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sharts··on The Curious Power of Punctuation
English can be so imprecise.
sharts··on Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
“It is unconscionable that an American citizen would not only undermine the interests of the United States, but also facilitate others in doing so.”

This must be satire. Most of congress seems to have no issue undermining and self-dealing.

sharts··on U.S. Government seizes 54-pound Martian meteorite sold at auction last year
Gov has a monopoly on violence. Everything else derives from that.
sharts··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
Meh, too little and too late
sharts··on I said no and Apple said yes
Maybe if *nix devs and community actually prioritized putting together cohesive and consistenr systems with usability as a priority these garbage OSes wouldn’t have a market.

Unfortunately, there is too much friction for the average person who just wants to get things done instead of tinker for every specific use case they have.

Thus, it’s just less painful to put up with the hostile ads and spying.

sharts··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
Blaming AI for your own prompts is wild.
sharts··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Instead of switching models all the time maybe just let folks select a pricing track.
sharts··on Elevated errors for multiple models – Resolved
Why tho?
sharts··on AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time'
So do a lot of financial planners / advisors
sharts··on Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%
That’s like one decently sized house with a yard and garage in a good neighborhood in the bay area
sharts··on Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?
All the more reason email and banking should be handled by the post office.
sharts··on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites
So they want bigger government with more regulation?
sharts··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
So Microsoft exec stating what most people have been saying already is newsworthy.
sharts··on Doing Everyone Else's Job
You never understood why some people are not grifters?
sharts··on macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
Phones should have separate storage for their OS so that when you buy a specific phone with specific storage it actually is that much storage available to the user
sharts··on I resigned from Anthropic today
Shouldn’t everyone have nukes then, for maximum peace?
sharts··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Same folks that still use Yahoo or Ask
sharts··on Jellyfin 12.0
Not as expensive as a Starbucks habit
sharts··on Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes
weird that bottom of feet don't exist
sharts··on AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
As societies evolve people lose touch with nature —growing food, hunting, building shelter, and making clothing.

Progress usually means adding levels of abstraction so that more can be done with less effort and needing to worry about lower levels.

AI isn’t all that different.

sharts··on Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
Fascinating!
sharts··on Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
Take a vacation. Sleep a lot. Eat well. Relax the body. After about a month of healing you will become interested in life once again.
sharts··on Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
Indeed. “Science” is modern religion.
sharts··on Google Pics is generally available starting today
Googlers need to focus on impact instead of post launch maintenance to score the $$
sharts··on Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri
lost me at tauri
sharts··on How A Private Equity Group Drove an Apartment Complex into the Ground
“My son and I are serious, thoughtful real estate owners, investors and operators,” Patrick Nesbitt, Nob Hill’s largest shareholder and leader of the private equity company that purchased the complex in 2018, said in an email. In court filings, he stressed that the ownership group was kept in the dark about the state of the property. “Unfortunately, Nob Hill has been an unmitigated disaster from almost the beginning of our ownership.”

And yet, things only began deteriorating due to sheer coincidence

sharts··on How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
I dunno, telehealth with foreign doctors while maybe in-person nurses could lower costs substantially.
sharts··on OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco
Majority of these folks should be remote. Most orgs should distribute evenly throughout US.
sharts··on Separating logic and language
There have been strong hints since the 60s.
sharts··on AWS Acquires DuckLabs
AWS has always sounded bad for over a decade.
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