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atarian··on Houthis used Anthropic to develop guided weapons
I wouldn’t be surprised if Iran’s strategy to shut down the Strait of Hormuz was ideated by AI.
atarian··on Decoy Font
How? AFAIK screen readers don’t do OCR.
atarian··on The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally
you just blew my mind
atarian··on Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
>I know I need marketing help but giving equity to someone I met online feels like a huge risk.

doesn't seem like you're risking much if your products are not getting any traction in the first place

atarian··on 4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin
Hopefully it’s real this time: https://www.vice.com/en/article/viral-free-potatoes-post-cos...
atarian··on Everyone in Seattle hates AI
It has all the signs. Em-dashes. That distinct way of using short sentences to drive a point. Like this.
atarian··on Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass
I bought a fire extinguisher recently but I’ve never used one. I have a faint idea of how it works and what kind of result I’d get based on what I’ve seen on TV. But if a serious fire ever breaks out I don’t even know if I’d even remember to grab and use it.
atarian··on Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network
it’s amazing to me how we’re still discovering new pieces of the human body every year. you would have thought by now we’d have discovered everything
atarian··on Gold hits all time high
Scarcity
atarian··on California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy
And then China steps in to protect California from getting annexed by the United States.
atarian··on Show HN: A terminal emulator in pure PHP
I was hoping for an actual desktop app powered by PHP, which would be really cool having PHP as a desktop runtime.
atarian··on Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco
very cool, reminds me of watchdogs. where's the music from? it's very calming
atarian··on Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
i had the same workflow but now i use zed w/ tmux (tmux inside the zed terminal)
atarian··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
TikTok should just build out a PWA. That would be a huge fuck you to this whole situation.
atarian··on Doing Hard Things While Living Life: Why We Built Vade Studio in Clojure
same just redirects me to login every time
atarian··on Tesla reports 1.1% sales drop for 2024, first annual decline in at least 9 years
>The mainstream media narrative does shape general public opinion, even for the smarter folks

If that’s true then everyone should be hating Luigi Mangione by now.

atarian··on Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare bacteria
Have your plans changed with all the recent news about tattoo ink? Do you try to vet the ink?
atarian··on Parasite infection is associated with entrepreneurship (2020)
Coming soon: Toxoplasmosis supplements
atarian··on In Reversal, Guinness Gives a Frenchman's Matchstick Eiffel Tower the Record
what is this a tower for ants?
atarian··on Ask HN: What's the coolest non standard application of LLMs you've seen?
Summarizing the legal terms for a new job offer
atarian··on Uniqlo's Automated Self-Checkout
I’ve used this several times and every time it accidentally scanned items from the person next to me so it didn’t really impress me as much.
atarian··on WebGPU now available for testing in Safari Technology Preview
Very interesting how similar the code for setting up the pipeline is similar to Metal.
atarian··on Gemini sued over $689M in customer withdrawals
Why would Gemini be at fault for customers withdrawing funds? Isn't Genesis at fault for not having the liquidity to support the withdrawals?
atarian··on Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum
Meh, it's just some stuff they extracted from your spit. I wouldn't get bent out of shape over it. Who knows, we might all get a decent payout from a settlement. You certainly won't regret when that happens.
atarian··on Apple AirTags stalking led to ruin and murders, lawsuit says
AirTags are also made by a company with a lot of money for a settlement.
atarian··on iOS 17 Is a Prude
I think most people would prefer this over CSAM.
atarian··on Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy
Agreed, it’s an apples to oranges comparison.
atarian··on “Green smoothie cleanse” causing acute oxalate nephropathy
This is why I tell people to go easy on the spinach when they’re making smoothies.
atarian··on Lit: Simple, fast web components
I think web components were almost a good "built-in" way of doing React/Vue. Where it lost me was the Shadow DOM. I get that it's supposed to encapsulate the contents of a component and restrict JS/CSS to itself, but it's overkill IMO. It's basically like having a bunch of iframes and makes it much harder to query things, which is very much unlike the rest of the DOM. I don't need guard rails to tell me how to do encapsulation.
atarian··on Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery
This guy is clearly a pro. He quotes Seneca and Bruce Lee.
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