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jethronethroon Tesla patents 'Electric Fan Car' with 4 ducted fans ahead of Roadster reveal

Not sure how this patent will hold up under challenge with so much prior art electric or otherwise.

jethronethroon Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

Do any of the EVs sold in the US support Vehicle to Grid?

jethronethroon SpaceX Pivots Away from Space

Let's get Starship consistently into orbit before aiming at the Moon or Mars.

jethronethroon Flock (YC 2017) Wants Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline

Boo freaking hoo.

jethronethroon Base Browser: A hard fork of Firefox with no AI slop

Or contribute to LibreWolf (https://librewolf.dev/librewolf/source).

jethronethroon OpenAI says CEO Altman will attend Trump's state dinner for Xi

Which ring, though?

jethronethroon AI Will Be Biggest 'Misallocation' of Capital

Will be? More like is.

jethronethroon Google quickly bows to Trump order and renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America'

Did the American people want to rename a lake? Do you really believe it was their "will" and not the temper tantrum of an insecure little man who's a sore loser?

jethronethroon Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America

How pathetic, childish, and silly. Just another day in the Oval Office ...

jethronethroon Everything at the CLI

What do you mean by everything? And does that everything need to be done in the terminal (or can/should it)? And who is the user base for this sort of thing?

jethronethroon Will Databricks Ever IPO?

Does Databricks need to IPO? If so, why?

jethronethroon Elon Musk, the Most Famous EV Pioneer, Is Now Leaning into Fossil Fuels

Pioneer? Hardly. He didn't found Tesla; he bought the company. And I very much doubt Musk had a much to do with the design and engineering of Tesla's vehicles (aside from the Cybertruck).

jethronethroon Viola – A Calmer Web Browser

For a moment, I thought that this was a revival of ViolaWWW (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW).

Seriously, though, there's no information about whether it's FLOSS or proprietary, what telemetry it collects or not, or anything like that.

jethronethroon The Patreon Problem

If your browser has a reading mode then jump into that. You can read the entire post that way.

jethronethroon Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'

If Sam Altman told me what time it is, I'd check my (analog) watch. I don't trust anything that he says.

jethronethroon The New Bookmarks Are Sticky Notes Thanks to TaskLoco's Chrome Extension

I'm glad that someone unilaterally decided this ...

jethronethroon Ask HN: Please give us an option to hide our username in the upper right corner

Good luck with this. Dark mode on this site will happen long before you get this option. And how long have HN users been waiting for dark mode?

jethronethroon Do I prefer Linux now?

I half expect the link to this post to break soon, considering how often Baty changes blogging platforms ...

jethronethroon Preparing My Vacation Laptop

> But I do need a laptop. I mean, who goes on vacation without a laptop?! I am not a caveman. And also: I am not going to be blogging from my phone.

Does the person who wrote the post really need to blog while on vacation? What happened to actually enjoying time off and stepping away from the keyboard? To each their own, I guess.

jethronethroon Give Me 14 Minutes and I'll Destroy Your Procrastination Forever

14 minutes? But I want it now!

jethronethroon Plop Linux

From the website:

Plop Linux is designed for advanced Linux users. You can use Plop Linux as

• Live version to boot from CD/DVD, USB and network • Desktop installation • Server (LAMP, mail, media server, and so on)

jethronethroon Fonable: International calls from the browser, no subscription

Looks interesting. Similar to Yadaphone. But only having Google as a sign-in option? Thanks, but no thanks.

jethronethroon SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P

Guess I got in a bit early then ...

jethronethroon SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P

Good. I'm surprised, though, that the usual fanboys/stans aren't converging on this to protest how unfair the S&P is.

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Some points: 1) the title probably should include "Show HN:", 2) more detail would be useful, and 3) a link would be helpful.

jethronethroon Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk

It's strange to be asking for this as the company is preparing for its IPO. Hmm ...

jethronethroon Google Hates You

Hate Google back. It works for me.