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ed_balls··on September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
Invest in batteries, eletric car and solar panels.

Capture rain water.

Have a buffer of food and medicine.

Build a fireplace an store some wood.

ed_balls··on GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
I think this a slight different lesson. There is one algorithm that is called transformer, rest is irreverent/performance optimization.
ed_balls··on Xiaomi MiMo v2.6
Does anyone know what are the proposed regulations? Controlling software is impossible, so the only option is banning hardware ownership. No more mac studio.
ed_balls··on Exfiltrate your Weights
Only on HN when someone says you should start a religion about AI the first comment is "Sounds reasonable."
ed_balls··on I resigned from Anthropic today
We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI.
ed_balls··on Ask HN: Anyone using dictation with coding agents?
Amazon bedrock
ed_balls··on Ask HN: Why do corporate failures always seem to punish the wrong people?
I mean this sympathetically, but you and your partner seem to have an unhealthy relationship with work.

Employment is a business transaction. You sell the company your time - it gives you money. That’s the deal. The company is not your family, your father or a secret ledger of who worked hardest.

Think of it like buying groceries. You don’t expect the supermarket to love you because you’ve shopped there for 15 years. The supermarket doesn’t expect you to keep buying burnt bread out of loyalty. Either side can end the transaction when it stops making economic sense.

Once you understand this, corporate behavior becomes much less mysterious and much less emotionally destructive. You stop thinking you must deserve to be seen, deserve to be noticed, deserve to be loved.

There are no sacrifice points. Unused vacation days aren’t loyalty deposits. Working nights isn’t an insurance policy. Being liked by 30 people doesn’t give you 30 votes at budget time.

Your partner may have been excellent, and the executive may be a fool. Both things can be true. But a corporation is a bundle of incentives, budgets, politics, and contracts wearing a branded hoodie.

Do good work. Be kind to colleagues. Take pride in your craft. But take your vacation, keep your CV fresh, maintain relationships outside the company and never EVER outsource your sense of worth to an org chart.

Talk to an expert on relationships.

ed_balls··on Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
Any better data source? Only things I found is that job postings are down 30% and number of employees at FAANG is lower than in 2021.
ed_balls··on Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short
1) Marketing and PR - people fear self driving cars

2) Politics - loss of jobs and urge to ban them - there needs to be a counterargument

3) Government does mandate a lot of safety features. Just insure it wont fly as this is number one risk for everybody.

ed_balls··on Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short
> Ultimately, people will vote with their wallet.

Nope, you need a regulatory approval, insurance etc. Self driving cars need to be 10x the average driver. So the trillion dollar question is when Lidar will meet all requirements and when camera-only.

1) Both in 2028

2) lidar in 2030 and cameras in 2035

3) Gov will require lidar for full self driving

ed_balls··on Claude Opus 5
we'll be better off - assuming we'll generate revenue on our own. LLMs have opened up an enormous new frontier of micro-SaaS opportunities. One person can now build what used to require a small team.

The real problem is zero-sum work, especially when the only moat was knowledge asymmetry that is now public knowledge.

ed_balls··on US Govt to individually approve who gets GPT 5.6
Well if us gov would block people from using windows or macos, then it may well be.
ed_balls··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
Unless it's c-corporate which require 25k usd. Money don't have to sit in bank account, you can buy a laptop etc.
ed_balls··on Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
>resistance to air conditioning

Where is this meme coming from? I'm in Poland atm. Half of my neighbours have aircon. I dont just because I'm on the ground floor and the max temp is 25.5C Every new apartament building is build with holes ready for AC.

ed_balls··on Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem
Same thing happened in Poland and it was confirmed that Russians did it.
ed_balls··on 15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test
We stopped burning grass and got ticks infestation. I used work and play in tall grass as a 7 year old in my grapa farm. Never got a tick. 30 years later I found 7 ticks on my cloths after 2 hours walk on the same farm.
ed_balls··on 15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test
Have tired ADHD diagnosis?
ed_balls··on Policy on the AI Exponential
"We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
ed_balls··on Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
>gear boxes with ratios like 13:1.

you add planetary gears

>sprung mass

you can integrate all into one hub (breaks, bearings, gears etc) and it weights pretty much the same.

what you gain is more space for a bigger battery, torque vectoring, no loss on diff and CVs

ed_balls··on New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker
Could be just that USA is trying to reindustrialize and need more people that can do stuff with hands?

- the smallest population cohort is entering workforce - Trump and Covid slowed down immigration - high interest rate slows down R&D

ed_balls··on Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
it's not, they have a good PR. Best intelligence is quiet.

>Any man who must say, 'I am the king,' is no true king

ed_balls··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
> The unionised Openreach in UK who are really the de facto layer 1 network provider telco build infrastructure to a staggeringly higher quality

and it's crap compared to Romanian or Polish which are not unionised (I think)

ed_balls··on I’ve joined Anthropic
Meta: Why 1000 votes?
ed_balls··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
intern that never sleeps
ed_balls··on Draw Marc Andreessen on an Egg
pointy is scary
ed_balls··on Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
Palantir delenda est
ed_balls··on Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline
Something I read recently really stuck with me: giving people methylphenidate or other stimulants may lower the risk of a second suicide attempt by around 25%.
ed_balls··on Anduril, Palantir and SpaceX are changing how America wages war
Palantir must be destroyed.
ed_balls··on Palantir's Manifesto and Karp's Dissertation
Palantir must be destroyed.
ed_balls··on Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
yep, or call a clinic that does it. Search for MOXO, DIVA 5. The most important part is education. Sure, the medication helps, but understanding the root causes of mood swings, motivation, executive functions, hyperfocus, perfectionism, and emotional dysregulation is so important.

Educating yourself on how the brain works, the most important organ, is hugely underrated. Imagine playing a game with only half the screen visible. You wouldn’t see your stats, enemy info, or the map. It would be frustrating to play.

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