helsinkiandrew

> The new Siri isnt that exciting at least on my iPhone 15 Pro Max

On my Pro 16 it has its ups and downs - I still can't get it to "play my running playlist on shuffle" whilst running (this is the only thing I used Siri for before the beta and it would improve my life immeasurably if it worked). But it responds to things like "how long will it take to drive to the AirBnb booking in my inbox", and "when is X playing a concert in Y - add a calendar entry with details" perfectly.

This is a beta and I have hopes, but I can imagine it will run better on a 17 and later

> Why should I pay an order of magnitude more to use pi.dev?

The monthly plans are heavily subsidized by the API users - why should Anthropic subsidize your use of pi.dev?

> I remember when Llama was gaining popularity, everyone here was praising him for releasing open models. Same for other works in this area. Also remember praise for some VR devices

Neither of which have been great commercial successes. Open source LLM's and VR devices have have been cool products for HN readers, but haven't made much impact on the public or Meta's revenue.

Whilst Instagram and Facebook Ad revenue is coming in it means Zuckerberg could spend billions pivoting the company to country and western themed steak houses and the share holders wouldn't (couldn't) do anything about it.

> The catch, as you’ll doubtless have guessed, is that the author has to pay a fee for their appearance, variously described as a “spot fee” or a “spotlight fee” or a “spot-securing fee” or a “participation fee”.

Am I being too naive to assume that legitimate book clubs shouldn't be doing this anyway - or is all online activity just a way of generating income now?

> but nobody wanted to invest in anything better.

Not sure if you mean nobody wanted to develop mRNA flu vaccines, but at least Moderna and Pfizer are:

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/18/nx-s1-5863570/flu-vaccine-mrn...

> You mean that thing that the US has been rapidly phasing out for two decades

Although the US Government is funding 2 new coal power plants.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-announces-850m-moderniz...

To those not familiar with cricket and why this is so scandalous the English/Australian/New Zealand phrase “it’s not cricket” is used to describe an action or behaviour that is “unfair, dishonest, or goes against basic moral principles”

In Finland the datacentre heat is boosted to 60–90°C for district heating (new builds tend to use heat pumps) [1]

A 75-MW data center in Mäntsälä has provided 2/3 of the heat for the town (2,500 homes) for a decade [2]

1. https://www.creatingsustainablecities.org.uk/post/case-study...

2. https://www.sustainabilitymenews.com/waste-management/how-fi...

I think quoting is fine, but it's surprising coming from a senior adviser at a U.S. Government department.

> “What we have right now is this ginormous ongoing outbreak of Sporothrix brasiliensis in Brazil,” Lockhart, a senior adviser at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This video has the greatest "Sources and references" section I think I've seen in a YouTube video - 16 videos, over 50 webpage links, and 4 references that don't have links.

In the next 6 months another 45%-50% of Space X stock is unlocked, increasing the amount of shares on the market ~10 fold.

Although many will be long term believers who won’t sell. I can’t see how this couldn’t deflate the share price further

Quantas and Airbus pages for the Airbus A350-1000ULR

https://www.qantas.com/en-vu/onboard/fleet/a350

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/stories/2026-06-countdown...

Leave 9am Sydney arrive 10pm London (8pm in northern hemisphere winter)

> In other words, people not only click share buttons, but do it quite often?

And thats for gov.uk sites - they're websites where you mostly go to do something rather than browse for interesting content. I'd guess social media, local news and sites with cat videos would get more shares.

Gift article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-12/spacex-re...

The At a Glance summarises and is quite depressing reading.

https://foodfoundation.org.uk/sites/default/files/2026-06/BP...

> Healthier food remains nearly twice as expensive per calorie as less healthy food, and the gap is widening.

> Households with children in the lowest income quintile would need to spend 85% of their disposable income on food to afford the Eatwell Guide.

> Fast-food outlets make up 1 in 4 places to buy food in England, rising to over 1 in 3 in the most deprived areas.

> In an average English Reception class of 30 children, three will be living with obesity. In Year 6, this more than doubles to seven children.

> 10-year-olds from the most deprived backgrounds are over 1.5 times more likely to have short stature.

Slop Jockeys? or would that be better for people passing off AI content as their own?

More on Robert Boschert:

https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/industrial/boa...

> To start his own company, Boschert knew he’d have to leave his 50-hours-per-week job at Microwave Associates in Sunnyvale, Calif. The ultimate motivator came when he became the custodial parent of his children. Boschert Inc. was formed in 1970 as he entered the consulting field. “I was designing power supplies to make money so we could eat,” he says.

I'm not sure why people assume the coming AGI super agents will be infallible.

There's no sign that highly intelligent people can't be conned - Bernie Maddoff fooled leading scientists and CEOs working in finance. Software engineers and lawyers fall for pig butchering schemes and spoofed emails with altered bank details every week - so why would an AGI trained from human content be any different.

> Then I imagined the real-but-unknowable chance it was all set up by some kid just getting into computers, just seeing what’s possible, getting excited by a much bigger world at reach

Perhaps people like this should be called "Bot Kiddies" or "Agent Kiddies" - in a similar way to "Script Kiddies" for 'hackers' using/doing stuff they don't quite understand

I remember studies on animals have shown the same but can't remember which. I found sheep at least do:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/who-knew-but-sheep-pref...

> The overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone heavy theaters of war is a tiny sliver (or zero?).

But presumably the images/models at ground level can be used to train/improve the general performance of Vantor's aerial (satelite based) navigation system so it works better elsewhere?

Non paywalled story on other site:

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ground-robots-teste...

This "Ukrainian military equipment aggregator" site has some interesting related products: https://vpk-mac.com/en

> How does that work if a digikey order takes 1-2 days, and ordering a PCB even longer?

In this case, Hardware hackathon means wiring up the digital or analog input/output pins of an Arduino/Raspberry pi to something and writing software to control/interface with it. Perhaps with a few simple components on a prototype board

> Startups train embedding models. They build rerankers. They finetune and host small llms.

Isn’t that prohibited without permission from Anthropic: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12326764-can-i-use-my...

Short sellers have become the biggest SEC whistleblowers if they discover suspected fraud - it’s a more lucrative and less risky than shorting:

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2d7d14lmtfwc1e...

It was common for paintings/etchings to be made based on existing paintings in the 19th century - I'm guessing the painting link I gave was probably close to an original or source.

There's lots of similar images on the internet, this image on Alamy claims to scanned from a Victorian mechanical‑engineering book of the 1880s

https://www.alamy.com/an-old-engraving-showing-the-british-f...

It looks like a (modern or old) version of this print: "The Bermuda Floating Dock, In Tow of H.M.Ss Warrior and Black Prince and Terrible astern Leaving Porto Santo for their Voyage across the Atlantic, July 4th 1869"

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/maritime-history/library-archi...

GOV.UK pay has done £9.2B in payments in the last decade, with an average of £67

https://www.payments.service.gov.uk/performance/

A very crude calculation for £1B a year in payments (thats probably too low) would mean a payment to Ayden (contract is upto £25M over 3 years) of 0.8%

Not hiring replacements for the few percent of staff which churn every year would probably save the same amount of money without demoralising your staff.

This looks like a simple cost cutting to boost earnings - their sales have been steadily decreasing over the past few years whilst EPS have been increasing, which isn’t a healthy look

> If LLMs were around when I was a student, I would've also used them to "speed up" my homework assignments then proceed to fail all my tests.

I agree - I would have been toast. I wonder if the teachers/colleges need to change the way they teach and assess. Let the students use the AI tools they like (perhaps guide them how they can use them professionally), but test regularly and early on the skills/knowledge they're meant to be gaining offline and in person. Oh and don't give Fs for cheating - suspend them.

I read a few years ago about a teacher (I think highschool) who put his lectures on YouTube for students to view in their own time and then used the in class hours for interaction, questions, tests.

EDIT: Claude beat my Googling: This was 2 chemistry high school teachers in 2007 - The Flipped Classroom https://fltmag.com/the-flipped-classroom/