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pRusya··on The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses
Internet points are real and carry weight. Online friends are real, too.
pRusya··on 'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack
The Chime team is still busy. They released a new version just two weeks ago!
pRusya··on Let's Buy Spirit Air
It had good departure times both mornings and evenings.

And it was cheap, so you could book a next day flight without paying multiples in premium.

It was fun and affordable to fly out of state in the morning, spend a day exploring another place and get back at night.

pRusya··on So, you want to be a darknet drug lord (2015)
A good read. Not that old and I think it still has valuable points in the age of surveillance. You don't have to be a criminal to make use of it.

Edit: Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30788530

pRusya··on Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
Thank you for letting me know. I should definitely catch up on current state of affairs.
pRusya··on U.S. is burning through Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile
The US has stepped into a huge pile of shit in this round. And instead of getting out fast, they just want to jump dive into it.

Some American people don't know that US misfortunes are celebrated elsewhere. 911 became a holiday in some regions. And if American empire falls down, I feel like at least half of the world gonna celebrate that.

pRusya··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
Azure is when you have a different version of the same product/api in each region.
pRusya··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
It's a nice read. Thank you for sharing this.

> Microsoft, meanwhile, conducted major layoffs—approximately 15,000 roles across waves in May and July 2025 —most likely to compensate for the immediate losses to CoreWeave ahead of the next earnings calls.

This is what people should know when seeing massive layoffs due to AI.

pRusya··on Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
A story older than Nepal (misleading tourists). And an article from 6 months ago shows how the govt treats its own people with more examples in HN discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45166972

What is less discussed is what happened to people who were able to identify the scam and refused to let it happen.

pRusya··on No Skill. No Taste
HN is like an art gallery full of critics. You can be interested in some works or people, even romanticize it. But no one really cares about a gallery or industry in general. We are all just entertaining each other here.
pRusya··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
I'm using gemini.google.com/app with AI Pro subscription. "Something went wrong" in FF, works in Chrome.

Below is one of my test prompts that previous Gemini models were failing. 3.1 Pro did a decent job this time.

> use c++, sdl3. use SDL_AppInit, SDL_AppEvent, SDL_AppIterate callback functions. use SDL_main instead of the default main function. make a basic hello world app.

pRusya··on Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
I worked at a countertop shop and used a sliding rule a bit. But I also used a sticky paper with marks to get measurements off my screen. A lot of blueprints provide no dimensions for cabinets and desks.

Countertops is an industry with all the modern tools but 5000yo approach.

pRusya··on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
It's the opposite experience for me. Gemini mostly produces made up and outdated stuff.
pRusya··on Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026
Definitely good for customers. A bit more stressful for CPT chasers and PPQA. Missing PAD time and delayed shipment is a daily issue because of 0 inventory. I wonder how they gonna change workflows for stow and pick dpts.
pRusya··on Disable AI in Firefox
You can fork the source code, but you cannot fork engineers and paychecks from Google and other interested parties.
pRusya··on Nearly half of drivers killed in (Ohio County) crashes had THC in their blood
Personal experience after living in Columbus for a few months - it felt like everybody was driving drunk and/or distracted by default. Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati were not very fun to drive around and taking unprotected left turns felt like a gamble.

On the other hand, Amish communities had glass-smooth roads and people were careful when passing horse carriages.

pRusya··on Connecticut Trail Census Dashboard (2025)
I wish there was something like this for Salt Lake City. I have to schedule my trail runs at weird times. Otherwise you bump into people on the trail non-stop. The amount of foot traffic in the mountains is crazy all year round.
pRusya··on Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
And covered by universal basic income.
pRusya··on Systems Programming with Zig
> So Zig is as expressive as C++. but not only safer, but also much simpler, and compiles faster

Tbh syntax-wise Zig feels more cryptic[1] at first than C++.

[1] e.g. `extern "user32" fn MessageBoxA(?win.HWND, [*:0]const u8, [*:0]const u8, u32) callconv(win.WINAPI) i32;` from https://ziglang.org/learn/samples/

pRusya··on New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint
There's a mention to this in the recent Selenium blog post https://www.selenium.dev/blog/2023/headless-is-going-away/#a...

Basically omit options.headless and use options.add_argument("--headless=new") instead.

pRusya··on DeepMind’s StarCraft II agent will play anonymously on battle.net
It doesn't need much apm or great reaction time if it can place perfect photon cannons.
pRusya··on Primitive – recreate your photos with vector-based geometric primitives
And here is the original post by the author https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539109
pRusya··on Show HN: Findr, an omegle like chat made with Node.js, socket.io and angularJS
Just had three disconnects in 5 minutes in different chats while people were typing.
pRusya··on Show HN: Primitive Pictures
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this. Feature request: combine modes(e.g. triangle+rect).