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fouc··on Built Dental Scope
I'm a bit confused that the top wisdom teeth are erupted but the bottom ones aren't.. is that toggle-able?
fouc··on New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely
if only it could be used to remove carbon from the atmosphere..
fouc··on How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
If you fail to read the article you might not realize it's being sarcastic.
fouc··on An airport cooled by natural ventilation
>“Our objective is to maintain an indoor air temperature identical to the outdoor temperature while generating an airflow of 1 metre per second to reduce the perceived temperature for passengers.”

so it's not "cooled" at all

fouc··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
> It's a short walk, along a sidewalk separated from the street by 10 feet of grass. Sam would have to cross two streets with crosswalks, which she'd seen him do safely hundreds of times—including six times that morning
fouc··on Muse Spark 1.3
How have they had a negative impact? How about google?
fouc··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
don't forget LLMs are great at translating between languages, and within the same language. depending on the problem it works on, it will often reach for terminology that tend to be more common or familiar within that problem set. which appears inscrutable, but there's many different ways to skin a cat. just remind it to translate it back to the terminology and subject matter you're already an expert in.
fouc··on Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
I tried googling this, not sure what this is a reference to?
fouc··on Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
in the future, everyone's glasses will have automatic recording of people.

in the future, everyone's automatic recording of people will be fully accessible to all.

in the future, everyone's glasses will also be AR glasses, enabling everyone to view everyone else's POV at any time.

in the future there will be no privacy, because everyone will be able to watch everyone else.

fouc··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
the obvious thing to do is keep using firefox as your daily driver, and load up the other browser as needed for the video etc.

I'm being tongue-in-cheek here because it seems most people just give up on safari/firefox if one thing doesn't work and go to some chromium-based browser as their default driver. That's sad.

fouc··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
Online advertising is what drives the desire for user data. Ban online advertising and the demand for user data withers.
fouc··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
I've always thought that if online advertising as a business model had been entirely banned from the internet in the 90s, the internet would've looked like a much better place today.

And micropayments would've taken off in a big way.

The only reason why micropayments doesn't really exist today isn't due to technical reasons, it's because advertising is too dominant, and because consumers got trained on expecting everything on the internet to be "free", not realizing they're the product.

fouc··on Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
My carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms or RSI basically went away once I started using a macbook as my primary computer. It definitely doesn't hurt when the trackpad is right below my thumbs.
fouc··on Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga
I once bought a digital/electric pressure cooker for $50 CAD barely used off craigslist in Toronto. They're not that expensive.
fouc··on NetBSD 11.0
I meant more in the sense that it's less of a blocker if you wanted to use a different OS altogether. Many people are on Linux because it's the most well supported, but if you happen to be on BSD and you're missing something from Linux then you can theoretically just have AI port the thing.
fouc··on The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
$1M invested in a reasonably diversified portfolio gets you about $3,000/mo lifetime at ~3.5% safe withdrawal rate. That might be quite restrictive in the more expensive cities.
fouc··on NetBSD 11.0
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the BSDs got an increase in users purely due to AI models making it far more accessible / easier to hack on.

i.e. your PC is unsupported for some specific driver, such as bluetooth? stick AI on the problem.

fouc··on Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
M4 Max is typically better than M5 Pro for inference IIRC.
fouc··on VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines
Also classic, someone finally jumping in with a full and insightful explanation. What a turnaround!
fouc··on Why I Left Google DeepMind
from the article:

>The stereotypical activist action is to make a petition. But Google had already ignored a large petition on this issue. Plus, Google’s executives likely hardened their company against stereotypical organizing tactics. Sit-ins, strikes, even a mass of Google engineers quitting: I deemed all of them ineffective (if I could even pull them off).

fouc··on 42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support
I love mental rule of thumbs / heuristics that we can install into our brain to avoid getting caught up in cognitive biases or other mistakes.

An easy one that I would expect most HN readers probably do already is: When shopping, always round up to the nearest dollar before even mentally storing it or operating on it. The usual cognitive bias is that many people end up storing the listed price of $4.96 in a lossy manner, as $4.xx, and end up thinking of it as $4 when in reality they could be skipping straight to keeping it as $5 in their head.

fouc··on Grok Build is open source
Terminal is where the real work has always been done. VS Code on the other hand is 100% a fashion thing.
fouc··on Grok Build is open source
it started off with 500+ crates and then i still had to install dotslash crate which installed another 136 crates. seems insane.
fouc··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
That's how you know you've got the COOLEST car on the block! (unfortunately)
fouc··on Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
any reason you went with q8 over q4? I'm wondering if q4 would run noticeably faster or not.
fouc··on The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence
name and shame the bank
fouc··on SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status
Nasdaq, FTSE Russell, and CRSP all implemented fast-track options. Fortunately S&P kept its 12-month requirement.
fouc··on The Death of the Creator Middle Class
That's true.

Although I think the article is really hinting at a larger problem than just creators. The problem of the power law distribution - few winners taking all vs the losers in the long thin tail. Sometimes it's not an entirely meritocratic distribution, quality doesn't always rise to the top.

fouc··on A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses
Good idea, but I also wouldn't be surprised if law enforcement already have better tools for detecting if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses.
fouc··on Mawlynnong, India, transformed by tourism, bans visitors on Sundays
I've got a suspicion that it was more common a few decades ago. I saw a bit of that in China back in 2007 but I wouldn't be surprised if it's less of a thing now.
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