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suncemoje··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
Why?
suncemoje··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
In Switzerland, which is quite densely populated, they even have a pilot project with putting solar panels between rail road tracks:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/emissions-reduction/solar-energ...

suncemoje··on Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)
Agree, I personally also think dark mode never goes well with a map-based app...
suncemoje··on WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents
Use Claude Code with Chrome MCP / Claude in Chrome and it'll happily do it for you, 100%
suncemoje··on WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents
I think it's an efficiency thing. And at scale, efficiency matters. Whether this is the right implementation idk, but when I see Claude Code use Chrome via MCP, it's incredible to see just how inefficient the status quo is.
suncemoje··on Casio F-B100W-1A
I guess it's a more complicated thing to implement (!= low hanging fruit), but I'd be more interested in sleep tracking than step tracking.
suncemoje··on Casio F-B100W-1A
To sync activity tracking data with your phone
suncemoje··on New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 years
Nice move! I wish it would support even more activity / health features in the future like GPS tracking, sleep tracking, etc. As a full package in the classic design it would make a great alternative to Garmin / Polar / Whoop / Oura etc.
suncemoje··on LinkedIn CringeBot 3000
> most of the feed is filled with useless posts

I, unsurprisingly, am making the same observations. Sometimes I do think about shipping a slim Chrome extension (~Ad Blocker) to classify and filter out useless content. Could make it a bit more bearable and useful.

suncemoje··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
> but if an LLM provider engages a search engine to get "live data," that data isn't live but previously crawled as well

I'm not sure frontier labs do it, but imo fetching live data requires fetching both the search engine (1) and the website/page (2). The search engine gives you search results + content snippets (potentially stale), the website/page gives you the actual content fresh from the source.

The tradeoff I see here is between liveness/staleness and cost (hitting an index if of course cheaper and faster than querying live websites again).

suncemoje··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Also been observing "productivity loss" by working on multiple Claude Code sessions in parallel (~5-7) and having to context switch between them multiple times during the day. Sometimes I literally have to ask "My brain is fried, can you catch me up? Keep it concise ..." Other times I force myself to not open another session and rather wait for a few minutes for an ongoing session to finish. Otherwise there's the built-in "recap" summary at the end of each chat, but for whatever reason I rarely read them (maybe I should).
suncemoje··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
Sure, I was just pointing at the fact that the question "And where does ChatGPT get the data for those answers?" has a two-part answer:

1) training data (common crawl as one example web data source), and

2) live data optionally retrieved at runtime.

My comment was about 2), and that part runs via a search engine (Bing?), at least if you look at how ChatGPT does it.

suncemoje··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
Cloud business is making big dollar I suppose
suncemoje··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
Huh? But only if you give it a tool it can use - which brings you back to Google (or Bing)
suncemoje··on Leave a Trace
Nope, I never saw that one posted
suncemoje··on Leave a Trace
And, how does that make you feel?
suncemoje··on Leave a Trace
In contrast: A few years ago I was hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). One of the few rules to follow there is to explicitly leave no trace, in respect to nature and others.
suncemoje··on Running local models is good now
Then I'm interested if there are any facts as to what ZDR actually means?
suncemoje··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Need to give that a try then. What's your experience so far? Also in terms of cost/benefit?

My current hypothesis is that the $150 Claude Max subscription - of which I barely hit the limits anyways, even though I used it non-stop at work - still is very cost effective.

If the price of Claude Max increased significantly (say 2-3x), and my business would balk at paying the subscription, then I'd look for an alternative.

suncemoje··on Running local models is good now
> There are a lot of government jobs I know of that are absolutely air-gapped. Your computer has basically no internet access, everything is stored on-prem.

I wonder if that's because they don't know better or because of a lack of trust or costs?

suncemoje··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
All good, no offense from my side, apologies for the disturbance if it caused any. Generally would have just been curious if people still use tab completion much? Virtually all people I know have switched to Claude Code or Codex. I also read recently that Boris Cherny (CC creator) deleted his IDE. Of course that's marketing, but it shows the current state quite directly. So I'm wondering what your dev workflow looks like? Any why/when you use tab completion instead of coding agents.
suncemoje··on Running local models is good now
Agree. I also wonder how zero e.g., Claude Enterprise ZDR really is, and what their data pipeline actually looks like.
suncemoje··on Running local models is good now
On-premise (1960-2010) -> Cloud (2010-2026) -> On-premise (2026+)?
suncemoje··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Isn't tab completion long dead?
suncemoje··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Looking at venture funding, it's definitely true. That doesn't mean other problems don't exist or aren't worth solving. But the concentration of (competing) capital and talent is insane.
suncemoje··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Exactly this. I think valuations and the AI market could get stirred up if:

- We get an open source Opus 4.8 equivalent and pair it with an open source coding agent

- Running this OS stack becomes cheaper than what frontier model providers charge (see OS model prices on OpenRouter vs. frontier lab prices)

- This happens across verticals (i.e. not just software)

The first “DeepSeek moment” didn’t do much damage back in the days, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a similar moment becomes a lasting, effective, cheaper alternative.

suncemoje··on If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
I experienced a similar interaction recently, where this principle was hard to apply, when I was emailing with a CTO / hiring manager who had some "deeper" screening questions. It was essentially:

1. HM: AI generated email with "tailored" questions

2. Me: AI assisted response with answers (I confess)

3. HM: AI generated email with a "thoughtful" response + invite

4. Me: AI generated "thank you & looking forward" response ...

Looking back at the thread, I have to laugh and cry at the same time. It's so obvious and sad.

suncemoje··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
I lost a camera recently and set up a Claude Cowork daily scheduled task to check if it finds my camera on a few marketplaces - Claude also goes through all the images and checks if it can see the serial number, which is engraved in the body. No luck so far, but we keep trying! It was incredibly easy to set up and uses my Chrome browser so it's logged into most platforms already.
suncemoje··on Dopamine Fracking
Reminds me of a few parallels, mainly the attention economy [0] and The Social Dilemma documentary [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma

suncemoje··on The iPhone explains 33–52% of fertility decline among women aged 15–44
And what does the iPhone have to do with that? What are the hypotheses? Can't tell from the abstract at least
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