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smilebot··on Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday
Since they will support tsa operations, I’m going to assume they will be at the outbound security checkpoints. Both domestic and international.
smilebot··on I resigned from OpenAI
It’s not you, it’s me.
smilebot··on Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
And no extra charge to have an adjustable stand! How do they make money?
smilebot··on Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026
Why take this personally. They are a business. It’s one thing if they did something unethical, but I don’t think this is grudge worthy.

If anything this shows how small the gaming market really is for them. This opens the playing field for new companies to capture.

I find it admirable that they are able to intensify focus on an area they see the most value.

smilebot··on Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance"
Choose Kaiser if your only other option is a cheap scan VS seek out Kaiser even if it has a premium.

Seem to be opposite enough.

Maybe if we tried to see the underlying point instead, would make it easier to move the discussion forward.

smilebot··on Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance"
I found the opposite to be true. Kaiser is worth the premium. Doctors and care has been amazing.
smilebot··on Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts
You don’t need a sinister device. This is essentially how propaganda works.
smilebot··on Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
Only when all jobs do this at the same time.
smilebot··on GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price
There is already evidence that they do in fact contribute to open source. Maybe replace “hope” with “continue to”
smilebot··on GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price
Classic. If doing good makes someone feel good, then they must be selfish! And their doing good is in fact not good! /s
smilebot··on Apple M3 Ultra
Valve supports games on MacOS
smilebot··on Dear Student: Yes, AI is here, you're screwed unless you take action
Pretty soon you’ll see people bridging audio with llm voice responses to their headset.

I’ve had interviews where people have their friend bridging calls and doing the lookups. Some were incredibly stupid that we heard the typing from the next room lol.

Anyway remote interviews are a nightmare already.

smilebot··on Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
> It's difficult to feel optimistic about a society that thinks this way.

Maybe that's not how society thinks? That's one person's opinion.

smilebot··on How to print your Guild Wars 2 character
oh wow this looks great and thank you for the guide. Haven't played GW2 in over a decade but I do think about my time playing it every now and then. Made a lot of friends and great memories. Will have to login and see if any of them are still playing. Would be cool to print their characters too.
smilebot··on OpenCoder: Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models
>Due to the prevalence of forking and copy-pasting within the codebase, nearly 75% of files are completely duplicated.

This is surprisingly high. Does the include imported libraries and packages? Since you are hashing at the file level, I am not fully convinced that this is due to people copying entire files over without modification.

smilebot··on Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
Spectacle for window management. Clipy for clipboard history. Flux for managing color temp.
smilebot··on Sam Altman is showing us who he really is
I would put this in the "better to ask for forgiveness than ask than permission" bucket. Which is also a typical mentality in SV.
smilebot··on How I think about debt
It reminded me of Berkshire Hathaway. Very old fashioned, run by sensible people, and hold a lot of cash (and very little debt%).
smilebot··on How I think about debt
It is interesting because the top 5 oldest companies are Japanese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies. Their points are still valid even though the country has a different story.
smilebot··on Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
When in doubt, always invert.
smilebot··on China Offers Lesson in How to Cut Plastic Waste from Food Delivery
This is a very small minority. The vast majority of japan uses a lot single use plastic. Each item being individually wrapped in most cases.
smilebot··on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Space Company Chosen to Develop Moon Lander for NASA
It’s good to nurture some competition in this space. It’ll be good for NASA in the long run if it gets more bidders.
smilebot··on Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics
“Just” is an understatement.
smilebot··on Ask HN: What are we even chasing?
I view my work life to be a sandbox game. Like Minecraft, you can build w/e and be whoever. In the end it doesn’t really matter.

In my personal life, I do the things I enjoy. Try not to suppress desires, instead be open to the world and let life happen.

smilebot··on Stop the scroll: Muting everyone on social media can put you back in control
IIRC some android devices have facebook pre installed.
smilebot··on Tell HN: People are spamming GitHub issues with ChatGPT
“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome” - Munger

GitHub stars/contributions etc are used as a metric for hiring. They might end up with a better billing rate for having code merged into a popular library.

smilebot··on Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought
Add another $10-15k per cycle if you want genetic testing.
smilebot··on At SpaceX, work was taken away from me in case I “might retire or die.”
Absolutely. This behavior is commonly known as “empire building”.
smilebot··on Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?
Worth way more. In theory if you’re writing product software, you helped build a money generation machine for the company that can run forever.
smilebot··on NightWare helps disrupt nightmares for those with PTSD
Would be incredible if they integrated with 8sleep.
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