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Apofis··on Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
Too late now!
Apofis··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
When creating an account, there should be a short screen with the salient points from the guidelines to follow.
Apofis··on You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account
eSIM apps are available on the app store where you can purchase an eSIM in any country these days.
Apofis··on Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway
Elon Musk's Meta VR moment is definitely Optimus.
Apofis··on I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
If anyone wants to know why he bothered to do this, he wrote another article explaining: https://maplant.com/2025-02-17-Why-I%27m-Writing-a-Scheme-Im...
Apofis··on I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing
Are they paying you as well as your comment makes it sound? That was a ton of lingo and I'm used to lingo!
Apofis··on Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles
He does have to turn a profit on what he's buying. You want spot price? Oddly enough, in California and maybe other states, a pawn shop will give you spot price.
Apofis··on Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers
Makes total sense, bandwidth on this scale is expensive.
Apofis··on Meta Joins Kotlin Foundation
Kotlin is awesome, good on Meta.
Apofis··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
I still have my iPhone 12 Pro that I preordered and got in release day and it still does everything I can ask of it, though the latest Call of Duty runs a bit slow, which is making me want to upgrade. Them not releasing a smart Siri that answers to more than just basic prompts is really hurting them and I can see why investors sued them. There's no reason for me to have to use ChatGPT on an iPhone, I should be able to talk to Siri like she's an actual personal assistant and not just an easier way to check the weather and set a timer.
Apofis··on Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president
Well they can't force you to regurgitate the knowledge you got there or remove it from your resume, so big deal.
Apofis··on DiceDB
Question, how does DiceDB differ from Redis pub/sub? https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/interact/pubsub/
Apofis··on Facebook Marketplace is keeping young people on the platform
Great compensation though!
Apofis··on Show HN: CodeTracer – A new time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust
You don't see software going for $8000 frequently! Wow!
Apofis··on Mistral OCR
Foxit PDF exists...
Apofis··on Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
Exercise goes a long way to keep up energy levels after work.
Apofis··on Show HN: CodeTracer – A new time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust
Any chance of something like this being available for Java/Kotlin on JVM?
Apofis··on Show HN: CodeTracer – A new time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust
This happens all the time and is super irksome. Being able to step backwards as well as forwards is super cool. Also, being able to do that with a loop using a slider is cool.
Apofis··on What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish
Why not post the OP with this link?
Apofis··on Jeep Owners Fed Up with In-Car Pop-Up Ads
This is absurd, they are attempting to turn your Car into a Cable TV set top box. Cable used to be ad free too! That's one of the biggest reasons everyone fled to Netflix.
Apofis··on There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage
It's not really helping those poor people when those same lotteries are then bought by large corporations for profit.
Apofis··on There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage
For the same reason corporations shouldn't be purchasing Residential Real Estate (individual houses) it destroys the market for the consumers its intended to serve.
Apofis··on Apple M3 Ultra
Doesn't MacOS support these things? I'm sure Apple runs these on their datacenters somehow?
Apofis··on Ask HN: A question about mentoring a junior developer
Dude, your job is to mentor, so you mentor. You work for a company, and the whole company is also your team.
Apofis··on Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
How far were you into building the game before you began to approach publishers? YC speaks frequently about investing in the founders, and not the idea---but then dives right into well you need to have revenue and/or users and it's a bit of a double-standard---so I'm curious what stage you were at when you started talking to publishers and what state your product was in when you finally signed a deal.
Apofis··on Larry Ellison's half-billion-dollar quest to change farming
It's remarkable because there are a ton of vertical farming setups in and around large cities in unremarkable warehouses that got this right, but they're having issues with small greenhouses and $500mm.
Apofis··on DARPA Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures
That would be in interesting direction for our tech to go, everything grown organically including space structures.
Apofis··on ChatGPT Clicks Convert 6.8X Higher Than Google Organic
There just isn't anywhere near enough data in this post to make any conclusions at all, especially about click conversations, which are notoriously fickle.
Apofis··on I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
Remarkable that it's 2025 and laptop sleep/suspend still doesn't work right on linux. I think the first time I encountered this was probably 15 years ago now?
Apofis··on My Life in Weeks
And the best part of it is that there's really only about 4000 weeks for any one of us! It's an interesting metric.
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