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Roger Penrose is 94 [video]

ABS — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:41:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9TXgc_BCsjw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836822

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door

ABS — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:00:28 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/three-weeks-after-acquiring-windsurf-cognition-offers-staff-the-exit-door/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44809084

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

New comment by ABS in "Why English doesn't use accents"

ABS — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:51:02 +0000

not obvious at all when every sentence uses "you" to indicate a general rule that applies to every Italian rather than "I" to indicate a personal experience

New comment by ABS in "Why English doesn't use accents"

ABS — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:03:09 +0000

you are making the mistake of confusing your experience, which is of course legit but anecdata, with "how it works" in general.

I'm an almost 50 years old Italian so not a spring chicken but I definitely learnt Italian growing up, not a dialect, and not "from school".

I guess it's the difference between growing up in a city vs a village.

New comment by ABS in "Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs"

ABS — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 06:59:13 +0000

there is no lost love between me and Wall Street "bros" BUT it's not their job to run the companies, their job is to buy and sell shares based on results and potential future results.

When a company decides to go public and take their money it's still the company's responsibility to run their business and keep the people they took money from in exchange for shares happy.

New comment by ABS in "Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore"

ABS — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 06:54:51 +0000

as usual it's a matter of bubbles: most of those you know might hold such resentment, most of those I know are in fact in love with the possibilities and are trying their hardest to leverage the new tools.

My 64yo "non digital" graphic artist aunt holds a very high level of resentment to the digital ones, while most of her old friends and ex-colleagues who embraced digital way back when are stil active in the space and happy one way or another, she is not.

But she is happy she can now get near-real-time two-way translation to/from languages she doesn't speak and is also happy to bury her head in the sand when I point out that's thanks to the same tech that will have an impact on the people who do simultaneous translations as a job.

Oakley Meta Glasses, a New Category of Performance AI Glasses

ABS — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 06:32:55 +0000

Article URL: https://about.fb.com/news/2025/06/introducing-oakley-meta-glasses-a-new-category-of-performance-ai-glasses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44344401

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Microsoft advances quantum error correction with a family of novel 4D codes

ABS — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:26:59 +0000

Article URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2025/06/19/microsoft-advances-quantum-error-correction-with-a-family-of-novel-four-dimensional-codes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329914

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by ABS in "AOSP project is coming to an end"

ABS — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:49:17 +0000

FWIW: Google says Android Open Source Project not being ‘discontinued’ amidst Pixel change impacting custom ROMs

https://9to5google.com/2025/06/12/android-open-source-projec...

New comment by ABS in "Millions in west don't know they have aggressive fatty liver disease, study says"

ABS — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:51:09 +0000

Knowing the weight alone is not enough though: you can be 72kg and fat or 86kg and very lean but also very muscular.

E.g. I'm 178cm as well but when I was 71kg I was visibly "fat", or at least skinny fat to be charitable. I'm currently 67kg but very lean and somewhat muscular.

New comment by ABS in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

ABS — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:59:08 +0000

except you seem to think (like many others commenters in this thread) that "tech" means solely "silicon valley-type startups", which it does not.

I'll give you some examples that usually stun the average Italian hence they usually stun most other people as well. You think Italy and probably think fashion but in fact the Top 10 Italian exports are (first semi-random results):

  1) Machinery including computers: US$116 billion (17.2% of total exports)
  2) Pharmaceuticals: $55.5 billion (8.2%)
  3) Vehicles: $47 billion (7%)
  4) Electrical machinery, equipment: $45.8 billion (6.8%)
  5) Gems, precious metals: $25.7 billion (3.8%)
  6) Plastics, plastic articles: $24.3 billion (3.6%)
  7) Articles of iron or steel: $21.4 billion (3.2%)
  8) Mineral fuels including oil: $19.4 billion (2.9%)
  9) Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $17.4 billion (2.6%)
  10) Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $16.4 billion (2.4%)

I see a lot of "tech" in this list, I had this very same conversation with a German Private Equity last week but they are well aware and invest in "tech", just not the "tech" the average HN visitor think about

New comment by ABS in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

ABS — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:25:13 +0000

I wonder why US businesses and people import so much stuff from the EU if there isn't anything competitive coming out of it

OSS: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

ABS — Thu, 08 May 2025 09:56:45 +0000

Article URL: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/05/06/oss-forward-back/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43924686

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ABS in "Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal"

ABS — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:40:26 +0000

no one would/should prevent companies from using also private channels like X, FB, Instagram, etc but enforcing a public channel that doesn't require private citizens to register, accept T&S and share their private data with 3rd party, unrelated private corporations to be informed of critical, public safety information would be helpful.

New comment by ABS in "Getting forked by Microsoft"

ABS — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:52:10 +0000

if only you had kept reading 2 more sentences after the one you quoted you'd know:

  "The license does not allow removing the original license and purport that the code was created by someone else. It looks as if large parts of the project were copied directly from Spegel without any mention of the original source"

New comment by ABS in "Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US"

ABS — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:59:47 +0000

except there are plenty of other restaurants serving maguro

New comment by ABS in "Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March"

ABS — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:56:44 +0000

assuming your point is correct about what almost the entire country thinks about ICE locking up tourists (and I don't think it is) it's irrelevant: ICE does it anyway and that's all I as a potential turist care about

New comment by ABS in "Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US"

ABS — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:47:45 +0000

if you need to eat and decide not to go to your usual restaurant for whatever reason... do you stop eating altogether?

New comment by ABS in "Europe's Largest Makerspace"

ABS — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:45:03 +0000

start by learning the difference between Europe and the EU, then decide what you want to discuss.

With those two things together you can find the relevant official's office to call.

Or do you go straight to POTUS if you want to "speak to the USA"? (also note I wrote USA and not "America")

New comment by ABS in "Tesla deliveries down 43% in Europe while EVs are up 31%"

ABS — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:32:14 +0000

The Nazi salutes, the repeated commentary on individual European countries politics, his explicit support of far right parties in various European countries (at the time) upcoming elections. The related spread of misinformation at best and disinformation at worst via his x account regarding individuals in Europe he opposed, and so on and so forth.