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chuckstaon Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields

What's the other promising to do with it?

chuckstaon A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs

Its implied the talk is to rally the troops not gather general opinion

chuckstaon ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market

There is a double digit percentage of Americans who are relying on winning the lottery for retirement.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-millennials-would-rather-...

chuckstaon A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO'

They also designed some amazing validation for that audit software:

>Data reviewed by the EFF included searches labelled 'LMAO', 'LOL', 'Hehe', 'Haha', 'idk' and 'blah'. Other entries included 'asdfg' and strings of apparently random keyboard characters. In one case, an officer entered: 'robbery I don't remember the case number leave me alone'.

Seems like they really put a lot of thought into preventing abuse

>Network Size and ReachTotal Count: Flock Safety reports having over 120,000 active cameras.Community Spread: These cameras are placed in more than 6,000 communities.Data Collection: The system records roughly 20 billion vehicle scans every single month. [1] (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/14/trump-e...), [2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety)

He searched ~1/5 of the cameras available in America..

chuckstaon Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

They just found a hidden biolab in US earlier in the year which was connected to one found in 2023.

chuckstaon British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

Public institutions don't take donations in the UK? They certainly do in the US.

Since when are donations equal to corruption? I certainly wasn't claiming that.

chuckstaon British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

No you book it on the grounds of "I have too much money" and then they don't ask questions.

chuckstaon British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

He has the possibility to become one? Maybe they were trying to draw donations.

>Guests at One Aldwych hotel, where rooms cost more than £1,000 a night, are also able to get tickets without joining the online queues.

He certainly could've booked a room at that price

chuckstaon Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9dit_Mobilier_scandal

chuckstaon License plate reader searches should require a warrant

How many man hours could the department in question realistically dedicate to the investigation without the technology

chuckstaon Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

Both Merriam-webster and thesaurus.com have intimate as a synonym for persaonl. Thesaurus.com says its one of the strongest.

chuckstaon My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded

Wild, there are also other people around you who might they're more fun too, they might want you to turn it up.

chuckstaon New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium

Even a completed one has limited use to other industries

chuckstaon Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool

No expert but I would think an indoor pool in a temperature controlled environment would control for a lot of heat loss from the water.

chuckstaon Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

It also just so happens grey scale is almost always cheaper. Car color historically correlates with prosperity in the US

https://magazine.northeast.aaa.com/daily/life/cars-trucks/au...

https://www.ppg.com/en-US/autocoatings/color/history-of-colo...

chuckstaon Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers

That's definitely a point but doesn't address mine. People like corn, people don't like AI.

chuckstaon Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks

You can? Is that not what all the the lobbyist and special interest money is doing? Perdue told everyone OxyContin had a low addiction risk

chuckstaon Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers

Okay - people like eating popcorn, beef, and driving too.

chuckstaon Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers

Generally people enjoy being around them, looking at them, and eating what they produce.

How does HN feel about ai written blogs? Who wants to go stand next to a 30' warehouse?

chuckstaon Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say

If the neighborhood was all built around the same time or by the same developer, I would say high

chuckstaon New Jersey residents say they can't even wash their clothes due to data centers

Could be iron rich soil

chuckstaon Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets

Potential for fraudulent activity makes something a scam? That list is gonna be long

chuckstaon Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones

weather and protecting it from it?

chuckstaon Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores

Facial recognition

https://epic.org/krogers-surveillance-pricing-harms-consumer...

chuckstaon US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous

Coffee?

chuckstaon Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI

10,000 followers within a month

chuckstaon Show HN: I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge

Was a big fan of Travian too and have thought about trying to remake something as a side project as well. Can you share any resources or have any tips as a place to get started?

chuckstaon An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests

There are all kinds of degrees for farming

chuckstaon Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

And you wouldn't cancel if they said you were gonna get ads upfront?

chuckstaon Iran's South Pars Gas Field Is Attacked by Israel, Sending Energy Prices Soaring

Everyone is up for some fair criticism in recent events