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readyplayernull··on Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way
Related and you will need it:

https://verfassungsblog.de/the-authoritarian-regime-survival...

readyplayernull··on Apple M3 Ultra: Is Apple's Silicon Strategy a Game-Changer or Just Iteration?
I'm not sure, but M5 will beat them hands down. We should wait for it, or maybe M6, or...
readyplayernull··on Are We Screwed? Daily score based on LLM analysis of news articles on Reddit
Please make a timeline and I'll check it with regularity. Would be better than:

https://edition.cnn.com/markets/fear-and-greed

readyplayernull··on The Government Knows AGI Is Coming
From the clear path of attention is all you need, to the divergent fog of deep research, AI winter is coming.

https://leehanchung.github.io/assets/img/2025-02-26/05-quadr...

readyplayernull··on Economic and Market Data Signal a Recession Is Coming
Is there a realtime graph of that model?
readyplayernull··on Microsoft Launches Dragon Copilot for Healthcare
They could as well call it Kickass Copilot and would have been more representative of health. A dragon is a symbol of evil power, dummies.
readyplayernull··on Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?
I'm moving into embedded programming, haven't found a job yet but I'm building a hackable smartwatch that runs Linux and has a dedicated microcontroller for video and wireless. I'm kind of burned-out as fullstack, now working with a physical product is very rewarding. I'll probably continue thru the path of wearables and home automation, creating my own devices.
readyplayernull··on Ask HN: Are Doge, Gundo Defense Companies and Defund Ukraine Meant to Co-Exist
Forget the Death Star, the definitive planet-killer weapon will be a really big rock, how much have military tech advanced in these 10k years!
readyplayernull··on The Differences Between Deep Research, Deep Research, and Deep Research
Are you telling me that AI's are starting to diverge and that we might get a combinatorial explosion of reasoning paths that will produce so many different agents that we won't know which one can actually become AGI?

https://leehanchung.github.io/assets/img/2025-02-26/05-quadr...

readyplayernull··on C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks'
What is difficult about checking pointer addresses against safe memory boundaries, or is the difficulty doing it as fast as unsafe C++ ? Well, it's a compromise.
readyplayernull··on [dead]
All the eggs in the same basket, at some point all this data will be leaked all around the planet. 3-letter agencies used to pay for this information from other countries, but this one will be shared for free with every nation.
readyplayernull··on Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees
Something tells that's an intended feature not a bug, that they will re-hire personel, re-buy assets like all those EVs, re-rent offices, but next time it will be with gov-aligned providers, and the cost will be the same for less.
readyplayernull··on Ask HN: Concerns around knowledge loss from vibe coding?
LLM Assisted Programming, LAP. But I'd rather call it leap coding, because that's how it feels, like a quantum leap.
readyplayernull··on Trump's EV Rollback Could Cost Taxpayers $1B
Not silly when the whole RTO mandates and removing EV is about selling more oil.
readyplayernull··on Ask HN: Which Search Engine do you use?
LLM
readyplayernull··on US universities curtail PhD admissions amid Trump science funding cuts
We kept asking why the old Arabic world turned away from science, hope this doesn't cause a chain reaction even further away from the new American Kingdom:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-the-arabic-w...

readyplayernull··on The movement to dispose of America's public land is gaining traction
> the delay of details “suggests an attempt to evade Congressional oversight, public scrutiny, and accountability, fueling concerns that the Administration is moving to undermine public lane protections and sell our natural resources to the highest bidder in secret.”
readyplayernull··on U.S. soldier charged in AT&T hack searched "can hacking be treason"
He just needed big balls on his side.
readyplayernull··on US employee screening giant DISA says hackers accessed data of 3M people
"Thieves got robbed, called the police."
readyplayernull··on Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests
My cousins from the countryside have several cats, and there is plenty of mice and birds. Mostly every prey the cats bring home are birds. Birds are easier to track, nest in visible places, while mice hides better, they are good detectors by smell and sound. Maybe in the city birds are harder to reach.

The more I think about the article the less it makes sense. Humans would have eaten all their preys' meat, and thrown the bones they didn't use to build tools and accesories into pits, would have burned the rest to avoid bringing predators. Proto-dogs would have been like pigs to them, they are still like such in Asia. It's just that their decendants are good alarms and defenders, and can be trained to help in hunting and other tasks.

readyplayernull··on Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests
Yes, the theories in that article don't make a lot of sense. For example this about cats:

> settling into a mutually-beneficial relationship in which they hunted and ate rodents in exchange for food.

Cats mostly hunt birds, because rondents are smarter, faster, stronger and have weapons (teeth).

Also humans and primates throw rocks and sticks at predators. Early dogs must have been caught as puppies, or their parents killed by humans and their flesh eaten.

The whole model has been domesticated to portray a cartoony interaction.

readyplayernull··on Mark Zuckerberg Announces the "Beginning of the End" for Programmers
Another metaversish prediction.

Someone proposed this nice project AI will fail at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120035

readyplayernull··on Disclosure of personal information to DOGE “is irreparable harm,” judge rules
Left a taste of feet?
readyplayernull··on US asked to kick UK out of Five Eyes
> FBI Warns iPhone, Android Users—We Want ‘Lawful Access’ To All Your Encrypted Data

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/02/24/fbis-new-...

readyplayernull··on How best to contribute to anti-facist efforts as an engineer?
First, all communications will be grokked by fgov AI, think Google Play Store false positive bans, but for people instead of apps. So stop grokkable communications.

Don't support fgov economy, produce yourself and your communities, use paramoney and barter. E-coins aren't paramoney, they are being extracted with fines.

Keep a low profile.

readyplayernull··on NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5B in medical research funds
I wish I was, but the trend is privatizing.

Let's hear the beast talk by itself:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/pharma-ceos-speaki...

readyplayernull··on NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5B in medical research funds
BigPharma and others will gladly take care of the research debt, and they'll be paid handsomely. They seem pretty enthusiastic about it:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/pharma-ceos-speaki...

readyplayernull··on I'm broke and non-technical, trying to develop tech startup
Do sales, build client network.
readyplayernull··on Americans Are Heading for the Exits
The only exit is a digital exit, and using Linux won't be enough to avoid surveilance from the last 3 Earth Kingdoms after 2025, that will control all consumer electronics. We were able to do a lot with 90's technology, each village should have its own electronics manufacturing.
readyplayernull··on Ask HN: What's your app idea that you don't have the time or motivation to build
This is actually a great idea... to uncover the weakness of AI and why it can't replace developers. But with a good prompt-undo stack it might be a faster way to develop a web page.
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