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New comment by anjel in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

anjel — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:26:51 +0000

After 20 years of consumer GPS goog offers Sub-Garmin quality navigation service, and a generous helping of UI non-intuitives.

New comment by anjel in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

anjel — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:34:10 +0000

See also: "The Madness of Crowds" On Wall Street,people think they are betting on the fin performance of Companies, when in fact you are betting on the crowd's perception of a company's performance.

Quite the abstraction.

Stealth Isn't Strategy: Post-Stealth Warfare a "Dirty Mix" of Humans and Robots

anjel — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:00:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/exclusives/stealth-isnt-strategy-post-stealth-warfare-will-be-a-dirty-mix-of-humans-and-robots/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426266

Points: 3

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New comment by anjel in "Aging and Eye Problems"

anjel — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:00:06 +0000

The over the counter supplement, Astaxanthin is, when taken once daily, pretty much an opthalmic fountain of youth. YMMV, but I've recommended it to many others who all report its great for age related focusing fatigue.

New comment by anjel in "Meteor Burst Radio is long range radio which bounces of ionised meteor trails"

anjel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:14:50 +0000

Meteor Burst Radio is an established form of long range radio communication which relies upon the presence of ionised trails in the upper atmosphere to create a radio path. These trails are created by millions of small meteorites as they burn up.

Meteor Burst Radio is long range radio which bounces of ionised meteor trails

anjel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:14:50 +0000

Article URL: https://meteorcommunications.co.uk/our-history-3/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408652

Points: 2

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New comment by anjel in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

anjel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:00:24 +0000

Answers the question: how can Anthropic sell more Usage "Credits"

New comment by anjel in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

anjel — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:49:51 +0000

1st example was the progenitor of what eveolved into strict liability. (If you make money putting stuff into the stream of commerce, you're liable for unintended and evenunforseeable downstream damages. 2nd example is an illustration of that longheld legal precedent's being curiously ignored (nevermind the cost savings was a bum rush and livery costs are now higher than before the innovative advent) 3rd is a call to at least litigate who bears the downstream effects. Or perhaps we should just cancel public health measures and employ pestilence to solve the problem *organically.*

New comment by anjel in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

anjel — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:54:12 +0000

In England, ca. 1500s common law established the legal precedent that if your cattle broke loose of its pen, wandered into your neighbor's field and trampled their garden, you were liable for the damage your cattle caused.

Meanwhile, 500 years later Uber could disrupt the livery industry with VC cash that rendered a NY cab's owner/operator 6-figure financed medalion license worthless, and somehow that wasn't Uber's problem.

Now AI (set loose in the wild at the AI industry's strategic choice so as to be irreversible) seems poised to disrupt and render a very significant part of the labor force disrupted on an unprecedented societal scale and it appears to be a foregone conclusion that collateral damages won't be the causal industry's expense. Nevermind that its also poised to easily afford those social costs, and don't even consider that maybe society should be considering this obvious cause and effect. For me at least the feudal suppression of this otherwise obvious and necessary discussion is perhaps more spectacular than the causal technological breakthrough itself.

Now *that's* control.

New comment by anjel in "There are now more ETFs than stocks in the US"

anjel — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:02:58 +0000

There are precious metal ETFs that are. Distinct from the "physical" gold funds in that they use derivatives to match the price action of the precious metal instead of buying and storing it

New comment by anjel in "The real cost of owning a home"

anjel — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:04:03 +0000

Verdant lawn pride is a scam. An avoidable waste of time, water and maintenance dollars that seduces even desert dwellers

Promising One and done heart disease genetic therapy

anjel — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:41:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/health/cholesterol-ldl-gene-therapy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273177

Points: 4

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New comment by anjel in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

anjel — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:21:34 +0000

First observed by Tom Leher in the early 1970s

New comment by anjel in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

anjel — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:03:09 +0000

Not a minor shortcoming

New comment by anjel in "We've made the world too complicated"

anjel — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:02:20 +0000

Isn't empathy the better term here?

New comment by anjel in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

anjel — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:42:26 +0000

So what happens when Law Enforcement plugs into your non apple, non Google Phones and runs its forensic apps on it?

New comment by anjel in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

anjel — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:50:27 +0000

Try signing up for a Google Gemini Paid account with a third party email... Better still, try signing up for a Gemini Paid account with a registered android phone that isn't triangulated to a desktop. If they can't own you, they don't want you at all.

New comment by anjel in "Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw"

anjel — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:43:48 +0000

I found their recent investigative article on How do stars pee at the Met Gala? to be hard-hitting, yet fair to all sides. [1]

[1] https://archive.is/x9MSO

(You thought I was exaggerating about it being "investigative," dincha.)

New comment by anjel in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

anjel — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:32:36 +0000

I, for one, am hard-pressed to think of the "Industries" where this wouldn't also apply.

New comment by anjel in "Its the Age of Electricity and America Isn't Ready"

anjel — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:21:02 +0000

https://archive.is/Zo5A4