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focusgroup0on With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX

guy who predicted that the internet would be a flop and whose career amounted to taking potshots from a paper calling one of the greatest capital allocators of all time a fraud

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paul-krugman-internets-eff...

focusgroup0on A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center

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focusgroup0on Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements

given his ds4 project, likely collaborated with DeepSeek for this release:

https://github.com/antirez/ds4

focusgroup0on Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt

Given that it's their turf, is it reasonable to consider sabotage by an Airbus-affiliated entity?

focusgroup0on Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes

Quit blaming AI. The UC system banned standardized testing during the race communism mass hysteria of the early 2020s. Predictably, performance of the student body is down across the board.

focusgroup0on I'm Tired of Talking to AI

Not going away. Next time it happens, employ The Gay Jailbreak

https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jai...

focusgroup0on Oura says it gets government demands for user data

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focusgroup0on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

The other day my colleague asked Grok:

"Please estimate Elon's IQ based on his timeline"

It estimated 115-130. A decision like this points to the lower end.

focusgroup0on Hold on to Your Hardware

Not to mention Age Verification / KYC being baked into every future OS and device. Buy and hodl to have a hope of independent, censorship-resistant computing in the future.

focusgroup0on Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote

As the Qatari emir said in the wake of the recent Middle Eastern conflict, it's clear who's running the show geopolitically. Cui bono?

focusgroup0on OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)

When all else fails, dump on Retail

focusgroup0on Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

The fact that Apple didn't ship this in years after Siri acquisition is an indictment of its Product leadership

focusgroup0on We Will Not Be Divided

> domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversight

spoiler alert: this is already happening

do labs in China have a choice in the matter?

focusgroup0on GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations

Will paid users be credited for the wasted Actions minutes?

focusgroup0on Amazon cuts 16k jobs

>Amazon axes 16,000 American jobs as it ... relocates to a larger campus in India

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/amazon-to-invest-additiona...

focusgroup0on Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

The Death of The Email Job

focusgroup0on Show HN: Netrinos – A keep it simple Mesh VPN for small teams

>We use STUN-style discovery and relay fallback

How does your relay compare to Tailscale's (DERP)?

focusgroup0on Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer

Adapt, accept, or be replaced

focusgroup0on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

Which is a less dumb idea: replacing new grad junior devs with AI or H1Bs?

focusgroup0on SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns

Thanks for the feedback. The document model in mongo was slopped together by a junior engineer, so perhaps an unorthodox approach. It is basically flat, and already used in a pseudo-relational manner via in-app join to the existing sqlite store. This blog post inspired me to think, what if we just chucked all the json from mongo into sqlite and used the generated indices? Then we can gradually "strangler fig" endpoint by endpoint

focusgroup0on SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns

Would this be a good fit for migrating from mongo --> sqlite? A task I am dreading

focusgroup0on How Cops Are Using Flock's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists

In my neighborhood (a Criminal Justice Reform Zone), the catch and release of repeat criminals caused a surge in break ins. The citizens organized and funded the installation of Flock LPRs. Several criminals have been caught as a result, and crime is now down.

So the impetus is twofold:

- Funding provided by programs such as Operation Stonegarden and other grants

- Activists agitate for Criminal Justice Reform --> Surge in crime --> The People clamor for Enhanced Security Measures and DIY

focusgroup0on Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy

psychopath Scam Altman does not give a rat's behind about your "privacy"; he is merely trying to keep the grift going and avoid responsibility for his unethical behavior (see also: Scarlett Johanssen's voice)

focusgroup0on James Watson has died

I am very much real, you can check my comment history. Do you have any substantive critiques of Mr. Watson and his scientific research?

focusgroup0on James Watson has died

>There is no objective way to measure IQ "stuff"

SAT + GPA are proxies for "IQ stuff" and are highly predictive of future academic success:

https://international.collegeboard.org/toolkit/sat-policy/un...

focusgroup0on James Watson has died

Any facts you can cite to disprove his findings?

focusgroup0on A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024)

My understanding is that wide adoption of WebTransport is currently blocked by WebKit:

https://caniuse.com/webtransport

However, there have been some recent pull requests indicating gradual progress:

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed...

focusgroup0on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

How else is the US supposed to keep up with China? They are building new nuclear + coal plants every week.

"There are no rich, low energy countries"

https://x.com/Andercot/status/1895572458922795118/photo/1

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I reckon future historians will not mince words about the recent mass hysterias of climate alarmism, gender dysphoria, and the authoritarian tyranny of the pandemic overreaction.

focusgroup0on SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

Given the degrowth / energy minimization policy in Germany and wider EU, how do they plan to bring online and operate new datacenters?