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bix6on Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management

That’s impressive humidity drop for a small panel area. Curious how big the room was.

bix6on The AI Race Just Got Awkward

$9k for a 5090 now? Sheesh.

bix6on I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records

He’s fine to use the AI for bug hunting but nobody wants to read AI’s bullshit slop and tone

bix6on I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records

Well college isn’t worth it according to the Thiel crowd so maybe this will be better.

bix6on I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records

$5k is a literal penny for Microsoft. Give the kid $100k.

bix6on Show HN: Get your girlfriend back with AI

Wtf is this spam for $100/mo. 16 days old account no post history.

bix6on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

> The first public hint that a return to flight for the SR-71A was brewing came at the exclusive All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Sept. 12-14

Excuse me while I vomit.

bix6on Ask HN: What are you reading?

Carl was hilarious, can’t wait for the final books

Nettle and Bone I really enjoyed

Some desperate glory also enjoyed

East of Eden very meaty if you want an epic

bix6on The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging

You mean like withholding units from the market to overcharge renters when there’s people sleeping on the streets? Totally fine.

bix6on The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging

At 176 pages I may read it but also I’m already so exhausted by this topic since nothing is changing.

bix6on OpenAI Targets $30B in New Funding at $1.4T Value

$30B to pace the frontier

bix6on A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]

Hard to read on mobile. Is there a tldr of how bad each provider is?

bix6on U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982

So seriously, what is the administrations intention here? They’ve used all the missiles and drained all the gas. Are they trying to get the U.S. invaded?

bix6on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta

Even CEOs gotta job hop to beat that 23% inflation!! (Y/y airline prices).

bix6on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

> Adding "reddit" to a knife search still gets you humans, mostly. For a couple of brands, a quarter to a third of the buying advice comes from accounts that mostly recommend that brand. Whether those are fans or paid, I do not know, and after reading their histories I lean toward fans and hold the lean loosely.

Very long write up to unconfidently say I don’t know.

bix6on Musk, the Movie

Wow this guy has more kids than Nick Cannon

bix6on Two Companies Built a $71B Drug Class

Chamath’s AI just turns out 90 page deep dives once a week and people pay for that? Wow

bix6on Show HN: I started surfing and ended up building forecasts for 50k beaches

How does this compare to Surfline?

bix6on Opus 5.5 launch videos are genuinely next level

Spam

bix6on Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California

Gonna be interesting when that Kelvin wave overlaps with king tide…

bix6on Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California

CA already floods at high tide so I think another 10 ft is really gonna mess stuff up. There are so many rivers that empty at sea level and a lot of roads that cross over low points that will need reworking.

bix6on Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair

Want

bix6on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated

Ok can we see the list? And then prosecute the people? Or it’s a secret for some reason?

bix6on I'm tired of being on the network

This is the overwhelming feeling of our time and yet we continue on this abysmal path. What will it take?

bix6on Geothermal heat map of US hot springs

Hey Armen how accurate is this? That’s a lot of spots to research. I read a bit about your process but you aren’t physically verifying in person so still room for significant error? Pretty cool / helpful though still, thank you!

bix6on Passed $10M/y in revenue and investment gains this year

Is this guy for real? People pay for AI photos when Chat already does it?

bix6on OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'

> It is weird how prominent anti-AI sentiment is online and in media. It's by far the most popular and fastest growing technology in the world. So presumably people have a general favorable impression of the technology as they're engaging with the product and many are paying for it

It is popular because it’s useful but people still have unfavorable attitudes towards it in polls. It’s like Amazon. We use Amazon cuz it’s convenient but do we like the way Bezos treats his employees?

bix6on Claude Opus 5.5

Well you see Terra is being left behind.

bix6on GPT-6 Sol and Luna

And Sam is better?

bix6on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-civilian-harm-mit...

Yes it is really the case here.