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brahma-devon Five Adani Group companies settle Hindenburg-linked SEBI proceedings for –$157K

Five Adani Group companies have settled SEBI proceedings arising from issues examined in connection with the Hindenburg Research report.

Adani Enterprises, Adani Total Gas, AWL Agri Business, Adani Green Energy, and Adani Energy Solutions paid a combined ₹1.508 crore (about US$157K, depending on the exchange rate).

The proceedings concerned alleged disclosure issues involving related-party transactions and audit/limited-review reports. The companies settled without admitting or denying the findings of fact or conclusions of law.

Source: https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/adani-group-companies-set...

brahma-devon Incident with Github.com [resolved]

Atleast you're getting the unicorn. I am getting 404 on valid links. For a moment I thought the repo is gone.

https://imgur.com/b0Xj3Z6

brahma-devon Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials

Idea. They can develop all they want, only the government should be the one buying and selling weapons. That way if a government decides to sell weapons to genocidal maniacs, people can vote that government out.

brahma-devon Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials

That's also how fascists get to power. You give them freedom, they use that freedom to get into power and take away your freedom.

brahma-devon Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials

A logger working for a company cutting a few trees to make furniture is not the same thing as a logger working for a company shredding the whole forest to circulate money.

brahma-devon X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

Every island is capable of hosting pedophiles, but they don't. The one island that's famous for pedos is the one Musk wanted to be invited to. Find me more pedo islands, I'll dunk on them too very consistently. Whether it's AI with CSAM or islands with pedos, Musk is definitely consistent.

brahma-devon US captures Venezuelan leader, Trump says

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brahma-devon US captures Venezuelan leader, Trump says

That's what I said. Yes it's a fact and not merely a commonly held view that Trump's campaign had Russian actors, but reasonable people still consider him President, and not a puppet placed by Putin.

brahma-devon US captures Venezuelan leader, Trump says

The same way any reasonable person thinks Trump is the government of US of A, regardless of his affinity to scammers, pedophiles or Russia. Wishful thinking does not change facts.

brahma-devon LLM Inevitabilism

Here's some BS for you.

That's an unfair mischaracterization of their position. Criticism doesn't equal rejection, and skepticism isn't the same as ignorance. Pointing out limitations, failures, or hype doesn't mean they are claiming there's nothing useful or that the entire technology is inherently worthless.

Being critical is not about denying all value—it’s about demanding evidence, accuracy, and clarity amid inflated claims. In fact, responsible critique helps improve technology by identifying where it falls short, so it can evolve into something genuinely useful and reliable.

What you're calling "willful ignorance" is, in reality, a refusal to blindly accept marketing narratives or inflated expectations. That’s not being closed-minded—that’s being discerning.

If there is something truly valuable, it will stand up to scrutiny.

brahma-devon Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source

But they might have the computational resource to showcase how these companies are breaking the copyright law that they loved until recently.

brahma-devon Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators

And nicotine is not addictive.

https://senate.ucsf.edu/tobacco-ceo-statement-to-congress

brahma-devon Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators

Cigarettes do not cause cancer.

brahma-devon TimeGuessr

This is how it renders for me. https://imgur.com/a/kJmNMUR

brahma-devon My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

It's amazing how it goes from all the knowledge in the world to ** terms and conditions apply, all answers are subject to market risks, please read the offer documents carefully.........

brahma-devon US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-mus...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-doge-false-claim-bill...

https://fortune.com/2025/03/13/doge-saved-federal-government...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/doge-website-now-saved-105-billion...

https://fortune.com/2025/04/02/doge-claimed-contract-savings...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/politics/doge-musk-con...

brahma-devon Ask HN: I spent months building an app and now I don't know how to get users

I am failing to see why would anyone choose to bypass all the existing options with ratings and reputations, to find a service provider. It's going completely opposite to the customers' interests.

Also "offer services mostly to people they know" conflicts with your business. If I am offering services to people I know, I message them, and they pay me cash. Why would a 3rd party be involved in it ? Unless you're offering some sort of checks / security, at which point you're competing with the existing services.

brahma-devon Ask HN: I spent months building an app and now I don't know how to get users

You mention "services like tutoring, babysitting, pet sitting, transportation, home repair, and various other tasks they could carry out after their working hours.". Anyone looking for a babysitter will firstly need someone local and someone they can trust their baby with. And there already exist several services catering such needs. Your first users will all have to be from same neighbourhood for the app to be useful for any of them.

brahma-devon Signal says it won’t compromise on encryption

Except Government of India seems to want more (unchecked) foreign influence.

>> Lok Sabha passes Bill to exempt political parties from scrutiny on foreign funds, without debate

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/lok-sabha-passes-bill...

brahma-devon Signal says it won’t compromise on encryption

India has such stuff:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/lok-sabha-passes-bill...

https://indianexpress.com/article/business/banking-and-finan...

brahma-devon Co-founder of Trump’s media company details Truth Social’s bitter infighting

http://archive.today/ZmBEe

brahma-devon Apple gets $19M fine in Brazil for not selling iPhones with charger

Right now when you buy a car you expect it to have wheels. This may change in the future when Apple starts selling cars and you'd need to check if it includes wheels or not. But it's not hard to imagine that people will continue to expect wheels in a new car for some time.

brahma-devon Apple gets $19M fine in Brazil for not selling iPhones with charger

The law has to draw a line somewhere. Cars have to come with wheels, even if wheels are available for purchase. Appliances have to come with power cable, even if wires are available for purchase.

brahma-devon Which countries impose SIM-card registration and collect data on their citizens?

Though not legally mandated,telecom providers in India insist on tying the SIM to the Indian biometric ID called Aadhar. Each ID can be associated to upto 9 SIMs.

brahma-devon Some Uber drivers are worried they're being used as drug mules

Understandable. If I were delivering drugs I'd be asking for a cut of the proceeds.

brahma-devon Twitter trackers jeopardize military aircraft?

Propaganda piece commissioned by a private jet owner who does not like Twitter.

brahma-devon Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?

Not very scientific but you can try something that is unlikely to be whitelisted.

Eg. http://134.209.196.181:8080 This is an instance of https://github.com/e7d/speedtest running on Digital Ocean in Amsterdam.