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A Visual History of Every Interplanetary Mission [video](youtube.com)
1 points by dkobia 11d ago|0 comments
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Trump Mocks Data-Center Opponents as Wanting to Stay 'Backwards and Poor'(nytimes.com)
8 points by dkobia 16d ago|7 comments
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How An Atlanta Suburb Shares Flock Data with More Than 2k Organizations(wired.com)
13 points by dkobia 20d ago|1 comments
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by dkobia 20d ago
I both hate and love Cognito. Hate it for its unnecessary complexity, love it for providing auth at bargain bin prices. I review Auth0 contracts frequently and that is daylight robbery/extortion, a poster child for vendor-lock-in. I ha
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Silicon Valley Splits over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I(nytimes.com)
7 points by dkobia 2mo ago|4 comments
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Hugging Face Turned to Chinese LLM for help after US models blocked Blue Team(thestack.technology)
3 points by dkobia 2mo ago|0 comments
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by dkobia 3mo ago
Worth remembering that many African telcos are not just mobile phone/data providers but also digital wallets (mobile money) - much of the GDP flows through them. Companies like Safaricom are the de facto financial utility of the countr
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Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban(theverge.com)
3 points by dkobia 3mo ago|1 comments
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by dkobia 3mo ago
The open secret here is that we have a system that collects billions (~$100 billion annually[1]) in unclaimable taxes while keeping the labor force just vulnerable enough to stay cheap. That said, ICE's actions seem like self sabotage.
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The Hacker Sent by Anthropic to Calm the Government's Nerves About AI Safety(wsj.com)
2 points by dkobia 3mo ago|0 comments
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by dkobia 3mo ago
Zitron is begging for a collapse at this point. Yes, his macro analysis correctly identifies a massive financial risk but his incessant pessimism completely misses the incredible ground-level utility that many of us on HN celebrate every da
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Apple to broadcast MLS game shot entirely on 15 iPhones(variety.com)
3 points by dkobia 4mo ago|0 comments
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by dkobia 4mo ago
Thank you for making this whoever you are. There is a wonderful video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FT-oz9aZU4 that visualizes space travel and time dilation in Hail Mary. What I wished I had immediately after watchin
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by dkobia 4mo ago
The primary issue here is that CEOs and investors are particularly vulnerable to AI psychosis which is then forcibly propagated to the rest of the organization. Understandably, the perceived benefits are almost impossible to ignore, compoun
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The lab where Ford is trying to crack the code on cheap EVs(theverge.com)
4 points by dkobia 4mo ago|0 comments
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Claude Platform on AWS(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by dkobia 5mo ago|0 comments
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by dkobia 5mo ago
This always blows my mind. We are currently breathing in the DNA of the trees, animals, and people around us—and we’re leaving ours behind for them, too. We’re all one big genetic soup.
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by dkobia 5mo ago
It seems like the whole world could massively benefit from this much like the other great innovation out of the EU -- the Common Charger Directive (aka USB-C).
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by dkobia 6mo ago
I’m running local models with a maxed out M4 but I find local models only useful and reliable for trivial tasks and sensitive items like database optimization work. Local LLMs just don’t come anywhere close to Claude or Codex for heavy work
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Behind the Curtain: AI's looming cyber nightmare(axios.com)
4 points by dkobia 6mo ago|0 comments
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Oppo made the best foldable phone, again(theverge.com)
1 points by dkobia 6mo ago|0 comments
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by dkobia 6mo ago
Just when you think Egyptology can't get more interesting, it does. No wonder "just a quick search about the Pyramids" turns into a lifelong obsession for many.
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by dkobia 6mo ago
I thought Grok in the car was awesome until it went off on a tangent and started praising Elon.
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by dkobia 7mo ago
The average price of a new car in the US is now ~$50,000 and the average monthly payment is almost $800. All people want is an affordable car and it is clear that won’t happen any time soon. It isn’t strange at all that prisoners to this sy
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by dkobia 7mo ago
AI Slop or not, these doomer articles have more than a grain of truth and you as a knowledge worker knows “Something is happening”.
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by dkobia 7mo ago
Surely what they make from these ads is negligible enough to not warrant the terrible user experience for something users pay for. The ads in Apple News are infuriating.
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I Test Drove a Chinese EV. Now I Don't Want to Buy American Cars Anymore(wsj.com)
13 points by dkobia 8mo ago|9 comments
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Claude Code Psychosis(jasmi.news)
2 points by dkobia 8mo ago|0 comments
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by dkobia 8mo ago
At 52" I now believe that there is a limit to the size of a monitor. This might have crossed it.
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Is This Billionaire a Financial Genius or a Fraudster?(nytimes.com)
4 points by dkobia 8mo ago|0 comments

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