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1970-01-01··on Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
This is how: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committees_of_correspondence#F...
1970-01-01··on OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics
>That's not what you'd expect from a serious preprint claiming to solve a problem.

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>It seems to me, that the AI tech companies would like us to conform to their standards, rather than spend the time and energy to conform to ours.

The entire argument is ugly and unfamiliar methods are used, and nobody's got time to drop everything and understand all that, meanwhile OpenAI didn't even ask us about this, therefore we should reject the paper as "unreadable" and you should be "very angry at OpenAI" today.

No, it's the press where you need to direct your anger. That is the nature of the beast. And being arrogant at the time of mass-disruption is a great way to lose control of everything. Maybe Sam should be sending the bottle of whisky to you.

1970-01-01··on Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
The problem is Russians are too afraid to turn on their motherland because "reasons" but that is exactly what has to happen to end the war. Hard to take medicine is indeed hard to take at first, but things are not getting better without it.
1970-01-01··on Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
When do we get the smart appliance that has one job of poisoning all the other appliances on the network with false data? Example: This house will make 40 cups of coffee per hour, has 200 washing machines, and only watches Canadian hunting shows on 16 televisions, 24/7/365.
1970-01-01··on The keys to the Internet change on October 11. Are you ready?
That's a clickbait headline. DNSSEC is optional.
1970-01-01··on Apple Triples iCloud Mail Alias Limit to Nine
Three? That is inexcusably low; it should begin with a 2 digit number. If this is just a test, it will backfire.
1970-01-01··on Show HN: Steve Jobs died 15 years ago today. I built an interactive tribute
This is really well done, bravo! I watched on my Windows laptop on the toilet.
1970-01-01··on Martian chaos terrain
We almost certainly did at one point, but life and tides can fill-in the gaps. We also truly do not know what terrain is underneath Antarctica, Greenland, etc.
1970-01-01··on Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video]
That's also Engineering in a nutshell. And medicine. And software.. This is not a unique property.
1970-01-01··on So you think you could be an electrician?
Funny enough, a good team is almost always successful in either path, and that is the advice I give to those facing the decision. Your tradesman career and your white collar job is as good as the worst member of your team.
1970-01-01··on Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
The relevant bit

"Access can be cut off, centralizing the use of AI in the hands of the companies that own it and whomever they choose to allow access, similar to the advantage enjoyed by Bronze Age kings who controlled stores of tin."

Open models directly contradict that. Anyone can "put evil AI" into pretty much anything at this point. Access is really just access to foundry chips. The modern day tin access is silicon, not AI.

1970-01-01··on Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
>Lithium is not the way to go for home batteries.

Turns out, they're on top of this.

https://cswd.net/cswd-in-the-news/vermont-expands-battery-re...

1970-01-01··on America.gov
So it's literally Google search for the government? The unstoppable force has met the unmovable object!
1970-01-01··on Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far
What percent of these 258 papers was funded with taxpayer money?
1970-01-01··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
Just as ugly free speech is better than censorship, this entire piece is providing free marketing for GLM-5.3 as a "full power" AI that Anthropic can not provide.
1970-01-01··on ChatGPT Pro 500
At this rate I expect end-to-end work getting done, no babysitting whatsoever. The agents should literally be calling me and talking about their problem if something needs my input.
1970-01-01··on DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
What do you expect? They thrive on addicts. No different than NYSE:META, and NYSE:RDDT, and NYSE:BUD and NYSE:TAP and NYSE:(fill in whatever proven-to-be-addicting product you want)
1970-01-01··on Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Fix One of America's Scariest Roads?
Do this one weird trick to summarize the entire article. Trim the headline:

"Fix One of America's Scariest Roads?"

1970-01-01··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Reddit has enslaved itself as the complaint department of the Internet. Like a dead tree in the forest, it remains very useful but there is no way it can become anything more than an attractive home for wild takes and "fungal videos". As the major branches fully decay, expect the content rot to reach the subreddit layers and the entire structure will be slowly weathered away by time.
1970-01-01··on New Cyber-OSINT model released
Jargon so thick you need a knife
1970-01-01··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
If demand is down globally, sell the land already. People will do everything except the hardest thing.
1970-01-01··on Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
This feels like when a decent book is made into a movie, and then the movie does well so someone will take the movie and summarize the plot in a YouTube video. TLDR: this is TLDR for TLDR. Just read more from the source.
1970-01-01··on Pirating the Pirates
It gets worse:

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/2181751/dvds-with-t...

1970-01-01··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
These EREVs are going to last one cycle; the solid state battery tech is going to decimate their principal and you will be forced to choose between EREVs that cost slightly less than EVs and still inherit all complications of a hybrid powertrain or just go with the BEV for a few thousand more.
1970-01-01··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Much better headline: Toyota is throwing every powertrain into the next Corolla

One neat thing about this announcement is we will finally have apples-to-apples ownership costs and reliability data.

1970-01-01··on F-Droid 2.0
Fitting, as there really are only 2.0 trustworthy app stores for Android.
1970-01-01··on GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
Looking forward to the juggling bananas benchmark. If Claude can only manage 5 and Astra does 6, clearly they have a better model.
1970-01-01··on The darker side of being a doctor
This very much points to the administrative side causing the damage. The overall toolset is broken and nobody is fixing.
1970-01-01··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
If this was 1992, we'd be retelling and celebrating the hack for decades.

1992 was 33 years ago; this is almost an unremarkable event. It will be superseded by whatever happens in AI news by the end of the month.

1970-01-01··on I said no and Apple said yes
And chains of Linux have links that break when you update them, or sometimes they just aren't compatible with random metals: "galvanized chains are planned in a future release, please donate"
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