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kylestanfield··on Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
Everything is a conspiracy. The elites refuse to wave their increase-manufacturing-capacity-instantly wands.
kylestanfield··on Apple Watch Series 12
Phone can be used for that. No need for it on a watch
kylestanfield··on The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)
There's 600 photos and one 500 MB video. It seems like they are being served directly from the owner's Apache server from response headers. Server could be overloaded?
kylestanfield··on We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
Good insights from Claude
kylestanfield··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
The weather channel music is awesome
kylestanfield··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
War is peace.
kylestanfield··on Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI
It’s a gambling site. The motivation behind it is to make money through transaction fees. You can bet on sports games too.
kylestanfield··on 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
Bazinga!
kylestanfield··on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives
Perplexity claims that you can “use the following robots.txt tags to manage how their sites and content interact with Perplexity.” https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots

Their fetcher (not crawler) has user agent Perplexity-User. Since the fetching is user-requested, it ignores robots.txt . In the article, it discusses how blocking the “Perplexity-User” user agent doesn’t actually work, and how perplexity uses an anonymous user agent to avoid being blocked.

kylestanfield··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
Looks pretty great so far. Reminds me of playing Red Faction as a kid
kylestanfield··on How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
The MCP documentation site has the same problem. It’s basically just a list of bullet points without any details
kylestanfield··on Tough news for our UK users
“this is not just content moderation - it is a complete regulatory framework that assumes every platform is a tech giant.”
kylestanfield··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
So someone just started advertising the prefix when it was up for grabs? That’s pretty funny
kylestanfield··on Are we the baddies?
Nothing about testing a home made self driving car on the Highway either
kylestanfield··on AI fakes duel over impeachment of Vice-President in Phillipines
I hope you’re right
kylestanfield··on AI fakes duel over impeachment of Vice-President in Phillipines
Realistic AI video generation will put us firmly in a post-truth era. If those videos were 25% more realistic it would be indistinguishable from a real interview.

The speed with which you’ll be able to create and disseminate propaganda is mind blowing. Imagine what a 3 letter agency could do with their level of resources.