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evan_on Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly1qrl9l1qo CZ pardon- for reference

evan_on Apple WWDC 2026

Probably but even the fact that they're rehearsing time-filling stories is a more human trait than the pre-recorded months in advance videos that are usually shown today.

evan_on Apple WWDC 2026

I remember one where there were technical issues so Steve just started telling stories about the old days with Woz... impossible to imagine that from ANY tech company today

evan_on I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house

I thought the same thing! The plane being so low made it seem like an exaggerated computer-generated plane.

evan_on Chipotlai Max

They knew what they were making and went exactly hard enough to sustain 8 episodes without feeling rushed or dragging.

It’s one of the few shows that reaches a satisfying conclusion, ties up the loose ends, the hero rides off into the sunset, and it just ends. There’s no setting up a season 2 that never got made.

evan_on Chipotlai Max

There was a really great, really underrated show on Peacock a few years ago called Mrs. Davis. The titular Mrs. Davis was an all-encompassing AI assistant that had taken over all of the governments of the world. Everyone wore a Whispering Earring-style earbud with a voice that guided them through their lives and made every decision for them. (Betty Gilpin plays a nun who's simultaneously rebelling against the AI and searching for the Holy Grail on its behalf.)

In the show the AI had originally started as (spoiler, but not really) the customer support bot for Buffalo Wild Wings. I don't know what to do with this.

evan_on Claude Opus 4.8

  "Analysis" was right there

evan_on New York passes pied-a-terre tax

16% on the portion over $10M

evan_on Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry

That doesn’t really look like Gaussian splats to me- but this video, Helicopters by A$AP Rocky, uses the technique well:

https://youtu.be/g1-46Nu3HxQ?si=y_u257DzgOg2QV83

evan_on Googlebook

This is exactly what I'm talking about though. There are lots of places to buy clothes, but if the AI product is just going to be influenced by ad spend, you'll always get sent to the same handful of places.

evan_on Googlebook

This is kinda the exception that proves the rule. I can imagine lots of cases where people with specific needs would find benefit from the “AI clothes buying” experience, but I will bet you anything that any searches you try to do will lead you to the same half-dozen giant mail-order clothing vendors that everyone already knows about.

evan_on Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes

In the US the standard thing is to have a car lot that's just a single manufacturer. In a given town there will be a Ford dealer, a Chevy dealer, a Subaru dealer, a Kia dealer, etc.

Often there will be multiple dealers on adjoining lots, owned by the same conglomerate- but they'll maintain some illusion of independence.

I bought a Hyundai recently and the Hyundai dealer was right next to a Volvo dealer and a VW dealer. They're all part of "Sheppard Auto Group" and they share a parking lot, but the buildings are completely disconnected. However when it came time to actually sign the paperwork they led me from the Hyundai dealer to an office in the VW building, because that's where the sales manager who was working that day was. They also share a service department.

However, if I'd wanted to buy a VW though and I went in to the Hyundai building I suspect they would've made me walk over to the VW building and talk to those salespeople, and all my paperwork has the name of the Hyundai dealer on it. The point is you'd never go to "Sam's Car Dealership" and find a Ford parked next to a Honda parked next to a Chevrolet.

Independent used car lots are a free-for-all though.

evan_on Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes

How does the UK do car sales?

evan_on Waymo in Portland

Perhaps they can disguise the LIDAR beacon inside an IR-transparent Thule roof box.

evan_on At long last, InfoWars is ours

> People are confused about what I said.

Because you're saying very confusing things. What does National Lampoon have to do with anything?

evan_on We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit

ok Zorg https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/quotes/?item=qt0544361&...

evan_on Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure

The one that springs to mind is Tiny Speck launching an MMORPG, failing, and then polishing up the in-game chat tool and releasing it as Slack.

Oh, there was a certain pair of Ohio bike shop owners who pivoted to powered flight some time back.

evan_on Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure

This is absolutely doomed but how funny would it be if 50 years from now people share trivia like "Hey did you know that Allbirds started as a shoe company?" the way people talk about Nintendo starting as a playing card company

evan_on Worthington's Law [video]

More Money = Better Than

evan_on NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon

uh I would argue that at the beginning of The Expanse things are middling to bad and at the end things are pretty fucking bad. The epilogue of the final book is the only thing that's unabashedly optimistic.

The main series takes place over about 30 years during which several billion people die system-wide as a result of various wars and terrorist attacks, and uncountably many die in the immediate aftermath of the finale. I love it but it's not really a feel-good story!

evan_on The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

it's just the client app, so you could make a clone but you'd still have to pay to use their servers.

evan_on Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny

> he was at least willing to operate with humility. He always took the honest route ecen if you disagreed with his views.

eh I'm not really going to agree with you on this. He flinched 1 millimeter away from committing a full coup. That's not really a positive vote, it's just not as negative as it could be.

evan_on Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny

I generally agree, but this time his VP isn't going to defect and he's been building ICE into a republican guard loyal only to him, so I think you can't just completely say "well it failed last time so it'll fail again"

evan_on US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects

I'm actually less concerned about the continued non-existence of a bunch of windmills, vs the billion-dollar payout to ensure that they continue to not exist.

I've spent my entire life not building any windmills and nobody's paid me a billion dollars for it yet.

evan_on Afroman found not liable in defamation case

They thought they were going to get a payday at the end. That tells you how d much they actually cared about their privacy/the privacy of their families, they were willing to sell it for a couple hundred thousand dollars.

evan_on Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying

Post the whole thing.

> I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.

evan_on New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates

Yes, [R-IA-4] means Republican from Iowa's 4th Congressional District.

evan_on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

I’m working on a 2D top-down Zelda-style adventure MMO game. I’m imagining it as a persistent world with Minecraft-like building and procedurally generated quests. I’d like to focus on co-op adventuring and social rather than pvp. Kind of a D&D experience I suppose, though that’s not really a direct inspiration for me.

I have no illusions that this is actually something in capable of building to an actual release-able state but it’s fun to tinker with.

evan_on Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs

So on Earth 2 in which everything is the same except these tariffs hadn't been enacted, would today's consumer prices be the same or lower?

evan_on Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

It’s irritating to me that on iOS at least I can’t be logged in with both my work AND home Claude instances in the native app. I instead have to log in to the app with one and use a desktop shortcut to claude.ai for the other.