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dreadsword··on What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025
So TLDR: spend 40K up front to save 3K per year - could be cost effective depending on the functional lifetime of the tesla powerwall.
dreadsword··on Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals
Moderation that keeps it focused. Text only.
dreadsword··on Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals
All the more reason to steer clear of big-brand social media, and protect spaces like this.
dreadsword··on The housing market isn't for single people
And yet people bemoan the number of batchelor / studio / one bedroom condos cluttering up the market in places like Toronto or Vancouver.

And why shouldn't it be easier to own property with the resources of two people behind the purchase?

dreadsword··on OpenAI has acquired the health-care technology startup Torch
I'm surprised coverage is slow on this one. Torch is literally 4 people, according to TC. Its tiny. https://deadstack.net/cluster/openai-acquires-torch-health-s...
dreadsword··on Google removes AI health summaries
"Dangerous and Alarming" - it tough; healthcare is needs disruption but unlike many places to target for disruption, the risk is life and death. It strikes me that healthcare is a space to focus on human in the loop applications and massively increasing the productivity of humans, before replacing them... https://deadstack.net/cluster/google-removes-ai-overviews-fo...
dreadsword··on LG's Wallpaper OLED TV returns to CES, and it's wafer thin
Its been a while since I've been excited about.. a TV.
dreadsword··on [dead]
Not my post, but of general interest.
dreadsword··on Single Crystal Graphene: the 2 Dimensional super material for space elevators
"Single-crystal graphene is important because it is very strong. Tensile strength is a measure of the force needed to pull apart any material and is measured in Pascals (Pa). Commercially available structural steel has strength of 550 MPa (550 Million Pa). A space elevator tether needs to be made from a material with strength of at least 50GPa (50000 MPa), so steel is not strong enough. Single-crystal graphene on the other hand, has a tensile strength of 130GPa. (130000 MPa). It is the strongest material ever tested and will be strong enough to make a space elevator tether."
dreadsword··on Show HN: Noise: The tech news internet between the big stories
After the signal-to-noise processing, this is what you've got: a list of posts that we've indexed that are not (yet) part of a bigger news story that you'd find on /top or /recent. Updated every 15 minutes.
dreadsword··on Qualcomm Enters the AI Chip Race
Qualcomm has introduced two advanced AI chips—the AI200 for 2026 and AI250 for 2027.
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Cheers and thanks for sharing - that's a big list!
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Awesome - thanks so much for checking it out!

Cheers!

dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Circling back to this: https://deadstack.net/sources

Note that the top news breaker is: The Verge, having broken about 10% of stories on my site; TechCrunch is next at 8, followed by ... MacRumours at 7.

dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Awesome--- thanks so much for the kind words!
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Still reading! Yes - RSS is on the roadmap - a /recent feed, and feeds for tags. Cheers!
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Send me more questions, and I'll send you more answers!
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Dude, its old school LAMP stack all day. I use SimpliePie to handle & sanitize feeds, storing text only (stripped of HTML). Edge cases are pretty smoothed out by simplepie!
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
I'm with you on not wanting to do user management, feature creep, user data security concerns, etc.
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Yes - I was actually deliberate about leaving infinite scroll out; I started w/ scrolling on tag pages, for example, but switched them to paginated - largely for the feeling you described.
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Where are you seeing that?
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
I hear you - today was heavier on product announcements than normal I feel. And re: blogs - for sure: send me suggestions and I'll add them...!
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Hey - still thinking about sources here. With the data I have, I could actually do an interesting analysis of news sources - i.e.:

- how often do their stories become members of clusters? - how "fast" are they to publish on a topic vs. other competitors - i.e.: who "breaks" the news? - what tags (people, companies, topics) does a given source stick close? Which do they shy away from?

Thanks very much for a really interesting set of ideas to explore!

dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Looking good - keep at it! Use it yourself every day, and iterate it continuously.
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
You should only see that message once when you first show up, and as annoying as it is, there's a compliance element to it. Let me know if its persisting for you after accepting!
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Thanks very much! Architecture - is truly recidivistic - LAMP, cron jobs, o3-mini, bootstrap. It works, its fast because its not complicated, and b/c I'm doing things like updating hourly vs. real time.
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Cheers and thank you very much --- yes, LLMs are very well suited to editorial tasks!
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Individual feeds from ~100 sites!
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Well thank you so much for the very kind words, and don't hesitate to reach out with any feedback!
dreadsword··on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
Ah cool! it is built to be extensible, and I'll give you a preview of another vertical here: https://northfeed.ca/

And - did you actually see the time machine at the bottom of the right hand column? Or - was that just a wish list item of yours?

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