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HoldOnAMinute··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
"Suffer"? It might help bring home prices back down to reality.

For the first time in my life I'm seeing high-income earners as a big drag on society.

HoldOnAMinute··on The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
I'd like to see LOGO but with support for 3-D, accelerated with CUDA
HoldOnAMinute··on OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI
At this point, LLM's are "good enough" for all kinds of tasks. Instead of making them more capable, now the efforts are making them smaller and cheaper.

All aboard! We're racing to the bottom now.

HoldOnAMinute··on Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen
So, two years salary in the Bay Area where it's a lot warmer?
HoldOnAMinute··on From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
How is this different from other LLM runners?
HoldOnAMinute··on A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
Yes, but where are you going to place ads?

Nobody gets a promo from something that is working well for humans.

HoldOnAMinute··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
Investing in the well-being of our society will severely impact our ability to mint billionaires and trillionaires.
HoldOnAMinute··on 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
It is inhumane that we don't offer every possible option to those who are suffering.
HoldOnAMinute··on [dead]
A sorely needed product, which will help me keep my fridge organized
HoldOnAMinute··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
Was author trying to avoid the word "rootkit"?
HoldOnAMinute··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
Maybe someone can put the core FoxPro ideas on top of SQLite
HoldOnAMinute··on Ask HN: What happens when Claude Code goes away?
This is what I'm referring to - the seamless integration - "it just works".
HoldOnAMinute··on Ask HN: What happens when Claude Code goes away?
No - Here is what I mean. When I use Claude Code locally with Ollama/Quen, it can do the work just fine - like creating a script - but it just outputs it, rather than placing it into a file. So far I can't convince it to actually WRITE to a file. With Claude Code, it just works. Recursing around the file system, it just does it. I can't get that working locally.
HoldOnAMinute··on I don't like passkeys
I hated them at first, but since I am already dependent on iCloud Keychain to manage my passwords, I just figured there is not really any additional risk. I just make sure I will always have multiple, healthy devices, which are always patched, charged, and sync'ed. And don't put them all in the same physical location at one time.
HoldOnAMinute··on Let's make quality the norm again
Speed Queen appliances are about 2–2.5x longer-lasting for roughly a 50–75% increase in purchase price.
HoldOnAMinute··on LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
99.99999999% of consumers will not notice any difference
HoldOnAMinute··on Can guitar frets perform multiplication?
Vibrating strings are Turing-complete
HoldOnAMinute··on Christmas Village shoppers no longer will be allowed to enter booths
I'm tired of this world
HoldOnAMinute··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
I have never seen Claude use this phrase
HoldOnAMinute··on Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
The Commodore 64 was FUN. Making it do things, discovering its secrets.

Three pieces of software that are mind-boggling on that hardware:

1. GEOS and the whole suite (GeoWrite, etc)

2. The Last Ninja video game

3. Echelon video game

HoldOnAMinute··on I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech
I realize now that the point I was trying to make, did not come across at all. I will try to write better next time.

TL;DR A global cabal of pedophiles runs the world

HoldOnAMinute··on I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech
The current state of world affairs
HoldOnAMinute··on I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech
I used to think that sexual preferences were decoupled from business, capitalism, and government but gestures around recent events seem to have proven otherwise.
HoldOnAMinute··on Check if a file was made with Claude
There must be some set of outputs that is completely resistant to watermarking. For example if I told Claude to output "Hello, World"
HoldOnAMinute··on Small Models Have Arrived
Someone will eventually figure out how to package it all into a single, cheap chip
HoldOnAMinute··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
Pöyzen Böyzen
HoldOnAMinute··on Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification
Backdoor way to get data centers out of your state.
HoldOnAMinute··on 50k Boat Names
Looked for several of my favorites and didn't see them.

No mention of Choppin' Broccoli which can be found in the Small Craft Harbor in San Francisco

HoldOnAMinute··on Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
I, for one, welcome our giant supercomputer overlords.
HoldOnAMinute··on The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
You haven't addressed the grift problem. Without support for traditional nepotism/cronyism grift, how do you expect to motivate politicians?

You won't always be able to count on the threat of exposing their sexual habits, which has been working for decades.

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