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ashtonshears··on Government agencies buy commercial data about Americans in bulk
Silence demon!
ashtonshears··on Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying
Shame on you
ashtonshears··on Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
Perhaps, we overestimate the capabilities of capital markets
ashtonshears··on MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security
Mate, read his quotes or watch on youtube. There is no reason for you to use that as a scapegoat, when there is clearly obvious reasons some may not like him.
ashtonshears··on Ask HN: Have you successfully treated forward head posture ("nerd neck")?
Rolfing is just one technique for the highly effective fascia release domain, which is poorly understood by Western health practitioners. I enjoy the MELT method
ashtonshears··on Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
Most people are sick of free trial scams, its incredibly pervasive. Its only a gift if there is no automated renewal, a scummy ad otherwise
ashtonshears··on Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
Dont accept this subscription dark pattern
ashtonshears··on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
Sure, it wasnt fair for me to claim you said that, so I apologize. It was rude of me to frame my position in that manner, and wasnt intended maliciously.

I meant to suggest that corps being unable to take those positions results in such a world for Americans at those corps

ashtonshears··on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
You are claiming all americans must happily create weapons. Thats a silly statement to most americans and humans
ashtonshears··on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
Do you work at Anthropic, or know people who do?

I genuinly curious why they are so holy to you, when to me I see just another tech company trying to make cash

Edit: Reading some of the linked articles, I can see how Anthropic CEO is refusing to allow their product for warfare (killing humans), which is probably a good thing that resonates with supporting them

ashtonshears··on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
The societal ills from collective tendancy to ignore red flags seems to be a human trait
ashtonshears··on Doing the thing is doing the thing
Maybe people did tell him he sucked, but he was having fun
ashtonshears··on Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure
I bet the llm is biased towards the mtg card delver of secrets
ashtonshears··on C Is Best (2025)
Rust is pushed on the internet
ashtonshears··on Web development is fun again
I enjoy coding for the ability to turn ideas into software. Seeing more rapid feature development, and also more rapid code cleanup and project architecture cleanup is what makes AI assisted coding enjoyable to me
ashtonshears··on One year of keeping a tada list
Shamefully bad advice. Journaling is common to aid the desribed issue.
ashtonshears··on No shares in company, but 550 employees received a $240M gift from their owner
I speculate the correlation to lottery activity and poor financial habits is the principal factor
ashtonshears··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
Thanks all for your contributions to positive chats on this site — have a joy filled holiday
ashtonshears··on Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
Weird take; Mark is literally a ruler, and the people are defending against his right to enforce his own rules??
ashtonshears··on The Stallman Paradox: How Web3 Became the Ultimate Open Source Theater
This is crypto spam content
ashtonshears··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
I appreciate your efforts to support community and people
ashtonshears··on How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
‘Lawmakers’ fixed no problems, no laws were made. Enforcers leveraged existing laws in ways that are clearly not intended purposed for their own goals; that will always be ripe for abuse and must be discouraged. Cryptography is not a munition.
ashtonshears··on Claude Skills
Learning how to get it to run build steps was a big boost in my initial productivity when learning the cli tools
ashtonshears··on Claude Skills
Maybe react native if you like react
ashtonshears··on Claude Skills
You can make that. The only ai coding tools i have liked is openai codex and claude code. I would start with working with it to create a design document in markdown to plan the project. Then i would close the app to reset context, and tell it to read that file, and create an implementation plan for the project in various phases. Then i would close context, and have it start implementing. I dont always like that many steps, but for a new user it can help see ways to use the tools
ashtonshears··on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact
The military boots on the group consider it a mapping tool, intelligence like ‘bomb here’.
ashtonshears··on Tau² benchmark: How a prompt rewrite boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%
If programming was the most clear form of writing, then how come eductators frequently use pseudo code to make programming more clear?
ashtonshears··on A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture
This is silly; PM is a more broad role than SWE.
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