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by drewda 6d ago
At least they didn't switch to idscan.net /s https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selli...
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"Triple Threat": Paul Ford on LLMs and Ontologies/Knowledge Graphs(aboard.com)
2 points by drewda 1mo ago|0 comments
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by drewda 2mo ago
This is a paraphrase of https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/how-apple-s-decade-long...
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by drewda 3mo ago
The total addressable market (TAM) for SpaceX is finite. There are only so many nation-states and large corporations that want to launch payloads into orbit. And even if their internet service provider is uniquely capable for now, it only f
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by drewda 3mo ago
As of this month, everyone has 100+ pages from Microsoft on how they trained their MAI-Thinking-1 model: https://microsoft.ai/pdf/mai-thinking-1.pdf OpenAI and Anthropic may have gone silent on how they build their mod
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by drewda 3mo ago
That doc is very useful and confidence inspiring in terms of being mainly about people and process, rather than about one single technical solution. Relevant parts for those who have cool-downs at the top of mind: > Across Homebrew’s his
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by drewda 4mo ago
In many cases the acquiring company shares investors or board members with the acqui-hired entity. To put it neutrally, VC partners are treating these are parts of their same portfolios, so if one team doesn't pan out on its own, it ca
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SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims(sfstandard.com)
272 points by drewda 4mo ago|150 comments
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by drewda 4mo ago
This will not reassure you, but the reason it isn't necessarily really bad is because it's only incrementally worse than the really bad news came out last month: Security researchers identified a series of exploitable vulnerabilit
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by drewda 4mo ago
> As we focus on Claude Platform capabilities and connecting agents to APIs, we’ll be winding down all hosted Stainless products, including our SDK generator. Starting today, new signups, projects, and SDKs will not be available. For bet
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by drewda 4mo ago
Yup, technically speaking if the coordinates aren't in WGS84, it isn't GeoJSON
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by drewda 5mo ago
This is pretty straightforward compared to the giant universe of companies that resell Microsoft services. The number of intermediaries that some customers, especially governmental agencies, go through to get just an Azure bill can be wild.
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by drewda 6mo ago
FWIW I've been on a OS X for many years now, but I still miss keyboard shortcuts in Windows. So much more consistent across the operating system and applications...
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by drewda 6mo ago
General Electric has a history of using that exact trick... just with jet engines and power generators and medical devices that can represent much larger amounts of revenue.
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by drewda 6mo ago
When using Claude Code, we often prompt it to draft diagrams in MermaidJS syntax. Great for summarizing a multi-step process and quick to render with simple tools.
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Microsoft backs Anthropic to halt US DoD's 'supply-chain risk' designation(reuters.com)
5 points by drewda 6mo ago|0 comments
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by drewda 6mo ago
Have you considered seeing an allergist to test if you have some environmental allergies? If so, they may be able to recommend or prescribe meds to moderate the effects of those allergies. (disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, just someone el
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by drewda 7mo ago
No. A newspaper is in the business of selling you content (or advertising alongside content) grith.ai appears to be in the business of guiding you click a "request early access" button so they can eventually sell you software (or
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by drewda 7mo ago
FWIW, the best way to get your website on Hacker News is to write a content-marketing blog post about someone else's work. Don't get me wrong. This post is an interesting read. But the company publishing it appears to have nothing
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by drewda 7mo ago
While I prefer Google's productivity apps to the Microsoft world in this case Google is just catching up to the APIs and tooling that Microsoft has provided for a long time: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powers
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by drewda 7mo ago
They put their names to their position publicly. That is meaningful action.
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by drewda 7mo ago
Yes, it's officially still the Department of Defense. If this were a news outline writing "Department of War" I would be concerned. But in the case of the Anthropic CEO's blog post, I can understand why they are picking
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by drewda 7mo ago
That's exactly why the Bay Area Air Quality Management District exists (established decades before the federal EPA): > Charged with regulating stationary sources of air pollution emissions, the Air District drafted its first two reg
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by drewda 7mo ago
The reason for most of those fees for parks and schools is because Prop 13 has prevented property taxes from raising with the market on older property owners (and the LLCs that own commercial properties), so cities and school districts have
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by drewda 7mo ago
FWIW, there's already a huge corpus of rants by men who get personally angry about the governance of open-source software projects and write overbearing emails or GH issues (rather than cool down and maybe ask the other person for a ca
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by drewda 7mo ago
Please see: > It's not a lack of knowledge by Caltrans or Santa Clara County's congestion management agency that is keeping that interchange as-is. Rather, it's the physical constraints of a nearby airport (so no room for
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by drewda 7mo ago
Yeah, Google and Apple do probably have much more first-party probe data of passenger vehicles. But it really depends on the type of traffic data product. For some use-cases, it's more than sufficient for the vendor to buy probe data f
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by drewda 7mo ago
What is the actual use of this? This research team used Google's first-party location data to identify San Jose's Interstate 880/US 101 interchange as a site with statistically extreme amounts of hard braking by Android Auto
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by drewda 7mo ago
Thanks for a capsule tour through Heroku! FWIW, the team that eventually created "Docker" was working at the same time on dotCloud as a direct Heroku competitor. I remember meeting them at a meet-up in the old Twitter building but
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by drewda 8mo ago
Here's another recent example: ‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’: What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore? (The Atlantic, Nov. 2025)

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