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by sys32768 5d ago
In other news, Cantor Fitzgerald lost about 150 information-technology workers when the north tower collapsed on this day 25 years ago.
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by sys32768 20d ago
Here you go: https://archive.org/details/the_incredible_machine_1992
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by sys32768 21d ago
870+ comments not blocked on its prior listing here eight days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337392
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by sys32768 29d ago
My Dell rep quoted me $736 for a single 16GB RDIMM for the newer Dell Pro 16 laptop, which retails at its baseline configuration with 16GB for ~$1000.
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by sys32768 1mo ago
Pre-ACA, I could afford family insurance. My family premiums went up ~$500 a month post-ACA, while the coverage worsened. My afib ER trip three years ago cost me $7k out of pocket even though I left the hospital still in afib. Today in my 5
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by sys32768 1mo ago
George Bird Grinnell, the "Father of Glacier National Park", made a final visit to his namesake Grinnell glacier in 1926 and then wrote in his diary [1]: >"the glacier is melting very fast and the amount of water coming fr
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by sys32768 1mo ago
Please fix the inflammatory clickbait title to the actual Guardian headline: Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
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by sys32768 1mo ago
Nope. I have one APOE4. Her mother didn't get Alzheimer's until her mid-80s.
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by sys32768 1mo ago
It's mostly luck and genetics, but good sleep matters. My mother died from Alzheimer's at 77 but wrote down her symptoms as early as 60, a full six years before her diagnosis. Prior to her diagnosis, she walked her dog two miles a
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by sys32768 1mo ago
#4 "Maintain Manners" is hardly simple.
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by sys32768 1mo ago
Twitter-level rage bait or agitprop is a daily appearance on the HN front page these days.
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by sys32768 4mo ago
^ This person jokes about raping children.
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by sys32768 4mo ago
We were just about to go to BitWarden from KeePass.
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by sys32768 6mo ago
To be fair, you probably have some views some people think are pretty awful.
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by sys32768 6mo ago
An Iraqi security source said they think it was an Iranian boat rigged with explosives. If Iran does have underwater explosive drones, why would they boast about it and invite attacks upon that weapon and its deployment systems?
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by sys32768 6mo ago
My youngest has played Roblox half her life, but is very angry about recent decisions like requiring ID to chat in-game. Still, if she's anything like other players, she's spent countless hours playing some of the most mindless Ro
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by sys32768 7mo ago
Google: "Don't be evil." Alphabet: "Do the right thing." Anthropic: "Do the thing which seems right to you at the time--at speed."
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by sys32768 7mo ago
The Censorship-Industrial Complex is troubling no matter which party benefits.
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by sys32768 7mo ago
On the Apple TV interface on my Roku, I can't tell which movie thumbnail I'm on because their UI just slightly enlarges the image which I can't really make out from my couch. I always wonder who makes these decisions and whet
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by sys32768 7mo ago
What evidence did you gather to determine that it's true, and have you informed the U.N. about the "concentration camps" mentioned by this site?
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by sys32768 8mo ago
Amazon burned $250M just for the rights to produce the goofy and embarrassing "Rings of Power" series. I wonder who was bribed in that deal?
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by sys32768 8mo ago
Here's a CNN segment from 2016 about ICE enforcing in Chicago, without the spin we see today, yet essentially the same operations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUXTqyH54ww Many on the right who had Obama Derangement
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by sys32768 8mo ago
Glitch or not, anything that helps get people off TikTok and hopefully off their phones is a good thing.
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by sys32768 8mo ago
Some please write a web plugin to use AI to analyze comments so we can filter partisan comments and only read the truly engaging and intelligent comments by more objective people. I will contribute $$$.
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by sys32768 8mo ago
I keep a forum going that's been up since 2007 for hobbyists. I keep it going because of the priceless historical information on it, not the present quality of discussion. My sense is that people have become less literate, less polite,
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by sys32768 8mo ago
Did you have that discussion about Biden?
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by sys32768 8mo ago
I like this idea. Also a split-window view that uses AI to fact-check and de-bias content, or at least point out bias. Perhaps color coded. I've been pleasantly surprised how well AI does describing bias, no matter the bias, which give
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by sys32768 8mo ago
How many of his Coffee with Scott Adams broadcasts did you watch before forming the "off the rails" opinion?
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by sys32768 8mo ago
I think HN should embrace AI to the point of having an alternative AI-generated title next to the original title, to reduce clickbait and reduce the global rage index.
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by sys32768 8mo ago
How was that post hacker news in any way?

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