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arealaccount··on A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
I thought this was going to be an article about slacking off with style
arealaccount··on There are no "rogue" AI agents
Its like how if you have a cop in your family you can get out of parking tickets
arealaccount··on The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
If its cheap enough to be worth letting a few customers churn, then profits will be positive
arealaccount··on ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
I thought 3rd party cookies were blocked on like every major browser, since like forever ago. Is Chrome still allowing this?
arealaccount··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
I have the same phone, also lasts about a day and a half.

How do you see the capacity?

arealaccount··on Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
Good luck getting permits to install your citizen flock in public areas.
arealaccount··on LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
You will still need to agree to the offline spying ToS
arealaccount··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
Considering how ubiquitous public roads are it sorta does
arealaccount··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
One could argue the DNCs flagrant corruption was a contributor to the current situation
arealaccount··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
When Altman “admits” things it seems more manipulative than humility
arealaccount··on The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall
There's always the option of a bailout
arealaccount··on Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why
You’re joking but from the readme

> Is it safe to start a big refactor now, or should I wait for my window to clear?

arealaccount··on Don't Paste the AI, please
This was recently on the front page as well https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/
arealaccount··on A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
We use DuckDB WASM with parquet to build dashboards in-browser. It's cool to be able to write SQL directly in a browser and not have to rely on REST/Graphql/etc to access the data layer.
arealaccount··on France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
Allow people to charge 25 cents to accept calls from unknown numbers.

I believe iOS has a feature to force unknown numbers to declare themselves before connecting, which is less good but still a thing.

arealaccount··on Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

On ios Firefox and Safari unfortunately, would love to see this site

arealaccount··on 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
How would it analyze your surroundings without a camera
arealaccount··on GitHub Outage (Aug 2026)
The only reason to use Github is if someone else made the choice for you, why is it always down lately
arealaccount··on LLM Honeypot
In have a child, hates pizza, I sometimes wonder if he’s from another planet
arealaccount··on Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI
When I was in college we had a professor that would assign a 20ish page paper due every other Saturday.

One of the students was certain the reports were not reviewed and just given a vibes grade based on the student.

So he handed in pages of literally “blaah blaaaah blaaah…” and got an A

Somehow feels relevant to this article

arealaccount··on SpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley Says
You’re not the only one saying this

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/buffett-to...

arealaccount··on DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety
They did this same dance about 10 years ago, and last minute caved to American Kratom Association and did not ban.

This time AKA is lobbying FOR this ban, as 7oh gives kratom a really bad name.

arealaccount··on The politics of air conditioning in Switzerland
Seems like these folks won’t be enjoying fat piles of data center tax revenues any time soon
arealaccount··on Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
I think they’re saying people do do it, which is why the rates are high
arealaccount··on 98% isn't much
I wonder how much traffic from bots is skewing OPs nested CSS calculations
arealaccount··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
I understand the guy and his manager he called over for the hard sell were doing their jobs, that’s exactly the point.
arealaccount··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
Oh man we went to Costco today to purchase a membership, was finally convinced after all of the $1.50 hot dog memes

It was a used car tier hard sell to get the “executive” membership, after saying no a half dozen times literally everything we said was an invite to highly recommended the damn executive card.

Then they offer $20 back on your membership if you sign up for auto pay (and install the costco app on your phone and give up your email and phone). But you need a card, and it can’t be Amex, Mastercard, or Discover, so of course the very highly recommendation is to get the Costco Visa. It has no annual fee and you get %2 back, and even if you don’t spend enough you'll get a minimum of $65 back, which is the difference between the regular card and the executive. So the executive card is basically a no brainer.

Well we couldn’t get the $20 back coupon and at this point im feeling like Costco isn’t as customer friendly as the internet says, but it turns out we can actually use discover (debit only) on the phone app. Even though honestly the executive card pays for itself, also the Costco visa has no annual fee you can just get it and never use it.

I ended up getting the plain gold star card, got some free samples and was thoroughly impressed with the $1.50 hot dog. But I think I hate this store, onboarding was such a shady process.

arealaccount··on Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years
> However, in June the biggest plunge came from what is defined as “prime age” workers, or those between the ages of 25 and 54. That rate fell 0.6 percentage point to 83.3%, its lowest since December 2023.

It's great how two sources can tell a completely different story about the same numbers.

arealaccount··on Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says
Even crazier that they sway elections in districts they've never even visited nor intend to ever visit
arealaccount··on OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO
Users coming from Chat or Claude or the likes would be very high intent if done correctly, advertisers would pay a lot of money. I'm certain people would pull budget from Google.
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