it's simple - it's the obvious and de facto way that a status page should be run: an architecture that is entirely separate from the main product so that an outage of the main service doesn't affect the status page itself
vanshg··on [dead]
Something needs to be fundamentally re-architected if the status page is also down during an outage. The status page should be entirely separate so as not to be affected by the outage itself. This is a well known, and obvious, practice and it's disappointing that a behemoth such as Salesforce has not taken that seriously
vanshg··on Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
I wonder if it's because folks who were feeling sick got tested for Covid first, and upon a negative Covid result, assumed (likely correctly) that it was just flu and didn't get a flu test
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