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2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Show HN: OldRoll, a free vintage photo editor for the browser
i can understand lightroom settings being paid, not the $100 pack that folks are selling, but at least there are a ton of pieces to that. just IG-style filters though are ridiculous.
2PqboPPmKegvanx··on US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work
>automated by SI

calling it SI is the version is equal to the 3 meme from Inglorious Basterds[0]

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/1q0hrdj...

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work
speedrunning brain drain, you spend decades building a moat based on stability and proceed to end decades of work in 24 months.
2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
>Folks get mad at Musk, Zuckerberg, etc... if they're doing something illegal, ok yea that makes sense. If folks are mad about actions that are legal, it makes zero sense to be mad at the actor. Be mad at the people/entities who created the legal loopholes and laws.

...why not both?

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
anyone who ever says no to this hasn't ever posted on reddit.
2PqboPPmKegvanx··on S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in vote
seems like par for that course
2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Show HN: Ive Sent It – online courier for files, with signed proof of delivery
just to be clear this is a year old+ account with 1 submission - this one - and 2 comments ever - both in this thread.
2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Comma's hands-off driving tech under investigation after 2 fatal crashes
Pretty clearly, it shouldn't drive anyone's car.
2PqboPPmKegvanx··on There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet
highly doubt Jason or 404 is out here just telling AI to write a story.
2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations
>I do take significant issue with standard installation practices

I just don't understand why there is no middle option. Either on the ground for a 6 year old or set up for a 2m+ man.

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Movie Review: Musk
CEOs who act the way he does are horrible CEOs 100% of the time - doesn't matter if the company has 10, 100 or 100,000 employees.
2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Movie Review: Musk
>Does he over promise and exaggerate? Undoubtedly.

>But he does also deliver.

Shotwell deserves 99.99% of the SpaceX credit over Musk. anyone who says differently needs to take off their Musk-coloured glasses

also there are very good reasons no one else has released cars on public roads with no mirrors, steering wheels or pedals.

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Defining AI Psychosis. Part 2: "Prolific AI Psychosis"
its the same individuals in my experience. i don't see people who used to be good employees suddenly sending a 3000 word email, but i sure do see that out of the people who were bad coworkers 12 months ago and still are today.
2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Defining AI Psychosis. Part 2: "Prolific AI Psychosis"
Part 3: "Voluminous AI Psychosis"
2PqboPPmKegvanx··on US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
don't they know?

>“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on WeatherNext 3
question for you but what weather app / tool are you using in your personal life, as someone who works in that general industry.
2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
ChatGPT having issues across every component (except FedRAMP)

Ads Platform? still in the green with no incidents.

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage
>It’s kinda ironic that with all that AI, they choose not to use any of that intelligence to target ads better.

I couldn't possibly be more par for course for OpenAI

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
i mean it started nearly 2 years ago...
2PqboPPmKegvanx··on One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
no kidding.

>The Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with agents from the Internal Revenue Service and United States Postal Inspection Service, raided Thao's home on June 20, 2024 as part of a corruption investigation

that's a nightmare group of people to be after you.

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on My Rules for Using Spreadsheets
totally agree that its "fine" - but no one who is serious is doing their data work / anything else in Numbers.

>gist of the article is that don’t use spreadsheets for things that are too complicated.

the OP appears to have never, ever, met a problem where his solution wasn't "make it way more complicated than it needs to be" - go look at the first page of his blog for proof.

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on My Rules for Using Spreadsheets
>You can do horrifying and amazing things with Excel.

I've never seen a better explanation of the tool than that one sentence

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on My Rules for Using Spreadsheets
how you know they aren't serious people? Numbers is referenced almost as many times as Excel in the blog post.

First sentence of the post?

>My fundamental rule is Don’t, but a single word wouldn’t make for much of a blog post.

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Grok Bot
>with, I assume, more guardrails

with Grok, that's a tremendous assumption

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
>Any ethicist for a corporation is clearly a PR move, right?

I think a lot of it depends on the size of the company. Startup? Sure, maybe it's a real thing.

Gigantic company like a member of FAANG or MANGOS? absolutely a PR move.

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
the only shocking thing to me is that they still had even a single one.
2PqboPPmKegvanx··on I'll be stepping back from leading product for X
>The service has just gotten worse

the story of literally every product Elon has been involved in for the last 26 years.

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on I'll be stepping back from leading product for X
>People love hating on x and nikita but both the app & web experience have improved dramatically over the last year+

you say this like it had anywhere to go but up.

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
Neither here nor there but that whole upper NE corner of the state only has a handful of hospitals - in part because there just aren't that many people who live there.

NMLEG map of counties and population | https://www.nmlegis.gov/publications/handbook/counties.pdf

wiki 2020 census map | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/New_Mexi...

2PqboPPmKegvanx··on Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout
>Now another EA has followed the path of making a lot of money relatively quickly and losing it just as fast

let's be clear here - he didn't actually "lose" a ton of money. he was up 439% net in the first half of 2026.

his issue was getting margin called due to being short on software (which went up) and long on AI infra (which went down) - getting margin called != losing money.

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