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I think Brewster is one of those photos in your video. I met him because I set up the first WAIS server in Australia and he was kind enough to offer a tour when I mentioned I was visiting Boston. Good times.

Great video. I visited Brewster Kahle at Thinking Machines back when I was in college and that visit ended up being one of the major influences in my career. The CM was way ahead of it's time.

Thinking Machines also pioneered WAIS which was a precursor to modern search engines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Information_Server

You mention a "Chinese economic report". Are you aware the CCP has an active propaganda effort against Western data centers?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/business/china-russia-ai-...

Large groups are also the most notorious non-tippers.

The same could be said for many companies in the last three decades. Sometimes investors are right, sometimes they are wrong. Cloudflare is a good example, and they weren't even going to space. It's less about current earnings and more about whether they become key infrastructure for a new market.

RocketLab market cap is 57b.

Iridium market cap was 5.5b and this transaction values it at 8b.

Beautiful hound!

Zach is underselling his achievements here, having previously built the Jamhub VCS which was acquired by a well known founder.

The company was started in January 2024, so the seed financing is likely a roll-up of two years of fundraising. $7m for ~30 months of running an AI startup in NYC is not that unusual.

Really intrigued to see what Apple's design chops brings to this form factor. I'd love more screen real estate so I can travel without a damn laptop. The big question is how thick will it be?

Not just South America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_the...

There are several studies of Creapure and other brands. Most of the studies done on CM use the Creapure brand.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9761713/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35268011/

I've read that New Zealand study and it's identifying an effect in a small group of heavy users who started using cannabis very young (a full third as teens) and continue to use it heavily (four times a week) three decades later. That's not a huge surprise.

They also state "cognitive functioning among midlife recreational cannabis users was similar to representative cohort norms". It's clearly shown in Figure 1 - midlife recreational cannabis users actually got smarter than people who quit cannabis according to their data.

There may well be some confounding factor in there. The study was done in New Zealand where cannabis was illegal for the majority of participants, and usage was self-reported so there's a basic issue there as well. One of the meta-analysis citing this (Crisafulli, 2026) and finding no effect criticizes the study design.

2 years? California chased one guy for taxes for 3 decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_Tax_Board_of_Califor...

Maybe they could fix their moderation and appeal process before adding a half-baked feature like this which is certain to cause more issues requiring moderation?

Avon was a hell of an anti-hero and Paul Darrow nailed the role. All my friends at school wanted to be Avon. And don't get me started on Servalan...

Media companies spend untold millions on new content, and yet the acting and writing on a comparatively obscure and low budget British TV series still occupy a place in my psyche many decades later.

RIP Mr Keating.

There's been several reports of people getting referred to secondary screening because of them.

I wish this thing looked more generic so the TSA won't confiscate it.

That was over 20 years ago? And there were half a dozen Qwest executives who were profiting from insider trading on inflated revenues that started in 1999, long before the NSA incident in 2001. I remember it clearly because I had the misfortune of being a shareholder in that dog.

Pickleball has a disproportionately high injury rate for people over 40. You'd be far better off taking up the gym or yoga.

China's problems with PFAS are substantially worse than the US.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398603137_Global_in...

Seeing all of the archived documents from the 50s and 60s is very cool. But unfortunately everything else I looked at was a giant nothingburger.

Some of the new videos were already identified as imaging artifacts a while ago.

Last time this was discussed the consensus was Brave does not block it. Brave's fingerprinting protection does not include extensions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904361

My first job at college was wrangling campus email, both X.400 and SMTP. As the article points out, SMTP won out because it was simple and developed in the open, not buried in standards committees, and SMTP code was widely available. It was the Cathedral and the Bazaar hypothesis playing out in real time.

Just seeing that X.400 notation is giving me bad memories!

Absolutely, Johan is one of my all time favorite composers and as prolific and talented as he was, it's terrible that we will never hear new music from him again. :(

This is a nice idea. I don't remember the last time I walked through an airport without noise cancelling earbuds and my own music playing. The noise level definitely adds to the stress if you are a frequent traveler.

This is my current favorite airport album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orph%C3%A9e_(album)

IMHO the top ten countries on World Happiness Report are primarily those that are good at expectation management. The Nordic countries always rank well because culturally they manage their citizens expectations in life so as not to expect too much (cf The Jante Law). Australia and New Zealand have similar cultural drives where being too successful is seen as a negative. The US does not - if anything, US culture is the polar opposite of expectation management.

When walking through the CPH airport with one of my Danish colleagues, they would always roll their eyes at the "Welcome to the happiest country on Earth signs" and point out that Denmark was ranked #1 in SSRI use in Europe.

It doesn't seem like it given the form factor. From what I understand, Google let their own hardware efforts die and handed off new Coral hardware to third parties.

They announced this Synaptics coral board last month, but you can't buy it anywhere AFAIK. I'm guessing it's going to be a lot more expensive than the original hw.

https://www.synaptics.com/products/embedded-processors/sl261...

It seems like the best authors - JG Ballard in this instance - are somehow resistant to modern biographers. Even the least worst Phillip K Dick biography (Divine Invasions) is over 30 years old!