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blackoil··on Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
How can we be sure you aren't paid by bear cartel to push this post?
blackoil··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Vat hapened tu ze komon English I got mail abaut 20 yers ago?
blackoil··on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
"buying China more time". China has no time-pressure to attack immediately, but all the upside right now of pretending to a stable, sensible world leader. Treaty with Taiwan will keep the ego of One China, prevent it from naval blockade by Taiwanese territories and will remove one of the major territorial issues raised against it.
blackoil··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Is World in immediate trouble? I see three posts discussing collapse of US currency and market on homepage, and this site actively avoids anything political.
blackoil··on Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
It is supposed to be a "liberal democracy". "You" have killed millions to promote this idea and now trying to disown it.
blackoil··on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
Can outsource to China. Only partial /s
blackoil··on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
An EU type agreement will keep peace for some time. Remove all trade barriers between two countries, have a treaty preventing any side to be used militarily by third party, no attacking each other and free movement of all vessels through each other's seas. Maybe few more
blackoil··on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
But will the whole pie grow or shrink?
blackoil··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Current Trade with US is a small percentage of the reserve. It's the trade with everybody else and trust that it will hold value for all the future trade is where it matters.
blackoil··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Oil price is highly volatile for it to be reserve currency. A mix of Gold, Yuan, Euro, Dollar makes more sense.
blackoil··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Almost Hanlon's razor. "Don't try to find logic in actions of monkey brain."
blackoil··on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
Personnel die in those "fistfight", so not comical but also not a war.
blackoil··on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
One War. In 1962, i.e. 64 years ago. In meanwhile, US supported genocidal regime of Pakistan killing Hindus and many more in what is now Bangladesh. Sent billions more to Pakistan which are then used to fund terrorist activities in India. and some more recently under Covfefe.
blackoil··on Tesla moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription
Not just BYD, huawei solution is almost at par with Tesla. German, Korean, Chinese all will be there in few years.
blackoil··on Microservices Killed Our Startup. Monoliths Would've Saved Us
Microservices solve people problem not technical. Till ~20 backend devs no point in moving to it. Monoliths are better in terms of performance, reliability and dev speed.
blackoil··on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
It has 10g of sugar, which isn't good but no where near a medium coke. Though not a healthy meal because of high sodium, but with some added fibers isn't very bad.
blackoil··on Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
We trust in our lord and savior China and Zuck to keep the peasants fed.
blackoil··on Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
Wasn't that supposed to be 'ass'
blackoil··on Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]
They know how to boil a frog.
blackoil··on Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]
How are Google allowed to get Zeekr? Are they pre tariff or they have some loophole being corporate?
blackoil··on Your Supabase is public if you turn off RLS
More likely reason is that Supabase is a BaaS. Between client and DB there is no backend for secret management. So RLS is the only way to directly create API on the DB.
blackoil··on How SQLite is tested
Many times these test suites are more valuable than code itself, particularly in legacy software. Trying to find and document thousands of edge cases a software like Excel must have is more difficult than implementing them.
blackoil··on Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
The difference is previous version of alexa wasn't good enough to pay for it. Now it is good enough that millions of users are paying $10-100 for these services.
blackoil··on AI agents break rules under everyday pressure
Once AI improves its cost/error ratio enough the systems you are suggesting for humans will work here also. Maybe Claude/OpenAI will be pair programming and Gemini reviewing the code.
blackoil··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
not work will also mean it will siphon all the data and then leak it to hackers from around the world.
blackoil··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
It's easy just use made up definitions for "helped", "fraudulent" and "terminated".
blackoil··on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why
If fixing, Why now? Why this much?
blackoil··on France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors
Before internet on phone, every communication was in plain text, so no need to have a backdoor in phone if you can tap directly into AT&T or Vodafone.
blackoil··on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
What we need is an open source industry standard stdlib equiv developed and maintained by MS, GOOG and some open source players.

All libraries should strive to have dependency only on it.

blackoil··on Mind-altering 'brain weapons' no longer only science fiction, say researchers
Looking around. I don't know what feels worse; a drug that induced compliance or world is in general this stupid.
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