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pureagave··on The worst job interview I ever had
I came here expecting it was a yet another story about Canonical.
pureagave··on Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
i totally misread the title of this post. What is wrong with me?
pureagave··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
What would happen if we didn't allow a female category for power lifting? Just have human power lifting. Does the NFL have a ban on women in NFL? I don't know but the teams look as I expect they would even without a ban.
pureagave··on Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020)
Great keyboard, great display, great OS. It was fast enough and a great terminal to bigger Sparcs if you needed it.
pureagave··on Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020)
I had one on my desk and eventually a collection of Sparc 2, 10's and a V in my garage. I miss the keyboard and Sun OS 4, the Trinitron display and working on difficult engineering problems on those machines.
pureagave··on FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home
I agree that it is slightly better than Reddit but often it just turns into a mess that doesn't touch on tech.

They are plenty of places for political discussions. HN is a rare great place for tech so personally I'd rather keep it that way.

pureagave··on Scott Adams has died
I think the commentor was talking about Adams's support for Trump. While maybe not normal on Reddit, HN or San Francisco, it's normal enough that more than half the voters agreed with Scott Adams.
pureagave··on Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin
100% this. But don't forget the garden hose running full blast so you can cool it! It's not impossible to get up and running for fun for an hour, but this isn't a run 24/7 kinda setup any more than getting an old mainframe running in one's garage is practical.
pureagave··on LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]
This is wonderful to see. I was a student and then entered into the tech industry in the mid 90's and at that time the Internet had fun whimsical things like this almost weekly.
pureagave··on Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
Exactly. We have the phrase "roid-rage" for a reason.
pureagave··on Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
Maybe the estate should look into whomever was selling him testosterone enanthate so that he could have testosterone levels of 5,000 or more. I suspect that had more to do with his degraded mental situation than his AI chats.
pureagave··on Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay
While a brand isn't a guarantee of quality, brands can work with their manufacture to hit the level of material and assembly quality they need for their products. The same manufacture will likely produce different products with very different results and costs.
pureagave··on Grok Sexual Images Draw Rebuke, France Flags Content as Illegal
I'm sorry to tell you this, but the EU has already been lost.
pureagave··on Grok Sexual Images Draw Rebuke, France Flags Content as Illegal
AI is a nation defense issue. No nation has the luxury to stop their AI companies without the risk of losing national sovereignty.
pureagave··on Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline
Wasn't the model Y the best selling car in the world in 2024?
pureagave··on Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline
This is how you filter for all the Reddit users who found out about HN.
pureagave··on Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline
All the other car, robot, solar and energy companies have CEOs that aren't Elon. How are they doing?
pureagave··on Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline
Meaningless comparison. Tesla isn't a car company.
pureagave··on Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline
People who claim Ford and Mercedes have systems as good as Tesla haven't personally taken a currently shipping v14 FSD trip and then personally used Ford and Mercedes systems. I see Cybertrucks many times a day in San Francisco and on the 101. I took a Robotaxi ride in SF last week. It was cheaper than Uber and Waymo but I am hoping they bring back the 2014 price wars of Uber/Lyft. I think Musk's pay is $1/yr.
pureagave··on Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline
It was mentioned on the Tesla earning's call in Q2 or Q3 2025 that HW3 FSD customers will likely be moved to a version of HW5 that accommodated the older camera sensors.
pureagave··on Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline
100%. We are seeing the bet of hard coded functions vs AI learned functions play out for us over the next year or two. Waymo has special case code for so much of their stack. Tesla removes special case code and replaces it with inference. Same with the Boston Dynamics vs Tesla robots. Tesla is making a bet that custom case code isn't going to scale nearly as fast as AI inference scales. Good news is that if one feels strongly one can place bets with one's money! If one doesn't feel strongly you can just comment on HN or Reddit or just watch.
pureagave··on As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
I don't think we need "industry mandate". I suspect the electronics specs are dictated by the very efficient market and the consumer is being squeezed in many ways. So device manufactures are just meeting the pricing needs of the consumer and dropping the expensive things that are less understood like GPUs and extra ram.
pureagave··on Former CIA spy: agency's tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car
Release thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939422

Trial for leaker https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22226066

pureagave··on Former CIA spy: agency's tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car
This was all released many years ago in the Vault 7 drop. What's new here?
pureagave··on iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]
Duck me, I notice it all the time!
pureagave··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
Every rental car I've rented in California seems to have Florida plates and every U-haul I've rented in the country has Arizona plates. I don't know that the issuing state matters. The Article content suggests the main issue is taking multiple short trips to the boarder not driving across a state.
pureagave··on Anthropic invests $50B in US AI infrastructure
I think you may be missing the whole national security part of the AI race. This isn't just about asking a computer what recipe you can cook tonight with the items in your fridge. In many ways it is similar to the race to build a nuclear bomb. We may individually not like that, but we might individually be best served to live in the nation that got there first.
pureagave··on ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk
For most of my life I also used to think there was a difference between the two. But now I realized they are actually just the same.
pureagave··on Photos: New Phoenix Microcenter is a 'tech-heaven' for geeks
I went to the Renton, WA one during the death days. It was so odd. Mostly empty shelves and what few products were there had the famous Fry's return labels on them. I'm assuming Amazon killed them.
pureagave··on Tim Bray on Grokipedia
How many more than a couple do you need? 20 anecdotes? 40 anecdotes? 100? How much bias is okay for you and the world?
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